Community
A majlis is where people sit down and work something out together. This one is for anyone in the region who wants to learn quantum computing properly, and for the cryptography work that has to happen whether or not the hardware arrives on schedule. Free, open material, no gatekeeping.
Gap one
The established quantum communities teach quantum computing, and they teach it well. None of them teach post-quantum cryptography migration, which is the skill with budget attached to it today. Banks and ministries are staffing for it now, a decade before a quantum computer breaks anything.
One of our four tracks is PQC. It is the one most likely to get you paid.
Gap two
Qatar has a national quantum programme, a research centre at Education City and a concentration of energy, logistics and financial infrastructure worth optimising. What it does not have is a place for people at the start of this to find each other, in their own time zone, in their own languages.
Sessions run at Gulf hours. Material comes in English and Arabic.
Qubits, gates, interference and measurement, built by running circuits rather than reading about them. Every session ends with something you constructed yourself in the simulator on this site.
Formulating a real problem into QUBO and Ising form, which is where most quantum projects actually fail. Then variational algorithms, quantum kernels, and honest benchmarking against the classical solver you would otherwise use.
The employable one. Reading the NIST standards without a cryptography degree, building a cryptographic inventory of a real estate, hybrid key exchange, and what breaks when you turn it on. Taught from migration work, not from a textbook.
Entanglement distribution, repeaters, key distribution and why distance is such a brutal constraint. Built on the network simulator, so you can see a link stop producing key rather than being told that it does.
Cohorts
Tracks run as fixed cohorts so you move through with the same people. Two sessions a week, recorded, at Gulf hours.
Open material
Notebooks and exercises stay public whether or not you join a cohort. No paywall, no certificate upsell.
Challenges
Anonymised scheduling and routing problems from regional industry, posed as open challenges with published results.
Meetups
Monthly in person for anyone nearby, online for everyone else. Talks from people doing the work, not vendor decks.
Being straight about the incentive: we run this partly because it is how we find people to hire and collaborate with. Nothing is conditional on that, the material stays free either way, and you will never be pitched a service in a session.
Your joining request is ready in your mail app, and a copy is on your clipboard in case it did not open. Press send and we will come back to you before the next cohort opens.
Start with the simulatorWe are a security company, so it would be poor form to collect anything we cannot justify. Every field on that form is here, with what it is for.
| Field | Why we ask | Required |
|---|---|---|
| Name | So sessions and emails are not addressed to a stranger. | Yes |
| The only way we contact you. Never sold, never shared. | Yes | |
| Country | Scheduling sessions at hours that work where you are. | Yes |
| City | Judging whether an in-person meetup near you is worth running. | No |
| University or employer | Pitching the material at the right level, and spotting where cohorts cluster. | No |
| Role | A security engineer and an undergraduate need different starting points. | Yes |
| Experience | Placing you in a cohort where you are neither lost nor bored. | Yes |
| Tracks | Deciding which cohorts to run and how large to make them. | Yes |
| What you want | The one that actually shapes the curriculum. | No |
Questions
We are looking for people to run sessions, universities willing to host, and companies with a real problem worth posing as a challenge. All three help more than money does.
Doha, Qatar