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The quantum future is rapidly becoming reality, with industry leaders anticipating Quantum Advantage within the next few years, and industry value much sooner. Q-CTRL collaborated with Network Rail and the UK Department for Transport to develop a quantum-enhanced rail scheduling solver powered by Fire Opal. By applying advanced error suppression and optimization workflows on real IBM quantum hardware, the team achieved a sixfold increase in solvable problem size and accelerated the timeline to practical quantum advantage by up to three years—now projected for 2028. This milestone marks a major step toward realizing quantum computing’s real-world impact in large-scale infrastructure and transport optimization.

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High-performance computing centers are becoming the proving ground for real-world use cases that will benefit from quantum and classical compute resources, unlocking the first verifiable quantum advantage that will deliver real scientific and commercial impact. This talk highlights how leading HPC facilities are integrating Q-CTRL’s technology at scale through recent ecosystem breakthroughs, including Elevate Quantum’s open-architecture system in Colorado, the first in the U.S. enabling flexible, multi-vendor quantum integration leveraging Q-CTRL’s Quantum Utility Block (QUB), a modular framework that accelerates deployment of quantum resources for HPC and enterprise R&D; RIKEN’s advanced hybrid supercomputing environment, where Q-CTRL’s Fire Opal is natively integrated to maximize quantum performance. The session explores these first-of-its-kind, commercial implementations that have unlocked early performance gains, overcome integration challenges, and pioneered an emerging model for frictionless hybrid workloads, demonstrating how HPC platforms are transforming research pipelines and opening new pathways for impact.

As quantum computing advances through the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era, the pursuit of near-term quantum advantage remains a central theme. This panel will examine what near-term quantum advantage entails, the realistic possibilities it presents, and its significance for Applied Quantum Computing. Through expert insights and practical perspectives, we aim to clarify how emerging quantum capabilities can deliver meaningful impact before fault-tolerant systems become mainstream.

Panelist: Bill Wisotsky - Principal Quantum Systems Architect (SAS), Daniel Beaulieu - Manager (Deloitte Consulting LLP), Erik Garcell - Director of Quantum Enterprise Development (Classiq), Tom Zuber - Managing Partner (Zuber Lawler)

GPS denial has become a challenge of strategic and economic importance, with over 1000 flights per day disrupted by GPS jamming since March 2024, and major international ports being forced to close due to the unreliability of GPS signals. Quantum sensing has long promised the potential to address this challenge, but the failure of quantum sensors on noisy moving vehicles has served as a roadblock similar to the problem of error and hardware instability in quantum computing. In this talk we’ll introduce how Q-CTRL’s software-ruggedized quantum sensors have overcome this deployment challenge and enabled the realization of the first true commercial quantum advantage since the development of atomic clocks in quantum navigation. Position-fixing via geophysical map matching leverages quantum sensors as a new set of eyes to see the earth, stabilized with software to suppress the sources of interference that typically overwhelm system performance in real-world settings.

There are now unprecedented strategic investments in building superconducting Quantum Compute capability, but organizations building their first full stack Quantum Computer face a dilemma. Full stack offerings have the attraction of a complete system, but easily run into the mid-to-high tens of millions of dollars. These systems can also be black box with a lack of flexibility in implementation, scaling options, or subsystem vendor selection. Alternatively, there is the option to assemble a solution in-house, but that can take up to 1 year or more to evaluate supplier options, place orders, assemble systems, and validate performance. While offering a more cost effective, flexible, and transparent option, these in-house solutions also come with fear, uncertainty, and a burden to up-skill on the specialized nature of maintaining a quantum system. However, with their newly announced Quantum Utility Block (or "QUB”) partnership, QuantWare, Q-CTRL and Qblox bring proven full stack Open Architecture reference implementations to their joint customers, greatly reducing the barrier of entry to full stack Quantum Compute. QUB provides a new third option, allowing organizations to achieve their Quantum Computer goals faster, at significantly lower cost and with greater control.