Qiskit Fall Fest 2026 Opens in Cluj-Napoca – Quantum Optimization Seminar
On 29 October 2026, FreeYa Mind Campus opened the 2026 Qiskit Fall Fest series in Romania with a hybrid seminar on Quantum Optimization, organized together with IBM Quantum and Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. The seminar focused on the optimization problems that industry brings to quantum computing first – among them scheduling, routing and portfolio selection.
Speakers and presenters
- Daniel J. Egger – Senior Research Scientist, IBM Research – Zurich
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Del Lucent – Wilkes University, USA
- Prof. Dr. Radu Strugariu and Cosmin Curuliuc – “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iași, with “Quantum Vehicle Routing Problem (QVRP): Mapping the gaps and pushing the limits”
- Lect. Dr. Tudor Mihoc – Babeș-Bolyai University
Round table
The day closed with a round table on Challenges and Solutions for Developing Quantum Optimization Applications on Noisy Quantum Systems.
Host and organization
Babeș-Bolyai University hosted the seminar and supported its organization, through Lect. Dr. Tudor Mihoc and Prof. Dr. Habil. Anca Andreica.
Qiskit Fall Fest 2026 in Romania
Qiskit Fall Fest is a worldwide event series organized by IBM Quantum. FreeYa Mind Campus co-organizes the series in Romania for the second consecutive year, after the Qiskit Fall Fest 2025 hackathon in Iași.