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Welcome to the 84th episode of the Decode Quantum podcast series, which has now more than five years of existence. We are welcoming today Sabrina Maniscalco from Algorithmiq.
Fanny Bouton: Sabrina Maniscalco is the CEO and cofounder of Algorithmiq, a startup developing quantum algorithms for applications in life sciences based in Helsinki. She is also a Professor of Quantum Information, Computing, and Logic at the University of Helsinki. Beforehand, she held academic positions in Sofia, Durban, Turku, and Edinburgh, before returning to Finland in 2014 to lead the Theoretical Physics Laboratory in Turku. She moved to the University of Helsinki in 2020, coinciding with the founding of Algorithmiq. She’s done research on noise in quantum devices, complex quantum systems, and quantum simulations.
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Dans ce 71e épisode de Quantum toujours animé par Fanny Bouton d’OVHcloud et moi-même, nous faisons le tour des événements où nous étions ou dont nous avons entendu parler, puis de l’actualité en France et dans le monde, avec notamment des news de Quobly, Quandela, Pasqal, IonQ, IBM, OQC et QuEra.
Evénements
ICQE à Padova
L’International Conference on Quantum Energy avait lieu à Padoue début juin, et la Quantum Energy Initiative en était partenaire. Cette conférence regroupait des scientifiques d’origines variées s’intéressant au lien entre énergie et physique quantique. Cela couvre par exemple les batteries quantiques.
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At the France Quantum 2025 event in Paris on June 10th, 2025, I had a chance to deliver a keynote on how to analyze quantum computing use cases. It was a first of a kind presentation on this topic as far as I am concerned.
I started with semantics, explaining the difference between a use case (prospective) and a case study (retrospective). In the first case, you not only need to describe potential benefits (with a mix of speedup, better results quality, lower capex/opex costs including energy), but also provide resource estimates. In the second case, which is quite rare, at least in the industry and beyond fundamental quantum physics research, you need to describe actual benefits in comparison with state of the art classical computing. Right now, you have >99% use cases and <1% case studies of actual industry deployments. It may change in the future with hardware progress (both in NISQ and FTQC regimes) and it will require a lot more quantum algorithms and software innovation.
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