VIRTUAL EVENT
Sept 28-30, 2020
Thank you to all the attendees and presenters who made the 2020 Virtual Qubits Users Conference a success.
Video presentations from the conference are available on YouTube.
The full agenda from the event may be found below.
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MONDAY, SEPT 28
QUBITS TUTORIALS, QUANTUM ANNEALING CONTROLS AND RESEARCH
TUTORIALS
8:00 AM PDT / 1500 UTC
Practical Quantum Computing: Introduction to Quantum Annealing, QUBOS, and Quantum Programming
9:00 AM PDT / 1600 UTC
Developing QUBOs and Embedding
10:00 AM PDT / 1700 UTC
Exhibition Hall and Ask the Experts
QUANTUM ANNEALING: RESEARCH AND CONTROLS
10:20 AM PDT / 1720 UTC
Durham University: Quantum Annealers as Quantum Laboratories
10:40 AM PDT / 1740 UTC
Jozef Stefan Institute: Simulating Quantum Configurational Tunneling Using Machine Learning Assisted Quantum Computation
11:00 AM PDT / 1800 UTC
11:20 AM PDT / 1820 UTC
Durham University: The Effect of Reduced Noise on Annealing Search
LANL: Using Advanced Annealing Options of D-Wave 2000Q
11:40 AM PDT / 1840 UTC
USRA/NASA: Ferromagnetically Shifting the Power of Pausing
12:00 PM PDT / 1900 UTC
LANL: Homomorphic Encryption for Quantum Annealing with Spin Reversal Transformations
12:20 PM PDT / 1920 UTC
Closing Remarks
TUESDAY, SEPT 29
QUBITS CONFERENCE: QUANTUM FOR BUSINESS
7:30 AM PDT / 1430 UTC
Faster Forward: Quantum Computing for Business
8:05 AM PDT / 1505 UTC
D-Wave Technology Updates
9:05 AM PDT / 1605 UTC
Exhibition Hall and Ask the Experts
TRACK 2: RESEARCH & SITE REPORTS
TRACK 1: APPLICATIONS
Menten AI: Designing Peptide Therapeutics on a Quantum Computer
9:25 AM PDT / 1625 UTC
Los Alamos National Laboratory: The Performance of Corrupted Biased Ferromagnets on D-Wave's 2000Q
Volkswagen: Paint Shop Optimization with Quantum Annealing
9:45 AM PDT / 1645 UTC
Site Report: NASA/USRA
Save on Foods: Quantum Computing in Grocery
10:05 AM PDT / 1705 UTC
Site Report: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Panel Discussion with Forbes: Harnessing the Power of Quantum Computing for Business-Critical Problems
10:25 AM PDT / 1725 UTC
Site Report: LMU QAR-Lab
10:45 AM PDT / 1745 UTC
EXHIBITION & ASK THE EXPERTS
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Systems
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Leap and the Hybrid Solver Service
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Quantum Programming, Apps and the Ocean Tools
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Performance and Benchmarking
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AWS Braket
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QCware
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NEC
TRACK 2: ECOSYSTEMS & APPLICATIONS
D-Wave Technology Talk
12:35 PM PDT / 1935 UTC
TRACK 1: APPLICATIONS
Jülich Research Centre: Optimization Problems for Benchmarking the Hybrid Solver Service and D-Wave QPU
11:15 AM PDT / 1815 UTC
AWS: Run quantum algorithms on D-Wave with Amazon Braket
Accenture: Quantum Computing Applications for Financial Services
11:35 AM PDT / 1835 UTC
QCWare: Boosting Quantum Computing Performance through Services and Software
OTI Lumionics: Electronic Structure Calculations on Quantum Annealers
11:55 AM PDT / 1855 UTC
University of Warsaw: Solving Vehicle Routing Problem using Quantum Annealing
GE: Scaling Asset Sustainment to Industrial Size
12:15 PM PDT / 1915 UTC
Khalifa University: Optimal Solution of the Nurse-Physician Scheduling Problem for COVID-19
TUESDAY, SEPT 29 (US & Europe)
WEDNESDAY, SEPT 30 (Japan)
JAPAN QUBITS CONFERENCE
5:00 PM PDT / 9:00 AM JST
Faster Forward: Quantum Computing for Business
5:35 PM PDT / 9:35 AM JST
D-Wave Technology Updates
6:35 PM PDT / 10:35 AM JST
BREAK: Exhibition Hall & Networking Lounge
6:55 PM PDT / 10:55 AM JST
Quantum Computing Activities in NEC and Collaboration with D-Wave
7:15 PM PDT / 11:15 AM JST
Sigma-I: Several Advanced Products by using Quantum Annealing
7:35 PM PDT / 11:35 AM JST
DENSO: Vehicle Routing Problems and Quantum Hybrid Systems
7:55 PM PDT / 11:55 AM JST
Recruit Communications: Development of Feature Selection Module in AutoML by Using D-Wave
8:15 PM PDT / 12:15 PM JST
Groovenauts: City as a Service: The Future of City Optimization by Quantum Computer and AI
8:35 PM PDT / 12:35 PM JST
Toyota Central R&D Labs: Cooperative Control of Large Scale Traffic Signals
8:55 PM PDT / 12:55 PM JST
NTT Data: A Delay-Aware Trick for D-Wave to Solve Combinatorial Optimization in Business with Many Independent Subproblems in Bulk
9:15 PM PDT / 1:35 PM JST
Closing Remarks
ON DEMAND TALKS
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NetraMark: Quantum and Classical Machine Learning for the Classification of Non‑Small‑Cell Lung Cancer Patients
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UPV/EHU: Hybrid Quantum-Classical Algorithm for Solving Financial and Logistic Network
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Ideal O5 Systems: Unfolding Measurement Distributions in High Energy Physics Experiments via Quantum Annealing
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TNO: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Using Simulated Quantum Annealing
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TNO: Multimodal Container Planning: a QUBO Formulation and Implementation on a Quantum Annealer
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US Advanced Computing Infrastructure: Financial Portfolio Optimization Using Quantum Annealing
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Accenture: Overview of Recent Accenture QA Applications
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QuBlitz: Optimal Control of Traffic Signals using Quantum Annealing
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Aligned IT, LLC: Hybrid-Quantum Approach for Optimal Lockdown to Stop COVID-19 Community Spreading, Subject to Maximizing Economy Globally
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UBC: The Impact of Embedding on Quantum-Annealing Sampling: A Computer-Aided Design Perspective
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LANL: Quantum and Noisy: A Single-Qubit Study Reveals Interesting Properties of the D-Wave Annealer
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Durham University: Performance Evaluation of Domain Wall Encoding Scheme
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UC Berkeley & RUB: Solutions to Integer Programming from Quantum Annealing
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JHU/APL: Particle Track Pattern Recognition via Quantum Associative Memory
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Groovenauts: Using Advantage to Solve Insurmountable Business Problems
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Tohoku University: T-QARD Research Network Update
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DENSO: Hamiltonian Path and Vehicle Routing Problems on Hybrid Solvers
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CINECA/PoliMi: Quantum Annealing Approach to Molecule Unfolding