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Sign up and send your CVs | OneQuantum Africa | First African Quantum Summit and Career Fair | May 12&13

In two weeks, OneQuantum Africa is pleased to host its first Quantum in Africa Summit and Career Fair - mark your calendars for May 12&13. This event serves to spotlight African researchers, academics, entrepreneurs, and investors in Quantum Tech to a global audience and offer them a safe, dedicated community to collaborate and succeed.

Thanks to our resourceful volunteers, a lot of ground has already been covered towards securing the event; 

1. 70% of the speakers have been confirmed and all are from Africa 
2. The Unitary Fund, QuRISK, a couple of start-ups and individuals have extended their support beyond financial resources to make this happen for Africa
3. RSVPs are picking up fast - around 100 attendees are already signed up
4. We are receiving CVs from African students and professionals seeking opportunities in quantum

We invite you to submit your CV to brooke@onequantum.org for consideration. To be considered you have to (1) submit your resume and (2) register for the summit for free.

And if you are interested in sponsoring or speaking please contact me directly to discuss your goals on farai@estrapadus.com

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Mentorship program closes this week, please sign up!!!!!!!

Just a quick reminder that this week is the last chance to sign up for our new mentorship program, and I want to encourage all my colleagues in Africa to join in their numbers. We will close registrations in a few days and start matching mentors & mentees for their first sessions - so far, over 250 from all around the globe have joined and we need more people from the continent.

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April 28 @ 1500hrs SAST, at the OneQuantum Africa weekly meet-up, we are pleased to host Manish Thapa, Quantum Engineer at IQM.

Manish was born in a small town in the eastern part of Nepal and obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from ETH Zurich in 2020. Because of his passion to see everyone getting opportunities to get involved in quantum, he recently started leading community-building efforts in his home country through OneQuantum Nepal.

He will share his personal journey into quantum and generally talk about the approach to build application-specific, co-design quantum computers at IQM Quantum Computers.

Register to attend here

Please invite all your quantum tech colleagues from the continent.

News, opportunities, events and more

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1. Women in Quantum Summit is tentatively scheduled for July 19th and 20th - mark your calendars.

2. Introduction to the quantum tech ecosystem and why Africa needs to build a robust quantum community now.

3. Government Work Report in China mentions "quantum" science and technology and explicitly supports the development of quantum science and technology.

4. EU to develop and deploy ultra-secure quantum communications infrastructure

5. U.S. House of Representatives introduced two new quantum technology-related bills.

6. Latest draft of Horizon Europe seeks to prevent countries outside the EU, such as Israel, Switzerland and the UK, from participating in quantum and space projects

7. UKRI launches competition to advance the commercialization of quantum technologies in the UK and increase private sector investment.

8. Alibaba to increase investment in basic and cutting-edge technologies, in artificial intelligence, chips, quantum computing, blockchain and other fields of scientific research, and strive to achieve major breakthroughs.

9. American Physical Society (APS) recently interviewed international leading research institutes and representative companies such as Los Alamos National Lab(Los Alamos National Laboratory) and National Shield Quantum.

10. Hyundai Heavy Industries formed a tripartite alliance with Korea Telecom and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) to participate in the construction of quantum cryptographic communication infrastructure in Korea.

11. XN Systems and ID Quantique partner to promote a Quantum-Safe VPN solution

12. THALES UNVEILS THREE QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES SET TO REVOLUTIONISE THE WORLD OF TOMORROW

13. 200 km single photon 3D imaging demonstrated in China

14. Quantum key distribution with entangled photons generated on demand by a quantum dot

15. Quantum circuits with many photons on a programmable nanophotonic chip

16. Amazon has unveiled a new theoretical blueprint for a quantum computer based on combining hardware versions of lots of Schrödinger’s cats.

17. NEC Australia partners with D-Wave in helping provide cutting-edge quantum computing technology for the Australian Defence industry

18. Atos unveils global R&D Lab to drive innovation in Cybersecurity, High Performance Computing and Quantum

19. Phix Photonics Assembly and quantum startup Quix received funding to develop integrated quantum photonic processors with over 50 input/output modes

20. The quantum computer revolution: here tomorrow, so we must prepare today

21. Researchers use quantum-inspired tech to reduce radiosurgery planning time

Check out events here and here

Signing off

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See you at OneQuantum Africa for community, mentorship, content & education + projects.

Have a great week!

Farai Mazhandu | President | OneQuantum Africa