Audience Q&A is kicking off! What do YOU think the UK needs to do to remain a global quantum leader? Drop your thoughts below! ⬇️ #QuantumDebate #UKQuantumImpact

Andy finished off panel The UK struggles to get ideas to commercialisation. This report is an opportunity and "I hope that in ten years time we aren't looking back at a missed opportunity for quantum like we have for other discovers."

We need to ensure that when we reach the value changing moment for quantum we are position in the UK to soak up this investment.

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Paddy echoes the report and highlights the gap in quantum funding in the UK. The government needs to consider how it puts quantum front and centre to spur growth, and private investment. #UKQuantumImpact #IYQ2025

We expect to see Quantum centric supercomputing, It is important that government continues to bring together universities, commercial and the ecosystem to build models that enable growth. Notes Nicola, Chair IBM UK.

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The Report suggests however that funding shortages pose a risk to UK quantum companies and could result in the UK risking losing an innovative and extremely productive sector.

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The UK is home to the largest number of quantum start-ups in Europe and this reflects the UK’s research strengths with nearly 1/2 of UK quantum hardware firms and a third of UK quantum software firms the result of spin-outs from UK universities.
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OQC's Gerald Mullally notes how the company has integrated quantum compute directly into data centres, Driven by the need for financial service industry to have secure access to quantum. #UKQuantumImpact
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The report covers some hard hitting stats with Andy noting that they have estimated:

🇬🇧 Could support 148,100 jobs by 2025 and 126,000 by 2045

🇬🇧 £212 bn in productivity gains by 2045

🇬🇧 8% growth across the UK

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"The idea that we can wait (...) we can not" Says Paddy McGuiness, Former deputy National Security Advisor. He goes on to note that from a national security perspective this is an issue now. #UKQuantumImpact #IYQ2025

More in the report on the impact of quantum > bit.ly/oxford-econo...

Gerald Mullally, interim CEO at OQC notes "The evolution of any technology is a series of breakthrough leaps." For more about how OQC is looking to pave the way for millions of quantum operations > oqc.tech/resources/be...

Dr Nicola Hodson, Chair IBM Uk notes how IBM has hit every single one of our milestones and sees quantum advantage isn't far off. #UKQuantumImpact #IYQ2025

Our panel moderator Rain Newton-Smith has kicked off the panel with an incredibly important topic: Is quantum still decades away? Our panelists have highlighted a key progress in the industry, commercial applications and the need to get prepared! #UKQuantumImpact #IYQ2025

Hannah kicks off the event: "We need to foster a quantum ready economy (...) the report highlights the need to act now, Without proper investment, or we risk missing out on over £200 bn in productivity gains"

The UK has a once-in-a-generation opportunity—will we seize it? #UKQuantumImpact