Roadrunner Technology Forum to Showcase Cutting-Edge Advances, Future Tech Trends

Airbus Ventures is an early to growth-stage venture capital firm that operates independently to support companies poised to transform the future of aerospace. The firm invests in entrepreneurs developing innovative technologies that enhance our planet's best futures, with a focus on areas such as hypersonic travel and space exploration.

Khosla Ventures, functions as a venture capital entity. The primary focus of the firm lies in investing in early-stage enterprises situated within various sectors including fintech, frontier technologies, digital health, medical diagnostics, big data, agriculture and food, sustainable energy, robotics, the internet, and clean technology.

The mission of the Department of Energy is to ensure America's security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions. In September, 2022, Research supported by ASCR demonstrated that classical machine learning algorithms can accurately predict ground state properties and classify quantum phases of matter using data generated from quantum experiments. In November, 2022, Research supported by Q-NEXT revealed that the performance of a sensor network is constrained by the intrinsic noise associated with the quantum states used in the network. In March, 2023, Research funded by DOE SC NP achieved the first experimental observation of entanglement between dissimilar particles, specifically positive and negative pions. In August, 2023, Research funded by DOE SC BER demonstrated strong preservation of entanglement in a two-photon absorption process involving organic molecules, offering a new approach for developing quantum light-based spectroscopy and microscopy.

Columbia University, known officially as Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university located in New York City. It was founded in 1754 as King's College and started on the premises of Trinity Church in Manhattan. This makes it the oldest higher education institution in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States.

Playground functions as an early-stage investment entity with a primary interest in supporting science-oriented enterprises operating at the crossroads of artificial intelligence and automation.

Roadrunner Venture Studios is a company creation studio that co-founds deep-tech ventures with leading scientists, engineers, and innovators in sectors such as energy, space, clean tech, advanced materials, manufacturing, quantum, and high-performance computing. The studio engages at the earliest stages of ideas, accelerating product development, commercialization, and team building, providing startups with the resources needed to grow into venture-backed companies.

The United States Department of Energy is a cabinet-level department of the United States Government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material.

The Air Force Research Laboratory is partnering with industry, academia, and the Department of Defense to apply quantum information science to Air Force concerns. AFRL has formally joined the IBM Q Network, the first ever partnership of its kind in the Department of Defense. This alliance will provide AFRL and its collaborators with access to commercial quantum systems to explore practical applications relevant to the Air Force. Early applications include optimization problems, speed-up of machine learning algorithms and quantum chemistry simulation. The Extreme Computing facility by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), is now open in New York. It is involved in quantum computing research, ranging from development, integration and deployment of advanced computing technologies for the Department of the Air Force. The AFRL Information Directorate received funding for five major projects. They include: 1. $10 million for Distributed Quantum Networking Testbed and Quantum Cloud Computing Environment, 2. $4 million for Photonic Quantum Computing, which will develop a next-generation ion trap computer. 3. $10 million for Enhancements and Operational Readiness improvements for Trusted DoD/Federal Unmanned Aircraft Systems. This system will manage UAS traffic to support the emerging Federal Aviation Administration/National Aeronautics and Space Administration Advanced Air Mobility vision and provide a real-time interface to Air Traffic Control. 4. $10 million for a Joint All-Domain Command and Control testbed which creates an operational-like environment that allows the warfighter to test cutting-edge technology and tools and provide feedback for researchers. 5. $10 million for a Multi-Domain Radio Frequency Spectrum Test environment. Total government funding involved in the AFRL currently amounts to ~$44 million USD.