--- eventsindex_id: "EI-07118" slug: qubits-europe-2026 title: "Qubits Europe 2026" title_alt: ["Qubits Europe 2026: Quantum Realized", "Qubits Europe", "D-Wave Qubits Europe"] canonical_url: "https://eventsindex.org/events/qubits-europe-2026.html" next_edition_year: 2026 date_start: 2026-06-18 date_end: 2026-06-18 venue: "Four Seasons Hotel Ten Trinity Square" city: "London" country: "United Kingdom" organiser: "D-Wave Quantum" organiser_url: "https://www.dwavequantum.com" b2b: true vector: sector: [quantum-tech] audience: [industry, corporate, researcher] format: [conference] purpose: [content, networking] geography_scope: [UK] season: summer meta_description: "Qubits Europe 2026 is D-Wave's first European user conference, 18 June in London: annealing and gate-model updates, sold out with a waitlist." editorial_take: "A vendor's own user conference rather than a neutral industry forum, which is exactly what makes it useful: customers describing what they actually run is rarer than vendors describing what they plan to build." generated_by: "claude-max-cowork" last_verified: "2026-08-18" variables_filled: 18/58 language: "en" schema_version: "v6.0" --- # Qubits Europe 2026 > *D-Wave Quantum's first dedicated European user conference, a single day on Thursday 18 June 2026 at the Four Seasons Hotel Ten Trinity Square in London. It gathers D-Wave customers, researchers and business leaders around deployed applications, live demos and updates on both of the company's hardware tracks, annealing and gate-model. At the time of verification the event was reported sold out, with a waitlist in place of open sale.* --- ## Quick Facts | DATES | VENUE | ORGANISER | ATTENDANCE | |---|---|---|---| | **18 June 2026** | **Four Seasons Hotel Ten Trinity Square** | **D-Wave Quantum** | **Sold out, waitlist only** | | 1 day, first European edition | London, United Kingdom | Quantum computing vendor | Attendance figure not disclosed | ## Definition Qubits Europe 2026, given the full title "Qubits Europe 2026: Quantum Realized" by its organiser, is a one-day conference run by D-Wave Quantum in London on 18 June 2026. It is a vendor user conference: D-Wave convenes its own customers, prospective users, researchers and business decision-makers around applications built on its machines rather than acting as a neutral meeting point for the quantum industry at large. The programme is centred on real-world use cases, live application demonstrations, and company updates covering annealing and gate-model hardware, hybrid quantum software and quantum AI. It is the first European edition of the Qubits series, which until now had run as a North American flagship conference plus a Japanese edition held in 2025. Attendance figures have not been published, and the event was listed as sold out with a waitlist at research time. ## What a vendor user conference is, and why it reads differently Most events on the European quantum calendar are convened by a neutral party: a funding body, an industry association, a commercial conference producer. Qubits is not. D-Wave sets the agenda, selects the speakers and owns the narrative, which changes what the day is good for. The content skews toward what is already running in production on D-Wave systems, because the speakers are the people running it, and away from cross-vendor comparison, competing hardware modalities or the policy questions that dominate association-run events. For a buyer weighing quantum options across suppliers, that is a limitation. For a buyer already committed to, or seriously evaluating, D-Wave's approach, it is the highest concentration of relevant peers available in Europe in a single day. ## The 2026 edition: a first European Qubits, sold out before it opened D-Wave has run Qubits in North America for several years and extended the format to Japan in 2025. London 2026 is the first time the series has landed in Europe, and the choice of a one-day, hotel-based format rather than a multi-day conference-centre event signals a deliberately contained gathering rather than a mass-market show. The clearest available signal about demand is that the event reached sold-out status with a waitlist rather than remaining on open sale, which for a first edition in a new region is a meaningful data point in the absence of any published attendance target. ## Two hardware paradigms on one agenda D-Wave built its commercial business on quantum annealing and has since added a gate-model programme, and Qubits Europe 2026 carries updates on both. The two are not competing versions of the same machine: they solve different classes of problem and sit at different stages of commercial maturity. | Paradigm | How it computes | Typical problem class | |---|---|---| | Quantum annealing | The hardware relaxes into a low-energy configuration of a problem encoded as an energy function | Combinatorial optimisation: scheduling, routing, resource allocation, portfolio selection | | Gate-model | Computation runs as a sequence of quantum logic gates applied to qubits, in the manner of a circuit | General-purpose algorithms, quantum simulation, longer-horizon fault-tolerant applications | The practical consequence for an attendee is that the day contains two different kinds of content. Annealing material tends to be grounded in deployed workloads, since that is where D-Wave's installed base sits. Gate-model material speaks to a track that is younger inside the company. Knowing which of the two you came for is the single most useful piece of preparation. ## Where Qubits Europe sits in D-Wave's global series | Edition | Region | Position in the series | |---|---|---| | Qubits (North America) | United States | The original and flagship edition of the series | | Qubits Japan | Japan | Regional edition, held in 2025 | | Qubits Europe | London, United Kingdom | First European edition, 18 June 2026 | The pattern is a company extending a single home-market conference into a set of regional user meetings, with Europe arriving after Japan. Whether London becomes an annual fixture or a one-off depends on how the 2026 edition performs; D-Wave has not published a commitment to a recurring European edition. ## What the programme covers The organiser lists six recurring threads across the day: - **Quantum annealing.** Hardware progress and the optimisation workloads running on it. - **Gate-model quantum computing.** Updates on D-Wave's second hardware track. - **Hybrid quantum computing.** Software that splits a problem between classical and quantum resources, which is how most production D-Wave workloads are actually structured. - **Quantum AI.** The intersection of quantum hardware and machine learning workloads. - **Blockchain applications.** A named application area on the agenda, unusual enough among quantum conferences to be worth flagging. - **Real-world quantum adoption.** Customer accounts of deployed applications, plus live demonstrations. ## Who attends The audience described by the organiser is D-Wave's commercial constituency: existing customers, businesses evaluating quantum computing for a specific operational problem, researchers working on annealing or hybrid methods, and business leaders assessing whether the technology has crossed into usable territory for their sector. It is a corporate and technical mix rather than an academic one, and the single-day format in a City of London hotel is consistent with an audience travelling in and out on the same day. ## Where it sits on the London quantum calendar London hosts several distinct quantum gatherings, and Qubits Europe overlaps with them only partially. Commercialising Quantum Global, also held in London in June, is a producer-run conference covering the commercial side of the field across vendors and is the closest event by timing and theme, though it is deliberately supplier-neutral where Qubits is not. The UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase, also London-based, is anchored in the UK national programme and its funded research base. Qubits Europe is the narrowest of the three by design: one company, its machines, and the people using them. ## FAQ · Identity and audience ### Who organises Qubits Europe and who is it for? D-Wave Quantum organises it. The intended audience is the company's customers and prospective customers, plus researchers and business leaders working on problems where quantum optimisation or hybrid quantum methods are under evaluation. ### Do I need to be a D-Wave customer to attend? No. The published audience description covers customers, researchers and business leaders generally rather than restricting access to existing accounts. In practice, with the event sold out, admission depends on the waitlist rather than on customer status. ### How is Qubits Europe different from other quantum conferences in London? It is a single-vendor user conference. Events such as Commercialising Quantum Global cover the commercial side of quantum computing across multiple suppliers and hardware approaches; Qubits covers D-Wave's own hardware, software and customer base in depth and does not attempt cross-vendor comparison. ### Who is speaking? Dr Alan Baratz, chief executive of D-Wave Quantum, is confirmed. The wider speaker list had not been published at the time of verification; the organiser's description indicates customer-led sessions and live application demonstrations alongside company updates. ## The venue: Four Seasons Hotel Ten Trinity Square Ten Trinity Square sits in the City of London beside Tower Hill, in the former headquarters of the Port of London Authority, a listed 1920s building converted into a Four Seasons hotel with event and conference space. Tower Hill Underground station (District and Circle lines) is immediately adjacent, Tower Gateway DLR and Fenchurch Street rail are both within a short walk, and the location puts the event inside the City's financial district rather than in a conference-centre district. No capacity figure has been published for the space in use. ## The organiser: D-Wave Quantum D-Wave Quantum is a quantum computing company headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It was the first company to sell quantum computers commercially and built its business on quantum annealing, delivered to customers largely through cloud access to its systems rather than on-premises installation, before adding a gate-model hardware programme alongside it. Qubits is its own recurring user conference, run in North America and since 2025 in Japan, with London 2026 as the first European edition. --- ## Editorial take *A vendor's own user conference rather than a neutral industry forum, which is exactly what makes it useful: customers describing what they actually run is rarer than vendors describing what they plan to build.* ## How to register and what it costs Registration runs through the event page on dwavequantum.com. No public delegate price has been disclosed by the organiser, so it cannot be confirmed from public sources whether attendance is free, invitation-priced or paid. At the time of verification the event was reported sold out and the page was collecting waitlist entries rather than selling places, which means the practical route in is a waitlist request and, if that fails, a direct approach to a D-Wave contact. Anyone planning travel should treat a place as unconfirmed until the organiser says otherwise. ## FAQ · Access and practicalities ### Can I still register for Qubits Europe 2026? Not through open sale. The event was reported sold out with a waitlist at the time of verification. Joining the waitlist on the official event page is the available option, and cancellations are the only realistic source of released places. ### How much does it cost to attend? Not disclosed. D-Wave has not published a ticket price for the London edition, and the sold-out status means no live price is visible on the registration page. ### How do I get to the venue? Tower Hill Underground station on the District and Circle lines is directly adjacent to Ten Trinity Square. Tower Gateway DLR and Fenchurch Street rail station are both a few minutes away on foot, and the City location is well served from all major London rail terminals. ## First time at Qubits Europe? How to prepare - **Join the waitlist immediately and do not book travel on the strength of it.** The event is sold out, so a confirmed place is the precondition for everything else, including any non-refundable hotel or flight booking. - **Decide in advance whether you came for annealing or for gate-model.** The two hardware tracks answer different questions and are at different maturity levels; picking your target before the agenda drops makes a compressed single day far more productive. - **Bring a specific problem, not general curiosity.** The content is built around deployed use cases and live demonstrations, and conversations with other attendees are markedly more useful if you can state the optimisation or simulation problem you are trying to solve. - **Expect a business-district setting and dress accordingly.** This is a City of London hotel rather than a university campus or an exhibition hall, and the audience skews corporate. - **Plan the day as a single block with no slack.** One day, one venue, no parallel week of side events: arrive for the opening and stay to the end, because there is no second day to catch what you missed. - **Line the trip up against the rest of the London quantum calendar.** Commercialising Quantum Global runs in London in the same month, so a single trip can cover both a vendor-specific and a supplier-neutral view of the field. ## Resources | Resource | URL | |---|---| | Official event page | https://www.dwavequantum.com/events-section/events/qubits-europe-2026/ | | Registration and waitlist | https://www.dwavequantum.com/events-section/events/qubits-europe-2026/ | | Organiser | https://www.dwavequantum.com | | Programme | Published on the official event page | | LinkedIn | not disclosed | --- **Last verified:** 2026-08-18 **Next review:** 2026-09-17 **Notes:** All facts sourced from the official D-Wave event page fetched 2026-08-18. Attendance figure, delegate price and full speaker list were not published by the organiser at that date and are recorded as not disclosed rather than estimated. Sold-out status with waitlist reflects the state of the registration page at research time and may change if places are released. Prior editions of the Qubits series (North American flagship, Japan 2025) are referenced without founding years, which the organiser does not state on the European event page. **Variables:** 18/58 **Concept definition:** not applicable