Invited Speakers (Confirmed)
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Alán Aspuru-Guzik, University of Toronto, Canada
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Michael Biercuk, University of Sydney/Q-CTRL
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Sergio Boixo, Google
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Susan Coppersmith, UNSW, Australia
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Andrew Dzurak, UNSW, Australia
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Mark Eriksson, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
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Travis Humble, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
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Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh, USA
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Christopher Monroe, Duke University/IonQ
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Andrea Morello, UNSW, Australia
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William Oliver, MIT/Lincoln Laboratory
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Jason Petta, Princeton University, USA
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Christopher Savoie, Zapata Computing, USA
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Michelle Simmons, UNSW, Australia
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Chandralekha Singh, University of Pittsburgh, USA
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Charles Tahan, OSTP/Laboratory for Physical Sciences, USA
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Jake Taylor, NIST/University of Maryland/JQI/QuICS, USA
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Lieven Vandersypen, TU Delft, Netherlands
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Umesh Vazirani, UC Berkeley, USA
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Amir Yacoby, Harvard, USA
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Emily Edwards, IQUIST, USA
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Robert Joynt, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
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Andrew King, D-Wave, Canada
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Ferdinand Kuemmeth, QDev/Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Catherine McGeoch, D-Wave, Canada
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Rick Muller, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
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Kiera Peltz, Qubit by Qubit, USA
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Emily Pritchett, IBM, USA
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Charles Robinson, IBM, USA
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Stephanie Simmons, SFU/Photonic Inc., Canada
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Corey Stambaugh, OSTP, USA
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Christopher Lirakis, IBM, USA