Save the Date - UK National Quantum Showcase 2025

Last year saw over 2,000 people come together in London to celebrate the UK’s National Quantum Showcase’s tenth year. Delegates from the UK and overseas explored the expanding landscape of quantum technology and industrial advancement. This year the Showcase aims to be bigger, with more exhibitors, more delegates and a jam-packed conference schedule.

The government is expanding its commitment to the UK’s world-leading quantum sector and Innovate UK has announced funding for this financial year of £46.1m, to accelerate the deployment of quantum technology across a range of sectors, including computing, networking, PNT (position, navigation and timing) and sensing. £20.4m has also been announced to further the work of the National Quantum Computing Centre, including their testbed programme with Innovate UK, to accelerate the discovery of more ways that quantum can overhaul how we work and solve problems. This builds on the previous £30m investment for establishing the seven quantum computing beds at Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire, with Innovate UK being a vital partner in its delivery.

Roger McKinlay, Challenge Director, Quantum Technologies, Innovate UK said:

Today (14 April) is World Quantum Day and it is fitting that we are both announcing investment in the quantum sector and the return of the National Quantum Showcase. The UK is one of the top countries in the world for creating and attracting quantum companies and additional funding will help to secure our position as a global leader in this transformative field.

World Quantum Day is an international initiative promoting awareness of the vast capabilities of quantum science and technology. The UK quantum sector represents the second largest community of quantum companies in the world and support for the sector helps to bring forward innovative technologies, creating economic growth.

Projects previously funded by Innovate UK include:

• Delta g, a quantum technology company specialising in gravity gradiometry. Its innovative approach allows for the successful detection of buried features from their gravity profile alone. The ability to see the unseen can be used to determine whether there are voids, pipes or tunnels beneath your feet with the potential to reduce traffic jams by eliminating unnecessary roadworks.
• QLM Technology, which has pioneered deployment of quantum technology at industrial settings, in the form of an infrared LiDAR camera to image, locate and quantify greenhouse gases emissions. It is a key partner in the Innovate UK-funded SLPICE project which measures industrial gas/methane leaks, a major source of climate changing carbon emissions, allowing the global gas industry to control fugitive gas emissions, saving billions of pounds and reducing climate change.
• Cerca Magnetics, who have developed a scanner which is the world’s first “wearable” magnetoencephalography (MEG) system, allowing patients to move freely during the scan and offering unprecedented insights on brain development and function and severe neurological illnesses, such as epilepsy.

The potential of quantum technologies to have impact in our daily lives is growing. The UK National Quantum Showcase will explore these potentials and provide a platform for innovators to demonstrate the latest advances in quantum. Exhibitor packages and delegate tickets will become available in due course – to be the first to hear, sign up to our Quantum Newsletter below.