On January 12th 2022, Capgemini a multinational Information Technology Services and Consulting company headquartered in Paris, France announced its collaboration with IBM Quantum to advance industrial applications of Quantum Computing. Capgemini signed an agreement with IBM to become an IBM Quantum Hub providing its clients access to IBM’s quantum computing systems as well as professional services. Capgemini also announced to set up a dedicated lab and a team of Quantum Technology experts from around the globe to develop capabilities and coordinate research facilities aimed at the advancement of quantum technologies and exploration of their potential.
The Capgemini’s Quantum Lab, or Q-Lab comprises of quantum technology experts and highly-specialist facilities in the United Kingdom, Portugal and India. Capgemini’s Q-Lab will coordinate research programs to develop business-driven client propositions for sectors most likely to benefit from quantum technologies in the medium future – life sciences, financial services, automotive and aerospace. Capgemini also aims to drive early experiments with clients in their quantum journeys and accelerate the building of in-house skills and capabilities.
Through this agreement, Capgemini will make it easier for clients to access IBM’s licensed technology and provide them with professional services for end-to-end implementation. It is intended to ultimately demonstrate, with prototypes and proofs of concepts, the potential value of leveraging quantum technologies to tackle previously intractable business problems for clients, working towards the implementation of quantum computing use cases.
“Quantum technology will disrupt the way we compute, sense, and communicate, and will create new industries and business models along the way. The launch of our Q-lab tangibly demonstrates our ambition to bring to our clients the most innovative, breakthrough solutions, and to invest in capabilities early on so we can become the leading quantum systems integrator. Our collaboration with IBM will enable us to Capgemini Press Release explore the vast potential of quantum computing, bringing to our clients the top capabilities and skills available in the market today and tomorrow.”
Pascal Brier, Chief Innovation Officer at Capgemini and member of the Group Executive Committee
The Capgemini Q-Lab will focus on 3 areas of value creation for the clients-
- Quantum Computing– Quantum Computing refers to the use of quantum mechanical properties such as superposition and entanglement to perform computations. Using Quantum Mechanical properties allows Quantum Computers to solve certain problems faster than their classical counterparts. Leading application areas for Quantum Computing are problems requiring complex optimization, simulation, or machine learning. Companies that typically rely on heavy compute facilities, such as molecular design within life science, fluid dynamics in aerospace, or stochastic financial models, will be amongst the first to benefit from Quantum Computing.
- Quantum Communications– Quantum Communications involve transmitting and controlling information using the laws of quantum mechanics such as entaglement. Quantum-secure communications could have an immense impact on areas critical to science, industry, and data security. In addition, a new realm of possibilities brought by quantum technologies, such as confidential computing, data storage and sharing can also be made accessible to clients.
- Quantum Sensing– Quantum Sensing refers to the measurement of quantum states, which are extremely sensitive to disturbance. Quantum sensing underpin advances in everything from medical diagnosis, autonomous transport and intelligent industries. It can help in measuring electric and magnetic fields accurately, measuring physical quantities against atomic properties, and using quantum entanglement to improve sensitivity or precision.
“Establishing a quantum industry will require a deep focus on expanding the quantum computing ecosystem across public and private sectors – something IBM cannot do alone. By working with Capgemini, clients have even more options for hands-on expertise to develop proofs of concepts to explore the potential of quantum computing across a variety of industries and disciplines.”
Jay Gambetta, IBM Fellow and VP, Quantum Computing at IBM
Quantum Computing has many practical and promising use cases in a wide variety of fields including but in no way limited to finance, energy, chemistry, materials science, optimization and Machine Learning. IBM with its 170 clients, which now includes Capgemini as well, Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, academic institutions and research labs is working to advance quantum computing and explore practical applications in these fields.
IBM has been a front-runner in the field of Quantum Computing. Recently, IBM became the first company to create a commercial 100+ Qubit Quantum Processor by launching Eagle Quantum Processor. Further, the company also aims to launch Osprey, a 433 Qubit Quantum Processor by this year and is seeking to break the 1000 Qubit Quantum Processor benchmark by launching its 1121 Qubit Quantum Processor Condor by 2024. IBM also launched the first ever professional certification in the field of Quantum Computing- IBM Certified Associate Developer – Quantum Computation using Qiskit v0.2X.
Source: Capgemini
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