Schedule of Event

Friday, June 27, 2025

• Pre-meeting / Discussion

• Welcome dinner for invited speakers/panelists, session chairs, and committee members

Saturday, June 28, 2025, Room B102, Science Hall, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

• 8:20 AM - 8:50 AM  Registration / coffee

• 8:50 AM - 9:20 AM  

Opening  Session

Opening Address: Hyoung Joon Choi, Chair of Global Organizing Committee

Welcome Address: Jae-Ho Cheong, Chair of Local Organizing Committee

Congratulatory Address: Jin-Hee Yoon, President of Korean Physical Society

Special Presentation: Yasser Omar (University of Lisbon & Portuguese Quantum Institute) World Quantum Day: Quantum Outreach at the Global Scale 

Play of the official video of IYQ 2025

• 9:20 AM - 11:00 AM  

Session 1: Outreach in quantum science and technology, including games and arts

Chair: Seong Chan Park (Yonsei University)

Invited talks: 

[9:20 AM - 9:40 AM] Michelle Randall (IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience at Ewha Womans University (QNS)) Call to adventure: science communication for results

[9:40 AM - 10:00 AM] Jenny Hogan (Center for Quantum Technologies, Singapore) Camps, online courses and creativity: matching intensity to curiosity in quantum outreach

[10:00 AM - 10:20 AM] Chien-Cheng Kuo (National Sun Yat-sen University) Quantum Outreach and Engagement: Taiwan's Approach to Bringing Quantum Science into Public Life

[10:20 AM - 10:40 AM] Zeki C. Seskir (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) 2025 and beyond: exploring the role of outreach in quantum technologies

Panel Discussion after invited talks

• 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM  coffee break

• 11:20 AM - 12:40 PM  

Session 2: Journalism, mass media, social media, SNS, AI, etc. for science communications in quantum science and technology

Chair: Seung-Woo Son (APCTP & Hanyang University ERICA)

Invited talks: 

[11:20 AM - 11:40 AM] Cierra Choucair (Quantum Insider) We are the interface: Rethinking our role in quantum communication

[11:40 AM - 12:00 PM] Kwon Park (Korea Institute for Advanced Study) Languages of two worlds: people vs. quantum

[12:00 PM - 12:20 PM] Bruna Shinohara de Mendonça (CMC Microsystems) Quantum on the flipside - a Global South perspective on quantum hype

Panel Discussion after invited talks

• 12:40 PM - 2:00 PM  lunch break

• 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM  

Session 3: Science communications to experts in different fields and in industry

Chair: Hyoung Joon Choi (Yonsei University)

Invited talks: 

[2:00 PM - 2:20 PM] Beom Jun Kim (Sungkyunkwan University) Demystifying Quantum Physics for the Korean Public

[2:20 PM - 2:40 PM] Marija Radulović (Qontrol) Communicating Quantum: Reflections from Research to Industry

[2:40 PM - 3:00 PM] Vishal Sharathchandra Bajpe (IBM) Building Bridges: IBM Quantum’s Community programs for cross-disciplinary engagement

Panel Discussion after invited talks

• 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM  coffee break

• 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM  

Session 4 (OECD Session): Science communications and policy making in quantum science and technology

Chair: Douglas Robinson (OECD)

Invited talks: (Each talk is 5~10 minutes in the following order.)

Jinhee Kim (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) Korea’s International Cooperation Strategy in Quantum Science and Technology

Barry Sanders (University of Calgary, Canada)

Amber Geurts (TNO, Netherlands) Building the society-quantum connection

Mira Wolf-Bauwens (GESDA/OQI)

Alessandra Colecchia (Head of Science and Technology Policy Division, OECD)

Panel Discussion after invited talks

• 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM  discussion & closing 

• Dinner for invited speakers/panelists, session chairs, and committee members

Sunday, June 29, 2025

• local visits / departure