36 December 2022 T he sixth IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) Vertical and Topi- cal Summit at IEEE Radio & Wireless Week (RWW) 2023 address- es quantum information technologies (QITs) for the IoT and the impact of quantum technologies on both the IoT infrastructure and IoT applications. The summit is spon- sored by the IEEE Mi- crowave Theory and Technologies Society and by the multi-Soci- ety IEEE IoT Initiative. QITs and their un- derlying scientific ba- sis involve the use of information encoded into quantum mechani- cal states to sense, pro- cess, and communicate information. This is an entirely new paradigm, and, for important classes of problems, it promises performance that is well beyond—and even out of reach of— conventional information processing techniques. This relatively new field began to get attention in the 1990s and has seen considerable investment by research and business communities. The attraction is the hope that, at ma- turity, QITs will significantly exceed the capabilities of digital and analog information processing by many or- ders of magnitude. If the promises come to fruition, the implications for the IoT are profound. The purpose of the summit is to assess where QITs are in their journey to completion, when QITs are available for IoT solutions, Sixth IEEE IoT Vertical and Topical Summit at RWW 2023: “Quantum Information Technologies for the IoT” Adam T. Drobot , Mark A. Gouker, Jasmin Grosinger , and Charlie Jackson Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MMM.2022.3203923 Date of current version: 2 November 2022 Adam T. Drobot (adam.drobot@opentechworks. com) is the chair of OpenTechWorks, Inc., Wayne, PA 19087 USA, and the past chair of the IEEE Internet of Things Activities Board. Mark A. Gouker (gouker@ll.mit.edu) is with Advanced Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, Cambridge, MA 02421 USA. Jasmin Grosinger (jasmin.grosinger@tugraz.at) is with the Graz Institute of Technology, Graz, A-8010 Austria. Charlie Jackson (cornetto45@earthlink.net) is retired and was formerly with Northrop Grumman Corporation in Redondo Beach, CA 32647 USA. IEEE RADIO & WIRELESS WEEK 2023 IMAGE LICENSED BY INGRAM PUBLISHING