Special General Meeting and 2024 Annual General Meeting
Genium360's Special General Meeting and latest Annual General Meeting of voting members was held on Thursday, November 28, 2024, and nearly 300 members participated online. Sincere thanks to everyone who took part!
> Read (in French) the Agenda of the Special General Meeting, the Agenda of the Annual General Meeting the 2023-2024 Annual Report.
> Meet the 2024-2025 Board of Directors.
Webinar | Quantum engineering and technology applications
Promises and realities
Each year, Genium360 offers a free webinar following its Annual General Meeting, and awards attending members a certificate of training credits.
This year's conference was on on quantum technologies. Quantum computers, qubits, diamonds, red light, temperatures as low as -273 degrees C°... These are just a few of the notions used in quantum physics, a discipline concerned with the behaviour of matter at the microscopic level.
Today, in Québec, many quantum players are rallying around DistriQ, the quantum innovation zone funded by the Québec government since February 2022 to the tune of $435 million.
Bringing together entrepreneurial, industrial and research activities, this zone aims to accelerate quantum innovations. But do real quantum technology applications already exist? And what role will engineering play?
Genium360’s panel of high-calibre guests representing various quantum players in Québec explore the promises and realities of quantum tech in 2024. It focuses on the concrete technological applications of quantum technology, and the role of engineering in the present and future of these applications.
Webinar sponsored by Desjardins and The Personal.
The replay will be available shortly.
Learn more (in French)
> Quantum Technologies Special Report
Facilitator
Oriane Morriet, PhDFounder & CEO
Humaniteq
Panelists
Chloé ArchambaultPartner
Quantacet Fund
Marie-Eve BoulangerProgram Manager, Digital and Quantum Innovation Platform
Pinq2
Alexandre ChoquetteQuantum Partnerships Canada
IBM Quantum
David Roy-GuayFounder and CEO
SB Quantum
Christian Sarra-BournetExecutive Director
IQ Quantum Institute, Université de Sherbrooke
Webinar sponsors:
Marie-Eve BoulangerProgram Manager, Digital and Quantum Innovation PlatformPinq2 Marie-Eve Boulanger is Program Manager at Pinq2, Québec's digital and quantum innovation platform, where she helps companies accelerate their quantum transition. Its objective is to develop the quantum ecosystem by supporting collaborative projects. Marie-Eve holds a PhD in physics, more precisely in the field of quantum materials, from the Université de Sherbrooke.
IBM Quantum Alexandre Choquette is a quantum computing professional with experience in both academia and industry. At IBM Quantum, he is responsible for driving the adoption of quantum computing in various industries through strategic partnerships and collaborations in Canada and internationally. Alexandre holds a master's degree in quantum computing from the Université de Sherbrooke and, before joining IBM, worked as a research scientist for IBM Quantum Zürich and 1QBit.
David Roy-GuayFounder and CEO
SB Quantum David is CEO and founder of SBQuantum, a spin-off from the Quantum Institute in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. After completing his PhD studies on diamond-based quantum magnetometry, he led a team of engineers to prototype the technology outside the optics labs. SBQuantum's move to Creative Destruction Lab has added an algorithmic and data-centric focus, to provide customers with the best magnetic intelligence for geophysical exploration and navigation. A fan of open innovation challenges to link quantum technologies to end-users, David led the SBQuantum team through the final stages of the MagQuest challenge to produce orbital data yielding a world magnetic field map for all navigation instruments.
Christian Sarra-Bournet, PhDExecutive Director
IQ Quantum Institute, Université de Sherbrooke Christian Sarra-Bournet has been Executive Director of the IQ Quantum Institute of the Université de Sherbrooke since its creation in 2015. IQ is a research community of over 300 members, bringing together experts in quantum materials, quantum information and quantum engineering. Christian is one of the architects of the From Quantum Science to Quantum Technologies initiative. This ambitious project was one of five selected in Canada for the inaugural Canadian Research Excellence Fund competition. Since then, he has made a significant contribution to the development of research and education in quantum science and technology, notably with the establishment of IBM's first Quantum Innovation Centre in Canada and the world's first French-language bachelor's degree in quantum information science at the Université de Sherbrooke. Christian sits on the boards of DistriQ, Sherbrooke's Quantum Innovation Zone, QVStudio, a quantum startup accelerator, and Prompt, one of Québec's nine RSRI industrial research clusters specializing in new information and digital technologies.
Christian holds a PhD in materials engineering from Université Laval, Canada, and a PhD in electrical engineering from Université de Toulouse, France.
