Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) hosted The BIG Quantum Hackathon Qatar 2025 from November 15 to 18, 2025, at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s Education City campus in Doha. The four-day event was organized by MCIT’s TASMU Innovation Lab, sponsored by the Ministry of Defence, and delivered with knowledge partners Boston Consulting Group and QuantX.
According to MCIT’s summary, the hackathon received 474 applications from 64 countries. Forty participants formed eight teams working on eight priority use cases, with access to platforms from Alice and Bob, AWS, IBM, Microsoft, Quandela, Quantinuum, Quobly, and Quantum Computing Inc. Challenge owners included Qatar Airways, Qatar Islamic Bank, Ooredoo, the National Cybersecurity Agency, Sidra Medicine, and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change.
Major General Zayed Ahmed Al-Kuwari, Commander of Qatar Amiri Signal Corps, said the Ministry of Defence was proud to sponsor the hackathon, which he described as contributing to the country’s technological readiness. Eman Al Kuwari, Director of Digital Innovation at MCIT, said the initiative demonstrates coordinated support for Qatar’s quantum ecosystem in alignment with the Digital Agenda 2030.