In its Digital Compass 2030, presented last March, the Commission presented a vision and avenues for Europe’s digital transformation by 2030, with very ambitious objectives to be achieved jointly by the Union and its Member States. Quantum technology figures prominently in these goals, with the intention that “by 2025, Europe will have its first computer with quantum acceleration paving the way for Europe to be at the cutting edge of quantum capabilities by 2030”
At a time when the Council and the European Parliament are discussing the EU's action programme for the digital decade, the Quantum Ambitions conference will present and discuss European and national initiatives in the field of quantum technologies to build a European ambition: to meet scientific and technological challenges, to structure innovative ecosystems, to train and retain future talent, and to develop markets and uses.
9:30am-11am Opening session
Introduction
Chairwoman : Mrs Laurence Piketty, Deputy CEO, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
Opening address
Mr. Thierry Breton, Commissioner for the Internal Market, European Commission, tbc
Mr. François Jacq, Chairman and CEO for Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
Mr. Antoine Petit, Chairman and CEO for Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Mr. Bruno Sportisse, Chairman and CEO for Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique
Mrs Sylvie Retailleau, President of Paris-Saclay University
10am-11am Illustration of synergies between national and European strategies
Keynote speech : Mr. Roberto Viola, Director General, DG CNECT, European Commission
Panellists:
Mr. Neil Abroug, National Coordinator of the "Acceleration Strategy for Quantum Technologies », General Secretariat for Investment
Mrs. Freeke Heijman, Quantum Delta NL Co-founder and Director of Ecosystem development
Prof. DSc. Georgi Vayssilov, Head of National Science Fund of Bulgaria
Dr. Herbert Zeisel, Deputy Director-General, Research for Technological Sovereignty and Innovation, at German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Moderator: Dr. Philippe Chomaz, Scientific and Program Director, Basic Research Division, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
11am-11:30am: Break
11:30am – 1pm - Part 1 - Science and Technologies
Chairman : Prof. Alain Aspect, Institut d’Optique Graduate School – Paris-Saclay University
Introduction : From Flagship to Fleet
Prof.Dr. Tommaso Calarco, Director of the Peter Grünberg Institut, Forschungszentrum Jülich – Chair of the Quantum Community Network of the European Quantum Flagship
Quantum Flagship - the way ahead
Prof. Jürgen Mlynek, Chair of the Strategic Advisory Board (SAB) of the European Quantum Flagship
Quantum projects portfolio: what are the main challenges in relation with the outcomes
Dr. Thierry Debuisschert, Scientific Expert, Thales – Chair of the Science and Engineering Board (SEB) of the European Quantum Flagship
New scientific challenges
Panellists :
Prof. Dr Antonio Acín, Group Leader Quantum Information Theory, The Institute of Photonic Science
Dr. Manuel Bibes, Joint Research Unit Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Thales
Dr. Anthony Leverrier, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique
Prof. Fabio Sciarrino, Quantum Information Lab - Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma
Moderator : Dr. Yves Samson, Scientific Director, Technological Research Division, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
Enabling technologies: what are the main challenges?
Panellists :
Dr. Bogdan Govoreanu, Quantum Computing Program Manager, Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum (IMEC)
Dr. Himadri Majumdar, Leader of Quantum Programmes, Teknologian tutkimuskeskus (VTT)
Dr. Ségolène Olivier, Integrated Quantum Photonics Program Manager, Laboratoire d'électronique et de technologie de l'information - Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
Dr. Rogier Verberk, Director Semiconductor Equipment, Quantum Technologies, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek (TNO), Member of the SAB of the European Quantum Flagship
Moderator : Dr. Sébastien Tanzilli, Coordinator of Quantum Technologies Programmes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
1pm – 2pm : Lunch break
2pm – 3pm - Part 2 – Markets and Uses
Chairman: Mr. Thierry Botter, Executive Director, European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC)
Development of sectors that industrialise technologies
Plenary session an questions
Mr. Phlippe Duluc, CTO Big Data & Security, ATOS
Dr. Carlos Abellan, CEO & Co-founder, Quside Technologies
Exploring quantum technologies for a disruptive competitiveness
Plenary session an questions
Mr. Marc Porcheron, Head of the quantum computing project, EDF R&D
Mrs. Johanna Sepúlveda, Expert on Post-Quantum Secure Communications, AIRBUS
Dr. Horst Weiss, Vice President Knowledge Innovation, BASF
3pm – 3 :30pm : Break
3:30pm -5pm - Part 3 – Innovative ecosystems
Chairman : Dr. Harold Ollivier, Director QuantumTech, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique
Role of infrastructures
- EuroQCI
Dr. Eleni Diamanti, CNRS Research Director at LIP6-Sorbonne University and Vice Director of the Paris Centre for Quantum Computing
Dr. Christoph Marquardt, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
- EuroQCS
Mr. Jacques-Charles Lafoucrière, Program manager, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
Prof. Dr. Kristel Michielsen, Group leader „Quantum Information Processing“, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich – Coordinator of the EuroHPC JU project HPCQS
Challenge for the development of European start-ups
Mr. Keith Sequeira, Head of Unit for EIC Board, Strategy and Feedback to Policy at the European Commission’s EIC and SME Executive Agency
Dr. Niels Bultink, CEO & Co-Founder, QBLOX
Mr. Jan Goetz, CEO & Co-Founder, IQM
Mr. Niels Hersoug, CEO, Sparrow Quantum
Prof. Jean-Philip Piquemal, CSO and Co-founder of Qubit Pharmaceuticals
Develop and keep talents in Europe
Keynote speech: Prof. Jacob Sherson, Director of the Center for Hybrid Intelligence, Dept. of Management, Aarhus University
Panellists :
Prof. Marino Marsi, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides - Paris Saclay University
Dr. Araceli Venegas-Gomez, Founder and Director, QURECA (Quantum Resources & Careers)
Moderator : Dr. Pascale Senellart-Mardon, Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Paris Saclay University, CNRS)
Role of regional ecosystems
Panellists :
Prof. Konrad Banaszek, Director of the Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies – University of Warsaw, QuantERA scientific coordinator – National Science Centre Poland
Prof. Rainer Blatt, Director of Munich Quantum Valley (MQV)
Prof. Philippe Grangier, Head of the Quantum Optics group at the Institut d'Optique, coordinator of the DIM SIRTEQ in Ile de France.
Moderator : Mr. Olivier Ezratty, Technology consultant and analyst
5pm – 5:15pm - Towards the Czech Presidency of the EU: "CLONETS and the role of infrastructures in quantum technologies"
Prof. Josef Lazar, Director Institute of Scientific Instruments, Czech Academy of Sciences
5:15pm – 5:30pm – Conclusion
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