Quantum Industry Showcase is held at UCSB

QIS connects our industry partners with graduate students and postdocs who are working in quantum materials and technologies.

April 20, 2023
photo by Jeff Liang

The Quantum Industry Showcase was held on April 20th to connect our industry partners with graduate students and postdocs who are working in quantum materials and technologies. The event aims to foster networking, discussion, mentoring, and recruitment in service of the NSF Quantum Foundry's mission to develop a next-generation Quantum Workforce. The QIS event is a collaboration between the Quantum Foundry and the Photonics Society at UCSB, a student-led chapter of Optica, SPIE, and IEEE.

photo by Jeff Liang

Organizations

The 2023 QIS welcomes speakers, researchers, and representatives from these organizations:

  • Bruker Nano Surfaces
  • Google
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprises
  • HRL
  • IBM
  • Microsoft
  • NASA JPL
  • Newport Corporation
  • Nexus Photonics
  • Northrop Grumman
  • Oxford Instruments
  • Quantopticon
  • Thorlabs Crystalline Solutions
photo Jeff Liang

Agenda

8:30am - 9:00am Check-in and Breakfast

9:00am - 9:45am Keynote - Monica Hansen, Google AI

9:45am - 10:00am Coffee Break

10:00am - 11:30am Presentations: Tin Komljenovic, Nexus Photonics Das Pemmaraju, IBM Garrett Cole, Thorlabs Crystalline Solutions

11:30am - 1:00pm Lunch Break and Networking

1:00pm - 2:30pm Presentations: Sam Teicher, Microsoft Makan Mohageg, NASA JPL TBA

2:30pm - 3:30pm Career Panel

3:30pm - 3:45pm Break

3:45pm - 4:45pm Student Posters Session and Company Tabling

4:45pm - 5:00pm Conclusion and Presentation of Poster Awards