Sponsors

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) is an interdisciplinary public research organisation under the administrative supervision of the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation (MESRI). The CNRS has over 80 years experience of basic research, exploring living creatures, space, materials and human societies and can leverage all fields of science to understand current global challenges in all their complexity, in conjunction with organisations in the field.

The research network "Quantum Technologies" (GdR TeQ) is linked to and supported by CNRS Physics. This Institute's research thematics relate to the fundamental laws of physics, understanding radiation, matter, and their interactions. Those studies come with two main motivations : understanding the world, and answering current societal challenges.

The GdR TeQ also benefits from secondary support from CNRS Engineering, CNRS Mathematics and CNRS Informatics. 

QuantAlps

QuantAlps is a research federation bringing together Grenoble’s research community in quantum sciences. Grenoble is home to more than 200 researchers and faculty staff, spread over 19 laboratories and a research federation, working on different aspects of quantum science. QuantAlps’ goal is to support and animate this diverse research community and develop this fundamentally interdisciplinary ecosystem which ranges from fundamental quantum science to applied quantum technologies.

QuantAlps was created in 2022 building on the prior federative structuration work of the “Quantum Engineering Grenoble” program and the LANEF Labex. Its members include physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and philosophers, and one of the keys objectives is support new and existing interdisciplinary research across these fields, while still supporting the core research topics of quantum science.

QuanTEdu-France

QuanTEdu-France, led by Université Grenoble Alpes, brings together a consortium of 21 academic institutions nationwide, professionals in initial and continuing education, and players in industry and innovation. QuanTEdu-France aims to meet the objectives set out in the national strategy for quantum technologies, as part of a drive to accelerate the development of skills and human capital. QuanTEdu-France is implementing concrete actions to meet the growing need for quantum technology skills among engineers, researchers, teacher-researchers and professors, technicians and managers, while consolidating interactions between academics, researchers and local and national economic players. Indeed, the emergence of new professions encouraged by the national quantum strategy, such as quantum engineer-doctors, calls for in-depth reflection on the teaching methods to be adopted. These methods preserve the generalist nature of disciplinary and fundamental teaching, while promoting interdisciplinarity, a spirit of innovation and integration into the job market.

National research programme Quantum (PEPR Quantique)

The PEPR Quantum represents the upstream part of the national acceleration strategy, dedicated to quantum technologies, announced in January 2021. It aims to support academic research efforts from fundamental research to proof of concept (TRL 1 to 4). The French government is taking a strong interest in the development of quantum technologies for reasons of national and European sovereignty: the aim is to be at the very top of international scientific and industrial competition, but above all to enable France and Europe to have their own solutions to guarantee their independence in this key area.

The PEPR Quantum is coordinated by the French National Agency for Research (ANR) and led together by the CEA, CNRS, and Inria.

Alice & Bob 

Alice & Bob is a quantum computing company based in Paris and Boston whose goal is to create the first universal, fault-tolerant quantum computer. Founded in 2020, Alice & Bob has already raised €130 million in funding, hired over 140 employees and demonstrated experimental results surpassing those of technology giants such as Google or IBM. Alice & Bob specializes in cat qubits, a pioneering technology developed by the company's founders and later adopted by Amazon. Demonstrating the power of its cat architecture, Alice & Bob recently showed that it could reduce the hardware requirements for building a useful large-scale quantum computer by up to 200 times compared with competing approaches. Alice & Bob cat qubit is available for anyone to test through cloud access.

Eviden 

Eviden, a leader in advanced digital technologies, offers Qaptiva™, a comprehensive and modular quantum computing solution. This full-stack offering includes on-premises emulation appliances, a powerful programming platform, HPC-cluster emulation software, expert consulting, and a free starter toolkit. Designed to be fully hardware-agnostic, Qaptiva™ enables users to develop, optimize, emulate, and run quantum applications across a wide range of infrastructures and technologies. It is tailored for both researchers and businesses looking to explore the potential of quantum computing today.

Quandela 

Quandela, a leader in the field of quantum computing, offers industrial-grade solutions. Quandela designs, builds, and provides ready-to-use quantum systems for data centers, quantum processors accessible via the cloud, and algorithm access services.Quandela employs over 100 people from 20 different nationalities, the majority of whom are researchers and engineers in optics, algorithms, and information sciences.

Quandela is committed to making advanced quantum computing accessible to all, empowering innovators to solve the most pressing industrial and societal challenges.

Quobly 

Quobly is a pioneer in quantum microelectronics. The company is developing a quantum chip on silicon using the existing industrial semiconductor manufacturing process. Founded in 2022, the company draws on 15 years of collaborative research between internationally renowned Research and Technology Organizations (RTO), CEA-Leti and CNRS. Based in Grenoble, Quobly was co-founded by Maud Vinet, Ph.D. in quantum physics, author or co-author of over 300 papers and holder of more than 70 nanotechnology-related patents, Tristan Meunier, a world-renowned expert in semiconductor quantum engineering, trained under Serge Haroche, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, and François Perruchot, PhD in solid-state physics, engineer, expert in sensor development, modeling and characterization of MEM micro-sensors. Quobly has signed several strategic and operational partnerships with Soitec, Orano, Air Liquide and recently with ST Microelectronics to accelerate the manufacturing process of its “silicon quantum chip”. In 2023, Quobly raised €19 million, setting a new record for seed financing for a European start-up in the quantum sector.In 2025, Quobly secured a €21 million funding package for its Q100T project.

Silent Waves 

Silent Waves, founded in 2022 by Baptiste Planat, Nicolas Roch and Luca Planat, is a spin-off company of the Institut Néel, a CNRS laboratory based in Grenoble. Silent Waves is specialising in the development, fabrication and commercialisation of ultra-low noise superconducting amplifiers. Its first products, the Argo and the Carthago, are Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifiers, reaching near quantum-limited amplification, over GHz bandwidth and with high saturation power. These products are instrumental in experiments requiring fast and accurate detection of low-power microwave signals generated at ultra-low temperatures (< 100 mK). Today, the primary use of these products is fast, high-fidelity readout of superconducting qubits.

Spaictra 

Spaictra is a quantum optics company pioneering a novel light-matter interaction for blood analysis. 
Its technology combines nonlinear optics with non-classical states of light to enable comprehensive, multiparametric quantification from a single biological sample.

By making light accurate in complex media, Spaictra aims to free analytics from the burden of reagents, along with the overhead, costs, and time they entail.

The company is working toward a new era for clinical and research settings, one where accessibility is not simply a matter of decentralization, but of radically reducing the cost and time required to access molecular information, beyond traditional chemical processing.

The team, composed of quantum physicists and physicians, is currently building its first prototype and validating it on real biomarkers