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<h2>Technical enablement and learning</h2>
<p>Once your organization has access to IBM Quantum Systems, and technical leads within your organization have tried them out, it will be time to enable the rest of your organization’s quantum arm. This will involve some use of IBM Quantum resources to train or sync the technical skills of your team. Your team members may work individually using some of IBM Quantum’s self-paced courses (linked in the next section), and you may also prepare as a group participating in IBM Quantum’s live and digital events, such as the Teach the Researcher event, or Quantum Practitioner’s Forum. Recordings and other materials from some of these events are also linked below.</p>
<h2>Courses and tutorials</h2>
<p>IBM Quantum has developed courses and tutorials on topics ranging from business and application insights to technical implementation. Historically, content has been divided between a few platforms, but soon all content will be available on the IBM Quantum Learning platform. Until all content has been migrated to this new platform, it will continue to be available through other platforms linked below.</p>
<h2>Learning content important links:</h2>
<p><a href="https://learning.quantum-computing.ibm.com/" target="_blank"> <b>IBM Quantum Learning </b></a> The new, unified platform for all IBM Quantum. Both open and premium content will be housed here.</p>
<p><a href="https://quantum-growth.edunext.io/" target="_blank"> <b>IBM Quantum Insider</b></a> Course content for IBM Quantum Network partners only.</p>
<p><a href="https://quantum-accelerator.edunext.io/" target="_blank"> <b>EduNext for Quantum Accelerator clients</b></a> A separate EduNext platform housing content for Quantum Accelerator clients.</p>
<p><a href="https://qiskit.org/learn/" target="_blank"> <b>Qiskit Textbook</b></a> An open-access online textbook designed to empower the next generation of quantum researchers and developers to explore quantum applications.</p>
<p><a href="https://qiskit.org/documentation/tutorials.html" target="_blank"> <b>Qiskit Tutorials</b></a> A series of tutorials designed to familiarize a user with a specific tool or application.</p>
<h2>Self-paced courses:</h2>
<p>An exhaustive list of available courses is beyond the scope of this lesson. Below are descriptions of a few representative courses that give a sense of what content and delivery modalities are available.</p>
<p><a href="https://quantum-growth.edunext.io/courses/course-v1:quantum-growth+Test_1+2022_Q1/about" target="_blank"> <b>Quantum Essentials</b></a> This introduction course will provide an overview for all learners to quantum computing. At the end of this course you will be able to successfully communicate about quantum computing. The course includes an overview of quantum computing, business and industry impact, the science of quantum computing, and an overview of IBM Quantum programs. This self-paced course for learners new to quantum computing will take 2-3 hours to complete.</p>
<p><a href="https://quantum-growth.edunext.io/courses/course-v1:quantum-growth+VQE+2023/about" target="_blank"> <b>Variational Quantum Eigensolver</b></a> The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a quantum algorithm with applications to quantum chemistry and simulation. It is a hybrid algorithm, meaning it makes use of both quantum and classical computing. In this introductory course, you will learn the basic building blocks of VQE, options in implementation, and a few applications. Content is delivered through a combination of text, video, and code walkthroughs.</p>
<h2>Event captures:</h2>
<p><a href="https://quantum-growth.edunext.io/courses/course-v1:quantum-growth+TtR23+23/about" target="_blank"> <b>Teach the Researcher 2023 - Error Mitigation</b></a> This course follows the IBM Quantum Teach the Researcher event held virtually from June 14-16, 2023. This event, organized by Johannes Greiner, consists of presentations on error mitigation techniques, leveraging Qiskit Runtime primitives and options. This includes background on error mitigation, as well as exciting new capabilities using IBM Quantum hardware and software. This will take 7-10 hours to complete.</p>
<p><a href="https://quantum-growth.edunext.io/courses/course-v1:quantum-growth+2023+Q2/about" target="_blank"> <b>Quantum Partner Forum 2023</b></a> Held at the IBM Innovation Studio in at IBM Paris from May 15 to May 17, the 2023 IBM Quantum Partner Forum brought IBM Quantum Network partners from across the globe to meet in Paris for a series of member-exclusive announcements, research talks, IBM Quantum updates, application focus sessions, and networking opportunities. This course consists of video recordings of presentations.</p>
<p><a href="https://quantum-growth.edunext.io/courses/course-v1:quantum-growth+QPF22+2022/about" target="_blank"> <b>Quantum Practitioner's Forum 2022</b></a> This course follows the IBM Quantum Practitioners' Forum, held on November 10th, 2022 in New York, NY. This event, organized by Paul Nation and the Enabling Technologies Team, consists of presentations on exciting new capabilities using IBM Quantum hardware and software. This course consists of videos of these presentations, and accompanying Jupyter notebooks on topics including Qiskit Runtime integrations, Runtime error mitigation and suppression, dynamic circuits, and circuit knitting. This self-paced course for intermediate to advanced learners will take 7-10 hours to complete.</p>
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<p>There may be many desired learning outcomes for different people in your organization. But to offer some guidance, we put forth recommended initial learning paths for three categories of learners: business & organizational leadership (directors, managers, leads), technical practitioners of quantum computing, and organizational administrators. There is obvious overlap in many of these roles; many technically-trained directors will visit courses on algorithms, and many technical practitioners will want to know the possible areas of application in business.</p>
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<h2>Business & organizational leadership path:</h2>
<p>This learning pathway begins with the <p><a href="https://quantum-growth.edunext.io/courses/course-v1:quantum-growth+Test_1+2022_Q1/about" target="_blank"> <b>Quantum Essentials</b></a> course. This course is designed to give a broad overview of quantum computing and its potential game-changing applications. This course is a good level-setting tool; most people on your team, and even in your broader organization may find this useful.</p>
<p>The course you are now viewing, Building Successful Quantum Initiatives is intended only for business and organizational leadership, though it is open to anyone.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://quantum-growth.edunext.io/courses/course-v1:quantum-growth+2023+Q2/about" target="_blank"><b>IBM Quantum Network Partner Forum</b></a> is a live event that has been held annually in <a href="https://quantum-growth.edunext.io/courses/course-v1:quantum-growth+202205_IBMQPF+2022_H1/about" target="_blank"> <b>2022</b></a> and <a href="https://quantum-growth.edunext.io/courses/course-v1:quantum-growth+2023+Q2/about" target="_blank"> <b>2023</b></a>, intended to bring together leaders from across the IBM Quantum Network. Work is presented both by IBM Quantum and by Network partners. Recordings of this live event are useful for keeping all team members apprised of recent progress, but this is especially true for leadership. The <a href="https://quantum-growth.edunext.io/courses/course-v1:quantum-growth+IQN-seminar-series+2021_H2/about" target="_blank"> <b>IBM Quantum Network Colloquium</b></a> recordings are similarly useful for informing the team of recent advancements.</p>
<h2>Administrator path:</h2>
<p>Most of the details on management of hubs, groups, and projects, and other tasks handled by administrators are collected in the <a href="https://quantum-growth.edunext.io/courses/course-v1:quantum-growth+MISC+2022/about" target ="_blank"><b>Admin Resources</b></a> course. Note that this proposed learning path also includes Quantum Essentials, Quantum Partner Forum recordings, and the Network Colloquium, for level-setting and general syncing of the team.</p>
<h2>Technical practitioner path:</h2>
<p>The recommendation is to begin with the Quantum Essentials course, then move on to technical <a href="https://qiskit.org/learn/course/introduction-course" target="_blank"><b>Introduction to Quantum Computing</b> </a> and <a href="https://qiskit.org/documentation/stable/0.35/tutorials/circuits_advanced/index.html" target="_blank"><b>Advanced Circuits</b> </a> in Qiskit. Depending on a practitioner's background in Qiskit and quantum computing, in general, some of the early courses may be skipped. The practitioner can then move on to specializing in an algorithm (and corresponding application) of interest to the team, such as the <a href="https://quantum-growth.edunext.io/courses/course-v1:quantum-growth+VQE+2023/about" target="_blank"> <b>variational quanutm eigensolver (VQE)</b></a> or <a href="https://quantum-growth.edunext.io/courses/course-v1:quantum-growth+qml+2020/about"> <b>quantum machine learning (QML)</b></a>. Finally, the <a href="https://quantum-growth.edunext.io/courses/course-v1:quantum-growth+TtR23+23/about" target="_blank"> <b>Teach the Researcher event on Error Mitigation</b></a> will be indispensable for getting the most out of current quantum computers.</p>
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<h2>Example enablement goal:</h2>
<b>Getting the most out of quantum computing resources</b>
<p>Quantum computer access is a precious resource. It is important that technical practitioners use it, and use it wisely. To that end, we recommend emphasizing good technical practices such as running calculations on IBM Quantum simulators, first, then on simulators that model the noise of realistic systems, and finally on real quantum hardware. It is important to test in the presence of noise, to increase the likelihood that the real result is usable. It is equally critical to follow through and run calculations on real hardware. Noise models are not perfect, and simulators cannot simulate nearly as many qubits as are present on real IBM Quantum systems. <b>Until a problem is run on real hardware, there has been no proof of concept</b>.</p>
<p><a href="//d24jp206mxeyfm.cloudfront.net/assets/courseware/v1/e29ba3c8afc65f65057afe779a98784b/asset-v1:quantum-growth+1+2023+type@asset+block/resource_fig.png" title="Scaling up resources"><img src="//d24jp206mxeyfm.cloudfront.net/assets/courseware/v1/e29ba3c8afc65f65057afe779a98784b/asset-v1:quantum-growth+1+2023+type@asset+block/resource_fig.png" alt="Scaling up resources"></a></p>
<p>Just as simulation is important to optimal resource use, so is scaling of the problem. We recommend starting with small test problems, and increasing to the full scale problem of interest in a few steps. This is important for reasons beyond resource allocation. As IBM Quantum Systems are becoming more powerful, results become increasingly difficult to check with classical computers. Benchmarking with smaller versions of your problem is one alternative when classical confirmation is no longer feasible.</p>
<p><a href="//d24jp206mxeyfm.cloudfront.net/assets/courseware/v1/099b3e5bc549c7578b504e76b71baef5/asset-v1:quantum-growth+1+2023+type@asset+block/Scale_fig.png" title="Scaling up problem"><img src="//d24jp206mxeyfm.cloudfront.net/assets/courseware/v1/099b3e5bc549c7578b504e76b71baef5/asset-v1:quantum-growth+1+2023+type@asset+block/Scale_fig.png" alt="Scaling up problem"></a></p>
<p>In many cases, the scaling of your problem may be obvious, such as scaling a machine learning problem by increasing, for example, the number of data points, or the number of features. Another example is scaling of quantum chemistry problems. It would be prudent for a technical practitioner to run example calculations on small molecules before tackling larger, more interesting systems.</p>
<p><a href="//d24jp206mxeyfm.cloudfront.net/assets/courseware/v1/29db0e9dcbad53cd31e7a79203a3b30f/asset-v1:quantum-growth+1+2023+type@asset+block/Q_Chem_Scale_Up.png" title="Scaling up VQE"><img src="//d24jp206mxeyfm.cloudfront.net/assets/courseware/v1/29db0e9dcbad53cd31e7a79203a3b30f/asset-v1:quantum-growth+1+2023+type@asset+block/Q_Chem_Scale_Up.png" alt="Scaling up VQE"></a></p>
<p>Once your team is fully enabled and synced, it will be time to provide services to business partners, clients, or members (in the case of a QIC). Marketing QC and engaging with these partners is the topic of the next lesson.</p>
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