OneQuantum Africa ideas, news & updates
OneQuantum Africa and Strangeworks come together to work on quantum computing projects relevant to Africa. Join us on April 21 @ 1500hrs SAST to learn more.
On OneQuantum Africa weekly meeting this week we are glad to be joined by César A. Rodríguez Rosario from Strangeworks
We will announce our partnership to support the quantum tech community in Africa to work on relevant quantum computing projects that address some big challenges in the continent. Come learn the basics of quantum computing through real world examples you can play with.
Don't miss out on this, April 21 at 1500hrs SAST.
Register to attend here
We are so excited to welcome The Unitary Fund as sponsors of the OneQuantum Africa | First African Quantum Summit & Career Fair on May 12-13 as we work to grow quantum in the continent.
Sign up for The Unitary Fund’s first quantum open source hackathon with SWAG and BOUNTIES on May 14-30th! Participation by the quantum tech community in African encouraged. Details here.
⚠️ Why Quantum In Africa Deserves Attention
👉🏽 Efforts from quantum researchers and engineers globally are enabling fast progress in the development of quantum technologies
👉🏽 Quantum technologies have the potential to help solve many of today's global challenges
👉🏽 Africa needs to equip its talented young population with education & skills now so they can contribute & shape new enterprises, future careers, and workforces
👉🏽 OneQuantum Africa is our effort to make that happen
📈 Some quick KPIs of our work
✔️ More than 600 members
✔️ Up to 30 highly engaged weekly meetings so far with groupfies & virtual cocktails making quantum fun & memorable
✔️ At least 40 people from Africa are upskilling & getting an education in quantum through opportunities shared via our communities
✔️ People from across the continent have found a voice & platform to showcase their talents & inspire others
✔️ Through our partnership with Strangeworks, our members are teaming up to run projects that address relevant local challenges
✔️ Our new mentoring program launched last week in partnership with Keysight Technologies has already received more than 200 sign-ups speaking to an urgent need for professional and personal development in quantum
News, opportunities, events and more
To celebrate #worldquantumday 2021, we hosted a special videocast with Sahar Ben Rached and World Quantum Day Coordination Team member Francesco Petruccione.
To celebrate our partnership with Strangeworks we thought of sharing the conversation we had last November with Whurley at the Weekly Quantum World Detangled videocast. He is always a joy to chat with.
Advice for students interested in optics and photonics
A one-year postdoc position is available in quantum-optical information processing and boson sampling at the University of Tehran. For more information please contact (srahimik@gmail.com).
Join John Barnes for S1E4: The Human Quantum System Panel Discussion. 27th Apr 16:30 BST
Check out more events for the Quantum Computing community here!
IBM's new tool lets developers add quantum-computing power to machine learning
NVIDIA introduces cuQuantum, an SDK of optimized libraries and tools for accelerating quantum computing workflows.
Quantum computing opening up new business horizons in finance
Breakthrough: Realization of a Multinode Quantum Network of Remote Solid-State Qubits.
India completes free space quantum key distribution for the first time
Canadian Defense Experts Develop Quantum Science and Technology Strategy
Subcarrier QKD demo on dense wave division classic channel in Russia
AWS supporting quantum computing research at Israeli universities
Cambridge Quantum Computing Pioneers Quantum Machine Learning Methods for Reasoning
Fraunhofer launches quantum computing research platform in Germany
Deloitte publishes Understanding potential quantum use cases to move forward with confidence
Chemists used quantum simulations to understand a solvent that holds promise for green energy
Signing off
See you on OneQuantum Africa for more learning, collaboration, and exchanges.
Have a great week!
Farai Mazhandu | President | OneQuantum Africa