Cisco Quantum Summit January 2026

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 focused on quantum data centers in support of machine learning.

Recording of Quantum Summit 2026

Outshift and Cisco Research bring together scientists and engineers to advance the forefront of emerging technologies.

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