Call for Papers: GI Quantum Computing Workshop 2026

The GI Quantum Computing Workshop 2026 offers a comprehensive platform for exploring cutting-edge developments in quantum computing and serves as the annual meeting point of the German Quantum Computing community. Aligned with the festival's focus on digital resilience, the workshop addresses how quantum technologies both contribute to and challenge resilient digital ecosystems. The organizers encourage submissions across the full spectrum of quantum computing research—from theoretical foundations and algorithms to hardware, software, and emerging applications—as well as interdisciplinary work at the intersection with physics, cryptography, and AI.

Researchers and engineers working on topics as listed below are kindly invited to submit research papers, surveys, tutorials, work-in-progress reports, extended abstracts, etc. This includes new original work but also recent papers published in or submitted to other venues but of interest for the workshop audience. Accordingly, authors can decide whether their accepted contributions to the workshop are included in the proceedings or not.

Important Dates

• 30.04.2026 - Abstract registration
• 14.05.2026 - Paper submission
• 01.07.2026 - Notification of acceptance
• 12.07.2026 - Camera-ready submission
• 24.09.2026 - Workshop at TU Dresden, Germany

Submission Guidelines

The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers consisting of 10 pages
• Short papers consisting of 4 pages

Please use either the LaTeX-Template (CTAN) or LaTeX-Template (Overleaf) provided by the GI.

Submission

Authors must first register in ConfTool. Please use the following link to access the ConfTool homepage:
https://www.conftool.org/informatik2026/index.php?page=login

After accessing the site, authors need to create their own user account.

Once logged in, authors can find an overview of all workshops under "Übersicht" > "Ihre Einreichungen" (currently the ConfTool is only provided in German language). From there, they can select the appropriate workshop and submit their contribution.

Please make sure to choose the “GI Quantum Computing Workshop” when submitting your paper.

List of Topics

• Quantum Information Theory,
• Quantum Communication and Cryptography,
• Quantum Compute Models,
• Quantum Algorithms,
• Quantum Error Correction,
• Hardware, Platforms and Architectures,
• Software Stacks and Programming Languages,
• Quantum Complexity Theory,
• Quantum AI and Quantum Machine Learning,
• Quantum Education,
• (potential) Application Fields.

Program Advisory Board

• Jörg Lässig, Fraunhofer IOSB-AST, University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz
• Robert Wille, Technische Universität München, Software Competence Center Hagenberg
• Wolfgang Mauerer, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg
• Sabine Tornow, Universität der Bundeswehr München, University of Applied Sciences Munich
• Thomas Gabor, Institut für Informatik an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
• Johanna Barzen, Institut für Architektur von Anwendungssystemen Universität Stuttgart, University of Stuttgart
• Sven Groppe, Universität zu Lübeck
• Sebastian Feld, TU Delft
• Stefan Seegerer, University Regensburg, IQM Quantum Computers
• Matthias Klusch, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
• Michael Felderer, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Karen Wintersperger, Siemens
• Christoph Niedermeier, Siemens
• Andreas Riegg, Daimler AG
• Alfred Geiger, T-Systems
• Martin Rehberg, DB Systel GmbH
• Bettina Just, University of Applied Sciences Mittelhessen
• Ulrike Rückert, Fraunhofer IWU
• Daniel Müssig, Fraunhofer IOSB-AST
• Steve Lenk, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Daniel David Scherer, Fraunhofer IIS
• Andreas Woitzik, University of Freiburg
• Barbara Staehle, University of Applied Sciences Konstanz
• Gerhard Hellstern, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University
• Peter Eder, IQM Quantum Computers
• Daniel Samarescu Conforti, Fresenius Digital Technology
• Volker Reers, Qseidon GmbH
• Albrecht-W. Klein, Independent Management and Policy Consultant

Publication

GI Quantum Computing Workshop 2026 proceedings will be published (if the authors want to), in "Tagungsband der Informatik 2026" in the series "Lecture Notes in Informatics".

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to daniel.muessig@iosb-ast.fraunhofer.de