Quantum News Nexus

A quick look at what’s happening around the sector:

Quantum World Congress starts Tuesday, Sept. 16, and runs through Thursday, Sept. 18 in the Washington D.C. area.

The Financial Times recently had a piece on the significant role Australia is playing in the growing quantum computing sector. Seriously, don’t sleep on Sydney.

India hasn’t been a quantum force quite as long as Australia, but has become increasingly active in the last two years. This week, Dutch QPU firm QuantWare signed a Letter of Intent with a top research organization in India, focusing on co-development of hybrid classical-quantum technologies.

We all know China has been a leading player in quantum for years, but here’s something new: Beijing-based WiMi Hologram Cloud said it is looking into Scalable Convolutional Neural Networks technology to boost accuracy and performance for image classification.

Honeywell signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Redwire to explore quantum key distribution technology (QKD) for satellites through the Honeywell-led QKDSat consortium, which operates under the European Space Agency’s QKDSat Public Private Partnership. When you hear Honeywell and quantum together, it usually has something to do with Quantinuum, which is still majority-owned by Honeywell. But, Honeywell’s aerospace division works with quantum sensing and security technologies, and it will be interesting to see if that unit starts to do even more in those areas when it spins off from Honeywell sometime late next year.

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