Switzerland's annual one-day meeting point between quantum research and quantum industry, on Tuesday 13 October 2026 at StageOne in Zurich: keynotes, eight parallel sessions, exhibition booths and 1:1 meetings across quantum computing, sensing, instrumentation and communication, co-organised by nine Swiss research bodies and companies and held inside Swiss Quantum Week.
Quantum Industry Day in Switzerland, shortened to QIDiS, is a one-day annual conference that gathers academic and industrial R&D in quantum technology "to foster exchange and accelerate the development of new quantum products", in the organisers' words. It runs keynotes, panel discussions, parallel sessions, an exhibition and 1:1 meetings across quantum computing, quantum sensing, quantum instrumentation and quantum communication. The 2026 edition takes place on 13 October 2026. The venue is StageOne Event and Convention Hall Zurich. The official site shows 679 registered participants (organiser registration platform, not an audited headcount). The series started with an inaugural edition in Zurich in 2018, according to a Swiss federal news item published in December 2025.
13 October 2026, Tuesday. The agenda runs from registration at 08:15 to an apero ending at 19:00. StageOne Event and Convention Hall Zurich. Its address is Elias-Canetti-Strasse 146, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland. QIDiS is one fixture of Swiss Quantum Week, 12 to 16 October 2026, organised by swissnex.
Consortium of CSEM, Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) Switzerland, Euresearch, IBM Research, ID Quantique, Innosuisse, NCCR SPIN, the Quantum Center at ETH Zurich and Zurich Instruments, with EPFL Center for Quantum Science and Engineering, Swissmem and the Swiss Quantum Initiative. The official site shows nine organiser logos (ID Quantique with its parent IonQ, IBM Research, NCCR SPIN, Euresearch, CSEM, Zurich Instruments, the Quantum Center at ETH Zurich, Innosuisse, Enterprise Europe Network) and three partner logos (EPFL Center for Quantum Science and Engineering, Swissmem, Swiss Quantum Initiative). The site's Contact page names eleven organiser contacts drawn from these bodies and routes matchmaking questions to Enterprise Europe Network Switzerland, represented through Innosuisse. Registration and meetings run on the b2match platform.
679 registered participants (organiser registration platform, not an audited headcount) from 37 countries, as shown on the official site on 10 October 2026. Its country table adds up to 677, and the countries are Switzerland 504, Germany 36, Italy 32, the Netherlands 15, the United Kingdom 14, France 12, the United States 7, Austria 6, Spain 6, India 5, South Korea 4, Brazil 3, with the remaining 25 countries at one or two each. About three in four registrants are therefore Swiss. Speaker affiliations show the mix: researchers from ETH Zurich, EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institut, quantum hardware and software companies, venture investors, and corporate technology staff from Telefonica, Belimo, Capgemini, LGT and HUBER+SUHNER. A figure of 140 attendees previously circulated for this event; the official site does not support it.
Published roster of 42 names on the official Speakers page, read 10 October 2026, in the site's alphabetical order. The agenda shows more speaking slots than named people for the panel and several sessions, so some session speakers are not yet named (not publicly disclosed).
The venue moves from Geneva, where the 2025 edition was held at the International Conference Center on 14 October 2025, to StageOne in Zurich. The official 2025 site showed 652 registered participants from 42 countries with 442 from Switzerland, against 679 registered participants from 37 countries with 504 from Switzerland on the 2026 site. Both are organiser registration counts. The 2026 agenda has eight parallel sessions in two blocks, including sessions on supply chain, international quantum policy and building a quantum career. The 2025 agenda was not compared session by session.
Tuesday 13 October 2026, from the published agenda on the official site (status: published agenda, read 10 October 2026).
The official site lists six key topics: applications of quantum computing, quantum instrumentation, quantum communication, migration to quantum-safe security, quantum sensors and quantum careers (building a quantum career).
Five kinds of format run on 13 October 2026. Keynote overviews and one panel on the Main Stage in the morning. Four parallel 120-minute sessions at 14:00 and four parallel 60-minute sessions at 16:30, in the Main Stage and Rooms 4, 5 and 8. Pre-booked 1:1 meetings of 20 minutes in a B2B area from 12:20 to 14:00 (the matchmaking help text on the site mentions 15-minute meetings, so the agenda figure is used here). An exhibition of 19 booths plus ten organiser booths. A marketplace on the b2match platform with 51 posted opportunities on 10 October 2026, mostly services (21) and products (10).
QIDiS sits inside Swiss Quantum Week, 12 to 16 October 2026, a programme organised by swissnex. Two other fixtures are listed by swissnex for that week: Quantum Open Doors, 14 and 15 October, pre-arranged visits to quantum labs, companies and accelerators across Switzerland (swissnex states applications are closed); and the GESDA Summit, 14 and 15 October at Palexpo in Geneva, an invitation-only summit with quantum sessions held with the Open Quantum Institute. Other fixtures in the week are Not publicly disclosed in the sources checked.
Not publicly disclosed. The official site lists no price, tier or discount for 2026, and the 2025 site showed none either. The organisers' page for the 2022 edition described that edition as free of charge. Registration for 2026 closed on 7 October 2026 according to the banner on every page of the site, although the Info page also says booking is open until 13 October 2026, which appears to refer to meeting booking and is unclear. Registration is on b2match.
Not publicly disclosed. No call for speakers or abstracts appears on the official site. The 2026 roster of 42 speakers is already published (see the confirmed speakers entry), so any approach for 2026 is closed in practice. Organiser contacts are listed on the site's Contact page; one of them, Eva-Corinna Fritz, is Outreach and Engagement Manager at the Quantum Center at ETH Zurich.
Not publicly disclosed. The site has an Exhibitors page listing booths but no prices, packages, deadlines or application form, and no sponsorship tiers. Booth holders are listed under the sponsors entry. Enquiries would go through the organiser contacts on the Contact page, for instance Eva-Corinna Fritz of the Quantum Center at ETH Zurich. Exhibiting terms were not found elsewhere.
No sponsors by tier are published (not publicly disclosed). The site lists exhibitors, published roster as of 10 October 2026, 19 booths in the exhibition area: Rhonexum, CADFEM, Bluefors, QZabre, ZuriQ, Computer Controls, COMSOL, kiutra, Basel Precision Instruments, Basel Quantum Center (University of Basel), redwavelabs, Diamond SA, Miraex, SEALSQ, Heliotis, Linde Kryotechnik, Quantum Design Germany, Global DataQuantum and Yotavis. Ten organiser booths stand on the first floor: Zurich Instruments, Swissmem, ID Quantique, IBM, the Quantum Center at ETH Zurich, the QSE Center at EPFL, CSEM, Euresearch, Innosuisse and NCCR SPIN.
Quantum hardware and enabling-technology suppliers dominate the exhibition: cryogenics (Bluefors, kiutra, Linde Kryotechnik), control electronics and amplifiers (Zurich Instruments, redwavelabs, Basel Precision Instruments), simulation software (CADFEM, COMSOL), sensing probes and imaging (QZabre, Heliotis) and quantum computer builders (ZuriQ). The speaker roster adds quantum-computing and software firms (IonQ, IBM, planqc, Algorithmiq, Qendra), venture investors (QAI Ventures, Ground State Ventures, Creadd Ventures) and large corporate users (Telefonica, Belimo, LGT, Capgemini). No official breakdown of registrants by company type is published.
Not publicly disclosed. The official site has no press page, media kit or accreditation form, and the Contact page lists organiser contacts without a press role. Searches found no separate press office. Journalists would have to approach an organiser contact directly.
None found for the 2026 edition itself as of 10 October 2026, beyond event listings: the Basel Quantum Center events page, swissnex's Swiss Quantum Week 2026 page and a LinkedIn post by an organiser. Coverage of earlier editions exists: a Swiss federal news item of 9 December 2025 on swissnex's Quantum Summit described the 2025 edition as having over 600 registered participants from 41 countries, and an EPFL news item reported over 450 participants at the 2023 edition in Lausanne.
Weak, and mostly promotional or institutional. The 2026 listings come from partners or related bodies (a university centre that exhibits, swissnex, an organiser's own LinkedIn post), not independent reporting. The December 2025 news item comes from a federal body linked to swissnex, which also runs Swiss Quantum Week. None of the sources found are listed as media partners, and no media partners are published for 2026. Its figure of 41 countries differs by one from the 42 shown on the 2025 event site, a sign that all attendance numbers come from the organisers.
Anyone not already registered, since registration closed on 7 October 2026 according to the official site; the next edition is the realistic target. Researchers who want to present their own work, since no call for papers or posters is published and the speaker roster is set. Buyers looking for a large vendor floor: 19 exhibitors in a one-day hall is a short list. Attendees who need a policy or standards forum, since only the International Quantum session (three speakers) addresses policy.
QIDiS is the main one-day Swiss date in an October run of European quantum events recorded in EventsIndex. Quantum Infra Summit EU runs 1 and 2 October 2026 in Leuven; AI, HPC and Quantum is in Rome on 8 October 2026; Tech Tour Quantum and Defence is in Berlin on 8 and 9 October 2026; Munich Quantum Software Forum runs 14 and 15 October 2026 in Munich, overlapping the two days after QIDiS; the UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase follows in London on 6 November 2026. Within Switzerland it anchors Swiss Quantum Week, 12 to 16 October 2026.
Yes: the host city rotates. Documented editions: Zurich, 4 October 2019 and 4 October 2022 (the latter in person after two virtual editions); Swiss Tech Convention Center, Ecublens near Lausanne, 16 October 2023; uptownBasel, Arlesheim, 23 September 2024; International Conference Center, Geneva, 14 October 2025. The 2020 and 2021 editions were virtual. Counting annually from the 2018 inaugural edition, 2026 would be the ninth (unverifiable information), because the organisers do not number editions.
The official site, agenda and session descriptions are in English, and speakers come from Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy and other countries. The spoken language of the sessions is not stated (not publicly disclosed), so English is the working assumption.
Not publicly disclosed. The event is in person at StageOne, and the site mentions no livestream, recording or hybrid pass. The b2match platform and its app handle profiles, the participant list, meeting booking and the personal schedule before and during the day.
Not publicly disclosed. No price is published, and the site's FAQ covers only b2match account and meeting questions. Meetings can be rescheduled or cancelled on the platform, according to the site's matchmaking help text. No refund policy for registration was found.
Not publicly disclosed. The official site has no accessibility statement, and none was found for the event. Nothing was found either about step-free access, lifts or assistance at StageOne.
StageOne Event and Convention Hall Zurich is at Elias-Canetti-Strasse 146, 8050 Zurich, in the Oerlikon district. The official site links to StageOne's access page and to the ZVV public transport timetable. A travel guide for the venue gives a 5 to 10 minute walk from Zurich Oerlikon railway station, served by many S-Bahn lines, trams and buses, and says StageOne has no parking of its own. Journey times from Zurich Airport and the main station were not verified; check the ZVV planner.
Because it puts the whole Swiss quantum chain in one hall on one day. Nine organisers span a federal innovation agency, two university centres, a national research programme, an applied-research institute, a corporate lab and two product companies, and the agenda covers computing, sensing, instrumentation, communication, supply chain and careers. With 504 of 677 registrants Swiss, it works as a national meeting more than a European one, and the 19 exhibitors and 1:1 meeting slots show the aim is business contact, not paper sessions.
The documented venues are Zurich in 2022, Lausanne-area Ecublens in 2023, Arlesheim near Basel in 2024, Geneva in 2025 and Zurich again in 2026, which fits a consortium whose members sit in different cities, from CSEM in Neuchatel to ETH in Zurich. Rotation spreads hosting across partners and lets local universities show their own centres, as the Basel Quantum Center does with its booth in 2026. The cost to a regular is that venue, travel and local mix change each time, so last year's logistics do not carry over.
Every number on the event site comes from the organisers' own registration platform: 679 registered participants in the headline against 677 in the country table, and 652 against 648 for 2025. These count sign-ups, not people through the door, and the site says registration ended on 7 October 2026 while also saying booking is open until 13 October 2026. A smaller figure of 140 attendees circulated earlier and is contradicted by the site, so no figure here is audited.
Official site: https://www.qidis26.com/ (hosted on b2match, with Info, Agenda, Speakers, Exhibitors, Venue, Contact and FAQ pages). Contacts: matchmaking questions go to Ines Rossetti, Enterprise Europe Network Switzerland at Innosuisse (address on the Contact page); Eva-Corinna Fritz, Outreach and Engagement Manager at the Quantum Center at ETH Zurich, is among the listed organiser contacts. Swiss Quantum Week information is on swissnex's Swiss Quantum Week 2026 page. The 2025 edition site is https://www.qidis25.com/.