"The Quantum Accord: Connecting Regional Ecosystems" occurred during general session at Quantum World Congress 2023 highlighting international collaboration and representation of the following:

Freeke Heijman, Quantum Delta NL, Netherlands

Dr. Andrew White, EQUS, Australia

Nick Werstiuk, Quantum Valley Innovation Lab, Canada

Masahiro Horibe, G-QuAT, Japan

George Thomas, Potomac Quantum Innovation Center, United States

The commercialization of innovation is both exciting and complex. Aligning scientific, technological, and engineering breakthroughs with timely investments, talent, and favorable policy and standards is extraordinarily challenging. Quantum and quantum-adjacent technologies require basic and applied sciences, hardware and software systems, algorithms, and engineering expertise. Participation is capital-intensive, leading to dominance in the space to governments, major universities, and well-funded companies. Strong cross-sector partnerships between government, enterprise, research, and academia are required to scale and accelerate the quantum industry.

We, therefore, are announcing a Regional Quantum Ecosystem Collaboration Agreement with founding members representing ecosystems and hubs from Europe, North America, and Australia to augment, accelerate, and support current programs between governments.

We invite all regional ecosystems and hubs to join us as we align leaders from government, enterprise, research, academia, philanthropy, and community organizations. Working together, guided by shared principles, we can accelerate relationships between like-minded partners, help provide a realistic and measured pace, and deliver foundational quantum design decisions today for those who will be the quantum stewards of tomorrow. Learn more at quantumworldcongress.com/accord.