About Seminar Programs
Kawasaki City offers seminars and related programs for local companies and other organizations with the aim of helping them acquire the knowledge and skills needed to develop businesses that use quantum technologies. Through these efforts, the City promotes the use of quantum technologies among local companies while broadening the base of the quantum industry across the region.
As examples of past activities, we introduce seminars held in fiscal 2025 below.
Quantum Computing Seminar for Executives and Leaders: "The Current State of Quantum Business" (Co-hosted by SQAI)
Kawasaki City has been working with the COI-NEXT Sustainable Quantum AI Research Hub (SQAI) to host an annual seminar for executives and leaders since fiscal 2023, with the goal of sharing easy-to-understand updates on the practical implementation and industrial application of quantum computing.
In the fiscal 2025 seminar, held under the theme "The Current State of Quantum Business," we welcomed Mr. Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Director, Partner, and Leader of Advanced Technology Business and Strategic Consulting at IBM Japan, one of the leaders in quantum business. He introduced the latest outlook for industrial applications of quantum computers, including case studies from Japan and abroad. After the lecture, participants also joined a tour of the gate-based commercial quantum computer IBM Quantum System One "Kawasaki," which is in operation at Shin-Kawasaki Sozo no Mori.
Speakers
IBM Japan, Ltd. / Director and Partner
Leader, Advanced Technology Business and Strategic Consulting - Mr. Yasuyuki Nishibayashi
Keio University - Specially Appointed Professor Hideo Watanabe
Keio University - Professor Masaaki Kondo
COI-NEXT Center of Innovaition for Sustainable Quantum AI (SQAI)
In October 2022, the Sustainable Quantum AI Research Hub (SQAI), with the University of Tokyo as the lead institution, was selected under JST's long-term national program, the Center of Innovation Program (COI-NEXT), in the field of quantum technology. Kawasaki City participates together with Keio University as the Shin-Kawasaki satellite site and is working to create startups that use quantum technologies, promote industry-academia-government collaboration, and generate industrial spillover effects for local companies and other organizations in the city.
For more details on the COI-NEXT Sustainable Quantum AI Research Hub (SQAI), please visit the URL below.
Quantum Seminar: "Current Status of Implementation and Acceleration Technologies in Quantum Computing"
Since fiscal 2024, Kawasaki City has hosted quantum seminars featuring invited experts in quantum technologies. In fiscal 2025, the City held a small-group, interactive seminar with Dr. Tomonori Shirakawa, Senior Research Scientist in the Quantum Matter Science Research Team at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science.
After Dr. Shirakawa's lecture, a facilitator-led workshop was held to deepen the discussion further, including a mini ideathon exploring the potential of quantum x HPC applications.
Speakers
RIKEN Center for Computational Science / Quantum Matter Science Research Team
Senior Research Scientist - Dr. Tomonori Shirakawa
About the Kawasaki City Quantum Technology Development Support Subsidy
Kawasaki City has established the Kawasaki City Quantum Technology Development Support Subsidy to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises in the city to enter the quantum technology field, promote the creation of new businesses in this area, and further energize the Quantum Innovation Park initiative. An outline of the subsidy is provided below.
(1) Eligible Applicants
Small and medium-sized enterprises that have a business establishment in Kawasaki City and have operated for at least one year. However, SMEs that have operated for less than one year are also eligible if they have their head office or a laboratory for the subsidized project in a facility designated by the mayor.
(2) Support Details
Subsidy rate: 2/3, Maximum of JPY 3 million per project
(3) Eligible Projects
Projects in which SMEs, either independently or in collaboration with other companies or organizations, develop quantum technologies（※）.
Quantum technologies: in addition to the technologies identified as key technology areas in the Quantum Technology Innovation Strategy (formulated by the Cabinet Office in January 2020), any other technologies specifically recognized by the mayor.
Quantum computers and quantum simulation
Quantum measurement and sensing
Quantum communication and cryptography
Quantum materials (quantum properties and materials)
Foundational, related, and peripheral technologies supporting implementation of items 1. through 4. above
(4) Selection Method
Selected by the subsidy screening committee after hearing opinions from experts
For application procedures and other details, please visit the URL below.
https://www.city.kawasaki.jp/280/page/0000186068.html
For the latest information on Research & Development, please visit the URL below.
https://www.city.kawasaki.jp/jigyou/category/283-3-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html