Quantum Optimization

A day in Cluj-Napoca on the problems industry actually brings to quantum computing first: scheduling, routing, portfolio selection — problems where the search space explodes and good-enough answers are worth money.

What we cover

How a business problem becomes a QUBO, what QAOA does and where it stops, how quantum approaches compare against strong classical solvers, and how to read a benchmark without fooling yourself.

Hands-on

You formulate a small optimization problem and run it in Qiskit, then compare it with a classical baseline — the comparison is the point.

Who it is for

Engineers, analysts and researchers working with optimization, and companies wondering whether any of this applies to them yet.

The detailed programme, the speakers and the exact hours will be published here as they are confirmed.

Image: OJB Quantum, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.