Quantum Datacenter Alliance to Hold Second Forum on Scaling Quantum Computing in London

Insider Brief

• The Quantum Datacenter Alliance will hold its second international forum on Oct. 1, 2026, in London, focusing on the infrastructure needed to scale distributed quantum computing.
• The event will bring together leaders from quantum computing, networking and data center industries to discuss system architecture, interconnects, error correction, interoperability and power consumption.
• The QDA was established in 2025 by Nu Quantum, Cisco, NTT Data, OQC, QphoX, Quantinuum and QuEra to address data center integration challenges for quantum computing.

Press release – The second international Quantum Datacenter Alliance (QDA) Forum will be held on October 1, 2026, at Battersea Power Station in London. This exclusive-access event brings together technical and business leaders from across the quantum and classical networking industries with a shared mission: accelerating the timelines to reach utility-scale distributed quantum computing.

Nu Quantum, Cisco, NTT Data, OQC (Oxford Quantum Circuits), QphoX, Quantinuum and QuEra established the QDA in 2025 with the mission of bringing together leading voices from the quantum computing and data center communities to address one of the field’s most pressing bottlenecks: how to integrate emerging quantum hardware into existing and future data center infrastructure. As quantum systems move from lab-scale demonstrations toward commercial deployment, questions about system-level architecture, control, error correction, interoperability and power consumption have become as critical as the qubits themselves.