Black Swan Summit will host the global premiere of Q-FINEX (Quantum Finance Industry Experimentation), Western Australia’s first dedicated quantum testbed for finance. Created through a partnership between GFTN & UWA QUISA, Q-FINEX is designed to move quantum finance beyond hype to practical, evidence-based experimentation for industry.

In this special segment, Sopnendu Mohanty, Group CEO of GFTN & Professor Jingbo Wang, Director of UWA QUISA, will launch this platform at the cutting edge of quantum innovation, linking world-class research with real financial applications.

This session introduces Q‑FINEX (Quantum Finance Industry Experimentation), a dedicated testbed for exploring quantum computing algorithms and optimisation in real financial use‑cases.

Project authors from GFTN and UWA, including key research lead, Prof Jingbo Wang (UWA), will outline how quantum and quantum‑inspired methods can support portfolio optimisation, risk simulation and other complex finance problems, before moving into a live demonstration of the Q‑FINEX environment.

Participants will see how a use‑case moves from idea to experiment, and how Q‑FINEX enables financial institutions and researchers to collaborate on evidence‑based evaluation, not hype.

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