UK and International Standards Development for Quantum Technology
About
Standards are about a technical community agreeing the best way to make a product or manage a process. When well constructed they can be essential to help particular communities or industries to produce efficient supply chains and drive industry to efficiently produce components and systems. Standards can also provide best practice in how to apply or use specific technologies for a range of applications.
Many quantum technologies are now becoming sufficiently mature that companies and countries are starting to propose the development of standards.
In the UK, standards are led by the British Standards Institute (BSI) and at an international level the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) is the probably the best known of the standards organisations. BSI provides input to all standards being produced by ISO.
This webinar will have speakers from the IET and BSI describing what work is underway to develop both UK and international standards and technical guidance for a range of quantum technologies.
The webinar also aims to inform the community how they can engage with the process to aid the development of useful standards that benefit the whole quantum community.
Speakers
- Tony Holland - Technical Relations Manager, IBM Open Source & Standards
- Andrew Cooney - Portfolio Development Manager, Codes and Guides, The Institution of Engineering and Technology
- Martin Ward - Senior Research Scientist, Toshiba Europe’s Cambridge Research Laboratory
Moderated by Douglas Paul- Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies, University of Glasgow
For any queries regarding this event please contact Gemma Hadley ghadley@theiet.org.
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Continuing Professional Development
This event can contribute towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours as part of the IET's CPD monitoring scheme.
27 Nov 2025
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Organiser
- Quantum engineering TN
Speakers
Andrew Cooney
Portfolio Development Manager - The IET
Andrew has been in business-to-business publishing roles for over 30 years and for the past 12 years has worked as a project manager at the IET on a wide range of engineering subjects. He currently focusses on digital projects (including AI, quantum engineering and IoT) as well as various transport related projects.
Tony Holland
Technical Relations Manager - IBM Open Source & Standards
Tony has a long technical history with IBM, for over 25 years, as consultant and advisor to industry and government stakeholders, in fields of technical automation, orchestration, systems management and architecture. Tony is now IBM’s corporate standards and regulations executive in the UK. His focus is on international standards and regulations in a number of technical areas including Cloud computing, Artificial intelligence and Quantum technologies. Tony is IBM’s global lead on quantum standardization.
In conjunction with the UK’s national standards body, British Standards Institution (BSI), Tony is the chair person to the UK’s mirror committees for ISO/IEC JTC 1 on international standardization for IT and IEC/ISO JTC 3 on standardization for Quantum technologies. Tony is also an active member in other standards groups relating to Quantum i.e. CEN and CENELEC and UKQuantum.
Martin Ward
Senior Research Scientist - Toshiba Europe’s Cambridge Research Laboratory
Martin Ward is a Senior Research Scientist at Toshiba Europe’s Cambridge Research Laboratory.
He has developed semiconductor quantum devices, including single and entangled photon pair sources at telecom wavelengths, and works on schemes for the security evaluation of quantum key distribution (QKD).
He is Chair of ETSI’s Industry Specification Group on QKD.
Programme
12:00 - Introduction by Douglas Paul
12:05 - Tony Holland, IBM
12:25 - Andrew Cooney, The IET
12:45 - Martin Ward, Toshiba
13:05 - Q&A
13:20 - Event close