Top themes 
shaping 

Europe’s 
AI & Quantum 
landscape

AIDAQ 2026

Shaping strategy, enabling industrial impact and advancing technology: AIDAQ brings together the key themes of the AI, data and quantum transformation — from governance and competitiveness to industry readiness and technological frontiers.

Strategy, Governance & Competitiveness 

How AI and quantum computing are shaping Europe’s digital sovereignty, strategic autonomy, and economic strength

  • AI strategy & governance: AI regulation and policy frameworks, trustworthy and secure AI, data governance and compliance
  • Quantum strategy & policy: national and European quantum strategies, capability-building, and resilience of quantum supply chains
  • Security & defence: implications of AI and quantum for defence capabilities, security preparedness, and protection of critical technologies
  • Infrastructure & global competitiveness: public-private quantum & AI infrastructures, access and scaling of capabilities, and Europe’s position in global technology competition

Industry Applications & Readiness

From technological potential to real-world impact across key sectors

  • AI × Quantum in verticals: use cases, pilots and challenges across sectors such as automotive & mobility, finance, health & life sciences, and manufacturing
  • AI in practice: scaling AI from experimentation to deployment, industrial platforms, skills, and sustainable operating models
  • Quantum in practice: organizational and operational readiness, evaluation and decision-making, progress from PoCs towards industrial relevance, and integration into existing IT and HPC environments and workflows Form

Technology Frontiers

Advancing the technology stack and architectures behind AI and quantum computing

  • AI technology: foundation models and applied AI, data and compute infrastructures, MLOps, model lifecycle management, and efficiency at scale
  • Quantum technology: end-to-end quantum computing stack, hardware and software co-design, scaling and fault tolerance, and hybrid integration with HPC and classical systems
  • Evaluation & performance: benchmarking, validation, and comparability of AI and quantum computing systems.

Free German-language webinar: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): How Close Are We Really and What Does It Mean?

Ahead of the AIDAQ, we’re offering a free webinar in German on 22 June 2026 at 6:30 PM. Discover how rapidly artificial intelligence is advancing, from breakthrough capabilities in science and coding to surprising limitations in simple tasks, and what this means for the path towards AGI and its implications for society and politics.