Madrid was the city chosen to hold the last QKD meeting of the European quantum communications project, OpenQKD, which took place from Tuesday 13th to Thursday 15th December.
The event was attended by representatives of the 38 members of the OpenQKD consortium, including REDIMadrid, as well as companies and academics from the national territory.
On Tuesday, December 13th, the OpenQKD General Assembly was held at the “E.T.S.I de Minas y Energía” of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), where internal issues of the project were discussed and decisions were taken in view of the closing of the project in March 2023.
The “QKD Days 2022”, organized by AIT (Austrian Institute of Technology), UPM and Telefónica, and promoted by OPENQKD, were held on Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th December. The QKD Days 2022 focused on the EuroQCI project, which will implement a Europe-wide quantum network.
Wednesday’s conference: “On the Road Large QKD Networks in Europe” was held at the “E.T.S.I de Minas y Energía” of UPM. Experiences and knowledge acquired during the OpenQKD project were shared and the future structure of the EuroQCI network was also presented.
Vicente Martín, Professor at the ETSIINF of the UPM, presented the project of the future Madrid Quantum Network of which the IMDEA Software Institute will be part through REDIMadrid. “The evolution of this network together with the future regional networks of Castilla y León, Basque Country, Galicia and Catalonia will allow the integration of the Madrid Quantum Network with the rest of the EuroQCI quantum network” said Martín.
Round tables were also held to discuss how to implement these future networks. As a final point, presentations were made by QKD equipment manufacturers on what are the current devices and what is their vision on the implementation of the devices.
Thursday, dedicated exclusively to “Industry Days”, was held at the E.T.S.I de Industriales of the UPM. Industry offered its vision on future quantum networks and their evolution. And the companies that will be final consumers of these networks shared in this conference what they expect from them for industrial use.
