Qiskit Fall Fest is the worldwide series of events supported by IBM Quantum that brings people together to explore quantum computing. For the 2026 edition, FreeYa Mind Campus hosts the second edition of the Quantum Hackathon in Iași, together with a series of one-day seminars in Iași, Cluj-Napoca and Timișoara, each on a topic where quantum computing is starting to matter. The seminars are hybrid: join us in the room or follow online. Pick the events you are interested in, pre-register below, and we will get back to you by email with the outcome.
The second edition of the Qiskit Fall Fest at FreeYa Mind Campus brings students, researchers and professionals to Iași for a weekend of quantum computing — with Qiskit, access to IBM Quantum resources, and mentors next to you while you build.
Places are limited and pre-registration does not guarantee a place. We read every application and select participants based on what you write below.
A day on the meeting point between machine learning and quantum computing: what quantum machine learning can do today, what it cannot do yet, and how to tell the two apart. Encoding classical data into quantum states, quantum kernels, variational circuits as trainable models — and the honest picture of where the field stands.
For students, researchers and professionals who already work with machine learning. No prior quantum experience assumed.
A day on the problems industry brings to quantum computing first: scheduling, routing, portfolio selection — problems where the search space explodes and good-enough answers are worth money. How a business problem becomes a QUBO, what QAOA does and where it stops, and how to read a benchmark without fooling yourself.
For engineers, analysts and researchers working with optimization, and companies wondering whether any of this applies to them yet.
A day on the problem that stands between today's machines and useful ones: qubits lose their state, and every serious quantum computation has to survive that. Where errors come from, what a logical qubit costs in physical ones, repetition and surface codes, and the difference between error mitigation — usable now — and full error correction.
For students, researchers and engineers who have written quantum circuits before.
Pre-registration does not guarantee a place. Places are limited, so we read every application and confirm participants by email. Tick the events you are interested in, tell us how you plan to join, and complete the form once. Fields marked with * are required.
