After debuting in Washington, D.C. and three groundbreaking years in Tysons, Quantum World Congress takes its next step forward — convening the global quantum ecosystem in College Park at The Hotel at the University of Maryland and the University of Maryland’s campus on September 22–24, 2026.

An unprecedented, real-world sprint to apply quantum (and AI adjacencies) to high-value industry problems drew more than 600 applicants from 60+ countries. It culminated in five winning solutions announced on the main stage at QWC 2025. 

NSF leaders Erwin Gianchandani and David Berkowitz unveiled the Foundation’s dual-track strategy to connect fundamental quantum research with real-world deployment—through shared testbeds (NQVL), SBIR and Translation-to-Practice programs, regional Engines, and global partnerships.

Quantum sensing is out of the lab and into the field. In this Market Acceleration session, CNAS’s Constanza Vidal Bustamante digs into how Mesa Quantum, Q-CTRL, and Infleqtion are shrinking clocks and inertial/RF systems, hardening them for certification, and using defense demand to stand up the photonics supply chain that will power civilian deployments next.

Fundamental physics picks global winners. Barak Dayan traces three discoveries—from Maxwell to entanglement—and a photonic path to million-qubit machines.

At QWC 2025, Oded Melamed unveiled Quantum Source’s deterministic photonic strategy: coupling single atoms and photons on-chip to shrink resource-state generators, run at room temperature, and push photonics toward million-qubit, fault-tolerant systems.