BCS - Quantum Futures

As quantum technologies develop, who determines how these technologies are used?

Speakers

Dr Carolyn Ten Holter, Senior Researcher and Policy Lead, Responsible Technology Institute, University of Oxford.

Dr Wesley Goatley, Reader in Technology Futures and Critical Climate Computing, University of the Arts London.

Clara Astiocha, Foresight and Futures Researcher, Innobasque.

Panel Chair: Rod Dickinson, Artist, Curator and Senior Lecturer in Digital Media.

Agenda

This panel brings together perspectives from critical technology research, responsible innovation, artistic practice and futures research to examine the emerging quantum landscape.

The conversation will consider questions of access, governance, power and responsibility, alongside the role of art and speculative approaches in challenging dominant technological narratives and imagining alternative futures.

Rather than approaching quantum computing solely as a technical development, the session invites audiences to consider the wider systems, values and decisions that influence how emerging technologies are developed and adopted.

The discussion will be followed by audience questions.

Synopsis

Quantum technologies develop, they raise questions that extend beyond their technical capabilities. Who determines how these technologies are developed and applied? What social, political and cultural implications might they have? And how can artists, researchers and wider communities participate in shaping their future?

About the speakers

Dr Carolyn Ten Holter

Senior Researcher and Policy Lead, Responsible Technology Institute, University of Oxford.

Dr Wesley Goatley

Reader in Technology Futures and Critical Climate Computing, University of the Arts London.

Clara Astiocha

Foresight and Futures Researcher, Innobasque.

Panel Chair: Rod Dickinson

Artist, Curator and Senior Lecturer in Digital Media.