Day 1 (Wednesday, Nov 13)

IBM Quantum State of the Union 2024

9:00 AM – Jay Gambetta, Abhinav Kandala, Heather Saunders, Jen Glick, Jerry Chow, and Iskandar Sitdikov

Last year, IBM Quantum announced that the field had entered the era of quantum utility. Now, it's time to use utility-scale quantum computers for algorithm discovery. This talk covers the remarkable performance breakthroughs and software and hardware innovations that will allow users to explore uncharted computational territory with quantum computers. It also covers progress along our development and innovation roadmaps.

Functions: A new layer of abstraction (I)

10:00 AM

This session gives an introduction to the new IBM Quantum Functions catalog and demonstrations of circuit functions from IBM and partners.

Qiskit Functions

Suhare Nur (IBM)

Qiskit Functions Catalog walkthrough: application functions

Sanket Panda (IBM)

Singularity machine learning - classification

John Malcolm (Multiverse)

Solve utility-scale optimization problems with Fire Opal

Rowen Wu (Q-CTRL)

QURI Chemistry: a Qiskit Function by QunaSys

Ming-Zhi Chung (Qunasys)

Building your own application functions with Function Templates

Sanket Panda (IBM)

Functions: A new layer of abstraction (II)

11:30 AM

This is a continuation of the first seminar on IBM Quantum Functions, which includes demonstrations of application functions from IBM and partners.

Exploring circuit functions

Sanket Panda (IBM)

IBM circuit function

Jessie Yu (IBM)

TEM Qiskit Function

Matteo Rossi (Algorithmiq)

Achieve peak performance at utility scale with Fire Opal

Rowen Wu (Q-CTRL)

QESEM: a Qiskit Function by Qedma

Asaf Berkovitch (Qedma)

Designing utility-scale workloads

1:30 PM

Here we present an overview of new capabilities and improvements designed to support utility-scale quantum work. Topics include performance improvements to the Qiskit SDK and an introduction to Qiskit addons.

Designing utility-scale workloads

Julien Gacon (IBM)

Tools for utility beyond the SDK: Qiskit Addons

Bryce Fuller (IBM)

Challenges

Participants had the chance to try out the tools they learned about during the morning seminars during this hands-on coding challenge. Try your hand at the Day 1 Challenges by downloading the notebooks from the Github repository below.

QDC readme / set-up instructionsQDC Day 1 Challenge notebooks

Please note, the QDC challenge competition is now closed and the repo will not undergo further updates, but the content is still available for reference.