Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.
You spent the day learning about the future of manufacturing at IMTS, now come learn how quantum computing intersects manufacturing use cases and how you can get started. World Business Chicago, the City of Chicago’s economic development agency, is pleased to welcome you to Chicagoland by hosting this collaboration with AWS.
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Join senior manufacturing and logistics leaders in-person for a curated evening exploring how quantum computing and AI will solve complex optimization, materials simulation, supply chain design, and advanced quality control challenges across the manufacturing industry.
Who should attend: Senior leaders in manufacturing, automotive, logistics, and supply chain who want to stay ahead of the next paradigm shift and understand what to do now to prepare.
Complimentary food & drinks and networking in an intimate setting designed for high-value peer connections.
This event has limited capacity. Register today to secure your spot.
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What you'll experience:
A panel discussion exploring what quantum computing means for manufacturing and how to get started
Demos from leading quantum partners at interactive exhibition stations
1-on-1 access to AWS quantum experts and specialized partners
Hybrid classical-quantum approaches you can leverage on AWS today
Actionable next steps for building your organization's quantum readiness roadmap
For questions and inquiries, please email aws-quantum-mfg@amazon.com with the subject 'Quantum Reception - IMTS 2026'
Impact of advanced computing on Manufacturing: Joseph Rosing - AWS, Head of Smart Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Learn how manufacturers use AWS advanced computing to solve their hardest engineering, design, and supply chain problems today, and how quantum computing will augment those solutions in the future.
The Expanding Quantum Investment and Innovation Across Chicago and Illinois:Â Â Preeti Chalsani, PhD - Illinois Economic Development Corporation, SVP and Chief Quantum Officer
Chicago and Illinois are fast becoming a national hub for quantum innovation. Come learn what's happening in the region and how your organization can get involved.
Roundtable - Getting Started with Quantum in Manufacturing
Join us to learn about the range of quantum computing use cases for manufacturing, how customers are getting started, and the first practical steps to take. You'll hear directly from the solution and technology providers working with these customers every day.
Classiq
Come see how manufacturers like BMW and Rolls-Royce use Classiq to explore some of their toughest engineering challenges, from optimizing the electrical and mechanical systems behind more efficient vehicles to simulating the fluid dynamics inside next-generation jet engines. Classiq's AI quantum engineering sits at the core of this secure, enterprise-grade platform, helping any team design, optimize,
and generate quantum algorithms that run on any quantum hardware, including the systems available on Amazon Braket.
QuEra Computing Inc.
QuEra operates the only neutral-atom quantum computer available on Amazon Braket. At our station we'll show two classes of manufacturing problem: machine-learning on production data - defect classification and quality inspection on a production line — which we have already tested on our hardware, and chemistry. We'll walk through what it takes to get a problem onto the hardware today, and how our roadmap changes which problems become worth doing at all.
JIJ, Inc.
JIJ builds optimization software for the planning decisions that have more feasible combinations than a team can evaluate: production schedules and changeovers, machine and capacity allocation, material yield, and the supply network behind them. At one manufacturer, building schedules across more than 100 product types went from six hours to one minute. We will run two live demos at the booth: in the first you try to beat the optimizer on a real production network, then knock a site out and watch it re-plan in milliseconds. Or stop by to describe a scheduling problem in plain language and watch a working optimization model get built and solved in front of you, using either classical or quantum hardware.
Amazon Braket
Amazon Braket lets manufacturers explore quantum computing for supply chain optimization, production scheduling, and materials discovery today. In 2028, we're launching the first fault-tolerant quantum computer on Braket — designed to simulate molecular systems and advanced materials beyond classical limits. Stop by to see what's possible now and what's ahead
QBraid
qBraid is The Quantum Cloud, an agentic compute-orchestration platform that lets teams build and run QPU, GPU, and CPU workloads from a single interface, with no hardware to manage or toolkits to stitch together. We'll showcase how manufacturers can use qBraid to tackle real challenges, production and supply-chain optimization, materials and chemistry discovery, and logistics — exploring quantum-powered solutions at a fraction of the usual cost and complexity. Trusted by leaders like NVIDIA, AWS, and Airbus, qBraid puts advanced quantum-classical computing in engineers' hands today.
Q-CTRL
Q-CTRL’s mission is to make quantum technology useful by using AI-driven infrastructure software and advanced quantum control to overcome quantum hardware noise and accelerate real-world, industry ROI. From enabling efficient supply chains at Airbus by solving the world's largest constrained optimization problem, to training Quantum-AI vehicle frame design models with Mazda using 5x less training data, Q-CTRL's flagship performance management product, Fire Opal, is accelerating real-world industry ROI in supply chain optimization, manufacturing, and machine learning. Fire Opal, also integrated with Amazon Braket, automatically suppresses errors and optimizes algorithm execution to boost use case success on real quantum hardware by up to 9,000x while cutting compute costs over 1,000x.
Head of Manufacturing & Supply Chain Center of Excellence Automotive & Manufacturing, Amazon Web Services
Joe Rosing is the Head of Manufacturing & Supply Chain Center of Excellence within the Automotive & Manufacturing business unit, focused on delivering solutions through AWS services and partners that accelerate growth, reduce costs, and drive innovation for industrial customers. He has experience applying AI and machine learning to improve aftermarket service operations and to drive cost productivity across a variety of manufacturing and supply chain processes. As a former plant manager, Joe had responsibility for delivering and sustaining results of technology initiatives through integrating new capabilities into the plant operating rhythm and culture. Prior to AWS, Joe spent two years at a machine learning start-up following over ten years at Rockwell Automation, with roles in product management and operations leadership.
SVP and Chief Quantum Officer
Illinois Economic Development Corporation, SVP and Chief Quantum Officer
Preeti serves as the inaugural Chief Quantum Officer for Illinois. In this role, Preeti works closely with leaders within Illinois’ science, technology, innovation, government and economic development ecosystem to lead business development for quantum and adjacent industries, including for the recently announced Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP).
