⇒ A two-day Indo-Israel Bilateral workshop on Quantum Technologies (I2QT-2022) was concluded in New Delhi on April 06, 2022.
The workshop was the next step of the Bilateral Innovation Agreement (BIA) signed between DRDO, India and Directorate of Defense Research & Development (DDR&D), Israel in November 2021 to promote innovation and accelerated R&D in startups and MSMEs of both countries.
Organized by:
The workshop was organized by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and DRDO-Industry-Academia Centre of Excellence (DIA-CoE), IIT Delhi.
Objective:
The objective of the workshop was to deliberate on quantum technologies, evolve a joint quantum technology roadmap and plan for developing technologies by collaboration between both the countries.
Participants:
» The workshop was attended by Indian and Israeli delegations consisting of academic experts, R&D professionals and Industry partners.
- A total of 175 experts and scientists from Indian Institute of Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, etc participated in this workshop.
» From Israel, representatives of Israel’s Ministry of Defense and delegates from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) also participated in the workshop discussions.
Discussion:
The areas of discussions were around photonics-based quantum computing, sensing, encryption, quantum magnetometry, atomic clocks and free space quantum communication.