Advancing Quantum Sensing: Insights from INSIDE Connect 2025

From September 3 to 4, A-IQ Ready partner Rihards Novickis from EDI  participated in the INSIDE Connect 2025 conference in Malaga and shared his experience in quantum technologies with two presentations:

• “What’s Next in Quantum Technologies: Quantum Sensing”

• “Engineering & Scaling Quantum Sensing”.

These sessions explored both the state-of-the‐art and future directions for quantum sensing, focusing on practical challenges such as sensitivity limits, robustness to environmental noise, and methods for scaling up from lab‐scale setups to industrial applications. Rihards Novickis illustrated several use cases, including imaging, navigation, and timing.

A core challenge of the quantum sensing technologies is the scale-up: bringing the quantum sensing technologies from proof-of-principle toward market-readiness. Some of the key topics include manufacturing challenges, reproducibility, calibration, and the importance of collaboration between research, industry, and standardisation bodies. Rihards Novickis also addressed strategies for bridging research outcomes into real-world applications, including the optimisation of trade-offs between complexity and performance, and ensuring cost-effectiveness to achieve tangible impact across sectors.