Tentative/Draft Schedule of the Q2E Track at Q2B 2021
Organized by the Workforce Development TAC of the QED-C
Santa Clara, CA. Date is December 7, 2021 (a Tuesday).
Program chairs for this special track (Q2E) on behalf of QED-C WF TAC:
Chris Bishop (Inside Quantum Technology (MC), Improvising Careers (Chief Reinvention Officer))
Adrian German (IU QSEc Acting Organizing Manager and QED-C Workforce TAC Chair)
Eventually this should be just a local copy of the official workshop agenda.
Part I: The Supplier Perspective Q2E Workforce Development
This session's chair is Jake Douglass from the Sandia National Laboratories
The panel moderator will be Doug Finke from the Quantum Computing Report
02:00-02:05pm Opening Remarks
Dr. Corey Stambaugh, Senior Policy Advisor
National Quantum Coordination Office
OSTP, Executive Office of the President
02:05-02:15pm
Certificate Programs in Quantum Engineering and Technology
Dr. Kate Timmerman, Executive Director
(Q-NEXT and) The Chicago Quantum Exchange
02:15-02:25pm
Incubators for Future Master's Students
Prof. Terrill Frantz, Ph.D, Ed.D
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
02:25-02:35pm
Master's Programs in Quantum Information Science / Quantum Computing
Prof. Robert J Joynt
M.S. (Physics) Quantum Computing Program Director
University of Wisconsin at Madison
02:35-02:45pm
Integrating Undergraduates in a Quantum Engineering Curriculum
Dr. Eliot Kapit, Associate Professor of Physics
Director of Quantum Engineering
Colorado School of Mines
02:45-02:55pm
Combining Research, Training, and Mentorship
Umesh Vazirani (Roger A Strauch Professor EE/CSCI @UCBerkeley)
Berkeley NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute (QLCI/CIQC)
02:55-03:30pm
Panel Discussion
Participants: all speakers listed above
Moderator: Doug Finke
03:30-04:00pm
Coffee and Networking Break
Part II: The Consumer Perspective Q2E Workforce Development
This session's chair is Tim Rambo from Quantum Opus LLC
The panel moderator will be Zac Dutton from Raytheon BBN
04:00-04:15pm
On the Job Training
Mark W Johnson, Ph.D. (D-Wave)
Salvatore Guarnieri (Montana Instruments)
04:15-04:30pm
Helping Businesses Get Started
Piotr Kulczakowicz, Quantum Innovation/Commercialization
at the Quantum Startup Foundry (University of Maryland)
and Preeti Chalsani, Deputy Director at Duality (Chicago)
04:30-04:40pm
What Companies See in Terms of Applicants
Martha Lucia Primo (unable to attend)
Client Services Director
StrategicQC
04:40-04:55pm
Small vs. Large Companies Perspectives
Duncan Earl (President and CTO of Qubitekk)
Scott Davis (CEO and Founder of Vescent Photonics)
04:55-05:40pm
Panel Discussion (Moderator: Zac Dutton)
All speakers listed above plus Dr Jay Lowell
Senior Technical Fellow and Chief Engineer
Boeing Disruptive Computing & Networks

Special thanks to Krystal Bouverot, Celia Merzbacher and Diana Franklin.

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