
Quantum Computing

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UK Tech Showcase @ London Tech Week 2025
Apply now to join our UK Tech Showcase @ London Tech Week 2025!
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is looking for the UK’s best and brightest tech companies to be a part of our UK Technology Showcase at London Tech Week 2025 (9th-13th June).

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London Tech Week 2025 International Delegations
London Tech Week 2025 (9th – 12th June) is the UK’s largest and most influential tech event. As a global celebration of tech, it unites the most innovative thinkers and talent of tomorrow in a week-long festival with over 45,000 attendees at last year’s main event at Kensington Olympia.

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Future Connectivity 2025
The UK’s telecoms sector is thriving. Vital to society and the broader economy, it delivers the infrastructure on which we build every aspect of our digital lives.

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Innovate UK Global Expert Mission Report
Over the course of May and June 2024, Innovate UK, in collaboration with UKRI India and the Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT), delivered a Global Expert Mission, bringing together key government and R&D experts from the UK and India.

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Horizon Europe Digital technologies brokerage event
The Horizon Europe Digital technologies brokerage event is a unique opportunity to establish direct contacts between scientists/researchers and entrepreneurs and discuss cooperation possibilities for future Horizon Europe Cluster 4 Digital calls.

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UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase 2024
Join us at the UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase 2024 to learn about the expanding landscape of quantum technology commercialisation and industrial advancement in the UK.

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Global Insights: UK – India Future Telecoms Webinar
Innovate UK in partnership with UKRI India and the

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Quantum readiness: the transport sector and quantum computing
Embracing the quantum computing revolution is essential to addressing challenges and developing the next generation of intelligent transportation.

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Explained: UKTIN Future Networks Academic Strategy Group’s latest report
The UKTIN Strategic Groups bring together academic and industry leaders and experts, governmental and regulatory specialists, and representative bodies to cohesively communicate the needs of the broader ecosystem and propose a shared public and private sector strategic vision for UK telecoms.

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Telefónica opens a dedicated Centre of Excellence for quantum technologies
The company is implementing a strategy across the board beginning with crypto-agility and post-quantum cybersecurity to seize the opportunity emerging in the world of security to meet the challenge posed by quantum computing.

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Amazon Web Services announces a new quantum computing chip
New 'Ocelot' chip uses scalable architecture for reducing error correction by up to 90% and accelerating the development of real-world quantum computing applications.

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SK Telecom adds quantum to its AI mix with IonQ
- SK Telecom (SKT) has long been engaged in quantum-safe networking development efforts
- It has been the major shareholder in quantum-safe security solutions specialist ID Quantique since 2018
- But now it is ramping up its quantum strategy by hooking up with US quantum technology firm Io

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Telefónica tests quantum defences between two hospitals
Spanish operator group Telefónica has set up a secure comms link between two hospitals in Madrid, encrypting it using a quantum key distribution (QKD) system.

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Telefónica Tech and IBM collaborate on quantum-safe technology
- Telefónica Tech to integrate IBM quantum safe technology into its cybersecurity services to create specific use cases aimed at addressing new and future risks associated with the advancement of cryptographically relevant quantum computers.
- The agreement includes deployment of IBM’s quantum-safe technology infrastructure at Telefónic

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Spotlight on 5G
Spotlight on 5G is back! From 3-6 March, we’ll bring you comprehensive, multimedia coverage of the hottest industry news, game-changing announcements, cutting-edge solutions, and groundbreaking product launches that take place at MWC25.

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Vodafone signs up to Digital Catapult's quantum masterclass
UK tech incubator Digital Catapult has added Vodafone to the growing ranks of companies hoping to derive some practical benefits from quantum computing.
The telco has joined Digital Catapult's Quantum Technology Access Programme (QTAP), which is part of government-backed Innovate UK's Quantum Data Centre of the Future project.

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Taiwan secures first full-stack superconducting quantum computer
The Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (TSRI), part of the National Applied Research Laboratories, has purchased its first full-stack superconducting quantum computer from IQM Quantum Computers, a global leader in quantum technology.

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Everything you need to know about the Federated Telecoms Hubs
On 15 November, the Federated Telecoms Hubs (FTH) invited academia and industry to a symposium in London.
It was an opportunity to hear from each of the four hubs that make up FTH and understand their ambitious collective goals to better drive the gap between telecoms R&D and translation to commercialisation.

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UK opens national quantum computing centre
The UK government has opened its National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) that will host 12 quantum computer systems.
The NQCC facility at Harwell in Oxfordshire will be home to 12 quantum computers, each designed to push the boundaries of what is possible with this emerging technology

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Everything you need to know about the UKTIN Academic Future Networks Strategic Group’s Paper
The UKTIN Strategic Groups bring together academic and industry leaders and experts, governmental and regulatory specialists, and representative bodies to cohesively communicate the needs of the broader ecosystem and propose a shared public and private sector strategic vision for UK telecoms.

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BT & Toshiba team with Equinix for quantum-safe connectivity
- BT and Toshiba have already deployed a quantum-safe metro network in the London area
- Now they have teamed up with datacentre operator Equinix
- Its facilities in Canary Wharf, London, and Slough will be connected by data links protected using quantum key distribution

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UK innovation diffusion and adoption survey
The Department of Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is conducting a survey of UK businesses. Help us understand how we can support innovation in businesses and shape future policies.