Our Partners
Driving collaboration and innovation across the Global Quantum + AI Challenge.
Five enterprise challenges across aerospace, healthcare, energy, finance, and mobility. Choose your problem, submit your proposal, and compete for $40,000.
Regional Partner - Local Deployment Stream
South Carolina Quantum leads the Local Deployment Stream within the Global Quantum + AI Challenge, aligning state-level innovation with global program goals.
Technology Partner - Quantum Software Design Platform
Classiq offers challenge teams access to its quantum software platform for designing, synthesizing, and executing quantum applications. With Classiq, teams can model quantum algorithms at a high level, use AI-assisted coding, and automatically generate optimized quantum circuit implementations. Classiq workflows can be validated and benchmarked across simulators and quantum computing backends. This helps participants spend less time on manual circuit construction and more time on problem-solving, method development, and result analysis.
Technology Partner — Cloud Compute & Deployment
AWS supports teams with scalable cloud infrastructure to accelerate experimentation and shorten the path from prototype to deployment. As the program’s cloud compute partner, AWS helps participants evaluate workloads, run pilots responsibly, and package solutions in a way enterprises can actually adopt.
Industry Partner — Aerospace & Mobility Challenge Stream
Airbus brings real-world aerospace and mobility problems to the program, helping teams focus on use cases that matter: operations, scheduling, design, simulation, and resilient upply chains. Airbus experts support challenge definition, mentorship, and evaluation—so the best teams leave with credible validation and a practical route toward pilots.
Industry Partner — Healthcare & Life Sciences Challenge Stream
Cleveland Clinic anchors the healthcare stream, empowering teams to harness advanced computation to answer medicine's most challenging questions. Cleveland Clinic supports use-case framing, responsible data / validation approaches, and expert review – ensuring projects are grounded in real constraints, not abstract demos.
Industry Partner — Financial Services Challenge Stream
HSBC supports the finance stream with practical perspective on risk, optimization, and secure adoption in regulated environments. HSBC experts help teams define realistic problem scopes, stress-test assumptions, and present solutions in a way that aligns with governance, compliance, and enterprise security needs.
Industry Partner — Energy & Grid Innovation Stream
E.ON brings energy-system and grid realities to the program, helping teams pursue high-impact applications across planning, forecasting, optimization, and resilience. E.ON experts support mentorship and evaluation so solutions reflect operational constraints and can translate into credible pilots with utilities and infrastructure operators.
Ecosystem Partner — Public Sector, Security & Standards
MITRE supports rigorous, real-world adoption by bringing systems engineering, security, and public-sector perspective to the program. MITRE helps teams think through deployment constraints, assurance, and interoperability—improving the credibility of results and strengthening the “path to implementation” story.
Industry Partner — Automotive & Mobility Challenge Stream
Volkswagen Group brings real-world automotive and mobility challenges to the program, helping teams focus on use cases that matter: manufacturing, logistics, vehicle design, simulation, and next-generation mobility systems. Volkswagen experts support challenge definition, mentorship, and evaluation—so the strongest teams leave with credible validation and a clear path toward pilot deployments.
