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Over 300 participants at the second edition of Quantum Careers Symposium

The second edition of Quantum CARLA - The Quantum Careers Symposium, took place on 26 April at ICFO and streamed to facilitate participation of students and researchers world-wide. This event, organised by the Quantum Flagship and the Master in Quantum Science and Technology Barcelona, in collaboration with and the EU projects DigiQ and QTIndu, brought together 25 speakers from many of the exciting professional areas in the field Quantum Technologies in industry and in academia, with the ultimate goal to attract talent to the field. Participating companies included Airbus, Luxquanta, Pasqal, Nestle, Quside and Qilimanjaro. This symposium was focused on giving students from all over Europe an introduction to the field of quantum technologies and possible competencies they will need in case they wish to fulfil their professional path in this field.

In addition to inspiring talks around academic and industry career paths, large quantum European initiatives such as EuroHPC, QIA, OPMMEG and QSNP gave overall introductions showing the audience the vast range of research and development initiatives that Europe is carrying out in quantum technologies.

This symposium focuses on giving students from all over Europe an introduction to the field of quantum technologies and possible competencies they will need in case they wish to fulfil their professional path in this field.

All the sessions gave a glimpse of the many career paths and job opportunities available in the field of quantum technologies, which are currently facing a high demand in recruiting for different profiles. Participants also had the opportunity to meet and network with the representatives of the companies, research institutions and projects. There were sessions coordinated by other EU quantum initiatives such as a training on network provided by DigiQ and a session on professional skills in industry and academia, provided by QTIndu.

While 60% of the participants were undergraduate or master’s students, 16% were PhD students, 14% employees at companies or academic institutions, and the rest either postdocs or in a career break. There was a rich geographical representation of 50 different countries acorss Europe (23 countries), Asia (14), Africa (5), South America (5), and North America (3), identifying 27% of them as women, 69% as men, 1% as non-binary, and the rest not wanting to say it.