PQI Colloquium – Registration Form

Organised jointly by PQI – Portuguese Quantum Institute and QDNL – Quantum Delta NL, Global Quantum Connections is a workshop aiming at discussing the challenges of global cooperation in Quantum Technologies.

Date: 7 November 2023, in the morning.

Venue:

• In person at Academia das Ciências, R. da Academia das Ciências, 19, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Online: Zoom link distributed to registered participants.

Registration: Registration is free, but compulsory. Please complete the registration form by 6 November 2023, 16:00 WET

Rationale:

Quantum Technologies hold the potential to significantly impact the Information Society we live in by radically transforming the information technologies that surround us. Namely by opening the prospect of much faster computers, and with a lower carbon footprint, of communication networks providing improved levels of privacy, and of sensors reaching the ultimate levels of precision.

These are sovereignty technologies, with strategic implications, motivating national research & development programmes around the World, as well as at EU-wide level, with public investments of many billions of Euros.

A quantum race to develop and control these emerging information technologies is leading to the establishment of export controls and new scientific diplomacy, raising ethical challenges, and restricting international collaboration. At the same time, there is a growing concern to guarantee an equitable access to the development and use of these novel and potentially transformative technologies, and avoid further widening the knowledge and technological gap between different regions of the World.

The workshop Global Quantum Connections aims at confronting these contradictory perspectives in a constructive way, by bringing together key stakeholders to diagnose the current situation and establish a forum to address these emerging challenges.

Programme (all times in Western European Time: WET):

9:30 WET – Welcome address: Yasser Omar (PQI), Pieter Vermaas (QDNL/PQI)

9:35 – Opening address: Carlos Zorrinho (European Parliament)

09:45 – Quantum Technologies and their Impact in Society, Yasser Omar (PQI)

10:00 – Quantum Technologies and the Global South, Boudewijn van Eerd (AWO)

10:15 – A race to where? The need for multilateralism for responsible and just Quantum Technologies, Douglas K. R. Robinson (OECD)

10:30 – Quantum Connections Platform at PQI, Alexander Gerner (CFC, ULisbon), Pieter Vermaas (QDNL/PQI)

10:45 – break

11:10 – Panel discussion: Sharing Knowledge 

Moderator: Diederick Croese (QDNL)

Panelists:

• The World Quantum Day Network, Yasser Omar (PQI)
• From Setting Global Ethical Standards to Building National Policy Frameworks, Irakli Khodeli (UNESCO)
• Connecting Physicists from Portuguese-speaking Countries in 4 Continents, Sónia Semedo (UFPLP & University of Cape Verde)
• Emergence of Quantum Technologies in Uzbekistan: old problems and new challenges, Davron Matousalov (Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent)

12:00 – end

Organisers: PQI – Portuguese Quantum Institute, QDNL – Quantum Delta NL

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