9:00 am – 10:30 am: Welcome and Keynote (Session Chair: Francisco Chicano and Shaukat Ali)
9:00 am – 9:15 am: Welcome
9:15 am – 10:15 am: Keynote by Jayne Thompson (Nanyang Technological University), Saving resources with Quantum Agents
10:30 am – 11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:00 am – 12:30 pm: Quantum Optimization (Session Chair: Amanjot Bhullar )
11:00 am – 11:20 am: Akihiro Yoshida, Keiichiro Yamamura, Hiroki Ishikura, Shinjiro Hirai, Ken Kawano, Yoshihiko Fujisawa, Katsuki Fujisawa, QUBO-Based Subset Selection for Efficient Fine-Tuning of Vision‒Language Models (Full)
11:20 am – 11:40 am: Monit Sharma, Hoong Chuin Lau, Learning-Based Graph Shrinking for Quantum Optimization of Constrained Combinatorial Problems (Full, 15+5)
11:40 am – 12:00 pm: Monit Sharma, Hoong Chuin Lau, Hybrid Learning and Optimization methods for solving Capacitated Vehicle Routing (Full)
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm: Georgios Korpas, Wayne Lin, Iosif Sakos, Antonios Varvitsiotis, Global Optimization for Training VQAs (Lighting Talk)
12:15 pm – 12:30 pm: Philippe Codognet, A New Model of the Costas Array Problem in QUBO for Quantum Annealing (Lighting Talk)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Quantum Machine Learning (Session Chair: Philippe Codognet)
2:00 pm – 2:20 pm: Hrvoje Kukina, Clemens Heitzinger, Hybrid Quantum–Classical Framework for Acute Hypotension Control (Full)
2:20 pm – 2:40 pm: Sangeeta Yadav, Roshan Dsouza, Ishaan Sood, Souvik Souvik, Harshit Yadav, Quantum Kernel Methods for Brain Aneurysm Risk Classification (Full)
2:40 pm – 3:00 pm: Rabimba Karanjai, Hemanth Madhavarao, Lei Xu, Weidong Shi, QuCoWE: Quantum Contrastive Word Embeddings with Variational Circuits for Near-Term Quantum Devices (Full)
3:00 pm – 3:20 pm: Haribandhu Jena, Jyotirmaya Shivottam, Subhankar Mishra, QGShap: Quantum Acceleration for Faithful GNN Explanations (Full)
3:20 pm – 3:35 pm: Hans Gundlach, Hrvoje Kukina, Jayson Lynch, Neil Thompson, Quantum Deep Learning Still Needs a Quantum Leap (Lightning Talk)
3:35 pm – 4:00 pm: Coffee Break
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm: Panel (Session Chairs: Shaukat Ali and Francisco Chicano)
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm: Closing (Session Chair: Francisco Chicano and Shaukat Ali)