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IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 76: Julien Camirand Lemyre, Nord Quantique CEO and Co-FounderThe latest Quantum Tech Pod with Julien Camirand Lemyre, CEO and Co-founder, Nord Quantique is live! Julian was born in a small town in Quebec called Sutton – a very beautiful environment where he got to a lot of stuff like skiing! He has a PhD in Experimental quantum computation from the University of Sherbrooke and conducted research on fabricating devices for improved quantum computing performance. Julian and his co-founder, Philippe St-Jean, met through their mutual interest in quantum computing and started Nord Quantique in 2020. The key differentiator of Nord Quantique's technology is their approach to quantum error correction using bosonic co...

2024-09-0423 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 75: Algorithmiq CEO & Co-Founder, Sabrina ManiscalcoMy latest Quantum Tech Pod with Sabrina Maniscalco – CEO and co-founder, Algorithmiq, is live! Sabrina grew up in a small town called Mazzara, in southwestern Sicily, facing Africa. Two years before she went to university, she got a telescope as a birthday present and started to observe the stars and read about how galaxies are formed. This is what started her passion for quantum physics! Sabrina has held research and post-doctoral positions in many places around the world including South Africa, Bulgaria, Vienna, Germany, and eventually Finland. She co-founded Algorithmic in 2020 while a professor of quantum information, computing and logic at...

2024-07-1738 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 74: Quantum AI with Enrique Lizaso Olmos, CEO Multiverse ComputingMy latest Quantum Tech Pod with Enrique Lizaso Olmos, Founder and CEO of Multiverse Computing, is live! Enrique has a degree in mathematics, a PhD in biostatistics, an MD, and an MBA. He is also a former university professor, having taught engineering, mechatronics, statistics, finance, and marketing at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. For 22 years, Enrique was Deputy CEO at Unnim Bank and was actively involved in various startups across different verticals. Plus, he serves as VP and Treasurer of the Barcelona Flight School – he has a pilot’s license! In 2016, he read a piece in The Economist that stated quan...

2024-06-1247 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 73: Zhanet Zaharieva, Chief Operating Officer of Quantum DiceMy latest Quantum Tech Pod with Zhanet Zaharieva, Chief Operating Officer of Quantum Dice, is live! Zhanet earned a DPhil from the University of Oxford in Materials Science where she designed novel methods for the development of quantum dot technologies. As the result of creating a patent application from her doctoral research, Zhanet began considering how to translate her academic quantum research into real world applications. She strongly believes that sharing scientific discoveries with society is a key responsibility of scientists. The result? Quantum Dice! Her company is developing the world's fastest self-certifying and completely embedded quantum random number generator...

2024-05-2934 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 72: Andrei Dragomir, Aquark TechnologiesMy latest Quantum Tech Pod with Andrei Dragomir – Co-Founder and CEO of quantum company Aquark Technologies is live! Andrei grew up in Romania in a house with a scientific focus: his mother is a professor of physics, and his father is an engineer. He remembers as a kid going to his mom's lab after school, where his toys of choice were the devices lying around—the optics, the lasers, the electronics. He moved to the UK to study, and for the first two-thirds of his PhD at the University of Southampton, he focused on microfabrication and vacuum science rather than quant...

2024-05-1541 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 71: Lawrence Gasman, President, IQT Research – Inside Quantum TechnologyMy latest Quantum Tech Pod with Lawrence Gasman, President of IQT Research, is live! Lawrence Gasman, a renowned expert in quantum technology, hails from North London and is an alumnus of Manchester University, where he studied mathematics and philosophy. He further honed his skills with an MBA from the prestigious London Business School. Over the past 30 years, Lawrence set up several market research companies specializing in different technologies, with the most continued focus on telecommunications. He and I discussed the range of topics he covers in his role as President of IQT Research, including guidance on telecom, advanced materials, smart tec...

2024-05-0131 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 70: Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, Nu Quantum Founder & CEOMy latest Quantum Tech Pod with Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, Founder and CEO of quantum company Nu Quantum, is live! Carmen grew up in Spain and received an MSc in Physics from Imperial College London and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Nu Quantum was a spin-out of the University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory in 2018. They are building the entanglement fabric required to enable large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers. Their approach is to interconnect many smaller cores using a Quantum Networking Unit (QNU) capable of scaling discrete Quantum Processing Units (QPU) to form a larger and more useful quantum computer. Earlier this y...

2024-04-1029 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 69: Jan Goetz, Co-founder & CEO, IQM Quantum ComputersMy latest Quantum Tech Pod with Jan Goetz, Co-CEO of leading quantum company IQM Quantum Computers is live! Jan is a quantum physicist who earned his superconducting quantum circuits doctorate at Technical University of Munich. His company IQM Quantum Computers was founded in 2018 and is building Finland’s first commercial 54-qubit quantum computer using superconducting transmon qubits working with VTT and an IQM-led consortium. IQM aims to provide on-premises quantum computers for research labs and industrial clients with a unique application-specific code design approach to maximize hardware efficiency. We discussed IQM Quantum Computers' product offerings, including the flagship quantum computer "Radi...

2024-03-2734 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 68: Peter Chapman, CEO, IonQMy latest Quantum Tech Pod with Peter Chapman, President and CEO, of leading quantum computing company, IonQ, is live! Peter had an atypical childhood. He grew up near the Johnson Space Center in Houston because his father was an astronaut who used to fly over the house in his trainer jet. In high school, Peter went to study with the well-known cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky at the AI lab at MIT because he wasn’t being challenged enough in school. He said that IonQ chose ions as qubits because they are all the same and perfectly identical. But he also sai...

2024-02-2948 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 67: Silicon Based Quantum Computing with Maud Vinet, Quobly CEOMy latest Quantum Tech Pod with Maud Vinet, Co-founder and CEO of quantum computing company Quobly, is live! Dr. Vinet received her Ph.D. in quantum physics from the University of Grenoble Alpes and has authored or co-authored over 300 papers. She owns more than 70 patents related to nanotechnology, and her Google H index is 57, with more than 11,000 citations. Plus - she's a Knight of the French Legion of Honor! She also founded Quobly in November 2022. Quobly is based in Grenoble, regarded as France’s “Silicon Valley.” The company was spun out of CEA-Leti and CNRS to develop and commercialize a universa...

2024-02-0732 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 66: Elie Girard, Executive Chairman, Alice & BobMy latest Quantum Tech Pod with Elie Girard, Executive Chairman of quantum company Alice & Bob, is live! Elie has over 20 years of leadership experience in various companies, including his most recent role as CEO and director at Atos. His company, Alice & Bob, focuses on cat qubits, a novel approach that enables them to reduce hardware requirements for building fault-tolerant quantum computers by up to 200 times compared to other current solutions. Elie shared his perspective on the broad implications of quantum technology across various sectors and processes, including optimization, simulation, AI, machine learning, finance, manufacturing, and logistics. On the podcast, Elie d...

2024-01-3133 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 65: Ken Durazzo, VP of Dell ResearchMy latest Quantum Tech Pod with Ken Durazzo, VP of tech company Dell Research, is live! Prior to joining Dell Research, Ken worked at Cisco for 20 years on myriad technologies. In 2016, he started leading research into quantum at Dell. At Dell Research, Ken's current focus includes hybrid quantum computing, quantum-safe cryptography, as well as generative AI, human-machine interfaces, and heterogeneous computing acceleration and virtualization. His take on the current state of quantum? “We are in the ENIAC era. If you go back in computer history, there was a time when we used to have to write assembly language for computers!” Ken i...

2024-01-1939 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 64: Kurt Stokbro, CEO, Sparrow QuantumMy latest Quantum Tech Pod episode with Kurt Stokbro, CEO of quantum company Sparrow Quantum is live! Sparrow Quantum is a quantum photonics company based in Copenhagen, founded in 2016 by Professor Peter Lodahl. It is widely recognized as a leader in single photon sources, achieving the world's highest light matter coupling efficiency. Kurt is the CEO and is also a major investor in Sparrow Quantum. Kurt grew up in a small town in Denmark and studied quantum mechanics at the Niels Bohr Institute, attending advanced quantum mechanics lectures given by Aage Bohr, one of Niels Bohr’s sons! Sparrow Quantum’s flag...

2024-01-0327 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 63: Grégoire Ribordy, CEO, ID Quantique (IDQ)My latest Quantum Tech Pod with Grégoire Ribordy, CEO of ID Quantique (IDQ)is live! Gregoire went to EPFL (Écolepolytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) - the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - where he studied physics. After working for a year in Japan at Nikon, the camera company, he returned to Switzerland in the mid-90s. Interesting back story: Just before 2000, one of the very first quantum companies called Magic Technologies, founded in Boston, was going around the world trying to license QKD for quantum cryptography. They came to Geneva and offered to partner with Grégoire and his team...

2023-12-1334 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 62: Kristin Gilkes, EY Global Quantum LeaderChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Kristin M. Gilkes, Ph.D., Global Quantum Leader at EY, is live! Kristin has a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences and a graduate diploma in artificial intelligence from the University of Oxford. She also has an MBA from the University of Colorado and a BBA in computer science from Texas A&M University. She and her team at EY have built a quantum center of excellence to help governments and institutions worldwide design their quantum strategy without having to build their quantum ecosystem. While EY partners with big tech, small tech, academia, and...

2023-12-0620 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 61: Quantum Control Stacks with Qblox Co-Founder & CEO Niels BultinkChristopher Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Niels Bultink, CEO and Co-Founder of Qblox, a leading quantum company, is live! Chris first spoke to Niels almost two years ago and wanted to check in to see what he and his team have been up to. Qblox provides quantum control stacks that combine unequaled noise performance and low-latency arbitrary control flows and can be scaled up to support hundreds of qubits. They have delivered over 100 systems worldwide - in the US, Europe, and Asia. Recently, the company celebrated its five-year anniversary! Topics they discussed included the 2.5 million euros in European Inno...

2023-11-2926 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 60: QKD solutions with LuxQuanta CEO Vanesa DiazChristopher Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Vanesa Diaz, CEO of quantum computing company LuxQuanta is live! Vanesa grew up in a small village in the north of Spain and because she was good at math, she eventually got a degree in engineering. Her early career found her in tech roles, but she wanted to spend less time in the lab and more time with customers and developing business strategies. So, she moved to Australia and got a Master’s degree in marketing and business! When she returned to Europe, she landed a job at Corning, where she worked for...

2023-11-1532 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 59: Théau Peronnin, CEO and Co-Founder, Alice & BobChristopher Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Théau Peronnin, CEO and Co-Founder of Alice & Bob, is live! As a student, Théau was into both physics and electronics. An innovator to the core, he competed in the International Young Physicist tournament but soon realized he was 50 years too late to develop new groundbreaking low level electronics. Quantum computers provided the perfect setting for him to apply his passion for physics with his desire to innovate. His collaborative work with Raphaël Lescanne (CTO and Co-Founder) on a bit-flip-protected qubit design that could dramatically improve quantum error correction led them to...

2023-11-0127 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 58: Quantum Consulting for the Fortune 100 with Konstantinos Karagiannis, ProtivitiTo celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Christopher Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod is a conversation with Konstantinos Karagiannis, Director of Quantum Computing Services at Protiviti. Konstantinos has been involved in the quantum computing industry since 2012 and has worked in information security since the 1990s. Protiviti is a global business consulting firm that helps companies address quantum opportunities and threats. Their clients include more than 80 percent of the Fortune 100. In his role as a consultant, Konstantinos can access people with different skills within his company to work on client engagements, as well as partner with outside firms such as Multiverse, Infleqtion, an...

2023-10-1139 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 57: John Levy – CEO, Chair, Co-Founder – SeeqcChristopher Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with John Levy, CEO, Chair and Co-Founder of Seeqc is live! Seeqc was spun out of Hypres in 2018 where John had served as Chair for 8 years and where he remains a board member. His company is one of the first to have built a superconductor, multi-layer commercial chip foundry to design, test, and manufacture quantum-ready superconductors. Seeqc recently announced a partnership with NVIDIA to build the world’s first fully digital chip-based quantum-to-GPU integration to enable error-corrected quantum supercomputing - all powered by Seeqc’s proprietary Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) technology. This chip-based soluti...

2023-09-2933 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 56: Quantum Sensors Roundtable-Stuart Woods (Quantum Exponential), Niall Holmes (Cerca Magnetics), Pete Stirling (Delta g)Christopher Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod is a roundtable discussion on the exciting state of quantum sensors. Guests included Stuart Woods, Chief Operating and Strategy Officer, Quantum Exponential ; Niall Holmes, Founder and Scientific Advisor, Cerca Magnetics Limited, and Pete Stirling, CEO at Delta g. Cerca Magnetics Limited has created OPM-MEG - the world's most advanced functional brain scanner – an integrated, #3D printable wearable device leveraging quantum sensors to provide “a revolutionary product to transform the neuroimaging landscape.” This device measures magnetic fields at 50 locations around the scalp, offering complete brain coverage. The initial focus is detecting childhood epilepsy. Delta g’s cutting...

2023-09-1341 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 55: Quantum Machines CTO Yonatan CohenChristopher Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Yonatan Cohen, Co-Founder and CTO, Quantum Machines is live! Dr. Cohen is a quantum physicist, entrepreneur and co-founder and ex-managing director of the entrepreneurship program at The Weizmann Institute of Science in Tel Aviv. He founded Quantum Machines in 2018. His company just announced OPX1000 – The Quantum Control Solution for Large-Scale Quantum Computing. This device leads the industry in key performance metrics including feedback capabilities, runtime, analog performance and channel density. Plus, the solution works across multiple disparate qubit modalities including quantum dot spin qubits, NV & other defect centers, superconducting qubits and neutral atoms...

2023-08-3133 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 54: Silicon Spin Quantum Computing with Stephanie Simmons, Chief Quantum Officer, PhotonicChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Dr. Stephanie Simmons, Chief Quantum Officer at Photonic is live! Stephanie describes herself as a “quantum native” - she was a huge nerd growing up and was upset that her parents only introduced her to programming at age nine! She came across quantum when she was 16 and has been heads down into it ever since. She is looking forward to a future with many more quantum natives! Her perspective is that human progress is always anchored in the commercialization of various branches of physics – which has led us to where we are today ex...

2023-08-0932 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 53: Si-Hui Tan, Chief Science Officer, Horizon Quantum ComputingChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Si-Hui Tan, Chief Science Officer at Horizon Quantum Computing is live! Dr. Tan has a Bachelor of Science with honors in Physics from Caltech and PhD in Physics from MIT. Prior to joining Horizon, she spent 5 years as a researcher at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Dr. Tan also spent a year as a Visiting Professor at the Niels Bohr International Academy at the University of Copenhagen. Horizon’s approach allows users to write programs in classical languages that can be compiled and run on conventional or quantum computers, without any...

2023-07-2633 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 52: Dr. Antti Vasara, President & CEO of VTTChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Antti Vasara, President & CEO of VTT is live! VTT is a state-owned and controlled non-profit, limited liability company based in Helsinki, Finland with over 2000 people. It is one of Europe’s leading research, development and innovation institutions. Almost two years ago, the VTT Technical Research Centre deployed Finland’s first operational 5-qubit quantum computer in partnership with hardware start-up IQM. The roadmap lays out a plan to get to a 50-qubit machine by 2024. In addition to quantum computers, VTT is also actively involved in developing quantum sensors, quantum networks and quantum cryptography soluti...

2023-07-1230 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 51: Quantum Internet Roundtable with Duncan Earl (Qubitekk) and David Wade (EPB)Chris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Duncan Earl, President & CTO of Qubitekk, Inc., and David Wade, President & CEO, EPB is live! Chris led a roundtable discussion on the exciting partnership between EPB and Qubitekk to develop the EBP Quantum Network in Chattanooga, Tennessee - America’s first industry-led, commercially available quantum network. EPB Quantum Network offers quantum-as-a-service to provide quantum technologists with fiber optic infrastructure using the latest quantum equipment and software to accelerate bringing quantum technologies to market. The network leverages Qubitekk, Inc.’s Bohr-IV, a proprietary system that generates, transmits, and measures qubits. The team is also p...

2023-06-2839 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 50: infinityQ CEO Aurélie HélouisChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Aurélie Hélouis, CEO and Founder infinityQ Technology Inc is live! At age 24, Aurélie was the Deputy Head Officer of the Rafale jet aircraft maintenance workshop for the French navy where she served for 16 years. After moving to Montreal, she received her MBA from McGill and then worked at the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute where in 2019, she founded infinityQ. Aurélie described how skills she learned in the Navy have helped her as a tech entrepreneur - managing complicated situations in a stressful environment, the importance of anticipating problems and doing w...

2023-06-1420 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 49: Alexander Keesling, QuEra Computing CEOChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Alexander Keesling, CEO, QuEra Computing Inc. is live! Alex is an expert in quantum computing and quantum simulation with neutral atoms. While at #Harvard , he pioneered the development of programmable Rydberg atom arrays into a leading technology for quantum information processing. Among his accomplishments are the creation and coherent control of systems with hundreds of neutral atom qubits as well as the demonstration of high-fidelity entangling gates with neutral atoms. QuEra Computing Inc. was founded in 2018 based on pioneering research at Harvard and #MIT and is based in Boston. The company came ou...

2023-05-0338 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 48: QC Ware CEO Matt JohnsonChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Matt Johnson, Co-Founder and CEO, QC Ware is live! Matt was a captain in the Air Force on active duty for five years and then worked as a managing director in private equity at Apollo Management. His company, QC Ware, is a quantum and classical computing software and services company focused on delivering enterprise value through cutting-edge computational technology. With specialization in machine learning and chemistry simulation applications, QC Ware develops for both near-term quantum and state-of-the-art classical computing hardware. The company just introduced an exciting new capability called Promethium providing a Sa...

2023-04-1947 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 47: Brian Lenahan & Kenna Hughes-Castleberry Discuss Their Book ‘On the Shoulders of Giants’Chris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod features Brian Lenahan and Kenna Hughes-Castleberry discussing their latest book “On the Shoulders of Giants” which shares stories of 10 unsung heroes in quantum physics, engineering, and mathematics. Brian is the Founder & Chair of the Quantum Strategy Institute and the author of two seminal books on quantum and business. Kenna is a science journalist and podcaster who currently works as the Science Communicator at JILA. She also writes for Inside Quantum Technology as a freelance staff editor. Worth noting that most of the subjects for this book come from a non white male background, offeri...

2023-04-0533 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 46: Andrew Dzurak, Diraq CEO and FounderChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Andrew Dzurak, CEO & Founder, Diraq is live! Andrew was a key participant over 20 years ago in establishing the Australian Research Council Centre for Quantum Computer Technology. Along with his colleague Andrea Morello, they demonstrated the world’s first silicon quantum bits (qubits) in 2012. Today, they are world leaders in building quantum processors using electron spins in CMOS quantum dots. Their goal is to drive qubit numbers on a single chip to the billions, compared to the hundreds of qubits that exist today. His company’s SMART qubit protocol delivers extended coherence times using...

2023-03-2943 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 45: D-Wave CEO Alan BaratzChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Alan Baratz, CEO, D-Wave is live. He became CEO in 2020 and previously served as EVP of R&D and Chief Product Officer. Alan has over 25 years of experience bringing new products to market at leading technology companies and software startups. He was the 1st president of JavaSoft at Sun Microsystems and oversaw the growth and adoption of the Java platform from its infancy to a robust platform supporting mission-critical applications in nearly 80 percent of Fortune 1000 companies. D-Wave's 2X Quantum Computer with more than 1,000 qubits was installed in 2015 at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence La...

2023-03-2240 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 44: Qruise CEO Shai MachnesChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Shai Machnes, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Qruise is live! Shai’s team is using machine learning & Quantum Optimal Control to improve control of the current generation of noisy intermediate scale quantum computers (NISQ devices). His company is also developing Machine Learning for Science as a productized toolset to make ML-driven discovery accessible to all. They are starting with a junior quantum control physicist, similar to the capabilities of a 2nd year PhD student and growing from there. Take a listen to this interesting conversation! #Qruise #ML #machinelearning #quantumcomputing Inside Quantum Technology #IQT

2023-03-0824 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 43: Charles Robinson, IBM Quantum Safe TeamInside Quantum Technology is delighted to support Black History Month with Chris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod - an interview with Charles Robinson, Public Sector Leader IBM Quantum Computing & World Wide leader Quantum Safe Team. Charles is a veteran and a graduate of Howard University with over 30 years’ experience in information technology, business development, engineering, and management in commercial, DOD and intelligence organizations. He has worked on all aspects of information and communications infrastructure. Charles was instrumental in the formation of the IBM-HBCU Quantum Center, enabling talented Black students to get involved in this exciting new technology. He currently lead...

2023-02-2828 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 42: Dr. Dana Anderson, CSO, InfleqtionChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Dana Anderson, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, ColdQuanta Infleqtion is live! His father was a physicist and professor at the U of Chicago and worked with Enrico Fermi! Dana got a Ph.D. in quantum optics at the U of Arizona and started guiding cold atoms through hollow core optical fibers in the mid-1990s. Excited about the tremendous potential of the Bose-Einstein Condensate, he founded ColdQuanta in 2007. Today, the company has a wide-ranging portfolio that includes Hilbert - a gate-based quantum computer that uses lasers to cool ions to extremely low te...

2023-02-0147 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 41: Jack Hidary, SandboxAQ CEOChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Jack Hidary CEO of SandboxAQ is live! Jack is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of several tech companies, including EarthWeb/Dice, which he led from its founding through IPO. In July, SandboxAQ was selected for NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography Project. With a focus on encryption management for large enterprises and governments in the face of Store-now-decrypt-later attacks, SandboxAQ developed AQ Analyzer - a piece of enterprise software that crawls around on prem or in the cloud to uncover encryption vulnerabilities. The company is also working on q...

2023-01-0956 min

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IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 40: Quantinuum Chief Scientist Bob CoeckeChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Bob Coecke, Chief Scientist, Quantinuum is live! Bob initially studied architecture and engineering but, after an internship, discovered he didn’t like it and moved to physics where he got a PhD. Bob and Chris discussed ZX calculus (a key element of TKET), category theory, Quantum Foundations, linear logic, Quantum-native natural language processing, this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, and Categorical Quantum Mechanics (CQM). Btw – Bob has a new book coming out in a couple of weeks called “Quantum in Pictures” designed to make quantum understandable to both the general public as well as H...

2022-12-0741 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 39: Qunnect CEO Noel GoddardChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Noel Goddard, CEO, Qunnect is live! Noel was an avid sportbike motorcyclist for 10 years in a former life! She is also a serial entrepreneur who founded/led two biotech startup companies and was a seed investor with the Accelerate NY Seed Fund - she built a portfolio of 24 companies across deep technology and life science sectors. In 2021, Qunnect introduced the world's first commercial quantum memory, the cornerstone of their Quantum Repeater product suite providing long-distance distribution of entanglement over existing telecom infrastructure. Plus – they recently received a Series A funding round of over...

2022-11-2558 min

2022-11-1658 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 38: Tony Uttley, Quantinuum President and COOChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Tony Uttley, COO and President of Quantinuum is live! Tony saw the movie “The Right Stuff” and wanted to be an astronaut! (He did eventually spend 10 years in management roles at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Human #Space Flight program.) Tony founded Honeywell Quantum Solutions and served as its President before the creation of Quantinuum. Before Honeywell, he was a Principal at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). We had a great discussion about the company’s recent achievement of a quantum volume of 8192, their second new record in a year. Also excit...

2022-11-0242 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 37: Eric Holland, Keysight Solutions Director of Strategic Growth InitiativesChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Eric Holland, Director, Strategic Growth Initiatives, Quantum Engineering Solutions at Keysight Technologies is live! Eric grew up in a small town in New Hampshire and after getting a PhD in physics from Yale, worked as Fermilab’s Deputy Director of Quantum Technology as well as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Chief Quantum Hardware & Application Architect. Keysight’s Quantum Control System (QCS) is described as the world’s first fully digital quantum control solution. We talked about what Bill and Dave might think of their company leading the way in quantum engineering solutions! Check out...

2022-10-1241 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 36: Richard Murray, ORCA ComputingChris Bishop's latest Quantum Tech Pod with Richard Murray, Co-Founder and CEO of ORCA Computing is live. His parents were science teachers who inspired hi to study math and physics. After receiving his PhD in coherent quantum comtrol of cold Rubidium atoms, Richard worked in the private sector--helped Oakley look at using nano structures to polarize their sunglasses! He led Innovate UK's £32 million program focused on quantum technologies, but had always wanted to start a company. So, in 2019, Richard co-founded ORCA Computing. His distinguished team identified that short-term quantum memories could synchronize photonic operations, performing what is known as "spectral mu...

2022-09-2837 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 35: Steve Brierley, Riverlane, and Quantum Operating SystemsChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Steve Brierley, CEO/Founder, Riverlane is live! Steve founded the company in 2016, based on his passionate belief that fault tolerant quantum computers will accelerate a significant era of human progress and could be developed sooner than previously imagined. His company is building Deltaflow.OS – the operating system for error-corrected quantum computers. Innovate UK has provided £500k to explore using syndrome extraction (additional qubits) on superconducting quantum computers to develop error correction techniques. Riverlane will be presenting “Beyond NISQ: Defining the roadmap to error-corrected quantum computers” at IEEE Quantum Week next week. Check out our c...

2022-09-0729 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 34: EeroQ CEO Nick Farina: Electrons on Helium and the Pursuit of Universal Quantum HardwareChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Nick Farina, CEO of EeroQ Quantum Hardware is live! Nick was a caddy at the Biltmore and then became a financial and tech journalist. He also started three companies. EeroQ Quantum Hardware is building a universal quantum computer by trapping and controlling individual electrons floating above pools of superfluid helium. Their ultimate goal: a large-scale quantum computer based on the magnetic (spin) state of these trapped electrons. Plus – they just announced a $7.25 million seed funding round! Check out the conversation. #quantumcomputing #qis #quantumtechnology #investinginquantum

2022-08-2548 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 33: Quantum Venture Capital Due Diligence Roundtable: whurley, Ilana Wisby, and Morgan PolotanChris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod provides expert insight in a group conversation with three amazing guests: whurley, CEO, Strangeworks; Ilana Wisby, CEO, Oxford Quantum Circuits and Morgan Polotan, Senior Principal, B Capital Group. The topic: “How to do due diligence on a quantum company.” Topics include balancing conflicting information, managing LP expectations about ROI, importance of partnerships and government investment and the need for reverse due diligence to make sure the VC is the right partner for your journey. Check it out here. #quantumtechnology #quantumcomputing Inside Quantum Technology #investinginquantum

2022-08-1038 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 32: Quantum Cryogenics with Corban Tillemann-Dick, Maybell Quantum CEOChris Bishop on Quantum Tech Pod with Corban Tillemann-Dick, Founder/CEO, Maybell Quantum Industries is live! Before Maybell, Corban spent 10 years at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he led Quantum Computing efforts. Working with many leading-edge players led him to believe that quantum was going to be as important to the next 60 years as integrated circuits have been for the past 60 years and he didn’t want to be on the outside. He left BCG and co-founded Maybell to make a revolutionary dilution refrigerator called The Icebox as well as a high-density wiring solution called Maybell Flexlines.

2022-07-2728 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 31: NVIDIA Director, HPC & Quantum Computing Product, Timothy CostaChris Bishop's Quantum Tech Pod with Timothy Costa, Director, HPC & Quantum Computing Product at NVIDIA is live! Tim was an #HPC application engineer at Intel before joining NVIDIA where he discovered that he enjoyed the role of product manager and that led to his current role. We discussed the recently announced Quantum Optimized Device Architecture (#QODA), an open, unified environment for today’s most powerful computers and quantum processors. NVIDIA already has an impressive list of hardware, software, and supercomputing partners.

2022-07-1326 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 30: Quantum Control Systems with Per Nyberg, Quantum Machines(QuantumTechPod) Chris Bishop's Quantum Tech Pod with Per Nyberg, VP, Strategic Markets and Alliances at Quantum Machines is live! Per grew up in Montreal, spent 12 years at NEC Corporation then joined Cray Inc. running all industry verticals. A year ago, QM came knocking. Per is delighted to be part of an industry “being born in front of our eyes.” Their Quantum Orchestration Platform (QOP) is the first hybrid architecture designed for quantum control, allowing for real-time decision-making with extreme ease and speed. Check out the conversation.

2022-06-0830 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 29: Post-Quantum Cryptography with Denis Mandich, Qrypt CTO(QuantumTechPod) Chris Bishop's Quantum Tech Pod with Denis Mandich, CTO of Qrypt is live! Denis was born in Croatia and then was a refugee in Austria waiting for asylum in the US. Always interested in science, he studied string theory and quantum mechanics and was recruited by the intelligence community where he spent 20 years. The rise of quantum computers along with visibility into the scale of data theft from the US by foreign governments led him to start Qrypt to provide clients with “everlasting encryption.”

2022-06-0127 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 28: Scalable Quantum Processors with Georges-Oliver Reymond, PASQAL CEO(QuantumTechPod) Chris Bishop's Quantum Tech Pod w/Georges-Olivier REYMOND, Pasqal CEO is live! PASQAL is the first French company to develop quantum computing hardware and their roadmap gets them to 1000 qubits by the end of 2023. The recent merger with Qu & Co allows them to provide a turnkey system - hardware and software together – accelerating the achievement of quantum advantage enabling practical real-world applications. They are also partnering with Atos to develop hybrid #HPC and quantum solutions. And their system will be available on Azure - Microsoft's Cloud Computing Platform later this year.

2022-05-1824 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 27: IBM Quantum with Dr. Joseph BrozChris Bishop's Quantum Tech Pod with Joe Broz is live! He was a founding Director of the QED-C and is now VP, Quantum Growth and Market Development at IBM. His focus is large deployments where IBM will establish strategic partnerships with companies, government organizations and academic institutions. When I asked him to look into his crystal ball and predict where quantum might be in 10 years, he demurred and shared the apocryphal quote from William Gibson: “The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.” Check out the conversation by clicking sound link below. Joseph S. Broz - Vice Presid...

2022-05-0441 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 26: Quantropi CTO Michael Redding and Post-Quantum Cryptography(QuantumTechPod) Chris Bishop's latest Quantum Tech Pod w/ Michael Redding is live! After years at Accenture Ventures, Mike was so intrigued by quantum encryption that he hopped on a plane in the middle of winter during a pandemic and flew to Ottawa to join Quantropi Inc. While RSA has been a great scheme for 20-plus years, quantum computers have the potential to put every secure online transaction under threat. His company enables quantum-secure data communications over unlimited distances, via any communications network. Click link below to listen.

2022-04-2725 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 25: Quantum Executive Advisory with Karina Robinson, CEO of Robinson Hambro(QuantumTechPod) Chris Bishop's latest Quantum Tech Pod with Karina Robinson, CEO, Robinson Hambro, is now live! Karina convened the City Quantum Summit last year at the Mansion House in London. Her goal was to initiate a conversation around how quantum might address challenges that all companies face – especially those in the financial services sector – including cybersecurity, sustainability, and competition. Her feeling is that companies need people in executive roles who can help them interact with the quantum world. By inviting the CEOs of financial services companies and quantum CEOs, she got that conversation going. Take a listen here. Robinson Hambro spec...

2022-04-2031 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 24: Robert Liscouski, CEO of Quantum Computing Inc. (NASD: QUBT)(QuantumTechPod) Host Christopher Bishop's Quantum Tech Pod with Robert Liscouski, President, CEO, and Chairman of Quantum Computing Inc. is now live! From homicide detective to the US Dept of Homeland Security to Coca Cola to CEO of a quantum computing company, Bob has had several different careers. A common thread? The power of data. And a realization in the early days that computers would enable organizations to collect and manipulate large data sets to deliver better outcomes. QCI’s flagship product Qatalyst is a cloud-based quantum software solution, offering ready-to-run software for complex constrained optimization computations. Bio of Robert Liscouski Ro...

2022-03-3043 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 23: Joe Fitzsimons, Horizon Quantum Computing CEO(QuantumTechPod) Host Christopher Bishop's Quantum Tech Pod with Joe Fitzsimons, CEO, Horizon Quantum Computing is now live! At university, he focused on quantum because he always wanted to work on a frontier technology whose primary goal was to have an effect on the world. Worth noting that a Ph.D. in physics is NOT required to work at Horizon. Senior program manager Amanda Chew recently joined from Microsoft and brings her experience developing software solutions to the quantum world. Check it out by clicking on sound bar at bottom of page here. Biography of Dr. Joseph Fitzsimons Dr. Joe Fitzsimons...

2022-03-2335 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 22: Markus Pflitsch, Terra Quantum CEO and Founder(QuantumTechPod) Chris Bishop announces, "My Quantum Tech Pod conversation with Markus Pflitsch is live. Markus brings a wide range of experience to his role as CEO of Terra Quantum – CERN physicist, investment banker, BCG consultant. Terra Quantum optimized a large European investment bank's collateral portfolio using a quantum algorithm deployed on their QMware machine. Result? 6 basis points improvement which translates into more than 120 million dollars annual recurring cost savings for the bank! Quantum Tech Pod hopes that our conversation with will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you. Scroll to bottom of this page to open sound bar...

2022-03-1634 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 21: Quantinuum CEO Ilyas KhanQuantum Tech Pod Host Chris Bishop today interviews Quantinuum CEO Ilyas Khan Ilyas founded CQ in 2014 and is the CEO of Quantinuum, the company created as a result of the merger of Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Cambridge Quantum. He is the Leader in Residence at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School where he was instrumental in establishing the highly regarded Accelerate Cambridge programme of investment in early-stage Cambridge-based deep-science technology sector companies. Ilyas was the inaugural Chairman of The Stephen Hawking Foundation, holding the post until 2019. He is also the founding Chairman (non-executive) of the Topos Institute. He is...

2022-03-0345 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 20: Quantum Drug Discovery with POLARISqb CEO Shahar KeinanQuantum Tech Pod Host Chris Bishop today interviews POLARISqb CEO Shahar Keinan Shahar Keinan is CEO and co-founder at POLARISqb with 15+ years of computational chemistry experience, including the previous 10 years in senior scientific and operational leadership positions. She excels at integrating scientific goals and capabilities with business objectives to craft a cohesive go-to-market strategy. POLARISqb will revolutionize drug design by joining Quantum Computing with AI and Precision Medicine. The platform will produce up to 100 drug blueprints per year and will compress the lead time for preclinical drug candidates from 5 years to 4 months, enabling real time adaptability to the precision medicine...

2022-03-0228 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 19: Multiverse Computing CTO Sam MugelQuantum Tech Pod Host Chris Bishop today interviews Multiverse Computing CTO Sam Mugel. Sam Mugel, CTO of Multiverse computing is an expert in quantum computing and quantum machine learning. His PhD was jointly awarded by ICFO (Spain) and the University of Southampton (UK). Formerly Computational physicist at Cortirio UK), Scientific Advisor at The Quantum Revolution Fund, and Founder and CTO at Groundstate Consulting. Multiverse Computing is a leading quantum software company that applies quantum and quantum-inspired solutions to tackle complex problems in finance to deliver value today and enable a more resilient and prosperous economy. The company’s expertise in qu...

2022-02-2429 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 18: Eden Figueroa, Stony Brook UniversityQuantum Tech Pod Host Chris Bishop today interviews Eden Figueroa. Eden Figueroa is an Associate Professor, Stony Brook University. He is jointly appointed between Stony Brook University as faculty and quantum information technology research leader and Brookhaven National Laboratories researcher in the computational sciences initiative in the instrumentation division. Eden Figueroa has long been fascinated with quantum mechanics. He discusses his path to his quantum information career. "Very happy journey of mine. . I was born in Mexico, " he recounted. From there he studied at the Monterey Institute of Technology for Bachelor's degree. Dr. Eden was already thinking of becoming an exp...

2022-02-0938 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 17: Rigetti Computing CEO & Founder Chad RigettiQuantum Tech Pod Host Chris Bishop today interviews Chad Rigetti. Chad Rigetti is a quantum computing physicist and thefounder and CEO of Rigetti Computing. He worked in the quantum computing group at IBM. Chad has a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Regina and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Yale. Rigetti Computing is an integrated systems company that builds quantum computers and the superconducting quantum processors that power them. Through Rigetti's Quantum Cloud Services (QCS) platform, their machines can be integrated into any public, private or hybrid cloud. IQT hopes that our conversation with Chad Ri...

2022-01-2744 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 16: Andrew Horsley, Quantum Brilliance Co-Founder & CEO(QuantumTechPod) Host Chris Bishop, today interviews Dr. Andrew Horsley, Quantum Brilliance Co-Founder & CEO. Andrew is the founder and applied quantum physicist, working on room temperature quantum computing using NV centres in diamond with 8+ years’ experience leading projects to develop quantum technologies for computing, communications and sensing. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian National University 2017-2020 and concentrated on developing practical technologies for quantum information processing, using nitrogen vacancy centres in diamond. He worked between two pioneering groups at the forefront of diamond quantum technologies: the Doherty group at the Australian National University, and the Wrachtrup group at the Uni...

2022-01-1933 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 15: Q-CTRL Founder & CEO, Michael Biercuk(IQT QuantumTech Pod) Host Chris Bishop, today interviews Q-CTRL Founder & CEO, Michael Biercuk. Michael's J. Biercuk's experience is focused on the development and application of quantum control to help partners extract maximum performance from quantum technologies. The solutions he has developed through his startup Q-CTRL serve teams building quantum hardware as well as end-users seeking to put quantum computing to work for them. Michael's current commercial efforts leading the venture-capital-backed Q-CTRL are supported by experience in a Big-Three management consulting firm. He is a proficient networker and communicator with demonstrated ability to build connections with key stakeholders across academia, the...

2021-12-2149 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 14: Oxford Quantum Circuits CEO Ilana WisbyHost Chris Bishop, today interviews Oxford Quantum Circuits CEO Ilana Wisby. Dr. Wisby gained a PhD in quantum physics at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is responsible for building and leading the OQC team, defining and modeling the corporate values, and allocating resources to the company's priorities. Under the leadership of founding CEO Ilana Wisby, Oxford Quantum Circuits’ (OQC) strategy of pioneering the quantum computing-as-a-service (QCaaS) market neatly aligns with the UK government’s ambition of becoming a global quantum superpower while placing OQC at the forefront of transforming the sector from a deep tech frontier to a revenue-producing sect...

2021-12-0834 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 13: Pete Shadbolt, PsiQuantum Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer(QuantumTechPod) Host Chris Bishop, today interviews Pete Shadbolt, PsiQuantum Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer. Pete Shadbolt is a cofounder of PsiQuantum. As Chief Scientific Officer, Pete oversees the application and implementation of all technology and scientific related polices and procedures that are vital to the success of PsiQuantum, a Palo Alto-based startup building a general-purpose silicon photonic quantum computer. Pete earned his PhD in experimental photonic quantum computing from the University of Bristol in 2014. PsiQuantum was founded on the premise that if you want a useful quantum computer, you need fault tolerance and error correction, and therefore ~1,000,000 physical qubits– to ad...

2021-11-2342 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 12: Pri Narang, CTO and co-founder, Aliro Quantum(QuantumTechPod) Host Chris Bishop, today interviews Pri Narang, CTO and co-founder, Aliro Quantum, a Boston-based VC-backed startup working towards commercialization of quantum technologies. Aliro recently launched a series of products critical to the development of future quantum networks and scalable quantum information processing. Prineha Narang is also an Assistant Professor at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty, Prineha came to Harvard as a Ziff Fellow and worked as a Research Scholar in Condensed Matter Theory at the MIT Department of Physics. She received an M.S. and Ph...

2021-11-1630 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 11: Nir Minerbi, Classiq Technologies CEO(QuantumTechPod) Host Chris Bishop, today interviews Nir Minerbi, CEO of Classiq Technologies that brings the quantum software stack to a new level of abstraction, empowering quantum software developers and enabling the development of world-changing quantum algorithms and applications. Nir Minerbi shared his personal quantum journey as Chris asks all interviewees. "There are so many ways into quantum." A WhtsApp group helped inspire Nir and his co-founder Amir Naveh establish Classiq. IQT hopes that our conversation with Nir Minerbi, CEO of Classiq Technologies will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

2021-11-0228 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 10: Eddy Zervigon, CEO QuantumXchange(IQT.QuantumTechPod) Host Chris Bishop, today interviews Eddy Zervigon, CEO QuantumXchange. Eddy Zervigon is a seasoned senior executive with extensive operational, restructuring, and turnaround experience. Throughout his career in investment banking and corporate advisory, Zervigon has amassed an impressive track-record working with management teams to craft, refine, and execute winning business plans; hire highly effective teams; and lead successful investment monetization via sale or IPO. IQT hopes that our conversation with Eddy Zervigon, CEO QuantumXchange will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

2021-10-2030 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 9: Patty Lee, Honeywell Quantum Solutions Chief Scientist(IQT.QuantumTechPod) Host Chris Bishop, today interviews Patty Lee, Honeywell Quantum Solutions Chief Scientist. Dr. Lee leads the technology roadmap efforts at Honeywell Quantum Solutions to scale up trapped ion quantum computers. She received her PhD in physics from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she developed phase control techniques for quantum logic gates in trapped ions. Prior to joining Honeywell, she worked as an experimental physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), and Lockheed Martin. While at NIST she and her colleagues implemented the first entangling gate on ultracold atomic...

2021-10-0633 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 8: Zapata Computing CEO & Founder, Christopher Savoie(IQT.QuantumTechPod) Host Chris Bishop, today interviews Zapata Computing CEO & Founder, Christopher Savoie. Christopher Savoie is a published scholar in medicine, biochemistry, and computer science, and his research and business interests over the years have focused on the intersection of machine learning, biology, and chemistry. Christopher is the original inventor of AAOSA, the A.I.-based natural language interface technology used to develop Apple’s Siri. He has led big data analytics efforts at Nissan and has previously founded and served as CEO of technology companies that have been acquired or exited via IPO. He currently sits on the board of...

2021-09-2847 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 7: Scalable Quantum Computing with Atom Computing CEO Rob Hays(IQT.QuantumTechPod) Host Chris Bishop, today interviews Atom Computing CEO Rob Hays. Rob spent over 20 years in the computer industry while at Intel and Lenovo. Atom Computing is building quantum computers using individually controlled atoms. Atoms are nature's perfect quantum bits and can be controlled optically, without wires. IQT hopes that our conversation with Atom Computing's CEO Rob Hays will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

2021-09-2021 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 6: Qblox Co-Founder & CEO Niels Bultink(IQT.QuantumTechPod) Host Chris Bishop, today interviews Niels Bultink, Qblox Co-Founder & CEO. Niels specializes in controlling quantum computers performing the first feedback on solid-state qubits in 2012. His PhD research with Leonardo DiCarlo at TU Delft has led to more than ten scientific publications centred around fault-tolerant quantum computing with superconducting circuits. The work at QuTech enabled the control of setups with up to 50 qubits and has now found its way to the market via the company Qblox. With Qblox new and industrialized generation of control stacks, he is paving the way for quantum computer integrators worldwide to reach practical applications...

2021-09-0926 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 5: Paul Lipman, ColdQuanta(QuantumTechPod) Host Chris Bishop, today interviews Paul Lipman, President of Quantum Computing at ColdQuanta, where he leads the team "building the world’s most useful quantum computer". Paul previously led multiple successful cybersecurity companies to exit as CEO and has extensive experience leading complex global organizations and transforming cultures, sales execution and innovation delivery. He has an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and a BSc in Physics from the Victoria University of Manchester, England. Lipman shared, "Coming to ColdQuanta was a homecoming a return to my physics journey." Cold Quanta was founded in 2007 and is based on the...

2021-08-3128 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 4: Denise Ruffner, IonQInside Quantum Technology podcast host Chris Bishop speaks to Denise Ruffner, the VP for Business Development of IonQ, Inc., which is the first pure-play quantum company to go public. She is also the President of the Women in Quantum Chapter of OneQuantum, a quantum network dedicated to promoting and creating a community for the women in the quantum industry. Denise reviewed her "quantum journey" by explaining she worked at IBM for 18 years where she was an early employee of the quantum team. Her responsibilities included the startup program, the ambassador program and she gave presentations around the world about IBM...

2021-08-2322 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 3: Quantum software with whurley, StrangeworksInside Quantum Technology podcast host Chris Bishop speaks to whurley, founder and CEO of Strangeworks, here in IQT's Quantum Podcast Episode 3. whurley is the founder and CEO of Strangeworks, a quantum computing startup in Austin, Texas. Prior to starting Strangeworks, he was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs [NYSE: GS]. He came to Goldman Sachs via the acquisition of his startup, Honest Dollar. Prior to Honest Dollar, he founded Chaotic Moon Studios which was acquired by Accenture [NYSE: ACN]. whurley also currently serves as co-founder and General Partner at Ecliptic Capital. Strangeworks is a group of experienced serial entrepreneurs, enterprise s...

2021-08-0238 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod Episode 2: Quantum Systems on a Chip with Seeqc Co-Founder Matthew HutchingsMatthew Hutchings is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Seeqc. Inside Quantum Technology podcast host Chris Bishop speaks to him here via Quantum Podcast Episode 2. Hutchings begins by explaining that that Seeqc is an acronym that stands for “Scalable Energy Efficient Quantum Computing”. The discussions segues to Seeqc’s Digital Quantum Management (DQM) System-on-a-Chip linkage that binds quantum hardware with quantum algorithms and applications. By integrating critical management functions on a chip, it brings a new level of scale and cost-effectiveness, and enabling new functionalities to quantum computing. IQT hopes that our conversation with Seeqc will make this an interest...

2021-07-2328 min

IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Quantum Tech Pod, Episode 1: Lawrence Gasman, Inside Quantum Technology Founder & President

2021-07-1226 min