Africa Quantum Consortium Call to Action
Step up. Submit your abstract. Own the mic. 17-21 November 2025. 09:00 - 17:30 CAT/GMT+2
Big Science. Big Ideas. One Africa.
Africa’s scientific story is changing and this time, we’re writing it ourselves.
The African Physical Society (AfPS) and the African Light Source (AfLS) - pioneers of Pan-African scientific collaboration - invite you to the 2025 Joint Meeting of AfLS and AfPS, co-convened with other leading continental science societies.
After championing #IYQ2025, these pioneers are once again setting the stage: giving Africa a voice, a vision, and a venue in the International Year of Quantum:
Big Science. Big Goals. One Africa.
⚡ Africa Has Never Been Short on Brilliance
What’s changing now is coordination.
AfPS and AfLS have built the foundations - from nurturing communities to laying plans for Africa’s first continental light source.
They’ve shown that Africa’s future will be built through science - not dependency.
Now, as the world accelerates into the quantum era, they’re opening the next chapter: a Quantum Track that unites physicists, innovators, and policymakers to map out Africa’s role in the global quantum economy.
💡 Light <> Quantum <> Africa.
Here’s what ties it all together.
Prof. Anne L’Huillier, 2023 Nobel Laureate in Physics will be speaking and she revolutionized how we see electrons - capturing them in attosecond flashes of light. Her work proves what we already know: Light and quantum are inseparable.
Together, they reveal the heartbeat of the universe - the dance of light and matter itself.
That’s why the AfLS and AfPS are two sides of the same coin:
AfLS builds the infrastructure - the machines that reveal matter (see manifesto here).
AfPS builds the community - the minds that make meaning from it.
Together, they are Africa’s twin engines of discovery.
Developing light sources isn’t separate from building quantum capacity - it’s the foundation of it. It gives us the ability to study, design, and own the science of the future.
🚀 If You Believe in Africa’s Future - This Is Your Stage
This is where Africa’s scientists, students, and dreamers meet to:
Share discoveries and data
Build networks across borders and disciplines
Shape a continental roadmap for science and innovation
Africa is not waiting for the world to act.
We’re already doing it - for Africa, by Africa.
🔗 The Quantum Bridge
The Africa Quantum Consortium (AQC) is proud to collaborate with AfPS and AfLS in carrying this vision forward - linking quantum science to Africa’s development goals.
Our mission is simple: connect students, researchers, policymakers, and innovators - to make the quantum revolution an African opportunity, not another missed wave.
Science is Africa’s new infrastructure of freedom.
If we want to master our own destiny in health, energy, and technology, we must build the capacity that underpins them all.
🧭 Call for Abstracts — The Quantum Track
Submit your abstract.
Join the conversation shaping Africa’s quantum decade.
The Quantum Track is open and it’s yours to shape. Contributed talks and posters are welcome.
We’re not prescribing topics, just offering ideas that speak to Big Science and One Africa:
Building quantum education pipelines and workforce capacity across the continent
Advancing computing, communication, and sensing for real-world impact
Applying quantum science to health, energy, and materials innovation
Framing policy and national strategies that anchor Africa’s role in the global quantum economy
Bring your vision. Bring your story. Let’s turn ideas into momentum and momentum into Africa’s scientific power.
One registration opens doors to every session across AfLS and AfPS.
🔊 Call to Action
📢 Register. Submit. Collaborate.
If you believe Africa must think big to solve big problems - this is your space.
Let’s make the Quantum Track the boldest expression yet of Africa’s scientific unity and ambition.
Let’s show the world what Big Science, Big Ideas, and One Africa truly mean.
👉 Submit your abstract and register now.
This is Africa’s decade to lead and quantum is our frontier.
The Africa Quantum Consortium is the driving force uniting Africa’s top minds to collaborate, innovate, and propel quantum technology forward across the continent.
This is such an imprtant initiative and the timing couldnt be better with IYQ2025. What really resonates here is the focus on building local capacity rather than waiting for outside solutions. The connection between AfLS and quantum development is brilliant because you're right that having the infrastructure to study and manipulate matter at the quantum level is foundational. I think the integration of policy makers into this conversation is particularly crucial. Too often these quantum initiatives stay purely academic, but Africa has a real opportunty to leapfrog some of the legacy infrastructure issues that plague quantum development in other regions. The applications you mentioned around health, energy, and materials could have massive real world impact. Looking forward to seeing what comes out of this conference and how the quantum track evolves.