Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi hosted the African International Conference on Quantum Algorithms for Simulation from February 13 through February 20, 2026. According to the KNUST Events Management System, the seven-day event gathered leading experts, scientists, researchers, and students from across Africa to explore quantum algorithms and their applications in simulating complex systems. The conference theme was “Quantum for Impact: Fostering Education, Research, and Collaboration towards SDGs.”
Programming included an opening ceremony, keynote presentations, roundtable discussions, interactive workshop series with lectures and hands-on tutorials, outreach sessions at senior high schools in Kumasi, and poster sessions. Focus areas covered classical algorithms and computation including machine learning and tensor network representations, quantum algorithms, quantum machine learning, quantum simulation, and quantum computing applications.
As reported by News Ghana, the conference followed KNUST’s E-Learning African International School on Quantum Science and Technology (ELAIS-QST 2024) and was part of broader Ghanaian efforts to enter the global quantum computing landscape. KNUST Professor Francis Oduro also participated as a panelist at the IYQ closing ceremony in Accra the same month.