Happy New Year! Q2B Follow Up
Dear WIQ members,
I wanted to wish you all a Happy New Year! I am excited by all the possibilities that this year will bring for all of us.
Let me start by updating you on the Q2B Conference in San Jose from Dec 7-9, 2021. It was great to see so many of you attend our first in-person meeting on Dec 6, and I want to thank the speakers — Preeti Chalsani and Kate Timmerman from Chicago Quantum Exchange; Chris Granade, Microsoft; Mariia Mykhailova, Microsoft; and Laura Thomas, ColdQuanta. I am always amazed at the talent and intellect in the Women in Quantum group and these speakers did not disappoint. The talks were followed by a coaching workshop.
On December 7, we had the first Women in Quantum Awards presented by QuEra Computing. I’d like to again congratulated the winners:
Christina Sanz, Multiverse Computing, Builder of the Year 2021
Marina Radulski, UC Davis, Leading Female Researcher of the Year, 2021
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, NuQuantum, Entrepreneur of the Year, 2021
Francisca Vasconcelos, Oxford University, Leading Female Community Creator of the Year, 2021
For more information about each of these outstanding role models, see the WIQ website https://onequantum.org/onequantum-awards
Many thanks to our Q2B Sponsors: Atom Computing, Microsoft, QuEra, IonQ, Unitary Fund and Bluefors.
I have so much more to tell you about, I look forward to talking about 2022 in our next newsletter.
Denise Ruffner
President, Women in Quantum
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