Committees

Commercialising quantum technologies

Inquiry

Quantum technologies have been identified by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology as one of five critical technologies that it will focus on under its new Science and Technology Framework. The Government has also just published a new national quantum strategy that sets out its 10-year vision and actions required from the UK to be a “leading quantum-enabled economy”. During its lifetime, UK National Quantum Technologies Programme (NQTP) has driven the success of the UK’s quantum technologies sector but more needs to be done to ensure that these technological advances can be turned into commercial products that can benefit the UK’s society and economy.

The Committee will examine what support the sector needs to achieve commercialisation of quantum technologies and what interventions are required from the Government to drive the success of the UK’s quantum technologies sector.

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was 11:59pm on 26 May 2023.

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Wednesday 20 March 2024
9:20am Private
9:30am Public
Commercialising quantum technologies - Oral evidence 20 March 2024
9:30am
  • Roger McKinlay (Director of Quantum Challenge Fund at Innovate UK (UKRI))
  • Anke Davis (Head of Quantum Technologies at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI))
10:15am
  • Andrew Griffith MP (Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation at Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
  • Tom Newby (Head, Office for Quantum at Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
Room 6, Palace of Westminster
Wednesday 31 January 2024
9:20am Private
9:30am Public
Commercialising quantum technologies - Oral evidence 31 January 2024
9:30am
  • Professor Dominic O'Brien (Professor of Engineering Science & Director of the Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub at University of Oxford)
  • Professor Ian Walmsley (Provost & Chair in Experimental Physics at Imperial College London)
10:30am
  • Dr Steve Brierley OBE (CEO at Riverlane)
  • Gerald Mullaly (Vice President of Commercial at Oxford Quantum Circuits)
  • Dr Carmen Palacios-Berraquero (CEO at Nu Quantum)
Room 8, Palace of Westminster
Wednesday 22 November 2023
9:20am Private
9:30am Public
Commercialising quantum technologies - Oral evidence 22 November 2023
9:30am
  • Professor Alessandro Fedrizzi (Professor of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University)
  • Professor David Cumming (Professor of Electronic Systems at University of Glasgow)
10:00am
  • Dr Murray Reed (CEO at QLM Technology Ltd)
  • Dr Chris Erven (CEO at KETS Quantum Security)
10:45am
  • Dr Anke Lohmann (Founder at Anchored In)
  • Simon Andrews (Chief Executive at Fraunhofer CAP)
Room 8, Palace of Westminster
Wednesday 6 September 2023
9:20am Private
9:30am Public
Commercialising quantum technologies - Oral evidence 6 September 2023
9:30am
  • Professor Sir Peter Knight FRS (Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, and Chair Quantum Metrology Institute at National Physical Laboratory)
  • Dr Michael Cuthbert (Aegis Professor at University of Bristol, and Director at National Quantum Computing Centre)
10:50am
  • Louis Barson (Director of Science, Innovation and Skills at Institute of Physics)
  • Kimberley Brook (Head of Enterprise at University of Bristol, and Head of Programmes at Quantum Technologies Enterprise Centre Bristol)
Room 15, Palace of Westminster

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