Paris 2024 Agenda

Pr. Dr. Niko Mohr, Expert Partner, McKinsey & Company

This talk highlights the integration of quantum computers with HPC across Europe, a key initiative of the European Commission with EuroHPC JU. We will explore the deployment of the quantum computers in major European supercomputer centers, emphasizing the diversity in quantum technologies and their potential applications. Oscar Diez, Head of Quantum Computing, European Commission

SBQuantum is Building Quantum Magnetics for Earth and Space, combining leading edge hardware in the field of quantum sensing with advanced interpretation and compensation algorithms to bring magnetics to new heights. In this talk, I will overview the competitive advantages of the novel quantum technology and discuss the value it creates for the mining and […]

Ingrid Romijn, CEO, Q*Bird

Bruno Sanglé-Ferrière, CEO, Carrousel Digital Ltd

Quantum computing is a breakthrough science and technology solo star, but its true power lies in partnering with supercomputing. In this presentation, I’ll highlight LRZ’s multi-dimensional efforts to provide, merge and optimize various quantum accelerators into HPC workflows and into HPC centers. This includes insights into the development of the Munich Quantum Software Stack and […]

Qnami develops imaging solutions for academics and industrials at the cutting edge of material developments. We present in this talk how quantum sensor technology allows to gain new insights into the atomic scale and illustrate how this is used to guide R&D and accelerate the design of new electronic chips. Alexander Stark, Co founder, CIO […]

Mourad Beji, VP, Platform & Solutions, Pasqal

In this talk we will showcase how counterdiabatic protocols used in other domains may also have an impact in conventional ML workflows. In particular, we will showcase how Feature Selection may benefit from this particular technique shortening the time for quantum usefulness when it comes to quantum enhanced machine learning. Iraitz Montalban, Lead Developer, Kipu […]

In super-conducting quantum compute systems, low level (μT) magnetic fields can contribute to decoherence, fields that are not always successfully managed by shielding.  Ideally it would help to directly measure the μT magnetic fields real time during system operation to better inform follow-on failure analysis post-decoherence. Existing magnetic sensing technologies, while accurate and reliable at […]

Alain Fernando-Santana, Co founder & managing Director, Cyferall

Aerospace is an industry characterised by vast amounts of data, often requiring rapid analysis to accurately predict any abnormal behavior. This talk will delve into quantum-enhanced anomaly detection, employing various quantum-enhanced neural networks for analyzing such aerospace data and predicting anomalies. It will shed light both the potential advantages and disadvantages of utilising quantum-enhanced methods […]

Crystal Quantum Computing realizes a quantum computer based on the trapped ion technology. In this presentation, we will review the market as well as the technological stakes of our project. Quentin Bodart, CEO & President, Crystal Quantum Computing

Why a cloud provider need to be involved in quantum field and how ? Fanny Bouton, Quantum Lead, OVHcloud

Quantum sensors have a broad range of applications in aerospace and are a promising technology, in particular when deployed in space. Cold atom interferometry can enhance the gravity field monitoring and hence improve simulations of Earth geophysical systems and climate change. In this presentation, I will report on recent progress in the field and the […]

Houlong Zhuang, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

Climate Change is one of the biggest challenges humanity faces right now. Quantum Computing might be able to help with small parts of this challenge. Deloitte’s Quantum Climate Challenge explores these opportunities. Niklas Julius Müller, Senior Consultant, Deloitte Consulting GmbH

Machine Learning can be used to model the process-property relation in 3D printing to predict the resulting materials properties. However, limited amounts of training data pose a challenge for Machine Learning for proper generalization and prediction. Quantum machine learning could help to generalize faster with small data sets and allows for more robust predictions, which […]

Oded Melamed, CEO & Co founder, Quantum Source Maud Vinet, CEO, Quobly Jannes Stubbemann, CEO, aqora Moderator: Kate Prebble, Investor, ICM Limited

In this talk I will give an overview of how Covestro, a global high performance polymer chemistry company, is approaching quantum computing for digital R&D and present recent works with QC Ware and Google on much more efficient ways of encoding and measuring electronic structure Hamiltonians, new ways of including dynamic correlation effects by using […]

Tom Darras, CEO & CO founder, Welinq

Quantum technologies will reshape how we deal with information, throughout the whole chain: acquiring, transmitting, and processing, and space technologies are well positioned both to benefit from and to support this. The European Space Agency acknowledges this strategic priority with a series of coordinated activities and instruments and facilitating the right partnerships. The steppingstones are […]

In this presentation, we delve into the use of quantum kernels for data analysis in the health sciences. We address the critical issue of reproducibility inherent in quantum kernels and discuss the challenges of variability posed by small datasets. Our exploration aims to provide insights into and potential solutions for these challenges within the realm […]

Alex Keesling, CEO, QuEra

We present our latest results towards quantum utility for nuclear magnetic resonance quantum simulations on a noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers. Clément Javerzac-Galy, Co founder at MatterDecoder / Professor at FHNW

Moderator: Alexandra Beckstein, CEO, QAI Ventures AG Francesco Ricciuti, Associate, Runa Capital Ton van 't Noordende, Managing Director, QDNL Participations Olivier Tonneau, Partner, Quantonation Stuart Woods, COO, Quantum Exponential plc

Xavier Pereira, Chief Growth Officer, Quandela

Simulation of quantum circuits on classical computers is an extremely challenging problem due to large memory and computing requirements. Hyperion is a high-performance quantum simulator which can be used to address quantum chemistry problems beyond minimal basis set using the state-of-the-art GPUs. Evgeny Posenitskiy, R&D Software Engineer, Qubit Pharmaceuticals

We present some explorative results obtained with QuEra on the clustering problem, which is widespread in many industrial applications. Clustering quality scores will be presented, analyzing different dataset types, and comparing the classical standard method (K-means) to the quantum approached adopted. Matteo Chiesa, Quantum Competence Team Lead, Business Integration Partners S.p.A. Giulio Amato, Consultant, Data […]

The QuanTeam from Erste Group Bank will show several banking use-cases -- such as Monte-Carlo simulations, customer feature selection for data science, emission allocation for green asset screening -- which have been built with quantum components and are already part of Erste Group Bank day-to-day business. An overview of our quantum activity landscape, as well […]

Neil Abroug, Head of the French National Quantum Strategy, Secretary General for Investments

Scaling quantum computers requires one to solve a difficult I/O problem. Since quantum information does not fan out, the controller channel count is required to scales as the number of qubits, typically requiring thousands of channels to drive 1000 solid state qubits. Optically addressed qubits such as atom or ion arrays can multiplex qubit drive […]

Steve Brierely, CEO, Riverlane Dr. Théau Peronnin, CEO & Co founder, Alice & Bob Yuval Boger, CMO, QuEra Moderator: Jean-Francois Bobier, Partner & Managing Director, BCG

The aim of the speech is explaining why Financial Service industry should take care of Quantum Computing, while giving an overview of what Intesa Sanpaolo is doing and organizing to deal with it. Davide Corbelletto, Quantum Technology Specialist, Intesa Sanpaolo

 In this talk I present Phasecraft's algorithmic breakthroughs for quantum enhanced materials simulation on quantum computers. The quantum simulation of materials properties occurs on the shortest length scales and fastest time scales, where  achieving chemical accuracy on traditional computers for many systems is intractable. Quantum simulation using a quantum computer can overcome these limitations, and […]

Rebecca Trueman, Lead Innovation Investment Advisor for Digital, Quantum & AI, National Research Council Canada

Ricardo Garcia, Quantum Computing Developer, Moody's Analytics

This presentation will briefly outline the important elements of the recently published “Quantum Economy Blueprint” by the World Economic Forum. The report encourages global collaboration and the sharing of knowledge, and increasing the awareness of the potential of quantum technology. Joseph S. Broz, VP, Quantum Growth & Markets, IBM Quantum

James Cruise, Head of Quantum Computing, Cambridge Consultants André Carvalho, Head of Quabtum Control Solutions , Q-CTRL Ewan Munro, CTO & Co founder, Entropica labs Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau, Quantum Information Scientist, Quandela Moderator: Jean-Francois Bobier, Partner & Director, BCG

An overview of AWS' investments in quantum technologies and updates on recent engagements with customers and partners. Sebastian Hassinger, Principal Specialist, GTM, AWS

Théau Peronnin, CEO, Alice & Bob

Thierry Botter, Executive Director, QuiC

Subsurface imaging is top-five HPC application world-wide. The process involves solving a wide range of optimization problems. Here we present our journey towards productionizing quantum annealing enabled shallow subsurface anomaly estimation and our goal of processing 1TB of field seismic data by the end of 2024. Marcin Dukalski, Senior Researcher/Quantum Technologies Team Lead, Aramco Research […]

In this keynote, Olivier Ezratty will highlight the recent advances and many challenges ahead with building large scale fault-tolerant quantum computers, including the intertwining between quantum error correction codes (surface codes, color codes, QLDPC, …), the very notion of logical qubit, fault-tolerance architectures, qubit physical implementations and connectivity, QPU interconnect, enabling technologies and customer applications […]

We will demonstrate how using multiple automated kernel configurations and their alignment through an optimization process can provide an advantage against classical methods for default prediction in a well-known Spanish fintech. Javier Mancilla, CEO & CO founder, Falcondale LLC

I will talk about Japan’s quantum strategy, mainly “Strategy of Quantum Future Industry Development”, established in 2023. Then I will show the activities of Quantum Technology Innovation Hubs (QIH) and cross-ministerial strategic innovation promotion programs. Finely, some examples of international collaborations will be shown briefly. Dr ARIMOTO Hideo, Senior Researcher, Secretariat of Science, Technology and […]

Material ageing is a crucial issue in industries, even more when it comes to provide millions of people in sustainable energy. Simulation of materials plays a central part of understanding and forecasting defects, but some limitations remain with classical methods (paramagnetism, strongly correlated materials). In this talk, we present a method to simulate strongly correlated […]

Q-STAR has established in September 2021, and we are exciting our 4th years for the quantum ecosystem collaboration with global partners. During this presentation, you will find how Q-STAR has been working for the quantum industrialization and what will be coming in this year. Hiroaki Tezuka, Chair, Global Consortium Alliances Working Group, Q-STAR

The talk plans to show the audience what CINECA has done and is doing to facilitate the use of quantum resources for its users. In particular, CINECA's role in integrating QC and HPC will be highlighted. Daniele Ottaviani, Head of the CINECA Quantum Computing Lab, CINECA

Aser Cortines, Director of Engineering, Multiverse Computing

Frank Phillipson, Professor, TNO

Alex Challans, CEO, The Quantum Insider

Olivier, former IBM Vice-President, cofounded QbitSoft in 2022. QbitSoft designs and sell quantum algorithms on a cloud platform, to solve complex Business issues now. As an example, he will present three concrete use-cases QbitSoft is currently addressing for Insurance clients. Olivier Pegeon, CEO, QbitSoft

Thomas Ehmer, Healthcare Digital Innovation, Merck KGaA Jens Kieckbusch, Associate Director, AstraZeneca Zoran Krunic, Senior Manager Data Science, Amgen Moderator: Pharma Panel. Moderator: Franziska Wolff, Quantum Chemistry Lead, Capgemini

3 years have passed since BCG's last market forecast. An impressive number of discoveries and developments happened. Some have been sobering - e.g. "useful" resource estimation, algorithms disproven (e.g. VQE), fidelities increasing slower than qubits... Some have been exciting - e.g. doubling of qubits, new ambitious roadmaps, progress on error correction. Where do we stand […]

Hans Henrik Knudsen, CEO & Co founder, Kvantify Arne-Christian Voigt, Future Research, Volkswagen Group Moderator: Yuval Boger, CMO, QuEra

Viqthor designs a new generation of control systems for Large Scale Quantum Computing where Photonics and Noise Cancelling gather to unleash very high number of controlled Qubits. Guillaume De Giovanni, Co founder & CEO, Viqthor