Q-NEKO workshop: Quantum Koraborēshon in Practice
Europa House, large room
Summary
Q-Neko (The Nippon-Europe Quantum Koraborēshon), funded by EuroHPC JU on the European side, turns the Digital Partnership’s quantum priority into joint work: sixteen organisations from six European countries and Japan, aligned with Japan’s SIP programme through AIST’s coordinating role.
This workshop discusses the prospects and value of tight EU-Japan collaboration, based on concrete outputs on what the Q-Neko collaboration itself has produced to date. Each session pairs a European and a Japanese contributor around one question: what became possible because the work was done jointly. Sessions cover co-developed applications, the shared software stack and benchmarking, reciprocal infrastructure access and mobility, and the emerging joint roadmap. This speaks directly to the access-policy and standardisation threads that recur across Digital Week.
Objectives
Demonstrate concrete outcomes of EU–Japan co-development across applications, software stack, benchmarking and standardisation
Surface the practical enablers and obstacles of cross-regional work, compute access, mobility, IP and data sharing, as input to the Digital Partnership’s policy track
Present the joint work for quantum-accelerated supercomputing and gather feedback from outside the consortium
Widen uptake of Q-Neko’s open-source output and identify partners for follow-on collaboration under Japan’s association to Horizon Europe
Target audience
Quantum and HPC researchers and engineers; supercomputing centre operators; quantum hardware and software vendors; industrial end users in telecommunications, transport, aerospace, materials and earth observation; standardisation bodies; policymakers from the European Commission, EuroHPC JU and Japanese ministries and agencies.
Agenda
| 09:00-09:15 | Opening: from HANAMI to Q-Neko How EU–Japan HPC cooperation has extended into quantum |
| 09:15-10:15 | Four use cases, built by two regions (WP2) Paired EU–Japan presentations on the progress of select use cases |
| 10:15-10:35 | Coffee break |
| 10:35-11:15 | A Stack that works across both ecosystems (WP3, WP4) Jointly developed software stack components, and full-stack benchmarking of hybrid systems |
| 11:15-11:50 | Access, mobility and the people layer (WP6) Reciprocal access between EuroHPC systems and ABCI-Q, where current policies constrain joint work, and findings from the initial stages of the mobility programme |
| 11:50-12:25 | Panel discussion: Roadmap and standardisation (WP5, WP7) Joint roadmap for hardware, supply-chain resilience and the HPC+QC software ecosystem. IQM, LNE, CEA, with invited Commission, EuroHPC JU and Japanese agency representatives |
| 12:25-12:30 | Closing and next step |
Expected outcomes
A public record of demonstrated collaboration benefits for the Digital Week wrap-up and Partnership reporting; recommendations on cross-access policy for hybrid quantum resources; wider industrial uptake of Q-Neko’s open outputs; and new contacts for follow-on joint proposals.
