June 13, 2017

ETSI/IQC Workshop on Quantum-Safe Cryptography, London, 13-15 September 2017

Following last year’s successful event at Toronto, Canada, the 5th ETSI/IQC workshop on quantum safe cryptography will take place this September in London, UK. The event is jointly co-organised by ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, and the IQC, the University of Waterloo’s Institute of Quantum Computing, with further support provided by the Quantum Communications Hub, […]

June 14, 2016

QKD in Space: Satellite QKD Technologies Workshop

The Quantum Communications Hub held a specialist workshop in early June on satellite quantum key distribution at ECSAT – European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications – the European Space Agency’s new UK facility at Harwell. The workshop was focused on the use of satellite communications for quantum key distribution – a combination of technologies […]

November 12, 2015

UK’s Quantum Hubs show future technology

[EPSRC Press Release] A packed audience at the Royal Society in London was given sight of the new technologies being developed at the UK’s four Quantum Technologies Hubs yesterday at the first Quantum Technology Showcase. Three hundred delegates from industry, business and government heard how the £270 million UK National Quantum Technologies Programme (UKNQTP) was […]

October 16, 2015

New quantum technologies markets are the focus of major event at Adastral Park

The potential for business opportunities based on the next generation of quantum technologies was highlighted at an industrial engagement event at Adastral Park, BT’s global R&D headquarters, on October 15th. Organised by the Quantum Communications Hub and BT, with support from the KTN and Innovation Martlesham, the ICT cluster at Adastral Park, the event was […]

June 22, 2015

Recent debate highlights the importance of cyber security for data communications

Professor Tim Spiller, Director of the EPSRC Quantum Communications Hub and the York Centre for Quantum Technologies, took part at a recent debate which aimed to highlight the increased need for more sophisticated methods of online security, and to explore the potential that new applications such as quantum encryption can offer. Part of the York […]