Updates and ideas
We had a beautiful meeting last week on Introduction to the Quantum Tech ecosystem and you can find the slide deck here. If you were registered for the event you can also watch the video recording here.
Here is an impressive KPI from that event.
We encourage you to invite your quantum tech colleagues from across the continent. Our wish is to give everyone across Africa an opportunity to learn, collaborate and exchange.
On January 27, we host a fireside chat with Prof. F. Petruccione. He is the South African Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing and Communication at UKZN and Deputy Director of the National Institute for Theoretical Physics. Our discussion will focus on how to improve quantum in Africa.
Looking forward to your usual support.
News and Events
Quantum Satellite and Fibre Communication (QuSAF) BRICS WORKSHOP happens from 25-27 January 2021. Details here.
Congratulations to the first Rwandan to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for study at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He aspires to harness artificial intelligence (AI) in areas such as education, economics, business and medicine and contribute to improving the lives of people on the African continent. Read on here.
Check out the Unitary Fund, it is a small microgrant program for open source quantum software projects designed to help the quantum industry, in a small way, to cross the chasm.
Quantum Computing at Berkeley (QCB) invites you to a panel discussion on biggest questions in Quantum Computing featuring four experts from industry and academia.
- Denise Ruffner (VP of Business Development at IonQ)
- Fabio Sanches (QC Ware Product Manager)
- Eleanor Rieffel (NASA Senior Research Scientist Lead)
- Simone Severini (Director of Quantum Computing at AWS).RSVP here.
France to invest 1.8 billion euros into quantum technologies.
Quantum Valley Ideas Laboratories, a not-for-profit applied research institution focused on cutting-edge research and development of quantum technologies based in Canada is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow.
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in collaboration with AWS will establish a Quantum Computing Applications Lab in the country.
Q-munity is hosting a FREE Workshop with Tommaso Demarie. Tommaso will share with you what excites him about the promises of the technology and do his best to highlight what kind of skills will help you if your dream is to work in this field. You can register here.
IBM achieves quantum computing simulation for new materials with fewer qubits.
Signing off
On a lighter note - Thanks Aggie for sharing.
Join the community at OneQuantum Africa for more.
See you next week!
Farai
President
OneQuantum Africa