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Munich Quantum Valley builds ties with Canada at IEEE Quantum Week

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September 21, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

For the first time at IEEE Quantum Week, Munich Quantum Valley partnered with AQT, Invest in Bavaria, MQSC, Peak Quantum, and planqc, indicating a broader representation of the quantum ecosystem at the conference. Held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, this year’s event also marked the beginning of a strengthened relationship between Bavaria and Canada; on September 15, MQV gGmbH and Mitacs signed an agreement to support joint research and talent development.

The partnership will increase the mobility of students and researchers and encourage collaboration between postsecondary institutions in both regions. Participants at IEEE Quantum Week responded positively to the variety of activities, which sparked discussions.

Munich Quantum Valley Showcases Research and Software at IEEE Quantum Week

A deepened partnership with Mitacs, Canada’s national innovation connector, was formalized at IEEE Quantum Week through an agreement signed by MQV gGmbH on September 15. The two-year collaboration will fund joint research and workforce development initiatives within the quantum sector, specifically aiming to increase the movement of students and researchers between Bavaria and Canada. The Metro Toronto Convention Centre served as the venue for IEEE Quantum Week, potentially establishing a new regular location for the conference.

Munich Quantum Valley’s presence extended beyond presentations; the project maintained a central stand that became a focal point for inquiries regarding the Munich Quantum Software Stack. Attendees demonstrated considerable interest in the software development aspects of quantum computing within the Bavarian ecosystem, seeking information on both research opportunities and career paths, and many visitors inquired about specifics related to developing a software stack for quantum computing applications.

This collaborative approach allowed for a wider showcase of Bavarian quantum expertise at the conference. The positive reception of the expanded presence and the resulting exchange of ideas further cemented the growing Bavarian-Canadian relationship. The state of Bavaria’s Ontario Office and Invest in Bavaria jointly hosted a reception at the Ontario Investment and Trade Centre on September 15.

The reception provided an informal setting for representatives from MQV, the Bavarian and Ontario quantum communities, and guests from industry, academia, and government to network and celebrate the new MQV-Mitacs collaboration. MQV expressed gratitude to the local organizers and the OITC for their hospitality in Toronto, recognizing their support in facilitating the event and fostering connections within the international quantum community.

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Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to the thing quietly running underneath everything, and she brings that long view to quantum computing. For Quantum Zeitgeist she covers the ground where the two fields meet. That means quantum machine learning and the variational algorithms it leans on, and it also means the less glamorous but more interesting story of classical machine learning already doing real work inside quantum machines, decoding error-correcting codes, calibrating noisy hardware and learning the error models that simulators depend on. She writes about the hardware those algorithms have to run on too, and about the post-quantum cryptography scramble that the same hardware has set off. Her stories typically start with the paper, whether that is peer-reviewed work, conference proceedings or an arXiv preprint, with the source linked so you can hold a claim up against the research it came from. She is unimpressed by benchmarks that will not say what they beat, and by demonstrations that only work in the press release.

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