IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast

Chris 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.

Chris 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.

(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.

(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.”

(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.

Chris 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 President, Quantum Growth and Markets, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM will deliver the Diamond Sponsor Keynote to IQT San Diego on May 10 at 8:55 IBM is Diamond Sponsor of IQT-San Diego "The World's Quantum Enterprise" event May 10-12, 2022

(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.

(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 specialises in Board Search and Chairman Advisory. The Firm advises companies with a global outlook drawing on the experience of a multilingual and multidisciplinary team.

(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 Robert has served as president, CEO, and chairman of Quantum Computing Inc. since February 2018, bringing to the company more than 35 years of executive experience at public and private companies, and federal agencies. He has extensive experience developing critical programs for protecting national security interests and essential infrastructure, as well as in crisis management, organizational development, and strategic planning. Robert’s public sector experience includes time in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of State, the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, and he served on the Intelligence ScienceBoard supporting the CIA and NIA. On the private sector side, Robert has held roles at Implant Sciences, Coca-Cola Company, and Orion Scientific Systems. Robert currently serves on the board of technical advisors for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the board of the National Child Protection Task Force. He received his Bachelor of Science from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. About Quantum Computing Inc. Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) (NASDAQ:QUBT), is a classical and quantum software vendor, offering ready-to-run software for complex optimization computations. The company’s flagship software solution, Qatalyst, is the industry’s only quantum application accelerator, empowering today’s programmers to immediately leverage the power of quantum techniques for faster, better and more diverse solutions, with no need for quantum expertise or training. Qatalyst empowers today’s subject matter experts (SMEs) to leverage the power of quantum techniques for faster, better, and more diverse business decisions - with no need for quantum expertise.QCI was founded in 2018 by leaders in supercomputing, mathematics, and massively parallel programming to solve the enormous software development challenges inherent with quantum computing. The company realized that the complex SDK programming for quantum software doesn’t work for non-quantum experts and decided to fix that for today's users.

(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 left a tenured faculty position at Singapore University of Technology and Design to found Horizon Quantum Computing in 2018. Drawing on over 15 years’ experience in quantum computing and computational complexity theory, his goal is to make quantum computing a general-purpose computing technology, capable of addressing some of the world’s most challenging computational problems. Joe received a BSc in Theoretical Physics from University College Dublin and a DPhil from Oxford, where he went on to become a fellow of Merton College. Dr. Fitzsimons has been named as a National Research Foundation Fellow and to the MIT Technology Review’s list of Innovators Under 35 Asia. His company Horizon Quantum Computing is pioneering an approach to quantum computing that allows users to write programs in classical languages that can be compiled and run on conventional or quantum computers, without any knowledge in quantum computing. By removing the need for prior quantum computing experience, Horizon’s tools will democratize the development of quantum-enhanced applications, making the power of quantum computing accessible to every software developer. About Horizon Computing Horizon Computing is working to democratise quantum computing applications for businesses by removing the need for quantum algorithms knowledge for software developers. For that, Horizon Computing is building a compiler that automatically constructs quantum algorithms from classical code. The company was founded in 2018 in Singapore by Dr Joe Fitzsimons, DPhil from Oxford, a specialist in quantum computing and computational complexity theory with over 15 years of experience. The leadership team also includes Dr Si-Hui Tan, PhD from MIT, who has been actively involved in quantum research for 15 years. A seed round led by SGInnovate and seed-plus led by Sequoia Capital India allowed our company to bring its financing to SGD 4.5 million (USD 3.23 million). Other investors include Abies Ventures, DCVC, Qubit Protocol, Summer Capital and Posa CV.