During the day the II PTE Disruptive General Assembly was celebrated, an initiative led by the Associació de Parcs Tecnològics i Científics d'Espanya (APTE)
Espaitec, Scientific and Technological Park of the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló, has celebrated the day «Present and future of Quantum Computing», marked dins of the project program «Technological Map of the Province of Castelló» that covers both the financial support of The Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI). During the session he presented the Espaitec Technological Spyglass, is to say, the technological observatory of new trends of the Parc materialitzat in the butlletí PRISMA, in which the different news, publications and patents on quantum computing applied to materials and finances and artificial intelligence applied to water are included, together with'FOCUS technological surveillance report, Focus on the topic addressed during the day.
The director of Scientific Dissemination and Citizen Science of the Universitat Jaume I, Lluís Martínez, has inaugurated the day. He was accompanied at the event by the executive vice president of the Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI), Andrés García Reche, and the president of l'Association of Scientific and Technological Parks of Spain (APTE) and of the Spanish Technological Platform for Disruptive Technologies (DISRUPTIVE), Felipe Romera, those who have valued the knowledge available at the regional and national level.
The first presentation has followed the direction of the president of barcelonaqbit-bqb i general coordinator of the Grup de Tecnologies Quàntiques d'AMETIC, Alfonso Rubio. In this sense, the speaker has stated that, among other actions, to begin using quantum technologies in an organization it is necessary to previously create a multidisciplinary team to draft a deployment roadmap and review the problems or reptes that may be faced. both this ore of technology. Furthermore, he has presented various projects such as Quantum Spain, an initiative promoted by the Ministry of Economic Assumptions and Digital Transformation through the Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence and financed by the Next Generation funds of the Recovery Plan.
The session continued with a roundtable in which the current applications of quantum computing were analyzed and in which the R&D manager of the company participated. Lliure Program R+D Foundation (FIDESOL), Mariano Caruso; the Ibèria Big Data & Security Division, HPC & Quàntum Director of'Atos Spain, Jose Camacho, and the CEO of Neurogenesis IA Technologies, Agustín de la Luz.
The day concluded with the second round of events where the applications and future solutions of quantum computing were presented to Spain, in which the members of the Quantitative Technologies Platform of the CSIC i coordinator of the Quantum Computing GT of PTE DISRUPTIVE, Diego Porras; the director of Innovation and Prospective of Fidesol, Francisco Benitez, i Alfonso Rubio.
II General Assembly PTE Disruptive
During the trobada he also celebrated the II General Assembly PTE Disruptive, initiative led by APT, the results of the activities carried out by the platform in 2021/2022 have been presented. In this sense, the managing director of APTE and technical manager of PTE DISRUPTIVE, Soledad Diaz, has addressed some of the initiatives promoted with the design of an eina that allows organizing b2b sessions automatically and investigating the possible collaborations created from these sessions.
Furthermore, the R+D consultancy in Infyde Global Consulting SL., Oxana Soimu, has presented the report carried out by the platform on “Disruptive digital technologies among Spanish companies and entities”. Therefore, these findings confirm that there is a high interest on the part of companies in digital technologies, but that there is still a lack of an awareness campaign about the importance of disruptive technologies.