SUPPORTED WORK
Open technical programming
Help sustain workshops, talks, learning sessions, and the practical operating work required to keep useful technical programming accessible.
SUPPORT FINQ
Help difficult questions become shared work.
FinQ Tech is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Support helps sustain the practical infrastructure around technical programming, community gatherings, research-oriented projects, and public knowledge that people can inspect and reuse.
WHY SUPPORT FINQ
Support the operating layer behind the community.
FinQ connects people across research, industry, and the wider quantum ecosystem. Donations help keep that work possible without turning access to the community into a paywall.
SUPPORTED WORK
Community gatherings
Support the logistics behind local and cross-city gatherings that help researchers, builders, students, and practitioners meet around concrete questions.
SUPPORTED WORK
Research and public knowledge
Help FinQ organize small technical projects, preserve source-linked institutional history, and turn difficult topics into resources the community can inspect and reuse.
EVIDENCE, NOT JUST CLAIMS
A public trail behind the mission.
The figures below come from FinQ's current Events archive snapshot and the reviewed Institutional Archive. They describe records we can inspect; they are not estimates of current membership or implied endorsements by other organizations.
142historical event records in FinQ's current event archive
31historical in-person records in the same archive
111historical virtual records in the same archive
Unitary Hack 2023 — Qiskit Variational Time Evolution Tutorial
A FinQ-supported team contributed a Variational Quantum Time Evolution tutorial to Qiskit during Unitary Hack 2023; the pull request was accepted and merged.
Inspect source ↗Quantum-Inspired Optimization Workshop with QuCS, qBraid and Icosa Computing
FinQ collaborated with the Quantum Computer Systems Lecture Series on a workshop featuring qBraid and Icosa Computing on quantum-inspired optimization for real-world trading.
Inspect source ↗Towards Conscious Artificial Intelligence — IONS 2025 Joint First Prize
A FinQ-affiliated research proposal on probabilistic word embedding with quantum sampling received joint first place in the 2025 Linda G. O'Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize.
Inspect third-party source ↗“Official FinQ” identifies a documented FinQ activity. “FinQ-affiliated” is deliberately narrower: it identifies work connected to FinQ-affiliated people or activity and does not turn that work, award, employer, or institution into an official FinQ partnership or endorsement. See the Research & Institutional Archive for the reviewed source trail.
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