Deloitte Hosts Quantum Climate Challenge 2023

Deloitte is hosting a Quantum Climate Challenge, which aims to have participants use quantum computers to simulate materials that filter carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to help achieve a temperature rise target within 2°C to minimize the effects of global warming.

They will award a total of €12,000 in prizes to the top five finalists who submit solutions. Registered participants will receive exclusive access to a 16-quantum-bit IBM quantum computer to test their solutions, and the top five finalists will receive exclusive access to one of IBM's 27-quantum-bit systems. In addition, participants will receive AWS credit for running Amazon Braket and access to Quantistry's classical chemistry simulation platform.

The timeline for this challenge is as follows.

January 19, 2023: Deloitte holds a kick-off webinar to introduce potential participants to the issue and the rules and procedures for the challenge.

January 26, 2023: Deadline for participants to submit technical questions about the challenge.

March 12, 2023: Deadline to submit the results of the task outlined in the challenge, including the proposed algorithm, a comparison to classical algorithms, your concept of how to scale the solution, and an estimate of the resources available to run your quantum computer scalable solution.

March 24, 2023: Announcement of the top five finalists who submitted their results.

Week of April 17, 2023: Finalists will present their solutions at a pitch event and a winner will be selected.

Cash prizes for the five finalists are as follows.

€5,000 for the first place team

Second place €3,000

Third place €2,000

Fourth place €1,000

Fifth place €1,000

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Quantum computing and climate change

Countries, including China and the United States, have now recognized the role of quantum technology in addressing climate change. For example, in 2022, the State Council issued the "Outline of High-Quality Development of Meteorology (2022-2035)", which calls for strengthening the application of artificial intelligence, big data, quantum computing and meteorology in deep integration.

In addition, in 2021, researchers from academic institutions and quantum computing companies in the U.S. and Canada launched an initiative called Q4Climate, which aims to put in place ways to determine how or where emerging quantum technologies can be applied to mitigate the rate and impact of climate change. The latest result of the initiative, "Quantum Technologies for Climate Change: A Preliminary Assessment" report has been published and is compiled by GZH