 Welcome everyone. It's the fifth day of our program and today we're gonna start the hackathon. So the real competition so far you had four days of lectures and The real thing is really starting today. So for the next three days You'll work with teams teams of five people on a use case Mentored by experts on the domain experts either from Quantinium or from industrial companies that are partnering with us for the three days that are bringing use cases so I'm gonna finish introducing the rules of the hackathon Then I'm gonna give the mic to the different industrial mentors for a few sentences so that they can just say their name From which company they come so that you can also identify them if you want to talk to them later on and After that Jean will indicate different rooms we have for the different teams So you'll work in a collaborative manner During this next three days for the people who did give me their GitHub ID Yesterday I did add you on the GitHub repos of your team If you did not give me the GitHub ID and you want to give it to me today I'll run into the different rooms to gather your ideas to add you to the repo where you will find the use case for the people who have a problem accessing the GitHub repo I'll also help you with this and On Sunday morning you will present your solutions in front of a jury and you will be judged on for criteria Then I'm gonna write again on slack later on today So basically you will be judged on whether you added any value on top of established approaches Meaning whether you just copy pasted some random code online or you read it something by yourself the second criterion will be about The investigation of the scalability of your solution if your solution has an exponential complexity Then we'll never have any quantum advantage and if we know it from scratch Then that might not be the best solution to start with the third criterion will be About the quality of your presentation and the fourth criterion will be about the quality of your s answers to the question of the jury You will be judged actually by both the jury and also your mentors So the mark will be like two third from the jury and one third from your mentors And will basically be the same criteria for your mentors But since they did follow you for three days, they'll also have some bit of insight of how you team did perform So on this few words, I will give them back to the different Industrial mentors so that they can introduce themselves Thomas you first because you've done that exercise already. So hi. I'm Thomas as you see come from the commitment You know this t-shirt maybe from yesterday, and so I'm I'm from the company called Mac There are two max in the world. We are the good ones. So we are at the German based companies, so we do pharmaceuticals We are the Amazons of Chemicals or whatever you need to get it from us and we are supplier for the electronics industry I brought a challenge on Transparent AI and that natural language processing because we are super interested to make interesting things which natural language processing And I'm I will be really keen also to learn from the other challenges and exchange who's doing what because we are not doing the obvious Which I know that BMW is doing the obvious doing a quantum chemistry So therefore I'm really interested also to see what the other teams are delivering and if you need me grab me Yeah, hi, I'm Francesca from Cup Gemini we are a big consultancy company for IT and technology and Yeah, we're interested in new innovations and quantum is definitely innovation and that's why we are working here on quantum computing tasks, and I brought a use case from quantum chemistry Which quite interesting Excitation energies of of Molecules and yeah, my background is a little bit I coming from theoretical chemistry, so I have a background of all these excited states and chemistry and yeah I'm happy to see what what you deliver it Hi everyone, I'm Alessia Maruzzo. I'm from any and I we are an energy company I mean the HPC I'm from the HPC department and Physicists by training so I'm very excited to be here and also to to learn I Brought a case related to a machine learning problem on focusing on photovoltaic power plant Thank you. Hi. I'm Jack. I'm I'm from into San Paolo one of the biggest bank in Italy We have bread we have brought a new case on quantum machine learning and fraud detection and If you want to know something more there are me and my colleague Jambi Agio We are happy to answer all of your question and many many things So hi, I'm Chandan and I'm from BMW group and we brought the obvious quantum chemistry case And it's a it's a on part of like ongoing research like platinum cluster for catalysis like for fuel sales and The idea is to look into different quantum and jada Label and also like if if they succeed faster that there will be some more additional Challenges added to that depending on how fast they move the team. Hi everyone I'm Matteo Malosetti from a security in a rally I belong to the Generally group at office data science team generally is one of the major insurance companies in Italy and worldwide we brought an application of prediction of defaults of Companies so the use case is called the credit risk contagion with Real data and Yes The goal would be to predict and understand the diffusion of default of financial institutions in the market Hi, my name is Philippa. I come from Kondela. We started as a hardware company But now we are developing software and we brought the challenge using a VQE So you'll need to learn part of our software and implement something in it. Thank you Hello, my name is Abdullah Lisa I came from a company called Saudi Aramco It's the largest oil and gas integrated company in the world and we brought a use case Cryptography cyber security. We know the risk of all of the information Going around so it's a very interesting topic to engage you and the all of the energy In the room here. Thank you very much Okay, so Now the point is to find new spots. So, you know, you will be five plus one mentor each So you don't need so much space each time. This room is huge So I think at least four or five teams could consider staying here There are other spots so maybe I can Bring you around so for those who've seen a bit around ICTP if you see the cat where the cafeteria is the first floor Just on the left of the cafeteria. There is a nice spot with a large blackboards So I think we can put two teams there On the same corridor just in front of the cafe cafeteria, you go towards that direction There is a small spot with another blackboard and chairs. Okay and Also close to the cafeteria Just after this huge space with the blackboards There is a room called Stasi room where we can put at least three teams. You have blackboards. You can also Plug your computers on the screen if you need to share anything so In case there are not enough plugs available close by what we can provide to you are this kind of Extensions these plugs they should be enough for every team. So please take one They should be few hidden somewhere there So you can also take them or leave them here for those who stay in that room If one or two are missing just tell me and I'll find others So once you have found your spot just stay there and okay, so just maybe for lunchtime you can Put a small piece of paper saying This is our spot for the day. Please leave this space free. Okay, people know there is this hackathon going on Tomorrow ICTP is just for us. So they won't be that problem So essentially the point is just find a place where you feel at ease and stay there and they should be plenty of space Okay, so if you have any issue with anything missing just come to me and I find a solution Okay, so enjoy your day and good luck for two other teams At our exactly I Think your four teams should be here To make things simpler for four teams should stay here the team working on qnlp and zx calculus Because Richie is gonna help you on those four projects and cybersecurity obviously Whereas team 16 Team 16 anywhere. This is your mentor. You have to find your mentor. Oh, yeah, we're gonna have the tutorial in the presentation about So