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Friday, Sept. 19, 2025 | The State Historical Society of Missouri
Join us for a day dedicated to celebrating quantum innovation with speakers, research projects and use case discussions and networking among the quantum community throughout Missouri and the region.
Attendees are welcome to attend in person or virtually. The in-person registration deadline is Friday, Sept. 12.
Agenda
| Time | Schedule of Events |
|---|---|
| 8:30-9 a.m. | Check-in (light breakfast) |
| 9-9:15 a.m. | Welcome Campus leaders and QIC Executive Committee |
| 9:15-10:15 a.m. | Keynote – “Path to Useful Quantum Computing” Scott Crowder, Vice President; IBM Quantum Adoption |
| 10:15-10:45 a.m. | QIC Summer Internship Project Summaries QIC Summer Interns |
| 10:45-11 a.m. | Networking Break |
| 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Keynote – “The Journey to Quantum’s Full Potential” Wade Davis, Senior Vice President, Digital for Business; Moderna |
| 12-1 p.m. | Networking Lunch and Poster Sessions |
| 1-2 p.m. | Keynote: “Turning Physics Problems into Quantum Workflows” Andrea Delgado, Scientific Researcher in Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Lab |
| 2-3 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions 1. Using IBM’s Quantum Computers 2. Quantum Research Special Interest Groups (a) Healthcare and Life Sciences (b) High Energy Physics (c) Optimizations (d) Material Science/Engineering (f) Cybersecurity |
| 3-3:15 p.m. | Networking Break |
| 3:15-4 p.m. | Panel: Use Cases, Careers and Research/Training Opportunities |
| 4 p.m. | Next Steps and Closing Remarks Chi-Ren Shyu, Chair of QIC Executive Committee |
Keynote Speakers
Scott Crowder
Vice President; IBM Quantum Adoption
Path to Useful Quantum Computing
Crowder will discuss the current state of quantum computing, the path required for creating more powerful quantum computers and the algorithms and applications required to take advantage of this emerging technology.
Scott Crowder is currently vice president, IBM Quantum Adoption where he is responsible for the adoption and commercialization of quantum computing. IBM Quantum has the dual mission of bringing useful quantum computing to the world and making the world quantum safe. Prior to his current role, Crowder served as the chief technical officer for IBM Systems and as the vice president of technical strategy for IBM, defining the cross-IBM technical strategy for IT infrastructure, analytics and cloud services. Earlier in his career, he was the lead engineer on the industry’s first logic-based embedded DRAM technology before serving as the research and development executive responsible for multiple global semiconductor manufacturing alliances, including the first logic joint development alliance with Samsung. He has testified to committees of the U.S. House of Representatives on multiple occasions on quantum computing technology and policy implications. Scott received AB/ScB degrees in electrical engineering and international relations from Brown University and an MA in economics and MS/PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Wade Davis
Senior Vice President, Digital for Business; Moderna
The Journey to Quantum’s Full Potential
Quantum computing has captured the imagination of technologists as a tool that could change how we discover medicines, design materials and solve problems that are out of the reach of classical computers. But promise alone is not enough. Detractorsargue that a quantum computing breakthrough perpetually seems just five years away. In this keynote, delve into why quantum computing has the potential to deliver advantages over classical methods, what kinds of problems I believe are most likely to benefit from quantum and what milestones must be reached before those advantages become practical.
Wade Davis is a senior vice president of digital at Moderna. His organization includes data science, AI and quantum algorithms and applications, along with other business facing digital teams. Davis’ previous roles at Moderna were VP of computational science and head of digital for research, Prior to Moderna, he was global head of bioinformatics and computational biology at AbbVie and a tenured associate professor at the University of Missouri. He has published over 100 research papers that have been cited more than 11,000 times.
Andrea Delgado
Scientific Researcher in Physics Division; Oak Ridge National Lab
Turning Physics Problems into Quantum Workflows
Quantum is getting real on campus. This keynote maps concrete paths from your physics problems to useful quantum experiments. Focusing on high-energy physics (HEP) applications and quantum machine learning (QML), we’ll cover why/when quantum can help, how to build hybrid workflows on quantum hardware, and what “state-of-the-art” actually means today.
Andrea Delgado is a research scientist in the physics division and the Quantum Information Science Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her work bridges quantum computing, high-energy physics and quantum machine learning, with a focus on developing quantum algorithms and hybrid HPC–quantum workflows for applications ranging from collider physics to nuclear simulations. She is also deeply involved in advancing quantum sensing and nonlocal games as tools for precision measurement. Beyond her research, Delgado serves on the steering committee for CERN’s Quantum Computing for High-Energy Physics working group and is a technical program chair for IEEE Quantum Week, helping shape the global conversation on quantum technologies.