LONDON – On December 5, 2019, a roundtable of international public sector innovation and procurement leaders met in Westminster London to discuss how governments can innovate by accelerating the adoption of emerging technologies. The goal was to bring together heads of government, non-profit organisations, and multi-lateral government organisations from Europe and the U.S. to discuss the barriers that prevent adoption of emerging technologies and solutions that have proven to be successful.

On Friday, November 8th, 2019, Defense and Security Innovation Hub z.ú. and the Technology Transfer Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic organized the second event in a series of workshops focused on innovation and modern technologies titled “Quantum technologies and their use for the armed forces”. The workshop was held in cooperation with the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and offered a panel discussion of three speakers: prof. Igor Jex from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague, prof. Miloslav Dušek from the Department of Optics at Palacký University in Olomouc and prof. Josef Lazar from the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the ASCR.