First AFQC 2025: Impact, then World of Quantum. First navel-gazing, then the grand gesture. We’ve got a lot planned for June, but it’s worth it: for us, the year of quantum computing 2025 is all about making an impact. And we not only want to prove this at AFQC & WoQ, but also demonstrate the best way to do this in our opinion.
For the World of Quantum, this means that while last time our hardware projects took centre stage, this year’s focus is on everything that makes quantum computing possible and how we make quantum computing possible for our research and our industry partners. A special place this year will therefore be given to the very real use cases that our industry partners are developing with us, for example in the multi-project QCMobility, in which our research teams are working with algorithm start-ups and major mobility providers to explore and further develop the potential of quantum computers for better mobility.
How do we think of all this and what do we do about it? Talk to us at the World of Quantum. Hall A1, Stand 610 – top left on the hall plan, in the same place as 2023 and again with the best coffee…
QCI Enabling Services, Use Cases & Quantum Technologies
But with the DLR QCI, we also want to reach companies that have not yet set up their own quantum teams. To this end, we are currently setting up the QC Solution Centre, a consulting service that supports small and medium-sized enterprises in discovering their own use cases and developing them exploratively with the help of real hardware and DLR domain experts. And of course, with QCI Connect, we have developed a platform through which our computing resources can be made available to such companies and the community: the first quantum computers, simulators and emulators and, in future, complementary approaches such as analogue computers.
But we have even more: at DLR QCI, we are proud of a scientific environment that has been researching and developing advanced quantum technologies with a clear application focus for years. The entire DLR QCI ecosystem benefits from this in-house expertise. Directly through the technology provision of cleanrooms and enabling technologies and indirectly through tangible and substantial quantum expertise with technology transfer in its DNA. In other words: We can do quantum and we want to pass on quantum.
We are therefore looking forward to further quantum technologies from DLR: quantum communication with the DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation, quantum storage from the DLR Institute of Quantum Technologies and the Quantum Space Operations Center, through which DLR Space Operations and Astronaut Training would like to integrate various quantum technologies into the German Space Operations Center.
