IEEE Quantum Week 2026
13–18 September, 2026 at Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Cascade Quantum at IEEE Quantum Week 2026!
Sunday, September 13
3:00pm – 4:30pm, 701B
Quantum Computing for PDEs: Algorithms, Applications & Challenges
Panel Discussion featuring Sonika Johri
Tuesday, September 15
1:00pm – 2:30pm, 803A
Quantum ML for Chemistry & Molecules: Discretization-Aware Fine-Tuning for Quantum Machine Learning with Chemical Foundation
Talk by Shunji Matsuura and Sonika Johri
3:00pm – 4:30pm, 803A
Quantum ML for Healthcare: Benchmarking Quantum and Classical Machine Learning Models on Oncological Data
Talk by Sydney Leither, Thomas Lubinski, Michael Kubal and Sonika Johri
Wednesday, September 16
10:00am – 11:30am, 713B
Quantum Error Correction: ML Decoders
Session Chaired by Sonika Johri
11:30am – 1:00pm
IEEE Computer Society’s Speed Mentorship Session
Student Mentoring by Sonika Johri
Friday, September 18
Cascade Quantum and Electron Networks present Quantum AI Workshop: Democratizing Quantum AI: Practical Workflows, Benchmarks, and Hybrid Development for Quantum-Ready Applications
10:00am – 11:30am, 801A
Session 1: From Research to Real-World Opportunity
Agenda
10:00-10:30: Learning Ground State Observables from Quantum Experiments, Dr. Kunal Sharma, Senior Research Scientist and Manager at IBM Research
10:30-11:00: Leveraging Neutral Atom Quantum Technology for Life Sciences Applications, Dr. Teague Tomesh, Manager of Quantum Software Engineering at Infleqtion
11:00-11:30: Q&A
1:00pm – 2:30 pm, 801A
Session 2: Practical Workflows, Tooling, and Benchmarking
Agenda
12:00-12:30: Evolutionary Agent for Solving Optimization Problems, Dr. Yuri Alexeev, Senior Quantum Algorithm Engineer at NVIDIA
12:30-1:30: Quantum Machine Learning Demo, Sydney Leither (Cascade Quantum)
3:00pm – 4:30pm, 801A
Session 3: Democratisation, Access and Industry Readiness
Agenda
Interactive session with panel discussions, breakouts to draft resolutions, and live voting to choose which ones will become the QCE26 Quantum AI Resolutions.
Featuring Jamie VanDenbossche, CEO at Electron Networks, Shohini Ghose, Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University, Kristen Csenkey, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Brian Mulroney Institute of Government, and Sonika Johri, Co-Founder & CEO at Cascade Quantum
Useful Links
Register for QCE26
https://qce.quantum.ieee.org/2026/registration/
IEEE Quantum Week Schedule
https://qce.quantum.ieee.org/2026/qce26-schedule/
Electron Networks Workshop Page
https://www.electronnetworks.ca/ieee-workshop-2026