QIA & Quantum Punks: New Applications for the Quantum Internet
This workshop explores real-world applications of quantum cryptography, focusing on the key challenges of bringing these technologies to production. It brings together researchers and practitioners from across the Quantum Internet to share insights and collaborate on open problems.
Topics:
latest advances of current applications of the quantum internet
lightning pitches for emerging applications
quantum cryptography applications beyond qkd
quantumpunk thesis & applications
limitations of the current networking stack
key research challenges for unlocking new use cases
This workshop is organized by Veriqloud and Deep Quantum, in partnership with the Use Case Team of the Quantum Internet Alliance. Its recording is kindly sponsored by Project 11 🙏
Note that it is right after the Quantum Networks Summit, and the day before the 2025 SQUAD workshop.
Provisional agenda:
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Starting from 9:30am — Arrivals and breakfast food
10am — Introduction & housekeeping (5 mins), Alex
10:05am — The Coming Wave: New Applications of Quantum Cryptography (30mins) by Nicola Greco
Description: Quantum cryptography has in QKD a real-world application currently deployed in many live systems. We believe there is much more around the corner, and that a new crop of real-world applications of quantum networks will soon see the light of day, and create value much earlier than quantum computers. We present the acceleration thesis, and what’s missing to get there in this introductory talk. We aim with it to frame the rest of the workshop.
Speaker bio: Nicola is building deepquantum.xyz and a co-author of the quantumpunks.org manifesto. He was previously the lead of CryptoNet at Protocol Labs, an r&d lab focused on real-world applications of cryptography in distributed systems.
Part 1: State of the Union
10:35am — Quantum Internet, Where are we today? (30mins) by Elham Kashefi
Description: This talk gives an overview of the current capabilities and limitations of the quantum internet. It addresses questions such as:
Where are we on the roadmap to full-scale quantum internet, what are the milestones currently in-progress?
What’s the current state of the art when it comes to deploying apps or experimenting?
What’s the latest on key bottlenecks? (entanglement-swapping repeaters, adding more compute in the network via modems or something else, practical implementation constraints, network protocol issues, flexible testbeds)
Speaker bio: Elham is a Professor of Quantum Computing at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, and Directeur de recherche au CNRS at LIP6 Sorbonne Universite. She co-founded the fields of quantum cloud computing and quantum computing verification, and has pioneered a trans-disciplinary interaction of hybrid quantum-classical solutions from theoretical investigation all the way to actual experimental and industrial commercialisation by co-founding VeriQloud.
10min coffee break
11:15am — Lightning session #1: Updates on deployed applications, protocols, demos (each 10mins+5min Q&A). Here we focus on quantum-internet related tech that is actively being built and has at least a PoC implemented live, with commercial ambitions.
QKD for Distributed Secure Storage — Marc Kaplan (Veriqloud)
Using Quantum Resources to Prevent Against TEE Re-entrancy Attacks — Fabrizio Romano Genovese (NeverLocal)
Quantum Networking with Neutral Atoms and Cavity QED — Shinichi Sunami (NanoQT)
10min coffee break
Quantum Cryptography Incorporating an Optical Memory Layer — Julien Laurat (WeLinq)
A software stack for Quantum Internet programs — Sacha Bernheim (QuTech, Wehner Group)
tbd — Project 11 (?)
12:55-2pm — Lunch & hanging out, food will be provided for all attendees!
Part 2: Visions of the Future
2pm — Lightning Session #2: New Applications on the Quantum Internet (10mins+5min Q&A each). Here we focus on quantum internet-related tech that you wish would be built or that you plan on building in the future.
Quantum Networks in the Cloud — Nicola Greco (Deep Quantum)
Multiparty blind quantum computing with the Qline architecture — Beatrice Polacchi (Sapienza Universita di Roma)
Quantum Swaps — Bolton Bailey (UIUC/Pi Squared Network)
10min coffee break
Device-Independent Cryptography: Removing all Hardware Assumptions — Roger Colbeck (University of York)
From TEE-Money to Quantum Money — Sylvain Bellemare (Shift)
Quantum Cryptography beyond QKD — Christian Schaffner (QuSoft)
10 min coffee break
4pm — Unstructured Workshop Time!
In this final session, the room is our canvas, we can reshuffle tables and chairs as we’d like to in order to form roundtables for conversations of any size. A board will be left throughout the day for people to suggest themes they’d like to chat about, and others can +1 them and join!
Some suggested themes:
How do we accelerate innovation and usage of quantum networks?
What problems can quantum communication technologies solve for the blockchain industry?
yours!
5pm — end