Q-Majlis
A majlis is where people sit down and work something out together. We took the name from where we are, and opened the room to everyone. Wherever you are, if you want to learn quantum computing properly, and the cryptography work that has to happen whether or not the hardware arrives on schedule, this is for you. Free, open material, no gatekeeping, no entry test.
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
Most quantum communities schedule for North American or European hours, which quietly excludes anyone from the Gulf through South and Southeast Asia to Australia. We run cohorts across time bands rather than one, and produce material in English and Arabic. Being founded in Doha turns out to be an advantage here: it sits between the two halves of the world that usually have to choose.
Cohorts run in two time bands so nobody is permanently on a 3am call.
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
Everything runs online by default. In-person meetups happen in Doha now, and anywhere enough members cluster to make one worth running.
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 | Placing you in a time band that is not the middle of your night. | 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