GO-TO-MARKET HITS

1981 – Physicists meeting, led by Richard Feynman, in MIT. The basis of quantum computing are set.

2002 – ICFO is founded (Read more).

2012 – Jeff Bezos (Amazon founder) and CIA’s investment arm (In-Q-Tel) invert in D-Wave Systems, the company that’s working on the first quantum computer (Read more).

2012 – A particle is sent from the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (island of La Palma) to Tenerife (Read more).

2013 – Ignacio Cirac wins the Wolf Prize in Physics, the most prestigious awards after the Nobel Prize (Read more).

2013 – Google and NASA found the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab in California and buy D-Wave Two (Read more).

2013 – Mike Lazaridis, co-founder of RIM/BlackBerry, founds the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo (Canada) (Read more).

2013 – Microsoft establishes QuArc, a research group focused on quantum architecture and computing (Read more).

2014 – SK Telecom introduces its new quantum cryptography devices (Read more).

2014 – Y Combinator and some investment groups found Rigetti, a company focused on creating commercial quantum systems (Read more).

2015 – Barcelonaqbit (bqb) is created in CERN (Geneva, Switzerland). Bqb is the first think thank about quantum information and it is focused on the go-to-market and business of quantum computing and cryptography (Read more).

2015 – For the first time a conference about quantum computing is sponsored by multinational technology companies, such as Google and Lockheed Martin (Read more).

2015 – Antoni Massanell (VP of La Caixa) and Telefónica head APWG.eu, an European project about cybersecurity (Read more).

2015 – ATOS, a technology integration company, and ID Quantique sign an agreement to integrate their quantum cryptography devices (Read more).

2015 – Huawei announces a big investment to create the first technological center about quantum information.

2015 – IBM shows off a quantum computing chip (Read more).

2015 – Toshiba’s QKD system comes out on the market (Read more).

2015 – Google says it has proved its quantum computer really works (Read more).

2016 – Barcelonaqbit organizes the first international conference about quantum information and business in the Mobile World Congress (Read more).

2016 – Juan Ignacio Cirac joins the Telefónica Board of Directors (Read more and more).

2017 – Quantum World Association is founded at Barcelona with the support of international quantum companies. Official presentation at MWC.