ETH Quantum Hackathon 2026 – Schedule

Friday, 8th of May

The official part of the ETH Quantum Hackathon starts at 5pm.

The talk about Quantum Information Processing and the lab tours are not mandatory for participating in the event. However, we encourage you to join!

12:30 – 13:30Flexible arrival
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch, Meeting for Labtours
14:30 – 15:00Lab Tour 1
15:10 – 15:40Lab Tour 2
15:45 – 16:45Talk by Yiwen Chu, Professor at ETH Zürich and Group Leader of the Hybrid Quantum System Group
16:45 – 17:00Break
17:00OFFICIAL START OF THE HACKATHON!
17:00 – 19:30Opening speeches – Including Talk by Günther Dissetori, Rector of ETH Zürich!
Company & challenge presentations
19:30Dinner and networking
23:59Deadline for specifying the teams

Saturday, 09th of May

08:30 – 09:30Breakfast
09:30 – 10:30Introduction to the chosen challenge and useful tools
10:30Official start of hacking
13:30 – 15:00Lunch
19:00Dinner

Sunday, 10th of May

08:00 – 09:00Breakfast
11:30Deadline for handing in the solutions
11:45 – 13:00Presentations within each challenge
13:00 – 14:00Lunch, companies are deciding about the winners
14:00 – 15:30Announcement of the winners of the 4 challenges
Presentations by the four winners
Vote by the audience on the best presentation overall
15:30Open end, networking