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Drop-in access to quantum apps at London’s Moth Hack

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September 7, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

Moth Quantum will open its London space to the public this weekend, offering drop-in access to quantum applications alongside a limited-capacity hackathon. Attendees can experience applications designed as a playful introduction to the field, welcoming users of all skill levels.

Basement hackathon sessions require an RSVP and are limited to three-hour blocks to ensure equitable access, while the ground floor is open to all; visitors can walk straight in to explore the space and test the Moth platform. The event aims to broaden participation in quantum computing, offering professional advice and challenges for both beginners and expert developers.

Moth Hack 2026 Offers In-Person & Virtual Participation Options

Attendees at Moth Hack 2026 can explore quantum-powered applications like a playful introduction designed to broaden access to quantum computing concepts. The event, hosted by Moth Quantum at 19 D’Arblay Street in London, balances open access with structured sessions; the ground floor welcomes visitors with no prior registration needed to experience demonstrations and interact with the Moth team, the company says. In contrast, the in-person hackathon taking place in the basement requires an RSVP, with seat allocations limited to a maximum of three hours to ensure equitable participation for all attendees.

Moth Hack extends beyond the physical space, offering a virtual hackathon option for those unable to attend in person. Challenge entries can be submitted individually or as teams, with prizes awarded for successful projects.

The event’s design specifically targets a wide range of skill levels, stating that accessibility and challenges are designed for beginners through to expert tech users. Moth Quantum will also host a drop-in session on Sunday, allowing visitors to test hackathon submissions firsthand. According to the event description, visitors can pick from a variety of challenges to engage with and enter either online or in person, emphasizing inclusivity and creative exploration throughout the weekend.

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Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to the thing quietly running underneath everything, and she brings that long view to quantum computing. For Quantum Zeitgeist she covers the ground where the two fields meet. That means quantum machine learning and the variational algorithms it leans on, and it also means the less glamorous but more interesting story of classical machine learning already doing real work inside quantum machines, decoding error-correcting codes, calibrating noisy hardware and learning the error models that simulators depend on. She writes about the hardware those algorithms have to run on too, and about the post-quantum cryptography scramble that the same hardware has set off. Her stories typically start with the paper, whether that is peer-reviewed work, conference proceedings or an arXiv preprint, with the source linked so you can hold a claim up against the research it came from. She is unimpressed by benchmarks that will not say what they beat, and by demonstrations that only work in the press release.

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