Q-Expo 2026 brings the global quantum community together in Bilbao, Spain, for two dynamic and fully integrated days of exhibition, plenary sessions, and high-impact networking on 18–19 May.
The Exhibition runs across both days 18 - 19 May, creating continuous opportunities to explore cutting-edge quantum solutions, meet leading technology providers, and engage directly with innovators shaping the quantum ecosystem.
This expanded format maximises visibility for exhibitors while ensuring steady engagement and meaningful connections throughout the event.
The Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service of the Government of Spain is responsible for designing, coordinating, and implementing public policies related to digitalization, telecommunications, the information society, and the development of artificial intelligence and quantum technologies. This area is promoted jointly with the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities through Spain's Quantum Technologies Strategy 2025–2030.
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El Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública del Gobierno de España es responsable de diseñar, coordinar y ejecutar las políticas públicas relacionadas con la digitalización, las telecomunicaciones, la sociedad de la información, el desarrollo de la inteligencia artificial y de las tecnologías cuánticas, ámbito que impulsa, junto al Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, mediante la Estrategia de Tecnologías Cuánticas de España 2025-2030.
Luxquanta is a quantum cybersecurity company specializing in Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution (CV-QKD). Luxquanta develops and commercializes quantum-safe encryption solutions to protect global communications against current and future threats, including quantum computing.
With a mission to make quantum security accessible, Luxquanta serves telecommunications, government, data centers, and critical infrastructure sectors worldwide.
For more information, visit www.luxquanta.com
QCentroid is building the AI-native operating layer for scalable quantum adoption. Our vendor-neutral QuantumOps platform helps enterprises, governments, hubs, and quantum providers turn fragmented research and pilots into structured, benchmarked, and deployable solutions.
QCentroid supports the full adoption workflow: from use-case discovery and definition to hybrid execution, solver development, benchmarking, cost control, and integration. AI assistance is embedded across the platform to help teams work faster, collaborate better, and make more confident decisions while keeping domain experts in control.
For quantum partners, QCentroid creates a practical path to market. Providers can showcase, benchmark, distribute, and integrate their technologies through enterprise and ecosystem channels, helping the quantum stack scale from innovation to adoption.
Rotonium is developing room-temperature photonic Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) designed to make quantum acceleration compact, energy-efficient and easier to integrate with classical computing infrastructure.
Its proprietary qudit-based photonic architecture uses structured light to enable deterministic quantum logic within single photons.
Rotonium's roadmap includes desktop, PCIe and SoC QPU formats, targeting applications in industrial systems, aerospace, defence, robotics, AI/HPC and data centres.
TECNALIA is the largest centre of applied research and technological development in Spain, a benchmark in Europe and a member of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance. It collaborates with companies and institutions to improve their competitiveness, people's quality of life and achieve sustainable growth, thanks to a team of more than 1,500 people committed to building a better world through technological research and innovation.
Scopes of action: Smart manufacturing, digital transformation, energy transition, sustainable mobility, health and food, urban ecosystem and circular economy.
Mission & Vision: To transform technological research into prosperity and anticipate the future as the leading agent of transformation in companies and society, adapting them to an ever faster evolving world.
TECNALIA’s research delivers a measurable societal impact, generating value that translates into improved quality of life and long-term progress. In the latest awareness and positioning study (ERS 2025), TECNALIA occupies the first position in R+D+i brand awareness.
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Q-Expo 2026 took place on May 18th and 19th, 2026. It was a Summer festival of quantum in Bilbao at the Euskalduna.
Bilbao, Spain
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