QCI
Update 03 / 2025
Registration AFQC 2026: Challenge // All Hands 2025 Recap Video // Milestone: DiNAQC Creates Neutral Atom Registry
The most important news first: The location and date of our AFQC community event have been finalised: The AFQC 2026: Challenge will take place on 27 & 28 May at The Frame in Düsseldorf with even more interaction & space for networking & together with our friends from EIN Quantum NRW.
With AFQC 2026, we are looking for the challenge: What does it really take to move forward in quantum computing? On day 1 , we want to find out together with the most important players in the ecosystem in workshops, panel discussions and one-on-ones. On day 2, we will invite potential users and turn the question around: How can Quantum move industry and SMEs forward? We are looking for pitches for the best ideas from start-ups and research.
Call for Participation
The AFQC thrives on all the participants from research, start-ups and industry who are incredibly willing to exchange ideas and who take advantage of every offer and every opportunity for cross-connection and bridge-building. We want to build on this at AFQC 2026 and are therefore launching a call for participation for programme items on both days. Anyone who wants to propose their own workshops, panel discussions, pitches or completely different formats can submit ideas to us and we will take care of the implementation.
Recap
What All Hands 2025 was like
DLR QCI continued to grow strongly last year. A good 250 participants from all hardware and application projects – half of them from start-ups, SMEs and industrial companies – came to our innovation centre in Ulm for All Hands 2025, our internal network meeting.
Milestone at DiNAQC
DiNAQC captures, cools & sorts a register with 10×13 neutral atoms
Our neutral atom project DiNAQC by Planqc has reached an important milestone: the creation of a 10×13 register of strontium atoms. This lays the foundation for computing with neutral atoms at the Ulm Innovation Centre.
3 December 2025
We were looking for companies to support us in the integration of quantum-based solutions and approaches in our mobility project QCMobility at the DLR Institute of Quantum Technologies. ParityQC has now been awarded the contract in the bidding competition.
13 October 2025
The hope is that quantum algorithms can be used to model energy grids faster and more accurately. The result: better operating and investment decisions for high-performance, resilient and efficient energy grids. Our energy grid project Attraqt’em is working with contractor Fraunhofer IIS to investigate how energy system models can be optimised using quantum computers.
25 November 2025
Complex decisions in real time, billions of possible combinations and the highest safety standards: The demands placed on planning systems in aviation are high. Lufthansa Industry Solutions (LHIND) is working on new, pioneering technologies to optimise critical processes and further increase safety. The company has been awarded a contract by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) to support two research projects as part of the DLR Quantum Computing Initiative (DLR QCI).
