Welcome to Quantum Day 2025!

Quantum Day 2025 provides an overview of achievements and outlines future challenges in quantum technology. This year's event will present major milestones of Czech quantum research and innovation, including cooperation with the Ministry of Defence, EURO QCI European initiatives, IT4I-LumiQ and Ostrava VLQ projects.

Program

8:00 - Registration

8:45 - Opening remarks

Speakers:

• Gen. Ing. Petr Šnajdárek
• Ing. et Ing. Martin Švík, Ph.D., MBA - IBM Technology Director for Northern, Central and Eastern Europe

9:00 - What we have done and what lies ahead

Speaker. Mgr. Petr Kavalíř, Ph.D., MBA

9:20 - QIC CTU - presentation of the project

Speakers:

• Sam Johnson (IBM)
• doc. RNDr. Ing. Marcel Jiřina, Ph.D. (CTU)

9:35 - EURO QCI

Speaker: prof. Ing. Igor Jex, DrSc. (CTU)

9:50 - Quantum and the Ministry of Defence

Speaker: gen. Ing. Petr Šnajdárek

10:00 - Role of CzechInvest in Quantum

Speakers:

• Mgr. Ing. Jan Michal - Director General of CzechInvest (General Manager)
• Šimon Trčka, MSc., Director of Advanced Tech and Materials Hub

10:15 - Break

10:30 - IT4I - LumiQ VLQ

Speaker: doc. Mgr. Mgr. Vít Vondrák, Ph.D. (VŠB)

10:45 - CETIN Use Case

Speaker. Jan Vilimovský (CETIN)

11:00 - Panel discussion - How QIC works

Moderated by: doc. RNDr. Ing. Marcel Jiřina, Ph.D. (CTU)

Panelists:

• Mgr. Martin Friák, Ph.D. (CAS)
• Mgr. Petr Kavalíř, Ph.D., MBA
• prof. Ing. Igor Jex, DrSc. (CTU)
• Prof. Dr. Ing. Alexandr Štefek (UNOB)
• Ing. et Ing. Martin Švík, Ph.D., MBA (IBM)

11:40 - Quantum AI SuperComputing

Speaker: Ing. et Ing. Martin Švík, Ph.D., MBA (IBM)

11:55 - Education in quantum technologies

Speakers:

• prof. Ing. Igor Jex, DrSc. (CTU)
• Aurél Gábris, Ph.D. (CTU) 

12:10 - Lunch

12:50 - Post-quantum cryptography in practice

Speaker. Lumír Srch (ITS)

13:05 - Panel discussion - Post Quantum Cryptography and QKD

Moderator: Mgr. Mgr. Miloš Soukup - IBM Business Technology Leader, Quantum Ambassador, Northern Central and Eastern Europe

Panelists:

• Ing. Lumír Srch (ITS)
• Martin Smrčka (NUKIB)
• Michal Bures (UNOB)
• representative of the Ministry of Defence 

13:45 - Quantum sensors and quantum metrology

Speaker. Minh Tuan Pham, Ph.D., Institute of Instrumentation, CAS

14:15 - Break

14:30 - HSBC use case

Speaker. Ondřej Král - IBM Advisory AI Engineer & Quantum Ambassador 

14:45 - Panel discussion - Quantum in practice

Moderator: Mgr. Ondřej Král - IBM Advisory AI Engineer & Quantum Ambassador 

Panelists:

• Ing. Tomáš Cinert (HULD)
• prof. MUDr. Jakub Hort, Ph.D. (Motol University Hospital)
• Mgr. Martin Friák, Ph.D. (CAS)

15:25 - Final word and thanks

Speaker. Veronika Kramaříková, MBA, Vice-Rector for Development and Strategy, CTU