IEEE Quantum Week (QCE), the real level of maturity

📍 Toronto, Canada – 📅 September 13-18, 2026

IEEE Quantum Week, or QCE, is one of the most technically demanding events. The event brings together researchers, engineers and industrialists around fundamental questions: architectures, error correction, quantum software, interoperability.

In a landscape where spectacular announcements are frequent, QCE plays a stabilizing role. It allows you to measure what really works — and what remains out of reach. Number of usable qubits, error rate, scaling capacity: all parameters which determine the credibility of the actors.

For decision-makers, this event offers valuable insight: not what quantum promises, but what it is actually capable of producing in the short and medium term.

Focus

  • Architecture
  • Error correction
  • Scalability

Key stakeholders

John Preskill, professor, Caltech; Michelle Simmons, CEO, Silicon Quantum Computing; Jerry Chow, Director, IBM; Krysta Svore, VP, Microsoft; Hartmut Neven, Director, Google; representative, Director R&D, Intel.