IonQ Showcases Breakthrough Quantum Applications at Web Summit 2025, Underscoring Path Toward Real-World Impact
IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), recognized globally as a leader in quantum computing innovation, has announced its participation in Web Summit 2025, one of Europe’s largest and most influential technology gatherings. The event, held annually in Lisbon, Portugal, serves as a convergence point for global technology leaders, researchers, investors, and innovators who are shaping the digital future. This year, IonQ’s participation reflects its growing prominence in advancing quantum technologies from theoretical promise to tangible, real-world applications.
IonQ’s Vision at Web Summit 2025
As part of the conference’s AI Symposium, Dr. Chris Ballance, IonQ’s President of Quantum Computing and Co-Founder of Oxford Ionics, is set to take the stage at 10:30 a.m. local time on Thursday, November 13, 2025. His session, titled “Uncompromising Quantum Applications: The Race to Real-World Applications,” will be moderated by technology journalist Mary-Ann Russon.
The discussion will center on one of the most pressing challenges and opportunities in modern computing — the transition from quantum theory to practical implementation. Dr. Ballance is expected to outline IonQ’s recent technological milestones, particularly in quantum gate precision, and explain how these breakthroughs contribute to the company’s larger goal of developing fault-tolerant quantum computing systems capable of solving complex real-world problems.
Exploring Quantum Computing’s Next Frontier
Quantum computing represents a paradigm shift in how computational problems are solved. By leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics — superposition, entanglement, and interference — quantum computers can process information in ways that classical systems cannot. This enables them to address computationally intensive challenges such as molecular simulation, financial risk modeling, logistics optimization, and materials discovery.
IonQ’s focus at Web Summit 2025 is not only to showcase its latest achievements but also to emphasize the practical impact of quantum systems on industries that drive the global economy. The company has recently achieved a 99.99% gate fidelity for two-qubit operations, a milestone that signifies exceptional precision and reliability in quantum gate control. Such a level of accuracy is critical for building fault-tolerant quantum computers, which are essential for scaling quantum hardware to commercial use.
A Major Step Toward Fault-Tolerant Quantum Systems
Dr. Ballance’s remarks underscore IonQ’s long-term commitment to creating quantum systems that transcend the boundaries of academic experimentation and enter the realm of industrial application.
We are at a critical juncture where breakthroughs in quantum performance can unlock new opportunities, including those with real-world applications in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, and biomedical research,” said Dr. Ballance. “We recently achieved 99.99 percent gate accuracy for two qubits, which is a critical step toward fault-tolerant systems and opens the door to practical quantum solutions across industries.”
This leap in accuracy, while highly technical, carries transformative potential. Quantum gates — the building blocks of quantum computation — determine how qubits interact and evolve. Even the smallest improvement in gate fidelity translates into exponential gains in computational reliability. As IonQ continues refining its trapped-ion quantum systems, such performance benchmarks mark progress toward error-corrected architectures, capable of maintaining coherence and accuracy across large-scale computations.
Bridging the Gap Between Research and Industry
IonQ’s appearance at Web Summit 2025 reflects the company’s broader mission: making quantum computing accessible, scalable, and applicable to global challenges. The company has been actively collaborating with enterprises and research institutions to translate quantum theory into measurable business outcomes.
Through its IonQ Forte Enterprise and IonQ Aria systems — among the most powerful commercial quantum computers currently available — the company provides access to quantum computing resources via major cloud platforms including Amazon Braket, Microsoft Azure Quantum, and Google Cloud. These partnerships have helped democratize access to quantum capabilities, enabling organizations in diverse sectors to experiment with quantum algorithms and prepare for the post-classical computing era.
In recent years, IonQ has also expanded its footprint across multiple industries:
Financial Services: Exploring quantum-enhanced models for portfolio optimization, risk assessment, and fraud detection.
Manufacturing and Supply Chain: Developing algorithms for predictive maintenance, logistics optimization, and complex scheduling.
Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research: Accelerating molecular modeling and drug discovery by simulating molecular interactions at an atomic level, which traditional computers struggle to compute efficiently.
Artificial Intelligence Integration: Leveraging quantum systems to enhance AI model training, data categorization, and optimization problems.
These initiatives demonstrate how IonQ’s technology is already being integrated into real-world workflows, moving quantum computing from theoretical exploration into functional deployment.
Quantum and AI: A Converging Future
At the Web Summit’s AI Symposium, Dr. Ballance’s talk will also highlight the synergistic relationship between quantum computing and artificial intelligence (AI). As AI continues to demand increasingly complex computational resources, quantum technologies offer a pathway to next-generation processing power capable of handling massive data models more efficiently.
The session, moderated by Mary-Ann Russon, will explore how quantum-enhanced AI could redefine industries such as climate modeling, healthcare diagnostics, and materials design by processing vast datasets and uncovering insights beyond classical computational limits. IonQ’s participation signifies that the intersection of AI and quantum computing is not merely theoretical — it is rapidly becoming a frontier of industrial innovation.
Web Summit 2025: A Global Technology Hub
Web Summit, often dubbed “the world’s most influential tech event,” will take place from November 10–13, 2025, in Lisbon, Portugal. This year’s event is expected to draw over 70,000 participants from more than 150 countries, including executives from leading technology firms, venture capitalists, startups, and policymakers.
The Summit serves as a dynamic forum for discussing global trends shaping the future of technology — from AI and quantum computing to sustainability, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. For IonQ, the event offers a stage to communicate its vision directly to industry leaders, partners, and potential collaborators eager to understand the practical trajectory of quantum computing.
About IonQ
IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) stands as one of the pioneers of commercial quantum computing, with a mission to unlock the full potential of quantum technologies to solve the world’s most complex problems. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in College Park, Maryland, the company has achieved numerous world-firsts in trapped-ion quantum hardware and continues to set industry benchmarks for performance and scalability.
