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Q-Block Computing establishes Ottawa headquarters, boosting Canadian quantum

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November 9, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

Q-Block Computing is establishing its headquarters at 20 Colonnade Road in Ottawa, a tangible investment in the people, infrastructure, and expertise needed to grow Canadian quantum capabilities. The company designs and manufactures three quantum platforms, AllanQ, LuciaQ and PolarisQ, targeting applications in defence, security and critical infrastructure, Ottawa says.

Kyung Choi, Co-founder and CEO of Q-Block Computing, states, “Q-Block Computing is proud of the systems we are delivering today, and fundamental research remains central to our future direction.” This expansion complements Q-Block’s existing manufacturing operations in Alberta, creating an integrated foundation to turn discovery into deployment.

Ottawa Headquarters Expand Canadian Quantum Research & Manufacturing

This location will house specialized teams focused on advancing quantum research, engineering capabilities and the creation of deployable technologies, complementing existing manufacturing operations in Alberta. Q-Block Computing intends the facility to support recruitment of leading scientists and engineers and to deepen research programs, solidifying a national footprint for quantum innovation. This expansion strategically positions Q-Block within Ottawa’s established technology sector and near key national institutions, including organizations within the defence community.

Q-Block Computing views the Ottawa headquarters as integral to building sovereign quantum technologies within Canada. By integrating research and engineering in Ottawa with production facilities elsewhere, the company aims to create a complete cycle from scientific discovery to practical application, according to the company. The company will continue to forge long-term partnerships with research institutions, government and industry, both in Ottawa and across the country, with specific collaborations to be announced as finalized. This distributed approach to research, development, and manufacturing is designed to establish a robust and sustainable foundation for Canada’s quantum future.

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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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