September 13 - 18, 2026 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2026 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)

• Sunday, September 13: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET - 705

335 - Real-time control of trapped-ion quantum networks
You-Wei Cheah, Swapnil Patel, Elia Perego, Se-young Yu, Justin Philips, Guangqi Gao, Erhan Saglamyurek, Wenji Wu, Hartmut Häeffner and Inder Monga

• Tuesday, September 15 - Workshop on Quantum Network Engineering - 602 A/B

This full-day workshop (9:45-4:45) will provide a platform for stimulating discussions on quantum network engineering, fostering new ideas and collaborations. Quantum networks are envisioned to achieve novel capabilities that are provably impossible using classical networks and could be transformative to science, economy, and national security. These novel capabilities range from cryptography, sensing and metrology, distributed systems, to secure quantum computing in the Cloud. To realize these great potentials, quantum networks are being actively researched and developed worldwide across different physical platforms (e.g., superconducting circuits, nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond, neutral atoms, and trapped ions). Several building blocks for quantum networking have been developed and demonstrated in a variety of experiments. For example, integrating ion traps with optical cavities provides the potential of on-demand and coherent light-matter interfaces for quantum networking. High-fidelity quantum frequency conversion converts photons from infrared light frequencies to optimal telecom wavelengths for long-distance quantum networking. This research is typically Physics-based, thereby they aim to address scientific challenges faced in quantum networks. However, to realize the practical deployment of quantum networks, many critical engineering challenges need to be addressed. For example, as the size and complexity of quantum networks increase, it is evident that manual control of quantum networks will be insufficient. The issues of quantum network abstraction, scaling of network architecture and protocols, and software automation are becoming increasingly important. This workshop seeks to convene a multidisciplinary community of public, private, and research stakeholders to present and refine quantum network engineering challenges. 

The workshop will consist of three sessions in the format of invited talks and panel discussions. The invited speakers and the audience will discuss the presented statements, past experiences, and new ideas in the subject area. This workshop provides a platform for exchange of ideas, sharing of problem solving skills, and opportunities for standardization in the community.

Organizers: Inder Monga, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Rodney Van Meter, Keio University, Shota Nagayama, Keio University, Akihito Soeda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan, Joaquin Chung, Argonne National Laboratory, Wenji Wu, ESnet

Workshop website: https://quantumworkshop26.es.net/

• Friday, September 18: 10:05 AM - 10:50 AM ET - 718B

Keynote: DQC-SI 2026 (Distributed Quantum Computing Systems and Infrastructure Workshop)

Speaker: Inder Monga

Director, Scientific Networking Division; Executive Director, ESnet · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Energy Sciences Network

https://dqc-si.com/

• Friday, September 18: Tutorial: Modeling and Simulation of Quantum Repeaters and Networks - 716B

Part 1 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET

Part 2 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET

This tutorial will provide an overview of quantum repeaters and networks, the NetSquid simulation package, and simulating quantum repeaters.

Presenters: Ezra Kissel, Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Michal van Hooft, QuTech, Charu Jain, ESnet. Chuen Hei Chan, Virginia Tech

Tutorial website: https://qlbnl.github.io/qnpack-tutorials/

August 21 | Berkeley, CA

Molecular Foundry User Meeting

Workshop: Scalable Solid-State Platforms for Photonic Quantum Technologies

Friday, August 21: 9:00am - 9:20am PT 

Qubits, Testbeds, and Architectures

Speaker: Inder Monga

July 27, 2026 | Minneapolis, MN

3rd Annual PEARC'26 Workshop: Broadly Accessible Quantum Computing

Monday, July 27, 2026: 9:50am - 10:30am CT | 

Quantum Networks: ESnet, Stony Brook, and the REN Perspective

Speakers: Wenji Wu (ESnet); Eden Figueroa Barragan (Stony Brook University); Mickey Slimp (Great Plains Network)

May 18 - 21, 2026 | Tokyo, Japan

IEEE INFOCOM 2026, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2026

"NetQStack: toward building a network-integrated computing stack for quantum data centers"

I Monga, R Nejabati, E Kaur, W Wu

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May 18, 2026

DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM59046.2026.11571765

April 20 – 24, 2026 | Evanston, IL

https://quantum.northwestern.edu/events/northwestern-quantum-week/

Wednesday, April 22, 2026: 3:00pm - 3:30pm (CT) | Guild Lounge | 601 University Place, Evanston, IL 

From Links to Logic: Building a Distributed Quantum Computing Testbed 

INQUIRE Inaugural Quantum Innovation Symposium

Inder Monga

March 31 - April 1, 2026 | Pittsburgh, PA

https://www.pqi.org/pqi-2026

Thursday, April 1, 2026: 10:30 - 11:00am (ET) | Ballroom B

"Orchestrating the Quantum Network: The QUANT-NET Testbed and Open-Source Control Plane" 

Inder Monga at the Quantum Networking Session

March 30, 2026 | Livermore, CA

Quantum Networking Testbeds: Panelist Inder Monga

March 15-19, 2026 | Los Angeles, CA

https://www.ofcconference.org/

• Sunday, March 15, 2026: 4:00pm - 6:30pm (PT) | Room 408A

Do We Need to Rethink the Role of  Networks in the Quantum Era?

16:10 – 16:25: Inder Monga,  Session Keynote

• Wednesday, March 18, 2026: 4:00pm - 5:00pm (PT) | Expo Theater III, South Hall

Network Operator Briefing Session: Panelist - Inder Monga

Panelists will share their insights on the latest industry trends and emerging technologies. Q&A to Follow.

• Thursday, March 19, 2026: 2:00pm - 3:30pm (PT) | Room 515A

"The Integrated Ecosystem: AI-capable Multi-Domain Orchestration and Cross-Layer Operations" by Inder Monga at the Special Session: Rethinking Networking Convergence from Operational Perspective: Towards a Data and AI-centric Operational Future

December 3-5, 2025 | Washington, DC

Optica Incubator on Quantum Network Systems Research

• Quantum Network Control & Layers

Inder Monga

• Inder Monga and Wenji Wu co-organizers: Expert incubator (3 experts from 40 organizations traveling to DC from 14 countries (attended by 53 experts from 40 organizations traveling to DC from 14 countries) to establish a set of early system architectures for quantum communication networks and to define key metrics and establishing enabling practices to accelerate research. 

September 8-11, 2025 | Coimbra, Portugal 

A workshop of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM)

• An extensible control plane software architecture for quantum networking research

Se-young Yu, Liang Zhang, Ezra Kissel, Wenji Wu, Inder Monga

As quantum networking experiments move from individual laboratory experiments to larger scale deployments, there is an increasing need to integrate control software that can manage the complex interactions between the often numerous distributed resources involved. While a number of control systems have been developed for specific quantum platform demonstrations, an openly available and general solution for operating quantum networks has not emerged. With the QUANT-NET Control Plane (QNCP), we introduce a model-based, extensible control plane implementation that offers a framework for enabling network-wide orchestration

in quantum information network environments. QCNP provides a quantum network data model, resource management, communication primitives, and a plugin interface for defining orchestration and protocol interactions across distributed quantum network devices and services. This paper describes the design and architecture of QNCP, its implementation, and opportunities for extensibility and deployment.

August 31 - September 5, 2025 | Albuquerque, NM

• Session Time and Location TBD

A Two-level Control Framework for Quantum Networks

Se-young Yu, Elia Perego, Justin Phillips, You-Wei Cheah, Prathwiraj Umesh, Guangqi Gao, Jiarui Liu, Ezra Kissel, Michael Bregar, Ke Sun, Qiming Wu, Raju Valivarthi, Erhan Saglamyurek, Wenji Wu, Maria Spiropulu, Hartmut Häffner, Inder Monga

Quantum network control is a major research area of the QUANT-NET project. We strive to build a quantum

network control plane to orchestrate and manage all the physical-layer technologies, and to explore what a quantum network control plane should look like in the future, so as to automate high-rate and high-fidelity entanglement generation, distribution, and storage in an efficient, reliable, and cost-effective way. To these ends, we have designed a two-level control framework for quantum networks. Within such a framework, a two-level scheduler has been implemented to support synchronous time slot scheduling, network-wide non-real-time control, and node-wide real-time control. This two-level control framework and the scheduler are being deployed and evaluated in the QUANT-NET testbed. Enabled by this two-level control framework and the scheduler, several basic quantum network operations have been automated in the testbed, which include automated quantum node calibration and on-demand single photon generation. In this paper, we present this two-level control framework, the scheduler, and the automated quantum network operations that have been

enabled in the QUANT-NET testbed

June 1-5, 2025 | San Francisco, CA

• Wednesday, June 4 - 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Imperial Ballroom 

Towards an Elementary Quantum Network of Trapped Ions Across Deployed Fiber in the Berkeley Area

Erhan Saglamyrek

Trapped ions are leading platforms for networked quantum computing and quantum repeaters. We present our efforts towards building a quantum network test-bed with these systems between Univ. of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

• Thursday, June 5 - 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM | Grand Ballroom - Theater

When Physics Meets Engineering: Transition Quantum Networks from Laboratory Physics to Field Deployment (PANEL)

Moderator: Inder Monga

Panelists: Raza Mejabati, Alexander Ling, Wenji Wu

Quantum networks promise to revolutionize how we process and transmit information, potentially enabling unprecedented capabilities in secure communication, distributed computing and sensing applications. However, the gap between laboratory demonstrations and deployable technology remains substantial. This panel brings together leading physicists and quantum technology companies to explore the fascinating intersection where theoretical quantum physics confronts practical engineering challenges.

Our distinguished panelists will discuss the unexpected hurdles they've encountered when moving quantum networking principles from theory to practice. They'll share insights on increasing rate and fidelity of entanglement, developing reliable teleportation and error correction mechanisms over distance, building quantum data centers and wide area networks and constructing quantum testbeds. The conversation will highlight recent breakthroughs that are accelerating progress toward functional quantum networks and examine which applications are likely to demonstrate practical value first. 

"Vision of QUANT-NET project and opportunities for standardization" 

Inder Monga, IETF Dublin Quantum Internet Research Group (QIRG) session, Nov. 2024, Dublin, Ireland

"What Makes Quantum Networks? A Quantum Network Protocols' Perspective: From Physical Layer to Application Layer" 

Shota Nagayama, Rodney Van Meter, Wenji Wu, and Inder Monga, IEEE Quantum Week'24, Sep. 2024, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

"Quantum Network Testbeds: Towards Practical Deployment of Quantum Networks" 

Inder Monga and Wenji Wu, Prof. Saikat Guha, and Prof. Eden Figueroa, IEEE Quantum Week'24, Sep. 2024, Montreal, Quebec, Canada