ABOUT THE EVENT

Applied Materials hosts Open Innovation Workshops to bring together thought leaders across academia, industry, and government with the goal of jointly identifying and discussing bottlenecks in emerging technologies. 

The Quantum Open Innovation workshop will focus on high value problems and opportunities in quantum technology. 

Workshop themes we’ll be exploring include:

• Progress and challenges in achieving lower error rate qubits
• What quantum technology can learn from the latest generation equipment and processing for 7 to 3 nm nodes
• Scaling to more than a thousand qubits, addressing challenges in communications and other aspects
• Novel devices, quantum sensing and quantum networking

Quantum technology companies showcase & opportunity to connect
As part of the event, we will be hosting a Startup Arena session, where exciting up-and-coming companies in the quantum technology space can make their pitch to the audience, including representatives from our own Applied Ventures team and other invited VCs. 

An exclusive experience
This workshop is by invitation only, giving you the opportunity to network with an exclusive group of experts, technologists and Applied Materials leaders. 

Date: June 10, 2025

Time: 8:00 am - 5:40 pm (PT)

Location: Applied Materials, Santa Clara 

Format: Live In-Person

Contact: Cindy Nguyen 
 

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Tuesday 6/10/2025
07:00–08:00	Registration
08:00–08:20	Welcome — Executive Opening Dr. Om Nalamasu Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and President, Applied Ventures, LLC, Applied Materials, Inc. Dr. Robert Visser, Vice President, CTO Group, Applied Materials, Inc.
08:20–09:20	Industry Keynotes Dr. Alexander Keesling, Chief Technology Officer, QuEra Computing Inc. Dr. Emma Rosenfeld, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI
09:20–10:10	Expert Talks — Lower Error Qubits & Scaling Dr. Oskar Painter, Head of Quantum Hardware, AWS Majorana-Based Topological Qubits | Dr. David Van Woerkom, Principal Hardware Engineer Manager, Microsoft
10:10–10:25	Break
10:25–12:05	Expert Talks — Lower Error Qubits & Scaling Universal, Fault-Tolerant Photonic Quantum Computing Using GKP States | Dr. Elliott Ortmann, Head of Fabrication Process Engineering, Xanadu Scaling Trapped Ion Quantum Computers | Dr. Russell Stutz, Senior Director, Product Technologies, Quantinuum How to Build a Quantum Supercomputer: Fabrication for Next-Generation Qubits | Dr. Robert McDermott, Head of Hardware and Co-founder, Qolab Prof. Jon Simon, Department of Physics, Stanford University
12:05–01:30	Lunch
01:30–02:10	Quantum Technology Companies Showcase Quantware SeeQC EuQlid Aliro Quantum Diraq Qolab Infleqtion Universal Quantum Quantum Circuits Inc.
02:10–03:40	Expert Talks — Novel Devices and System Engineering Mike Rice, Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Applied Materials, Inc. Dr. Kevin Moraes, Vice President, Applied Materials, Inc. Dr. Jin-Sung Kim, Developer Relations Manager - Quantum Computing, NVIDIA The Research Driving Control System Innovation Towards Utility Scale Quantum Computing | Dr. Yonatan Cohen, Chief Technology Officer, Quantum Machines
03:40–03:55	Break
03:55–05:15	Expert Talks — Quantum Communication and Quantum Sensing Dr. Mihir Bhaskar, Chief Executive Officer, Lightsynq Dr. Prineha Narang, Professor in Physical Sciences and Electrical and Computer Engineering. University of California, Los Angeles From diamond defects to protein-based qubit sensors | Dr. Peter Maurer, Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering in the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
05:15–05:40	Expert Talks — Applied Capabilities Elsa Massonneau, Chief of Staff and Director Technical Program Management, Applied Materials, Inc.
05:40	Closing