Deloitte India launches the Quantum Centre (QCoDE) at IIT-Bombay
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Deloitte India has announced the launch of its Quantum Centre of Disruption for Enterprises (QCoDE) at the ASPIRE IIT-B Research Park Foundation, located on the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay campus. The centre represents a strategic industry-academia collaboration designed to accelerate quantum adoption, research, and enterprise use-cases for Indian businesses.
The new centre will bring together Deloitte’s global quantum network, IIT-B’s academic excellence, start-ups, technology partners and industry innovators to help Indian enterprises de-risk quantum investments, develop use cases, build talent, and transition from experimentation to real-world deployment. Enterprises that begin building quantum capabilities today will be early beneficiaries as the technology matures. Contd
“The launch of QCoDE is an important step towards strengthening India’s quantum ecosystem in alignment with the Government of India’s National Quantum Mission,” said Romal Shetty, CEO, Deloitte South Asia. “India has the opportunity to be not just a consumer of quantum technologies, but a global innovation hub. By embedding our centre within IIT-Bombay’s research ecosystem, we are bringing together industry, academia, start-ups and government to accelerate real-world quantum applications. Here our focus goes beyond technology, we want to help Indian enterprises build quantum strategies, develop talent and capture early economic value from quantum-enabled solutions.”
“From bits to qubits and from logic to possibility, every disruption rewrites the rules whereas quantum rewrites reality. QCoDE will ensure Indian enterprises move early, decisively and at scale while bringing industry and academia together to accelerate practical quantum adoption for Indian enterprises, government and public sectors” said Dr. Jagdish Bhandarkar, Partner, Chief Disruption Officer , Deloitte South Asia.
“Quantum technologies are approaching a phase where early investments in capability-building can translate into disproportionate long-term advantage,” said Dr. Rajappa Tadepalli, CEO, ASPIRE IIT Bombay Research Park Foundation. “With QCoDE, the focus is on helping enterprises move beyond exploratory pilots towards clearly defined use cases, measurable outcomes and scalable pathways to adoption. By combining industry context with academic depth, this platform enables organisations to evaluate where quantum can deliver tangible efficiency gains, optimisation improvements, and strategic differentiation. Such structured, data-driven engagement will be critical as India builds competitive strength in the global quantum landscape”, he added.
“Quantum technologies are moving from theory to real-world impact and Deloitte aims to help organisations begin their quantum journeys today rather than waiting for hardware maturity,” said Dr. Renata Jovanovic, Partner, Chief Scientific Officer, Deloitte South Asia, and Leader, Quantum Centre of Disruption for Enterprises. “We are committed to responsibly harnessing this disruption to create economic value for our clients. Our new centre will serve as a catalyst for collaboration, bringing together academia, start-ups and global quantum leaders to solve complex industrial challenges across materials science, drug discovery, logistics optimisation and cybersecurity.”
