The eighth-annual Chicago Quantum Summit was held Nov. 3-4, 2025 convening more than 500 top industry, government, and academic leaders from around the world for dialogue aimed at shaping the future of quantum technology. Held in downtown Chicago, at the center of the globally recognized Illinois-Wisconsin-Indiana quantum hub, the two-day event highlighted breakthrough research, commercialization […]

The hackathon focused on 3 key themes with specific open challenges in each theme:

1. Quantum Benchmarking graphs: Quantum computing research papers will be shared and the task will be to create the Quantum Benchmarking graphs of different interesting applications of quantum computing.
2. Open problems on open-source software tools: A quick overview of open-source software tools (namely, pyLIQTR, Bench-Q, pyZX, and Azure) will be presented along with some open interesting tasks that the participants could try to tackle during the hackathon.
3. Understanding quantum computing open-source software tools: Simpler tasks will be discussed on the aforementioned tools and participants can focus on utilizing the notebooks available in the libraries to further understand how the tools work, while in parallel explore some interesting problems.

Professor Matthew Otten and researcher Katerina Gratsea opened up the event with their presentations on

• Quantum Computing and Applications
• Achieving Utility-Scale Applications through Full Stack Co-Design of Fault Tolerant Quantum Computers with the aim to emphasize the importance of QRE

Approximately 30 graduate and undergraduate students participated in the event. They formed teams to tackle a specific challenge and presented their results at the end of the hackathon.