The Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics (CQO) have been held every six years since their inception in 1960, essentially coincident with the first observation of lasing. The Quantum Information and Measurement (QIM) meeting was initiated last year by the Optical Society to cover many of the exciting developments which employ quantum measurement. The conference CQO X will be held June 17-19, 2013, and will be followed by QIM 2 on June 18-20, 2013 co-located at the campus of the University of Rochester with overlapping sessions on June 18 and 19. These conferences bring together the leaders in theoretical and experimental coherence, quantum optics and quantum information from throughout the world to review the progress of the field and to coalesce ideas about future directions. Through a series of tutorials, historical reviews, invited papers, and poster sessions, a perspective is provided on the research in the field for the past few years as well as highlighting the latest developments.