Join us for the inaugural launch of Developer Day, a hands-on showcase of the newest tools transforming development and experiences for companies, developers, & end-users.
Open to developers, engineers, product managers, and tech professionals who will receive early access, test tools, and network with industry pioneers. Agenda forthcoming.
Date: Wednesday, May 27th
Time: 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Developer Day is part of the Yale Innovation Summit. While the events are complementary, the registration is separate. Developer Day is free for approved attendees, but access to the Yale Innovation Summit requires registration.

Quantum & Tech Track Agenda
Wednesday, May 27
9:00 AM — Quantum Ecosystem Panel
Location: 4th Floor, SOM
A conversation on the quantum ecosystem featuring leaders from academia, industry, and innovation.
Moderator: Vivek Ramakrishnan
Panelists: Mike Crair, Pamir Alpay, Christine Broadbridge, and additional speakers to be announced.
9:00 AM–12:00 PM — Developer Day Activities
Location: 4th Floor, SOM
A morning of hands-on developer programming featuring quantum companies, including D-Wave. QuantumCT will also host a dedicated resource area on the 4th Floor throughout the morning.
2:30 PM — Emerging Technologies & National Priorities Panel
A quantum-focused discussion on emerging technologies and national priorities.
Speakers: Jason, Classiq; Mark Jackson
Moderator: To be announced
5:15 PM–6:15 PM — VC Mixer
A networking reception for investors, founders, and ecosystem partners.
Thursday, May 28
9:00 AM — Security in the Age of AI and Quantum
A panel exploring the intersection of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and quantum technologies.
Moderator: To be announced
1:00 PM — Quantum Pitch Competition
Location: OC Marsh
Startups and innovators will present their ideas and technologies in a quantum-focused pitch competition.
Application Deadline: April 17
3:30 PM — Keynote Fireside Chat with Alan Baratz and Rob Schoelkopf
Location: Zhang Auditorium
A keynote fireside conversation featuring Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave, and Rob Schoelkopf.
moderator: Dan O’Keefe
DEVELOPER DAY PARTNERS


DEVELOPER DAY EXHIBITORS

DEVELOPER DAY WORKSHOPS
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Transform your innovative concepts into functional prototypes. In this workshop, you will discover how to leverage Google AI Studio to accelerate your development journey from initial brainstorm to a working Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that others can download and use. Whether you plan to integrate generative capabilities into an existing project or launch something entirely new, this session will provide the practical framework needed to build and iterate effectively.
KEY TAKEAWAY
- Rapid Prototyping Foundations: Learn how to quickly navigate Google AI Studio to experiment, iterate, and validate your generative AI ideas in real time.
- Effective Prompt Engineering: Master the core principles of crafting, testing, and refining prompts to ensure reliable, high-quality model outputs.
- Concept to Code Seamlessly: Discover how to transition successful prototypes out of the sandbox environment and seamlessly export them into clean, functional code ready for your MVP including connections to live databases.
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Reducing reliance on direct model interaction is critical to achieve a stable and intuitive AI-integrated application. In this brief workshop, the Reale brothers will present the advantages of leveraging syntactic structures in token analysis to deduce the user's intent — one strategy to increase runtime efficiency.
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Today's quantum hardware is noisy and constrained. Achieving real performance requires designing across the whole stack rather than optimizing each layer in isolation. This workshop walks through how algorithm design, error correction, and pulse-level control come together, drawing on Harmoniqs' open-source projects Stretto (compilation and algorithms) and Piccolo (optimal control). We'll close with how attendees can get involved through unitaryHACK.
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The Amazon Advanced Solutions Lab (ASL) is a team of scientists whose mission is to help our customers accelerate their understanding and use of emerging technologies such as quantum computing. In this presentation I will showcase a few examples how we leverage quantum and related advanced algorithms to solve some of our customers’ hardest industry problems, designing and building quantum computing, machine learning and optimization solutions on AWS. Examples include portfolio optimization, workforce scheduling, and robot motion planning, among others.
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The Amazon Advanced Solutions Lab (ASL) is a team of scientists whose mission is to help our customers accelerate their understanding and use of emerging technologies such as quantum computing. In this presentation I will showcase a few examples how we leverage quantum and related advanced algorithms to solve some of our customers’ hardest industry problems, designing and building quantum computing, machine learning and optimization solutions on AWS. Examples include portfolio optimization, workforce scheduling, and robot motion planning, among others.
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This talk will show how AI coding agents are transforming developers into architects who direct autonomous tools through natural language instead of writing every line themselves and how to run these agents on AWS keeping proprietary code private, governed, and compliant without sacrificing capability.
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