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5 October 2021 - 6 October 2021
Virtual, Switzerland
Quantum Industry Day in Switzerland 2021

Videos



Welcome


Jacques Haesler

Lead of Space Activity,

CSEM SA



Quantum science & technology in
Switzerland & EU


Martina Hirayama

State Secretary, State Secretariat for Education Research and Innovation at Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research

Future of Swiss Quantum Technologies in Europe


Alexandre Pauchard

CEO,

CSEM SA



Fraunhofer – IBM collaboration: a strong push for the quantum industry?


Oliver Ambacher

Director,

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF

QuIC: The European Quantum Industry Consortium


Laure Le Bars

Research project Director,

SAP

Keynote Communication


Wolfgang Tittel

Professor,

QuTech/Kavli/EEMCS, TU Delft The Netherlands

Quantum Sensing and Imaging: From the Laboratory to Near-Term Commercial Applications


Carl Williams

Acting Director,

Physical Measurement Laboratory NIST

20 years of quantum innovation


Grégoire Ribordy

CEO and co-founder,

ID Quantique

Panel Discussion


A. Pauchard, O. Ambacher, L. Le Bars, W. Tittel, C. Williams, G. Ribordy

Building a Quantum Career (Session A)


12:30 Welcome:

  • Fabio Scafirimuto, Education, Outreach and community Europe Lead, IBM Research-Zurich
  • Gabriele Raino, Head of QuanTech Workshops, ETH Zürich

Testimonials

12:35 Moritz Fontboté Schmidt/Anja Ulrich, Students, ETH Zurich

12:50 Marcel Pfaffhauser, Intern, IBM Research-Zurich/ Uni Lugano

13:05 Elisa Baumer, Intern/PhD, IBM Research-Zurich/ ETH Zurich

13:20 Félix Bussières & Martin Felle, VP Technology & Innovation, ID Quantique

13:40 Gabriel Puebla-Hellmann, CEO, QZabre

Quantum Instrumentation (Session B)


Moderator: Christoph Hellings, ETH Zurich

14:00 Labber Quantum [Simon Gustavsson, Principal Research Scientist at EQuS MIT, Quantum R&D Manager at Keysight Technologies]

14:20 Quantify: an open-source data acquisition platform for quantum computing and solid-state physics [Adriaan Rol, Director R&D, OrangeQS]

14:40  QCCS Software [Moritz Kirste, Application Scientist, Zurich Instruments]

Quantum Computing (Session C)


14:00 Welcome:

  • Fabio Scafirimuto, Education, Outreach and community Europe Lead, IBM Research-Zurich
  • Mira L. Wolf-Bauwens, Research Innovation Leader for Quantum IBM Research-Zurich

14:03 German roadmap in Q Technology [Stefan Filipp, Professor, TUM]

14:30 Bridging academia, industry and society [Sabrina Maniscalco, Professor, CEO, Uni Helsinki]

15:00 Break

15:10: Quantum Computing Applications [Amira Abbas, Researcher, IBM Research-Zurich]

15:45 ETH/PSI new Quantum Center [Jonathan Home, Professor, PSI/ETH]

16:10 TBD [Eduardo Miranda, Professor, Uni Plymouth]

16:35 Building small, fast and hot spin qubits [Dominik Zumbühl, Professor, Uni Basel/NCCR)

Quantum-Safe Security (Session D)


14:00 Year 2 in the Quantum Decade, Time to act [Axel Foery, EVP Quantum-Safe Security,  ID Quantique]

14:30 QRNG in mass market applications [Thomas Stengel, Senior Director of BusinessDevelopment, ID Quantique]

15:00 Break

15:15: QKD integration with IPsec encryption [Simon Bryden, Manager Consulting Systems Engineerng, Fortinet]

15:45 Practical Use Case of a QKD deployment [Bruno Gonçalves, Cybersecurity Business Unit Manager, Warpcom]

16:15 Quantum in Space  [Bruno Huttner, Director of Strategic Quantum Initiatives, and a Quantum Key Distribution Expert, ID Quantique]

Quantum Sensor (Session E)


14:00 Transferring new technologies from research to industry - Insights from the perspective of a customer facing [Katja Glass and Melvyn Ho, Director Innovation Funnel, Rohde & Schwarz]

14:30 Quantum Sensors – challenges and chances [Janine Riedrich-Moeller, Robert Bosch GmbH]

15:00 Break

15:15: macQsimal: Quantum sensor prototypes [Sylvain Karlen, Senior Project Manager, CSEM]

15:35 Measuring human brain activitiy with optically-pumped magnetometers [Lauri Parkkonen, Professor, University of Aalto/Megin Oy]

15:55 Quantum sensors open a new diagnostic window in pediatric clinical neurophysiology [Philip Broser, Leiter Neurophysiologische Diagnostik, Stiftung Ostschweizer Kinderspital- KER-Zentrum]

16:15 Live Industry tours: a cool quantum company featured live by their CEO - QZabre, LigenTec, Qnami, MicroRsystems

Entrepreneurship in Quantum Technologies (Session F)


15:15 Introduction [Michele Collodo, Application Scientist QT, Zurich Instruments Ltd] 

15:20 Entrepreneurship Landscape [Francesco Kienzle, Advisor, Euresearch]

15:30 Building your company [Mathieu Munsch, CEO, Qnami]

15:50 Investing in Quantum [Olivier Tonneau, Partner, Quantonation]



An introduction to Quantum Computing with Qiskit


James Wootton

Research Staff Member,

IBM Research-Zurich

Registration
Closed since 6 October 2021
Location
Virtual, Switzerland
Participants
Company 272
University / R&D Institution 256
Start-up 48
Other 30
Authority/Government 26
Investor/VC 12
Total 644