Nvidia Launches First Quantum DayNvidia Launches First Quantum Day

Nvidia has announced its first Quantum Day, taking place as part of its GTC 2025 event on March 20.

The announcement comes just days after CEO Jensen Huang said in an analyst session at CES 2025: “If you said 15 years for very useful quantum computers, that would probably be on the early side. If you said 30, it’s probably on the late side.”

His pessimistic statement caused the share price of several quantum computing companies – and Nvidia’s – to crash. This was compounded by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying on Joe Rogan’s podcast on Jan. 13 that quantum computing was “still quite a ways off from being a very useful paradigm.”

However, quantum share prices have since rallied, boosted in part by Microsoft launching its Quantum Ready program for business.  

Despite this pessimism by prominent CEOs, quantum computing is expected to solve problems deemed impossible to solve by classical computing, benefiting fields such as drug discovery and materials development to financial forecasting.

Unexpectedly, given Huang’s statement, Nvidia’s Quantum Day is set to explore the breakthroughs already being made today in quantum hardware, error correction and algorithms, rather than 30 years hence.

According to the company, it will bring together experts to consider what businesses should expect from quantum computing in the coming decades, mapping the path toward useful quantum applications.

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Magnanimously, the leaders of quantum companies joining Huang on stage will include those whose share prices temporarily tanked. The lineup includes Alice & Bob, Atom Computing, D-Wave, Infleqtion, IonQ, Pasqal, PsiQuantum, Quantinuum, Quantum Circuits, QuEra Computing, Rigetti and SEEQC.

Nvidia’s Quantum Day will also feature a developer day session outlining how partners are working with Nvidia to advance quantum computing. Educational sessions aim to give attendees hands-on training on how to use the most advanced tools to explore and develop quantum hardware and applications.

Nvidia also promises a “special address,” unveiling the company’s latest quantum computing news and the advances that could reduce the timeline to useful applications.