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The second quantum revolution: from concepts to technologies

Alain ASPECT - Professor at Institut d’Optique and Ecole Polytechnique, Member of the French Academy of Science and Academy of Technologies, recipient of the Wolf, Einstein, Bohr and other prestigious scientific prizes, among them the Balzan prize for quantum information Explore the two concepts at the root of a new quantum revolution (entanglement and individual quantum objects) as well as the state of the art and open questions regarding Quantum Computing, Quantum Simulation, Quantum Communication and Quantum Sensing.

Quantum computing software and hardware: the CNRS approach

Antoine PETIT - President and CEO, CNRS, France Discover CNRS involvement into Quantum Computing (pluri-disciplinary approach, contribution to the European Quantum Flagship and technology development in sensing & metrology, simulation, communication & cryptography). Understand the importance of the joint development of dedicated hardware and software.

Best practices in national Quantum Computing initiatives

Best practices in national Quantum Computing initiatives Andrew DZURAK - Scientia Professor, Chief Investigator & Executive Member at ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, University of New South Wales, Australia John MORTON - Founder & Director, Quantum Motion, UK Philippe GRANGIER - Research Director, CNRS / Institut d’Optique, France Tommaso CALARCO - Director, Institute of Quantum Control, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany Roundtable moderated by Philippe DULUC - CTO big data & security, Atos, France Explore various public initiatives from Australia, the UK, Germany and the European Union to support the development of quantum computing.

On the race for Quantum Advantage!

On the race for Quantum Advantage! Heike RIEL - IBM Fellow, Department Head Science & Technology, IBM Research, Switzerland Vern BROWNELL - President and CEO, D-Wave Systems, Canada Bernard OURGHANLIAN - CTO & CSO, Microsoft, France Roundtable moderated by Olivier EZRATTY - Consultant, author and speaker on deep technologies, France Understand how Microsoft, D-Wave and IBM are approaching the issue of quantum advantage. Competing technologies, quest for good quality Qbit, quantum annealing.

Quantum Computing in Europe - A call to action

Eric HAZAN - Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, France Daniel VOLZ - Senior Consultant, McKinsey & Company, Germany Understand how Quantum Computing is expected to bring about disruptive change for many industries in the coming decades. Discover the associated value pools, use cases, business models and emerging value chain as well as McKinsey’s perspective on how Europe might position itself for success.

Funding the Next Frontier

Christophe JURCZAK - CEO, Quantonation, France Matthieu REPELLIN - Investment Manager, Airbus Ventures Kristjan SIGURDSON - Director of Community, Creative Destruction Lab, Canada Roundtable moderated by Gilles SCHANG - Deputy Managing Director, Bpifrance Understand how venture capitalists position themselves towards quantum computing, which is still an emerging deeptech field.

Atos quantum ecosystem: a global and versatile approach

See how Europe can play a key role in the 2nd quantum revolution thanks to public support, talents and know-how both in hardware and software/industrialization. As a major European player, Atos actively supports this revolution by providing Quantum Learning Machine (QLM), a complete on-premise environment designed for quantum software developers, as well as myQLM, a more accessible version of it.

French Q-Startups pitches: VeriQloud

Marc KAPLAN - President, VeriQloud, France Quantum Network Applications and Software.

The Quantum Ecosystem strategy of IBM

BM provides a real computing system with 20 and soon 50 Qubits, available in the Cloud, builds a global ecosystem of partners, invests in quantum skills (including in Montpellier), develops an open-source framework called Qiskit, and already works on use cases to solve the most complex problems.

Solutions for achieving NISQ era quantum advantage

Joseph EMERSON - CEO and Founder, Quantum Benchmark, Canada Quantum Benchmark tackles the error problem of Quantum Computing and will bring NISQ to the next level. Its solutions improve design of hardware and quantum control and optimize run-time capabilities & accuracy of solutions, in order to achieve reliable quantum solutions on unreliable quantum hardware.

Qubits: quantum computing circuits and devices

Quantum device requires replicability, stability, gates, connectivity and scalability. IonQ builds quantum computers using trapped ions, based on the technical foundations of atomic clocks, that perfectly tackle those requirements.

Quantum Computing algorithm and new business applications

Christopher SAVOIE - CEO, Zapata Computing, USA Zapata Computing develops quantum computing software and algorithms to solve industry-critical problems: environment, human health, energy, food security, defense and security… It offers a platform providing enterprise scientists exploring quantum solutions with a unified access to all leading hardware and algorithms.

French industrial quantum use cases: Airbus

Thierry BOTTER - Head of Airbus Blue Sky, Germany Quantum Computing at Airbus: not an isolated, exotic topic but rather the upstream extension of Airbus’ activities in High Performance Computing (HPC). Discover the Airbus Quantum Computing Challenge.

French industrial quantum use cases: Total

Henri CALANDRA - Expert in numerical methods and HPC for geoscience, Total, France Quantum computing main use cases at Total: Chemistry, Material Science, Optimization, Machine Learning…to open new frontiers in R&D.

French industrial quantum use cases: EDF

Stéphane TANGUY - CIO & CTO at EDF Labs, EDF, France Quantum computing main use cases at EDF: material ageing modelling, safety probabilistic study and combinatorial optimization for energy management. Explore the EDF quantum journey to address them.

French Q-Startups pitches: Quandela

French Q-Startups pitches: Quandela Valerian GIESZ - CEO, Quandela, France Ideal quantum light sources for Quantum Technologies.

French Q-Startups pitches: Pasqal & Muquans collaboration

Georges-Olivier REYMOND - CEO, Pasqal, France Bruno DESRUELLE - Co Founder and CEO, Muquans, France Atomtronics Scalable technologies & Supply Chain for the Quantum Industry.

French Q-Startups pitches: LightOn

gor CARRON - CEO and Co-Founder, LightOn, France Bringing Light to Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning) by developing novel optics-based computing hardware.

From R&D to Market: the industrialization challenge

Maud VINET - Quantum hardware program manager, CEA Leti, France Explore the multiple challenges of the industrialization path (reliability, scaling, design, value chain) and how to overcome them. See how collective intelligence a key element for success is. Discover QuCube framework, which main objective is to demonstrate a quantum processor for simulation applications.

Building the French Quantum Ecosystem: Teratec

Daniel VERWAERDE - President, Teratec, France Discover the Teratec Quantum Computing Initiative (TQCI) bringing together users, technology providers and research centers to rapidly gain competences and develop know-how in the field of quantum computing along main specific focus (development of research activities in mathematical formulation, algorithms and numerical methods, realization of showcases with usage and experimentation, training, information and community management)

Building the French Quantum Ecosystem: Sirteq

Understand the challenges and lessons learned of Sirteq’s efforts in supporting technological transfer at regional level, which remains rather low compared to top level research in quantum technologies. See how solutions rely in more connections between science and innovation, academics and industrials, scientific domains and in more fundings all though the value chain.

Update on the French public Quantum initiative

Iordanis Kerenidis - Member of the French Quantum Mission Project / CNRS Senior Researcher / Director of PCQC / Head of Quantum Algorithms International at QCWare France Hear the first insights on the French Quantum Mission Project, led by Paula Forteza, Member of Parliament. (final report and recommendations due by late 2019.)

Closing speech

Nicolas DUFOURCQ - Executive Director, France The voluntarist role of Bpifrance to support the 2nd Quantum Computing Revolution and make it happen in France and Europe.