Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 97 | Page 40

FEATURE: QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES
Final Word

ITALY IS NO LONGER WATCHING THE QUANTUM RACE – IT’ S LEADING IT.

In uniting science, industry and policy, Q-Alliance is more than a quantum hub – it is a declaration of intent. For Italy, it represents the dawn of a new Quantum Renaissance where innovation is both an art and a science – and where the building blocks of tomorrow’ s technology are already being assembled today in the laboratories of Lombardy. p
• International conferences and residencies for researchers
• Public-private partnerships for industrial use cases
With IonQ’ s gate-based systems, D-Wave’ s annealing expertise and Italy’ s institutional backing, Q-Alliance could very well become the blueprint for Europe’ s next deep-tech revolution.
Q-Alliance: The founding members
Company / Institution IonQ
D-Wave Quantum
Italian Government
Universities / Research Institutes
Private Industry Partners
Contribution Gate-based quantum computing, networking, sensing
Annealing quantum computing, software ecosystem
Policy support, infrastructure funding
Talent development, academic research
Application pilots and commercial adoption
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