Quantum Effects Award

Terms and conditions of participation

Do you want to enter the competition for the Quantum Effects Award with your company? If so, send us a pitch deck (5 PowerPoint slides excluding the title slide, format 16:9, PDF file format) with your entry using the form on the website www.messe-stuttgart.de/quantum-effects/en/programme/accompanying-programme/quantum-effects-award/quantum-effects-award-application. In order to uniformly judge the entries, the following criteria must be answered in the available 5 slides of your pitch deck:

Application prospects and potential (25%):

• Applicability and potential impacts
• Improvement potential compared with current technologies
• Extent of new functionalities
• Solution to well-known problems through innovative approaches
• Social/technological benefits

Degree of innovation & invention (30%):

• Improvement compared with conventional technologies
• Differentiation compared with the current state of the art

Solution approach and feasibility (30%):

• Originality of the application
• Selected approach
• Can be implemented in a realistic period of time (<5 years)
• Probability of success/participating partners/teams/networks
• Hybrid solutions/software solutions for earlier use

Cooperation/teaming (15%):

• Cooperation between research and industry (manufacturers, suppliers, users)

Responsible

The Quantum Effects Award will be presented by Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH & Co. KG, Messepiazza 1, 70629 Stuttgart, hereinafter referred to as LMS. The winners will be selected by an independent expert jury.

Admission criteria

Partial solutions, which come from the quantum mechanics area of sensors, communication, computing and security, are eligible to take part in the competition. Entries must also be characterised by a TR Level 5 or higher, and possess a high level of innovation and future potential or are already being used in initial solutions. Publication or the market launch should not date back more than three years. Participation in this competition is free. Judging will be performed by the jury on the basis of the written and visualised entries. Deviations from the required format may lead to exclusion from the judging procedure. The entry deadline is 31 May 2025.

Copyright/Rights of use of publication

All copyrights will remain with the entrants. The entrants will grant LMS the right to report on the competition entries as part of the press activities relating to the Quantum Effects Award and/or the Quantum Effects trade fair. This provision also applies to the result of the competition.

Designation and author's declaration

If products are submitted for which copyright does not lie exclusively with the entrants, written consent from the owners of these copyrights must be enclosed. This consent must also be provided for the press publications relating to this competition and the results.

Composition of the jury

The jury, which will comprise experts from the field of quantum technologies and other partners, will make their decision based on a simple majority. The decision of the jury cannot be challenged. The judges’ decision is final.

Award, prizes, presentation

The winners will receive

• a trophy and a certificate
• digital assets to publicise their Award
• free admission for the contact person and one accompanying person to the Quantum Effects 2025
• exclusive reporting by LMS
• complete package “BASIC 4 m2 ” (contains a defined stand area, stand construction and services) at Quantum Effects 2025 to the value of €3,190. The amount will be offset against an alreadyexisting stand booking. No cash payment will be made in respect of the Award. (Subsequent) costs such as travelling, accommodation, etc. are not included in the prize.

Commercial use

The Quantum Effects Award may only be used commercially for the award-winning products. All award-winning products may bear the new quality seal as a label. LMS will provide free advertising media for this purpose.

Exclusion from the award

The LMS reserves the right to exclude persons from the award in the following cases:

• in the event of violation of the conditions of participation,
• if unauthorised aids are used or if advantages are gained through manipulation or similar.
• in the event of false information provided during registration.