Agentic AI is moving fast, and most of our time at Superagentic AI has gone into it this year. Our Quantum AI work slowed down a bit, but we never gave it up. The first week of November was a good time to get back to it. London had UK Quantum AI Week, with strong Quantum and AI tech shows across the city, and we went to two of the main events.
4 November: the Quantum + AI Tech Show
On 4 November we went to the Quantum + AI Tech Show. We met some impressive companies and had good conversations with the exhibitors and partners. The talks and panels were high quality. They covered both what quantum hardware can do today and where it’s going.
We were especially glad to hear Dr Samantha Francis, Programme Director for AI at UKRI, share her vision for Quantum AI. We also heard from leaders building quantum hardware, and we went to a great panel that included Mareike Schmidt, Deputy Director for Quantum at Innovate UK. Eugene Oleynik, VP and Head of EMEA at Classiq, talked about building the software layer around Quantum AI. That’s the same area we’re focused on at Superagentic AI with SuperQuantX.
6 November: the UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase
On 6 November we went to the UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase, with around 3,000 registered attendees and a huge queue to get in. The expo was big. We were grateful to meet the partner companies building developer tools and frameworks for quantum computing, including Quantinuum, IBM Quantum, IonQ and Rigetti.
We also spent time at the Innovate UK and UKRI areas. There were companies from the UK and across Europe, plus a lot of university research and innovation. It was a reminder of how strong the UK quantum community is.
Across the week, it was great to meet Tom Adeyoola, Waseem Shiraz, Viet Pham Ngoc and P. Sigrist.
Launching SuperQuantX during the week
We also launched SuperQuantX this week, the agentic layer for Quantum AI. It’s an open-source Python SDK that works across quantum SDKs and gives a classical baseline for every result. We talked about this approach with several quantum software providers, and they responded well to it. You can read more in our launch post.
What’s next
Next, we’ll look at what’s new in Qiskit from IBM and at Quantinuum’s recent announcements about their developer tools, including pytket. We’ll also look further at Classiq. These conversations give us a clear list of things to explore.
Watch the week
Here’s a short video from both events.
Thank you
Thanks to everyone we met this week, and to the organisers, exhibitors and speakers for an excellent week.
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