12.45 hrs – 14.30 hrs - Lunch Debate 'Quantum Technologies:
Entangling Europe for innovation'
Location - Members' Salon, European Parliament, Brussels
(at invitation only)
Description
Technologies based on the laws of quantum mechanics will lead to a wave of new technologies with radical impact on many of today’s global challenges, industries and markets. Applications are of strategic importance to Europe’s competitiveness for instance in the field of communication, sensing and computation. To unleash the full potential of these emerging technologies Europe needs to scale-up the efforts and translate the excellent science produced by European research and academia into reliable technology for commercial application.
The European Commission has engaged in a dialogue with Europe’s Quantum Technologies Research Community, initiated last May, to explore what is needed to enhance Quantum Technologies across Europe. Another recent milestone is a constructive round table with European Industry led by Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, responsible for the Digital Single Market which took place on October 13th. At the same time Europe’s Quantum Technologies Research and Industry Community is actively elaborating on a European Quantum Technologies roadmap, encompassing a vast number of research lines.
This debate is a next step in the dialogue to put Europe’s high tech industry at the forefront of the vast opportunities offered by Quantum Technologies. Several member states have taken serious and substantial steps already. In spring 2016, under the Netherlands EU presidency a Quantum Conference will be organized in Amsterdam to present a broad European vision and roadmap, to be discussed on the EU Competitiveness Council.
Questions
With the welcome and expected start of the Quantum Era Net in the course of 2016 as called for by the H2020 Excellent Science FET workprogramme an important stepping stone will be in place to launch a larger and even more ambitious and all-encompassing Quantum Technologies programme, to be based on the Novel Partnering Approach as described the European Commission[1].
[1] FET Flagships: A novel partnering approach to address grand scientific challenges and to boost innovation in Europe, Brussels, 16.9.2014 SWD(2014) 283 final
Speakers
Host:
Ms Cora van Nieuwenhuizen Member of European Parliament
Commission participants:
Guenther Oettinger - Commissioner for the Digital Single Market
Michael Hager - Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Oettinger
Ales Fiala - DG Connect, European Commission
Moderator:
Karel Luyben - Rector Magnificus Delft University of Technology
and chairman of the Supervisory Board of QuTech
Speakers:
Lieven Vandersypen - Professor Nanoscience and Roadmap Leader QuTech
Ms. Freeke Heijman - Netherlands EU Presidency 2016, Ministry of Economic Affairs
John Morton - Professor Nanoelectronics & Nanophotonics, University College
London – to be confirmed
Ronald Hanson - Professor Quantum Transport, Delft University of Technology –
to be confirmed
Tommaso Calarco - Professor Quantum Science, University of Ulm
and Chairman of the Conference Programme Committee of the
Netherlands EU Presidency Quantum Technologies Conference
to be held in Amsterdam 2016
Speaker from industry - to be announced
Speaker from research in Atomic, Molecular, Optics quantum mechanics – to be announced
Lead of consortium for a Quantum ERA NET – to be announced / confirmed
Event scenario
A position paper representing the views of leading Quantum Science & Engineering community will be offered to the host and the Commission representatives.