20-21 April
Silicon Valley

John Martinis has researched superconducting qubits since the mid 1980’s. From 2014 to 2020 he worked at Google to build a useful quantum computer, culminating in a quantum supremacy experiment in 2019. He was awarded the London Prize in 2014 and the John Stewart Bell prize in 2021. In 2023 he co-founded the startup Qolab to build a useful quantum computer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2025.
Qolab is a VC-backed startup focused on developing utility-scale superconducting quantum computers. Our strategy is to partner with the best in the world in specific domain areas—state-of-the-art device fabrication, high-speed control electronics, and high-performance computing—to engineer robust systems compatible with near-term beyond classical applications and ultimately with full fault tolerance.