Event FinderIBM Quantum Developer Conference 2026 (QDC 2026)
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- In person
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- Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, 301 East North Water Street, Chicago, IL 60611
About This Event
The third annual IBM Quantum Developer Conference, focused on how quantum advantage is being achieved, validated, and scaled across domains. Attendees get an insider look at the tools, methods, and systems driving progress toward advantage, early word on updates to the IBM Quantum Roadmap, and the latest advantage claims from the community. Sessions include lectures and demos, hands-on workshops with coding exercises and prizes, community-driven coding challenges, and in-person office hours with IBM experts, covering Hamiltonian simulation and optimization, new Qiskit tooling, an expanded functions catalog and benchmarking toolkit, quantum-centric supercomputing workflows, quantum error detection and correction, and progress toward fault tolerance. Attendance was by application, which closed September 21, with active Qiskit users with research or development experience given priority. Recordings of all presentations are published on IBM Quantum Platform shortly after the event.