Cisco Quantum Summit
Cisco Quantum Summit (CQS) is an annual meeting organized by Cisco Quantum Lab, bringing together experts in the industry, academia, and government to discuss progress towards building the quantum internet. This hybrid summit will focus on quantum data centers in support of machine learning.
Cisco Quantum Summit
QUANTUM DATA CENTERS IN SUPPORT OF MACHINE LEARNING
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Time (PT)
Session Title
Speaker
Session 1: Opening and Keynote (Chair Ramana Kompella)
9:00-9:10 am
Welcome
Vijoy Pandey
Cisco SVP | Head of Outshift by Cisco
9:10-9:25 am
Cisco Keynote
Reza Nejabati
Head of Quantum Research
Cisco
9:30-10:00 am
Academic Keynote - New Frontier of Quantum Computing
Mikhail Lukin
Joshua and Beth Friedman University Professor
Harvard University
Session 2: Infrastructure and Technologies (Chair Ramana Kompella)
10:05-10:25 am
Quantum System Architecture for Utility Scale
Matthias Troyer
Technical Fellow & CVP
Microsoft
10:30-10:50 am
Towards Large-scale, Fault-tolerant Superconducting Quantum Computers
Jason Orcutt
Principal Research Staff Member
IBM
10:50-11:10 am
Break
11:10-11:25 am
Accelerated Quantum Supercomputing at NVIDIA
Jin-Sung Kim
Developer Relations Manager
NVIDIA
11:30-12:00 pm
Panel Discussion
Reza Nejabati, Mikhail Lukin, Matthias Troyer, Jason Orcutt, Jin-Sung Kim
12:00-1:00 pm
Break
Session 3: Infrastructure and Technologies 2 (Chair Reza Nejabati)
1:00-1:15 pm
Unlocking the Quantum Data Center with Neutral Atom QPUs
Pranav Gokhale
CTO
Infleqtion
1:20-1:35 pm
Harnessing the Power of Photonics to Address the Key Challenges Ahead for Quantum- Applicability and Real World Data Centre Integration
Richard Murray
CEO and Co-Founder
ORCA Computing
1:40-1:55 pm
Scaling Quantum Computers on Fully Integrated Chips
John Levy
CEO
SEEQC
2:00-2:15 pm
Secure Hardware Acceleration of Tensor Networks
Rahul Tyagi
CEO
SECQAI
2:20-2:45 pm
Panel Discussion
Pranav Gokhale, Richard Murray, John Levy, Rahul Tyagi
2:45-3:00 pm
Break
Session 4: ML Algorithms, Applications and Use Cases (Chair Reza Nejabati)
3:00-3:15 pm
QMill on the Way to Classically Verifiable Computational Quantum Advantage
Mikko Möttönen
Chief Scientist
QMill
3:20-3:35 pm
Quantum Algorithms for Machine Learning
Amira Abbas
Research Scientist
Google Quantum AI
3:40-3:55 pm
Quantum Research at HPE
Marco Fiorentino
Senior Distinguished Technologist
Hewlett Packard Labs
4:00-4:15 pm
Scaling Quantum AI Applications
Sonika Johri
CEO
Coherent Computing
4:20-4:35 pm
From Quantum Circuits to Quantum Agents: Towards Scalable and Self-Programming Quantum AI
Samuel Yen-Chi Chen
Lead Research Scientist
Wells Fargo
4:40-4:55 pm
Optimizing Parameters of Quantum Circuits via Sparsity-Inducing Coordinate Descent
Rudy Raymond
Executive Director
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
4:55-5:25 pm
Panel Discussion
Mikko Möttönen, Amira Abbas, Marco Fiorentino, Sonika Johri, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Rudy Raymond
5:25-5:30 pm
Closing Remarks
Reza Nejabati
Cisco, Quantum Labs