"FUTURAS IN RES" conference: The Quantum Breakthrough

Opening night, November 23, 2021

Day 1, November 24, 2021

9:30
Welcome

Prof. Raoul Klingner
Director of Research Management and Governance at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

9:40 – 11:30
Keynotes 

Prof. Reimund Neugebauer
President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Prof. Andreas Tünnermann
Director of Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF

Grazia Vittadini
Special Adviser and former CTO of Airbus

Dr. Torsten Siebert
Fraunhofer Think Tank
 

11:30 – 12:30 Lunch
 

11:30 – 11:50
Online Lecture: Quantum DevOps: an integrated Concept for the Development and Operations of Quantum based Systems

Dr. Nikolay Tcholtchev
Project Leader at Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS

12:00 – 12:20
Online Lecture: Quantum Machine Intelligence

Dr. Nico Piatkowski
Researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS

12:30 – 14:40
Scientific parallel session – I A: Quantum Imaging and Optics

Chair: Prof. Karsten Buse
Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM 

Co-chair: Dr. Wilhem Kaenders
CTO TOPTICA Photonics AG

Speakers:

Prof. Miles Padgett
Royal Society Research Professor and Kelvin Chair, University of Glasgow

Prof. Vahid Sandoghdar
Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

Prof. Svenja Knappe
Professor at University of Colorado Boulder and Co-founder of FieldLine Inc.

Dr. Frank Kühnemann
Deputy Head of Department Gas and Process Technology at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM

12:30 – 14:40
Scientific parallel session – I B: Quantum Communication and Cryptography

Chair: Prof. Ronald Freund, MBA
Head of Photonic Networks and Systems Department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI 

Co-chair: Prof. Christoph Günther
Director Institute of Communications and Navigation Management, German Aerospace Center DLR

Speakers:

Prof. Hugo Zbinden
Professor at Université de Genève

Dr. Nino Walenta
Project Team Leader at Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, HHI

Bernhard Sang
Senior Expert Systems Engineering at OHB System AG

Prof. Harald Weinfurter
Head of Faculty of Physics, LMU Munich

14:40 – 15:05 Break

15:05 – 17:15
Scientific parallel session – II A: Quantum Sensing

Chair: Prof. Oliver Ambacher
Director Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF

Co-chair: Prof. Jörg Wrachtrup
Director 3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart

Speakers:

Prof. Fedor Jelezko
Director at the Institute of Quantum Optics, Ulm University

Dr. Jan Rhensius
CEO and Founder of QZabre

Dr. Mathieu Munsch
CEO and co-founder of Qnami AG

Prof. Karsten Buse
Director Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM

15:05 – 17:15
Scientific parallel session – II B: Quantum Computing

Chair: Prof. Manfred Hauswirth
Managing Director Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS

Co-chair: Prof. Kristel Michielsen
Head of the Research Group Quantum Information Processing, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Speakers:

Prof. Elham Kashefi
Professor of Quantum Computing at the School ofInformatics, University of
Edinburgh, and Directeur de recherche au CNRS at LIP6 Sorbonne

Prof. Wolfgang Lechner
Professor at the University of Innsbruck and Co-founder CEO of ParityQC GmbH

Marco Paini
Director Europe at Rigetti Computing

Prof. Christian Bauckhage
Professor of Computer Science, University of Bonn, Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS

17:15 – 21:30 Conference dinner

Dinner speech:
Prof. Martin Dawson
Director of Research at University of Strathclyde’s Institute of Photonics

Presentations of the scientific sessions by the session chairs and co-chairs

Day 2, November 25, 2021

Plenary Session: Industrial Applications

9:00 –9:05
Welcome and introduction

Dr. Anja Haslinger
Head of Fraunhofer Think Tank

9:05 - 9:20
Keynote about QuTech

Dr. Kees Eijkel
Director of Business Development at QuTech

9:20 – 11:00
Plenary Session: Industrial Application

Introduction
Dr. Anja Haslinger
Head of Fraunhofer Think Tank

Keynotes 

Dr. Heike Riel
IBM Fellow, and Executive Director of the IBM Research Frontiers Institute, and Director of IoT Technology and Solutions at IBM Research

Prof. Wilhelm Kaenders
CTO TOPTICA Photonics AG

Dr.-Ing. E. h. Peter Leibinger
CTO of TRUMPF

Discussion with speakers

11:00 – 11:20 Break

11:20 – 13:30
Plenary Session: Future Challenges

Introduction
Dr. Anja Haslinger
Head of Fraunhofer Think Tank
 

Keynotes 

Prof. Dana Anderson
Professor of Physics. Optics, Nanostructures & Bioengineering at University of Colorado Boulder

Prof. Rainer Blatt
Professor at University of Innsbruck, Co-Founder Alpine Quantum Technologies GmbH

Dr. Jan Goetz
CEO and co-founder of IQM

Dr. Kevin Füchsel
CEO of Quantum Optics Jena GmbH
 

Discussion with speakers

13:25 – 13:30
Wrap-up

Dr. Anja Haslinger
Head of Fraunhofer Think Tank

13:30 End of conference