Quantum Summit 2021
2021-05-25..2021-05-26
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| title | author | length |
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| Opening Keynote | Helge Braun | 08m |
Germany allocates 2 billion euros to quantum tech and commits to building a quantum computer with 100 individually controllable qubits within five years, plus… | ||
| Applied Research on Quantum Computing for Financial Services at Main Incubator | Jens Jeschner | 17m |
Reframes portfolio allocation as a graph theory optimization and implements hardware-agnostic quantum software that maps those formulations to variational… | ||
| A Quantum Algorithm for the Sensitivity Analysis of Business Risks | Sven Kerstan, Rory McLaren | 21m |
A quantum circuit maps each risk to a qubit and each transition to a single-controlled gate, simulated end-to-end and extrapolated to run the full model in… | ||
| Beating classical heuristics for the binary paint shop problem with the QAOA | Martin Leib | 21m |
Work shows the binary paint shop problem (BPSP, APX-hard) maps to a spin glass and a constant-depth QAOA gives provable average improvements in the n→∞ limit… | ||
| Welcoming remarks | Achim Berg | 13m |
Opening remarks claim quantum computers will solve problems classical supercomputers cannot and quantum sensors will give measurements orders of magnitude more… | ||
| Current status and the future of quantum technologies in Europe | Thomas Skordas | 15m |
European strategy commits about €1 billion in Horizon Europe for quantum R&D and ~€300 million for quantum-ready supercomputing via EuroHPC, aiming for first… | ||
| Quantum Technology in Flexible Job Shop Scheduling? | Walter Graf, Sören Wilmsmeier | 19m |
Fujitsu uses a Digital Annealer to solve a real tape-dispenser flexible job shop: 40 jobs with 4 operations across 6 machines are mapped to a QUBO model and… | ||
| Quantum Bayesian Networks For Path Accuracy in Manufacturing | Dr-Ing Jörg Lässig, Maximilian Selch | 21m |
Claims a proof‑of‑concept quantum encoding of Bayesian network conditional probability tables into qubit amplitudes, using multi‑controlled rotations to map… | ||
| Large-scale hybrid quantum computing solution of linear systems of equations | Michael R. Perelshtein | 20m |
Implements a hybrid quantum/classical solver built around quantum phase estimation with three matrix classes (TP1, TP2, NTP) and a trick that drops the… | ||
| What are we talking about when we talk about quantum technologies? | Dr Mark Mattingley-Scott | 30m |
A clear map of claims and milestones: IBM commits to 1000+ qubits by 2023, universal noisy devices exist today but lack error correction so they do not yet… | ||
| Bringing quantum technologies into application – the German strategy | Ina Schieferdecker | 25m |
Germany commits two billion euros to move quantum tech from labs to applications, adds 1.1 billion euros for project calls and launches technical calls for… | ||
| Quantum Technologies in a Digital Decade | Gustav Kalbe | 17m |
The EU commits to place a usable quantum computer in its 2030 Digital Decade plan and directs billions into research, pilot production and infrastructures so… | ||
| Schrödinger’s Cat in Industry: Real Life Quantum Software Engineering | Christian Tutschku | 22m |
Fraunhofer IAO runs the SEQUOIA project building practical quantum software stacks around the IBM Q System Ehningen using cloud access and simulator+backend… | ||
| Quantum Computing: Finding Its Place in the Advanced Computing Sector | Bob Sorensen | 17m |
Global quantum R&D produces 17,000 papers in five years across the US, China and many others, with multiple hardware modalities — superconducting, photonics… | ||
| Leveraging Quantum Computing applications for companies of all sizes | Tim Leonhardt, David Niehaus | 20m |
PlanQK is a government-funded platform-and-ecosystem that assembles 19 partners and curates 30+ use cases to let SMEs access quantum-assisted AI via a… | ||
| Quantum Computing, is there an app for that? | Joseph Reger | 14m |
Argues that real progress comes from apps not just qubits, claiming there are already hundred or so niche quantum apps but far too few general algorithms… | ||
| Exploring industrial applications of Quantum Computing in BMWi project PlanQK | Oliver Holschke | 22m |
PlanQK brings 18+ partners to prototype industrial QC solutions for concrete problems: job‑shop scheduling, field‑service routing for ~7,000 technicians… | ||
| Quantum-computing Enablement for German industry | Prof Dr Manfred Hauswirth | 19m |
Fraunhofer sets up a national Quantum-computing Competence Network that gives German companies and academia exclusive access to an IBM Q System One (installed… | ||
| From Laboratory to Application: Trivia matter | Prof Dr Wolfgang Mauerer | 10m |
Argues that quantum research and industrial products sit across a wide chasm and only concrete benefit beyond classical methods proves value, summarized as no… | ||
| How do we create a true European ecosystem? | Tommaso Calarco, Christian Ehler, Gustav Kalbe, Dr Sebastian Luber, Ina Schieferdecker, Kristel Michielsen | 54m |
Panel lays out concrete steps: an €7 billion fund across research and industry, an industry‑led consortium already onboarding 130 paying members, and a… | ||
| Combinatorial Optimisation Problems – from Drug Discovery to Space | Ellen Devereux | 51m |
Fujitsu applies a Digital Annealer to map combinatorial problems into QUBO-style searches, searches libraries of up to 10 billion molecules down to ~5,000… | ||
| Explaining Post-Quantum Cryptography with Cartoons | Klaus Schmeh | 22m |
Explains lattice-based and hash-based post-quantum schemes with concrete analogies and visuals, not formal proofs. Shows lattice-based (LWE) as a snail moving… | ||
| Post-Quantum Cryptography for the Internet of Things | Rachid El Bansarkhani | 20m |
Demonstrates concrete IoT migrations: a lattice-based module-LWE KEM wrapped as a DIN SPEC key encapsulation, with a mid-security public key ≈ public key ≈1.2… | ||
| Entangled photons for quantum based cyber security | Kevin Füchsel | 18m |
Company Quantum Optics Jena builds entangled-photon QKD hardware, claiming a compact 10×8 cm module that produces >1 million entangled pairs/s per mW at ~800… | ||
| State-of-the-art of making communication quantum-secure | Marc Geitz | 22m |
OpenQKD testbed in Berlin integrates IDQ and Toshiba QKD devices, an HSM as single point of truth, PQC key-exchange over 5G, and optical endpoints; it delivers… | ||
| The Quantum Threat – When Should We Act and What Should We Do? | Duncan Jones | 19m |
Quantum computers run Shor's algorithm and can factor RSA-sized keys, creating a real risk of retrospective decryption when recorded traffic is later cracked… | ||
| Quantum Technology Competence Center at Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt | Nicolas Spethmann | 21m |
PTB sets up the Quantum Technology Competence Center (QTZ) to turn lab systems into industry-ready hardware, offering user facilities with automated test rigs… | ||
| Future of quantum technology in industrial process engineering | Mohammad Sadegh Ebrahimi | 20m |
Endress+Hauser positions quantum sensing as a practical route to on-site industrial measurements using color centers in diamond and microfabricated gas cells… | ||
| Supporting the development of computing technologies with quantum metrology | Mathieu Munsch | 19m |
QNAMI presents a working scanning quantum microscope that uses a single NV center sensor embedded in synthetic diamond to map magnetic fields, currents and… | ||
| Quantum Technology for Industrial Particle Sensing | Michael Förtsch, Maik Gränitz | 21m |
Q.ANT and SICK present an industrial photonics particle sensor prototype that uses light superposition to measure three parameters per particle: speed, size… | ||
| Ctrl + N: Can we shortcut innovation? | Natalie Kilber | 18m |
Claims that innovation can be shortcut conditionally by cloud-native, domain-specific accelerators and disciplined teams are supported by concrete steps: build… | ||
| Opportunities for Quantum Computing in Finance | Samuel Mugel | 21m |
Claims a practical win: a dynamic portfolio optimizer for seven assets over one year with daily trades (search space ~10^130) finds a portfolio with 60% return… | ||
| IQM’s Fast Lane to Quantum Advantage | Jan Goetz | 24m |
IQM builds superconducting, application-specific processors using a co-design route that claims fewer qubits and gates than error-corrected roadmaps by mapping… | ||
| Building a strong Quantum Industry | Johannes Verst | 10m |
Europe currently allocates €7 billion public funding but shows little private investment and relies on four commercialization paths: RTOs, large firms, SMEs… | ||
| Which applications will profit from a quantum computer? | Michael Marthaler | 25m |
Estimates peg error correction at roughly 500–50,000 physical qubits per logical qubit (Google claims ~100), so a fully error‑corrected machine with ~100… | ||
| Introducing SMEs and Start-ups to Quantum | Damian Boeselager, Jan Goetz, Andrew Horsley, Alexander Regnat, Johannes Verst, Philip Zupancic | 46m |
Startups describe building application-specific ASICs to shortcut time-to-value, small room-scale machines based on room-temperature NV-center modules that act… | ||
| Educational models for teaching QC to applied science students | Ulrich Margull | 20m |
Germany has ~55% of young people starting higher education and roughly one third attending universities of applied sciences, so curricula aim at broad… | ||
| The Atos Quantum Programme: A QPU in 2023? | Jan Wender | 20m |
Atos describes a program that builds a Quantum Learning Machine simulator, provides a hardware-agnostic frontend to attach QPUs, and integrates QPUs into HPC… | ||
| Quantum Technologies in Defense & Security | Thierry Botter, Dr Mark Mattingley-Scott, Kathy Nickelsen | 40m |
Quantum technologies present concrete impacts: factorization by quantum computers threatens asymmetric crypto, driving urgent post-quantum cryptography work… | ||
| The French Quantum strategy : an ecosystem approach | Thomas Courbe | 09m |
France commits €1.8 billion over five years to build a national quantum ecosystem with concrete targets: 100 qubits hybrid accelerator by 2023, 5,000 new… | ||
| Quantum and Optimization in Business | Oliver Holschke, Georg Houben | 21m |
Fujitsu’s digital annealer is a room‑temperature CMOS chip for combinatorial optimization that solves a 90‑part mixing problem in <0.5s versus a classical… | ||
| Welcome Day 2 | 03m | |
Find more information here: https://www.quantum-summit.com/ | ||
| The Quantum Education Landscape in Europe and Germany | Ingolf Wittmann | 11m |
Europe and Germany build a scattered but concrete quantum education effort that funds five pilot programs, creates a shared multi‑vendor hands‑on platform with… | ||
| Closing remarks | 04m | |
Conference wraps with concrete metrics and takeaways: 80+ speakers, 55+ sessions, two stages and a virtual beach world; recordings become available on Swapcard… | ||
| Don't forget the users! | Claudia Pohlink, Dimitri van Esch, Detlef Wolf, Felix Schiessl | 49m |
Companies start pilots since 2018 across three concrete areas: optimization, machine learning and chemistry simulation, using simulators and cloud hardware… | ||
| Germany – An international centre of excellence in Quantum? | Mario Brandenburg, Raoul Klingner, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Alexander Tettenborn, Horst Weiss, Jana Lehner | 51m |
Germany pledges roughly €2–2.5 billion and targets a mix of hardware and application work: current publicly cited devices sit around ~27–50 qubits in the NISQ… | ||
| Quantum Education – Training the Quantum Workforce | Bettina Just, Rainer Müller, Clara Neumayer, Manfred Rieck, Jan Wender | 39m |
Claim: industry needs modular, role-specific training now because usable quantum advantage appears in a 2–3 year window. Evidence: Helsinki’s AI Academy… | ||
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