Innovista will host a Quantum Computing Awareness Session on 18 November 2026 at 3 pm at Innovista Rawal, Avenue Mall, Sector A, DHA Phase 1, Islamabad, according to a post by the organisation on LinkedIn. The session is led by professionals and practitioners from the national quantum ecosystem, in collaboration with the Quantum Computing Lab (QUAID) at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST). Innovista says the session will explain how quantum computing works, why it matters, and where the emerging field could lead, and it describes the event as a first step towards becoming quantum-ready. Its promotional material presents the session under the line that Pakistan’s quantum-ready workforce starts here, and interested people can register through the link in the post or call the number given on the poster.
The post does not name the speakers, set out an agenda, say whether the session is free, or describe how many places are available. It also does not say who the audience is meant to be, though the stated aim of building a workforce suggests that students, engineers, and professionals from other fields are the intended participants. An awareness session usually introduces the basic ideas, such as qubits, superposition, and entanglement, and explains the kinds of problems that quantum computers could one day solve better than classical machines, including materials research, optimization, and cryptography. Whether this session goes beyond an introduction is not clear from the announcement.
The QUAID lab is part of the NUST College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in Rawalpindi. According to a page for a 2023 symposium hosted by the lab, it was set up to carry out training, research, and human resource development in quantum computing and quantum machine learning, mainly for postgraduate students and faculty, and to build academic and research links with the quantum ecosystem in Pakistan and abroad. The same symposium had the aim of raising awareness of the country’s potential in quantum technologies and of explaining the quantum computing ecosystem from both an engineering and a software point of view, which is similar to what the Innovista session is promising for a wider audience.
Quantum computing has become a policy subject in Pakistan in the past few years. The Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives launched a National Centre for Quantum Computing as one of its centres of excellence, with NUST and other universities among its partners, and in October 2025 Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal announced a cooperation agreement with China’s CETC to set up the national centre, along with a proposed Quantum Valley project. Analysts have noted that building a quantum sector will require addressing funding limits and the loss of skilled people to other countries. A session that introduces the field to a wider group of people is one way of widening the pool of people who might later study or work in it, and Innovista has not said whether further sessions or courses will follow.
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