ASEAN’s journey in quantum technology is relatively recent but steadily gaining momentum. Singapore took the lead in the early 2000s – the National Research Foundation began funding quantum research as early as 2002, and by 2007 the government helped establish the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore. CQT was a milestone for the region, bringing together physicists, computer scientists, and engineers to explore quantum physics and build prototype quantum devices. Over the subsequent decade, CQT’s researchers published around 2,000 scientific papers and trained more than 60 PhD students, seeding a generation of quantum scientists in Southeast Asia. This early start positioned Singapore as the region’s quantum research hub. Other ASEAN members followed in the 2010s: research groups and academic programs in Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia began exploring quantum information science, albeit on a smaller scale ...