Go beyond learning about quantum. Start with society and imagine where quantum could matter.
Held at QUINTBRIDGE Osaka on 10 October 2026. Explore the day’s activities, workshop materials, and presentation slides in our event report.
WHAT IS QVLEAP?
Quantum computing, quantum communication, and quantum sensing appear in the news. What could we actually use them for?
QVLeap does not begin by giving you the use cases. You first find a challenge, learn how it is handled today, and then connect it with a new quantum capability.
At the end, a quantum expert reviews each idea against real research, use cases, and current technical limits.
Where could the new capabilities of quantum technology create value in society?
Do not guess the right answer. Build a hypothesis.
EXPERIENCE FLOW
This is not a lecture you simply listen to. Your team moves through six connected experiences.
QUANTUM IDEATHON · 90 MIN
Choose one societal challenge as a team and build your idea through four simple prompts.
You do not need to design an advanced quantum algorithm.
What is the challenge?
How is it handled today?
Where might quantum help?
Who benefits, and how?
Choose one theme as a team. Everyone proposes a challenge and the team selects one. Quantum does not come into it yet.
Example themes
Voice from the field cards
Make the problem specific: who is struggling, in what situation, and with what?
Nurse scheduling is difficult
A head nurse spends hours balancing staffing, preferences, skills, and night shifts
Use search and AI to learn how the problem is handled today, what services exist, and what remains difficult.
Quantum enters here. Browse the technology cards and look for a capability that may connect to your challenge.
Decide what to give the technology, what you want back, and why the capability may be relevant.
Describe who benefits, what improves, and one simple way you could tell whether it really helped.
QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY CARDS
The cards explain capabilities rather than difficult theory, so anyone can use them to imagine an application.
QUANTUM COMPUTING
Combinations, molecules and materials, candidate search
「What if we could find strong candidates among enormous combinations?」
QUANTUM COMMUNICATION
Sensitive information, infrastructure, networks
「What if we could detect intervention in a communication channel?」
QUANTUM SENSING
Medicine, geology, infrastructure, navigation
「What if we could measure changes that were previously too small to see?」
TEAM PITCH
This is not an advanced technical presentation. Share your team's hypothesis through four clear prompts.
What is the challenge?
How is it handled today?
Which capability goes where?
Who benefits, and how?
EXPERT REVIEW
An expert reviews each idea against real research, current technology, and known constraints.
Research or applications are already being explored
Promising, with significant unknowns remaining
There is little reason to use quantum at present
This is not a score. It is a chance to see how far your hypothesis connects with the real quantum landscape.
SPEAKERS & ORGANIZERS
A team spanning quantum research, product development, business, and community building will guide the experience throughout the day.
Founder & CEO / Quantum Information Researcher
A PhD candidate in quantum information science at the University of Tokyo and recipient of the Dean's Award.
Product & Engineering Lead
Studies data science at Kansai University and has worked as a software engineer since his first year of university. Founder and CEO of COROLE.
Business Development & Operations Lead
A medical student at Chiba University conducting research in a pharmacology laboratory. He also served as Deputy Director of External Relations at OVAL JAPAN.
Strategic Advisor
A graduate of Kyoto University's Electrical and Electronic Engineering program and a current graduate student in Informatics. Founder and CEO of NovaEdge.
CEO, SakuraRin / Representative, Tokiwa Valley
CEO of SakuraRin and representative of Tokiwa Valley, specializing in software, AI, design, and XR.
TIMETABLE
Timetable from the slides used on the day (13:30–15:00).
Introductions and an overview of the day.
A short introduction to quantum technology by Yuanbo Chen.
An introduction to the rules, challenge cards, quantum technology cards, and worksheet.
Draw challenge cards and choose one as a team.
Explore the challenge through the six fields on the worksheet.
Present ideas, compare assessments, and consult the explanations.
Questions for Yuanbo Chen.
A recap of the day.
Time to connect.
WHO SHOULD JOIN
It is fine to begin with questions. Your view of society is valuable material for the team.
No prior quantum knowledge required
EVENT INFORMATION
OFFICIAL SIDE EVENT
GSE 2026 brings global deep tech to Osaka. Quantum is one of its priority fields, and we come at it from societal challenges.
Visit the GSE 2026 websiteORGANIZERS
CO-HOST COMMUNITY
Tokiwa Valley is one of Japan's largest AI tech and creator communities, bringing together people who create and build with generative AI and emerging technologies.
Centered on its LINE OpenChat, the community shares knowledge and runs hands-on sessions, hackathons, networking events, and gatherings including Osaka AI Culture Expo.
Join the LINE OpenChatAs a QUINTBRIDGE-recognized community, AI Lab @ Tokiwa Valley Kansai HUB connects creators, engineers, founders, and students interested in AI.
Visit the Kansai HUBVENUE
The event takes place at QUINTBRIDGE, NTT West's open-innovation facility. It is a space built for different backgrounds and specialisms to meet.
OSAKA · JAPAN
QUINTBRIDGE
NTT West / NTT西日本
4-15-82 Higashinodamachi, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka 534-0024
About 5 min from Osaka Metro Kyobashi / 10 min from JR or Keihan Kyobashi
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