How community shaped IBM Quantum Developer Conference 2025 | IBM Quantum Computing Blog

How community shaped IBM Quantum Developer Conference 2025 | IBM Quantum Computing Blog

By ibm.com
Publication Date: 2025-12-17 12:00:00

The second-annual IBM Quantum Developer Conference (QDC) took place just last month, and we spent the three-day event highlighting our progress along the IBM Quantum Roadmap. We debuted new quantum chips, announced powerful software capabilities, and showed off the groundbreaking R&D shaping the future large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing. But none of these was the real star of the show.

That’s because it was our wonderful quantum community that formed the living, beating heart of IBM Quantum Developer Conference 2025. Guided by the theme of Quantum Advantage Together, the event brought together 200+ developers, researchers, advocates, students, and leaders from the Qiskit community—the largest open-source quantum community in the world—to explore the latest advances from IBM Quantum. Through seminars, lightning talks, a poster showcase, and a set of highly competitive coding challenges inspired by the year’s most impactful community-led research, our partners and…