IEEE Quantum Conference (Albuquerque, Mexico), by Briana Bowen
The annual IEEE Quantum Week is one of the largest global convocations of quantum technology researchers, developers, and policymakers from across government, industry, and academia. Its sixth iteration, held from 31 August–5 September 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA) reflected a mood of accelerating interest and hype around the quantum technologies domain, with especial focus on quantum computing, quantum algorithms, and quantum communications. The last decade has been a transformative one for the maturing of quantum technologies from theoretical curiosities to early-stage commercially experimental applications, and real and important progress has been made across this time. But practical utility is still sharply limited : great hopes and grand claims about the future capabilities of quantum computers in particular run freely in the investment space around quantum technologies, but the actual capacity of current quantum computers—even those publicly available via quantu...