This agenda is regularly updated and expanded.
Wednesday, 27. May 2026
| Time | Stage | Salon | Workshop | Business Case | Pitch Deck |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | Doors open | ||||
| 09:00 | Open Quantum Café Networking 150 min | ||||
| 11:30 | Intro Intro to AFQC 2026 Robert Axmann, DLR QCI · Daniel Stadler, EIN Quantum NRW · Host: Katharina Menne 30 min | ||||
| 12:00 | Salon Talk Creating a European Network for Quantum Computing Software Robert Wille, MQSC × Paolo Viviani, LINKS Foundation 60 min | Coding Workshop Quantum Programming made easy: Eclipse Qrisp for Real-World Applications Colin Becker, DLR QCI & Sebastian Bock, Fraunhofer FOKUS 60 min | Lessons Learned Balancing Quantum Advantage and Business Needs Corey O'Meara, E.ON 60 min | Impact Workshop AFQC 2026 – Tag 1 – From Theoretical Promise to Industrial Relevance: Assessing Practical Speedups Shawn Skelton, Uni Hannover 60 min | |
| 13:00 | Lunchbreak & Meet-ups Business Lunch Meetups: QCI Connect users · HPC+QC+Hybrid · Quantum State Initiatives · Communication Specialists · Quantum Fellowship Program 60 min | ||||
| 14:00 | Salon Talk Providing Infrastructure for Deep Tech Start-ups Christoph Gehlen, Technologie Zentrum Dortmund × Alain Pierrot, DLR QCI 60 min | Workshop Quantum Chemistry Between VQE and Fault Tolerant Birger Horstmann, DLR TT 60 min | Best practice How to: Aufträge von öffentlichen Auftraggebern (in German) Stephan Manns & Stephan Goller, DLR QCI Procurement 60 min | Hands-on Implementing Applications with the QCI Connect SDK Elisabeth Lobe, DLR SC × Gary Schmiedinghoff, DLR SC 60 min | |
| 15:00 | Salon Talk Legal Challenges (tbd.) Jana Jentzsch, BHO Legal × Hjørdis Petersen, DLR QCI 60 min | Coding Workshop From Business Use Cases to Hardware-Ready Quantum Circuits Nikola Strah × Nadav Ben-Ami, Classiq Technologies 60 min | Best practice From Lab to Product: Crossing the Valley of Death in Deep Tech Anja Bräuning & Christian Piltz, EleQtron 60 min | Pitches & Ideas Quantum Chemistry Oumarou Oumarou & Christian Gogolin, Covestro 60 min | |
| 16:00 | Welcome Address State Minister Ina Brandes Ina Brandes, Ministry of Culture and Science of NRW 10 min | ||||
| 16:30 | Salon Talk The Next Challenge in Quantum Chemistry (tbc.) Christian Gogolin, Covestro × Birger Horstmann, DLR TT × tba. 60 min | Hands-on Workshop Getting started with Analog & Hybrid Computing on the REDAC Lucas Wetzel & Daniel Thuerck, anabrid 60 min | Lessons Learned From Quantum Start-up to Scale-up: Business Development Playbook to build on Eda Sorani, Planqc 60 min | Coding Workshop Optimizing Quantum Applications on Quantum Hardware César A. Rodríguez Rosario, Commutator Studios 60 min | |
| 17:30 | Break Cooldown 60 min | ||||
| 18:30 | DigiSpecial Panel Talk European Sovereignty with Quantum Technologies Fritzi Köhler-Geib, Deutsche Bundesbank × Harald Summa, DE-CIX × Henrik Hahn, Evonik, EIN Quantum NRW × Robert Axmann, DLR QCI 60 min | ||||
| 19:30 | All Hands Wrap-up Robert Axmann, DLR QCI × Daniel Stadler, EIN Quantum NRW 15 min | ||||
| 19:45 | Networking, Pub Quiz, Error Bar Party Party! Party! 195 min | ||||
| 23:00 | Doors close | ||||
08:00
Doors open
09:00
Open Quantum Café
Networking
150 min
11:30
Stage
Intro
Intro to AFQC 2026
Robert Axmann, DLR QCI · Daniel Stadler, EIN Quantum NRW · Host: Katharina Menne
30 min
12:00
Salon
Salon Talk
Creating a European Network for Quantum Computing Software
Robert Wille, MQSC × Paolo Viviani, LINKS Foundation
60 min
Workshop
Coding Workshop
Quantum Programming made easy: Eclipse Qrisp for Real-World Applications
Colin Becker, DLR QCI & Sebastian Bock, Fraunhofer FOKUS
60 min
Business Case
Lessons Learned
Balancing Quantum Advantage and Business Needs
Corey O'Meara, E.ON
60 min
Pitch Deck
Impact Workshop
AFQC 2026 – Tag 1 – From Theoretical Promise to Industrial Relevance: Assessing Practical Speedups
Shawn Skelton, Uni Hannover
60 min
13:00
Lunchbreak & Meet-ups
Business Lunch
Meetups: QCI Connect users · HPC+QC+Hybrid · Quantum State Initiatives · Communication Specialists · Quantum Fellowship Program
60 min
14:00
Salon
Salon Talk
Providing Infrastructure for Deep Tech Start-ups
Christoph Gehlen, Technologie Zentrum Dortmund × Alain Pierrot, DLR QCI
60 min
Workshop
Workshop
Quantum Chemistry Between VQE and Fault Tolerant
Birger Horstmann, DLR TT
60 min
Business Case
Best practice
How to: Aufträge von öffentlichen Auftraggebern
(in German)
Stephan Manns & Stephan Goller, DLR QCI Procurement
60 min
Pitch Deck
Hands-on
Implementing Applications with the QCI Connect SDK
Elisabeth Lobe, DLR SC × Gary Schmiedinghoff, DLR SC
60 min
15:00
Salon
Salon Talk
Legal Challenges (tbd.)
Jana Jentzsch, BHO Legal × Hjørdis Petersen, DLR QCI
60 min
Workshop
Coding Workshop
From Business Use Cases to Hardware-Ready Quantum Circuits
Nikola Strah × Nadav Ben-Ami, Classiq Technologies
60 min
Business Case
Best practice
From Lab to Product: Crossing the Valley of Death in Deep Tech
Anja Bräuning & Christian Piltz, EleQtron
60 min
Pitch Deck
Pitches & Ideas
Quantum Chemistry
Oumarou Oumarou & Christian Gogolin, Covestro
60 min
16:00
Stage
Welcome Address
State Minister Ina Brandes
Ina Brandes, Ministry of Culture and Science of NRW
10 min
16:30
Salon
Salon Talk
The Next Challenge in Quantum Chemistry (tbc.)
Christian Gogolin, Covestro × Birger Horstmann, DLR TT × tba.
60 min
Workshop
Hands-on Workshop
Getting started with Analog & Hybrid Computing on the REDAC
Lucas Wetzel & Daniel Thuerck, anabrid
60 min
Business Case
Lessons Learned
From Quantum Start-up to Scale-up: Business Development Playbook to build on
Eda Sorani, Planqc
60 min
Pitch Deck
Coding Workshop
Optimizing Quantum Applications on Quantum Hardware
César A. Rodríguez Rosario, Commutator Studios
60 min
17:30
Break
Cooldown
60 min
18:30
Stage
DigiSpecial Panel Talk
European Sovereignty with Quantum Technologies
Fritzi Köhler-Geib, Deutsche Bundesbank × Harald Summa, DE-CIX × Henrik Hahn, Evonik, EIN Quantum NRW × Robert Axmann, DLR QCI
60 min
19:30
Stage
All Hands
Wrap-up
Robert Axmann, DLR QCI × Daniel Stadler, EIN Quantum NRW
15 min
19:45
Networking, Pub Quiz, Error Bar Party
Party! Party!
195 min
23:00
Doors close
Thursday, 28. May 2026
| Time | Stage | Salon | Workshop | Business Case | Pitch Deck |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | Doors open | ||||
| 08:30 | Open Quantum Café Networking 60 min | ||||
| 09:45 | Welcome to Day 2 Robert Axmann, DLR QCI × Daniel Stadler, EIN Quantum NRW · Host: Katharina Menne 15 min | ||||
| 10:00 | Salon Talk Quantum Futures in Dialogue: Innovation, Security, and Sustainable Development Rebecca Mossop, DLR MI × Matthias C. Kettemann, Uni Innsbruck · UNESCO × Adrian Schmidt, KIT-EDU 60 min | Coding Workshop Fault-Tolerant Quantum Error Correction Sascha Heußen, neqxt 60 min | Hands-on Workshop Fixing Our Supply Chain: How can we Cooperatively Overcome Sourcing Challenges? Jakob Buchheim, DLR QT-IMN 60 min | Impact Workshop FullStaQD: Full Stack Quantum Computing for Germany Philipp Kunst, Fraunhofer IAO 60 min | |
| 11:00 | Salon Talk Challenge China (tba.) Susann Lüdtke, L.I.A. × Tobias Tenner, BDB 60 min | Workshop Application-driven Benchmarking: What Is Quantum Good For? Benedikt Poggel, Fraunhofer IKS 60 min | Best practice From Curiosity to Capability: QC Adoption in Practice Natalia Stolyarchuk, Bitkom 60 min | Presentation & Q&A Governance for Quantum Technologies Matthias Kettemann, Innsbruck Quantum Ethics Lab 60 min | |
| 12:00 | Welcome Address State Minister & Deputy Minister-President Mona Neubaur Mona Neubaur, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy NRW 10 min | ||||
| 12:10 | All Hands Outro Robert Axmann, DLR QCI × Daniel Stadler, EIN Quantum NRW 20 min | ||||
| 12:30 | Lunch Break 60 min | ||||
| 13:00 | Meet-up at Quantum Café QCI Connect users · HPC QC Hybrid · Communication Specialists · Quantum Fellowship Program · etc. Elisabeth Lobe · Felix Knoke · Francisca Goi 150 min | Meet-up Let's meet: Quantum State Initiatives Philipp Ranitzsch 150 min | Meet-up Meet-up Optimiziation Community R.S.V.P. 150 min | Meet-up Fraunhofer × DLR Matchmaking R.S.V.P. 150 min | Meet-up Quantum Future Ann-Kristin Rink 150 min |
| 15:30 | Doors close | ||||
08:00
Doors open
08:30
Open Quantum Café
Networking
60 min
09:45
Stage
Welcome to Day 2
Robert Axmann, DLR QCI × Daniel Stadler, EIN Quantum NRW · Host: Katharina Menne
15 min
10:00
Salon
Salon Talk
Quantum Futures in Dialogue: Innovation, Security, and Sustainable Development
Rebecca Mossop, DLR MI × Matthias C. Kettemann, Uni Innsbruck · UNESCO × Adrian Schmidt, KIT-EDU
60 min
Workshop
Coding Workshop
Fault-Tolerant Quantum Error Correction
Sascha Heußen, neqxt
60 min
Business Case
Hands-on Workshop
Fixing Our Supply Chain: How can we Cooperatively Overcome Sourcing Challenges?
Jakob Buchheim, DLR QT-IMN
60 min
Pitch Deck
Impact Workshop
FullStaQD: Full Stack Quantum Computing for Germany
Philipp Kunst, Fraunhofer IAO
60 min
11:00
Salon
Salon Talk
Challenge China (tba.)
Susann Lüdtke, L.I.A. × Tobias Tenner, BDB
60 min
Workshop
Workshop
Application-driven Benchmarking: What Is Quantum Good For?
Benedikt Poggel, Fraunhofer IKS
60 min
Business Case
Best practice
From Curiosity to Capability: QC Adoption in Practice
Natalia Stolyarchuk, Bitkom
60 min
Pitch Deck
Presentation & Q&A
Governance for Quantum Technologies
Matthias Kettemann, Innsbruck Quantum Ethics Lab
60 min
12:00
Stage
Welcome Address
State Minister & Deputy Minister-President Mona Neubaur
Mona Neubaur, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy NRW
10 min
12:10
Stage
All Hands
Outro
Robert Axmann, DLR QCI × Daniel Stadler, EIN Quantum NRW
20 min
12:30
Lunch Break
60 min
13:00
Stage
Meet-up at Quantum Café
QCI Connect users · HPC QC Hybrid · Communication Specialists · Quantum Fellowship Program · etc.
Elisabeth Lobe · Felix Knoke · Francisca Goi
150 min
Salon
Meet-up
Let's meet: Quantum State Initiatives
Philipp Ranitzsch
150 min
Workshop
Meet-up
Meet-up Optimiziation Community
R.S.V.P.
150 min
Business Case
Meet-up
Fraunhofer × DLR Matchmaking
R.S.V.P.
150 min
Pitch Deck
Meet-up
Quantum Future
Ann-Kristin Rink
150 min
15:30
Doors close
