Seattle Quantum Computing Meetup

unitaryHACK26 Kickoff

Wed, Jun 3 · 9:30 AM PDT

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| Head over to the unitaryHACK26 website to register today and we'll see you all next week!

🚀 June 3rd | unitaryHACK26 Kickoff |
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| Join us on Zoom next Wednesday, June 3rd, at 4:30pm UTC/12:30pm ET to hear from unitaryHACK maintainers and community organizers about some of the projects and events that will be featured during the hackathon. Speakers include:

💥 Kate Bonner (Harmoniqs)

💥 Astryd Park (Moth)

💥 Manuel Rudolph (PauliPropagation.jl)

💥 Lukas Burgholzer (MQT)

💥 Eduardo Henrique Matos Maschio (H-hat)

💥 Stefan Krastanov (Center for Quantum Networks, UMass Amherst)

💥 Alessandro Cosentino (Metriq)

💥 Nicolas Lepage (Alice & Bob)

💥 David Ren (Xanadu)

💥 Nicolas Loizeau (PauliStrings.jl)

💥 Atadana Sogodam (African Quantum Consortium)

👉 Add the kickoff event to your calendar through this link.

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| 🤝 June 4-15 | Office Hours with HACK Maintainers |
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| Come spend time on the UF Discord Server throughout the two weeks of the hackathon to meet maintainers one-on-one, face-to-face.

Special thanks to the maintainers who are dedicating their time to these sessions: Eduardo Maschio (H-hat), Manuel Rudolph (PauliPropogation.jl), Alessandro Cosentino (Metriq), Nicolas Loizeau (PauliStrings.jl), Lukas Burgholzer (MQT), Jack Champagne (Harmoniqs), Nicolas Lepage (Alice & Bob), Stefan Krastanov (CQN, UMass Amherst)

👉 Check out the UF Community Calendar for the exact dates and times in June.

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| 🌍 June 3-15 | In-Person HACKdays |
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| In 2024, UF started the HACKday initiative to foster local, in-person meetups where students and quantum enthusiasts can network and build community. This year, 15+ organizers (and counting) are hosting HACKdays globally and are hoping you'll join them!

| 👉 Learn more about the 2026 HACKdays (and how you can sign up to attend one) on the unitaryHACK26 homepage. |
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Seattle Deep Tech Week: Navigating the Classical - Quantum Gap

Wed, Jun 10 · 9:30 AM PDT

Light Rail Symphony Station, JM57+4H Seattle, Washington, Seattle, WA, US

Navigating the Classical - Quantum Gap
Deep Tech Week Seattle, register with DTW here

Every wave of computing has had a critical "everything else" layer, the part that turned the hardware into something usable. For GPUs it was CUDA, schedulers, and the runtime stack. For quantum computing, that layer is being built right now. This panel is about who's building it, what's working, and what the field needs next.
The real opportunity in hybrid quantum-classical computing isn't just the qubit. It's everything around it: scheduling, orchestration, data movement, hybrid workflow management, and the evolving interface between how classical HPC systems and quantum processors communicate.
And because that work is happening across hyperscalers, established computer and quantum vendors, government agencies and national labs, and emerging startups all at once, the question of who builds what and how they partner matters just as much as the technical interfaces themselves.
This panel brings together voices from quantum systems, classical HPC, and the open software ecosystem who are rolling up their sleeves to navigate the classical-quantum gap.

Panelists

Josh Moles (Moderator)
Josh Moles is the Technical Program Manager for Hybrid Computing at IonQ, where he leads the company's hybrid integration initiatives and advances OpenQSE, an open community building vendor-neutral standard for the interface between classical and quantum systems. His career has followed one thread: taking research and emerging technology and building engineering programs around it. Earlier in his career, he led silicon validation for Google’s Tensor G5 SoC and ran an interagency applied research program in the U.S. Department of State that earned the Department's top technical honor.

Michael Brett
Michael is a Principal Specialist for Quantum Computing in the High Performance Computing group at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, he leads a global business development team and go to market activities for Amazon Braket, a fully-managed quantum computing service in the cloud. He was previously SVP for Applications at Rigetti Computing, a quantum computing hardware company based in Berkeley, California, and CEO of QxBranch, a quantum computing applications software company acquired by Rigetti in 2019. Michael has a background in systems engineering and risk analytics for aerospace applications. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Aerospace Avionics and an Executive Master of Business in Complex Project Management, both from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

Natalie Hawkins
Natalie Hawkins founded the Seattle Quantum Computing Meetup in 2022, has been heavily involved in IBM Quantum activities since 2021, and completed the MIT xPro QC Fundamentals courses in 2020. She is a Tier 2 Qiskit Advocate, has hosted and presented at Qiskit Fall Fests, and currently is remotely mentoring a group implementing Quantum Circuit Born Machines in Qiskit. With graduate degrees in computer science and biostatistics from the University of Washington, and an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago, she has worked in research as a software engineer at the UW and with faculty statisticians and scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle.

This is a substantive conversation, not a 101 explainer. Come ready to dig in and to leave with something actionable, whether you're a founder, a builder, an investor, working inside an enterprise, or just trying to understand where deep tech is headed.

Seattle Deep Tech Week: Hands-On Quantum Workshop

Wed, Jun 10 · 1:30 PM PDT

Light Rail Symphony Station, JM57+4H Seattle, Washington, Seattle, WA, US

Hands-On Quantum Workshop
Deep Tech Week Seattle, register with DTW here

Quantum computing is no longer a research curiosity. It's live infrastructure you can access today.

In this hands-on workshop, engineers from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IonQ will walk you through everything you need to go from zero to running your first job on a real trapped-ion quantum computer. No physics PhD required. No account setup. Just bring your laptop, plug in, and follow along.

Qiskit Global Summer School 2026

Mon, Jul 13 · 9:00 AM PDT

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Registration is now open; you can register at this link.

In the meantime or if you miss it, IBM offers a range of learning resources for anyone interested in quantum computing. Be sure to visit IBM Quantum Learning and explore the other educational resources on IBM Quantum Platform for more.

Note: the image for the event page shows the topics presented for the QGSS25 held last July.