Past Events

A look back at where Quantum Village has been. Click any card to expand it for speakers, sponsors, and highlights. Looking for what's next? See our upcoming events.

• DEC132025

  QV @ BSides London

  London, UK

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  Highlights

  Quantum Village returned to BSides London at the Novotel London West, with speakers and demos bringing quantum technologies and their security implications to the UK infosec community.

• NOV14–152025

  QV @ BSides Delaware

  Delaware, USA

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  Highlights

  A brilliant time with speakers and demos — and it was amazing to hatch plans with our fellow DEF CON villages for our return to DEF CON this year!

• AUG7–102025

  QV @ DEF CON 33

  Las Vegas, USA

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  Highlights

  Our "Sense & Security" edition for the International Year of Quantum. We had a great line-up of speakers and ran our Quantum Q-CTF, and debuted Uncut Gem — the world's first hackable, fully open-source diamond-based quantum sensor — alongside quantum computers, quantum sensors, and quantum art & artists.

• DEC142024

  QV @ BSides London

  London, UK

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  Highlights

  Quantum Village joined BSides London with speakers, hands-on quantum hacking, demos, and discussion for the UK security community.

• AUG8–112024

  QV @ DEF CON 32

  Las Vegas, USA

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  Highlights

  Located at the LVCC opposite the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge. We had a great line-up of speakers, and our Quantum Q-CTF became an official DEF CON Contest — alongside quantum threat modelling sessions, device demos (from photonic accelerators to QKD), a quantum algorithms workshop, and the return of "Free Photons".

  Sponsors

  SandboxAQ · Optalysys · Xanadu · QED-C

• AUG10–132023

  QV @ DEF CON 31

  Las Vegas, USA

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  Highlights

  Our second year. We had a great line-up of speakers and ran our Quantum Q-CTF, alongside a real quantum computer and quantum devices to hack, quantum sensor demos, and a mesh-networked collaborative quantum simulator badge.

  Sponsors

  Oxford Quantum Circuits (Superposition Donor — access to their "Lucy" quantum computer) · SandboxAQ (Entanglement Donor)

• AUG11–142022

  QV @ DEF CON 30

  Las Vegas, USA

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  Highlights

  Our inaugural year. We had a great line-up of speakers and ran the World's First Quantum Capture the Flag (Q-CTF). (Read the QV1 recap.)

  Sponsors

  QuintessenceLabs

Were you part of one of these? We'd love to hear from you — say hello!