I'm down Sydney this week for some meetings and the Quantum Industry Day being hosted at the (gorgeous) New South Wales parliament building. This is an industry event put on my my old team at Quantum Brilliance and QuEra.
The event was genuionely interesting, and had a large attendance that seemed like a big chunk of the European and US cohort that had attended Quantum Australia, as well as government and trade representatives, consulting firms and associated implementation partners, and some general business operators.
I parciulatly liked the presentation from Dr Kathy Foley, the former chief scientist for Australia, as well as a leading talent in her career at CSIRO. I say this with neither malice normercy, but Dr Foley's presentation was exponentially more valuable and insightful than those from the big consulting firms I've seen in the last few weeks of quantum and supercomputing events.
I'm Australian, so I appreciate candour, and can say that Dr Foley's talk highlighted how hand-waving and glossy the majority of the quantum computing industry talks we do are. I took that especially to heart myself, and consider that a challenge to raise the bar in what we communicate and the density at which we do it. This is unsurprisingly very relevant for OpenQase.
Speaking of which, the feedback on the day was very helpful, and a few partnerships have formed, which building upon those from the previous event at Quantum Australia, are putting some momentum behind the work. And as ever, more commits this week on the alpha: https://github.com/ddri/openqase