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A Quantum Challenge: Building a Skilled Workforce

Big, established companies like IBM, Microsoft, Google and Honeywell are putting their vast resources behind the drive to reach true quantum computing and an array of smaller pure-play startups are rapidly cropping up around them, armed with expertise and a growing amount of funding. The qubits are beginning to pile up in relatively early systems and the push for creating highly stable qubits is expanding the range of methodologies that are being used to create them.

However, the acceleration in the quantum computing space and the growing number of companies, universities and government agencies that are pushing this wheel are driving the industry into the same problems that other market segments — think cybersecurity and data science — have hit: a skills shortage.

That’s not to say that quantum computing is ready to break out of its niche tomorrow to become a booming segment like cybersecurity.

At the same time, universities need to increase the number of courses and programs so that more students are graduating with degrees in quantum computing.