IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast

Chris 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

Chris 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

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.

(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. PROFILE OF MARKUS PFLITSCH, CEO AND FOUNDER TERRA QUANTUM Markus is a dedicated quantum physicist, senior financial executive and deep tech entrepreneur. He believes in the competitive advantage of quantum tech and is committed to support the European ecosystem to unlock its value. Since he was 14 years old, Markus has been a quantum physics enthusiast. He built on that passion, studying mathematics and physics, and accomplished a research career at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Before founding Terra Quantum in 2018, his curious mind and business acumen led him to pursue his profession in the business and finance industry. Starting at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Europe and North America, he applied his expertise in the financial services industry. He spent additional years working as chief financial officer and senior executive in various corporations (Deutsche Bank, UniCredit), as well as owner-managed digital and high-tech companies. Ultimately, he decided to leverage his expertise in quantum physics, business and finance to become an entrepreneur in the quantum tech space. He founded Terra Quantum AG, a deep tech pioneer commercializing quantum tech applications. Markus is senior advisor to private equity funds and member of the “Baden-Badener Unternehmergespräche” (BBUG), a German institution which helps cultivate the next generation of executive leaders by bringing together decision makers from business, politics and society. ABOUT Terra Quantum Terra Quantum develops revolutionary deep tech applications based on quantum computing, hardware, software and algorithms. From its base in Switzerland, Terra Quantum has invested 2 years and substantial funding into building and developing a leading-edge QuantumTech project portfolio with IP and legal rights. The company has attracted top level institutional investment, including a prestigious early stage venture capital firm, and has also received funding from a number of highly regarded business angels and private investors.

Quantum 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 also a fellow of St Edmund’s College, Quantinuum is a result of the combination of two leaders in the global eco-system for quantum computing: Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Cambridge Quantum. This new investment and business collaboration provides an example of how Quantinuum is poised to accelerate the development of quantum computing and innovation of quantum technologies to deliver real-world quantum-enabled solutions for some of the most intractable problems that classical computers have not been able to solve. Quantum Tech Pod hopes that our conversation with will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

Quantum 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 market. POLARISqb will own an IP portfolio of drug assets to license, sell, or develop internally. Quantum Tech Pod hopes that our conversation with will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

Quantum 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 quantum control and computational methods as well as finance means it can secure maximum results from current quantum devices. Its flagship product, Singularity, allows financial professionals to leverage quantum computing with common software tools. The company is headquartered in San Sebastian, Spain with offices in Toronto, Canada and Paris. IQT hopes that our conversation with Sam Mugel will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

Quantum 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 experimental physicist, then a masters in optical engineering and his path was working with photons. He was accepted for PhD at U of Constance in Germany, at that time the center of quantum optics in Europe. That's where I started my journey in quantum optics and quantum memories. IQT hopes that our conversation with Dr. Eden Figeuroa will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

Quantum 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 Rigetti will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

(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 University of Stuttgart, Germany. Quantum Brilliance is a venture-backed Australian-German quantum computing hardware company, providing diamond quantum accelerators supported by a full stack of software and application tools. Quantum Brilliance’s vision to enable mass deployment of quantum accelerators will propel industries to harness edge computing applications and next generation supercomputers. Quantum Brilliance’s international partnerships extend into North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific, working with governments, supercomputing centres, research organisations and industry leaders.

(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 corporate sector, and government. Professor Michael J. Biercuk is a global science and technology innovator building the greenfield quantum technology industry. He leads teams in both the technology industry and academia, with a focus on commercializing quantum technologies including quantum computing and quantum sensing. Michael completed is Masters and Phd at Harvard University. With international headquarters in Sydney, Los Angeles, and Berlin, Q-CTRL is building the quantum technology industry by overcoming the fundamental challenge in the field – hardware error and instability. Q-CTRL’s quantum control infrastructure software for R&D professionals and quantum computing end users delivers the highest performance error-suppressing techniques globally, and provides a unique capability accelerating the pathway to the first useful quantum computers.

Host 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 sector. IQT hopes that our conversation with Ilana Wisbywill, Oxford Quantum Circuits CEO will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

(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 address commercially useful quantum computing applications. While there are many different approaches to building small numbers of qubits, the photonic approach taken by PsiQuantum has profound technical advantages at the scale required for error correction. IQT hopes that our conversation with Pete Shadbolt, PsiQuantum Co-Founder and CSO will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

(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.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). IQT hopes that our conversation with Pri Narang, CTO and co-founder, Aliro Quantum will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

(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.

(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.

(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 qubits in an optical lattice, and her research at ARL used cold atoms as quantum memory for a quantum network. Since joining Honeywell in 2016, her work has focused on the quantum charge-coupled device (QCCD) architecture for trapped ion quantum computers. IQT hopes that our conversation with Patty Lee, Honeywell Quantum Solutions Chief Scientist will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

(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 the US Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C). IQT hopes that our conversation with Zapata Computing CEO & Founder, Christopher Savoie will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

(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.

(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 in quantum computing. Niels is co-founder and CEO of Qblox, he is responsible for General Management, Sales, Fundraising, IP growth and HR. IQT hopes that our conversation with Niels Bultink will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

(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 1924 Bose Condensate. Dr. Dana Anderson, the founder at U of Colorado Boulder founded ColdQuanta to commercialize the technology such as the quantum computer. Dr. Anderson was colleagues with Drs. Cornell and Wieman at the University of Boulder and collaborated on the use of cold atoms to make practical things. In 2007, Dr. Anderson co-founded ColdQuanta and became its CTO. Dr. Mark Saffman was one of Dana's students and, after moving to the University of Wisconsin, joined ColdQuanta as its Chief Scientist with a focus on the Cold Atom Quantum Computer. Many of CQ’s scientists and engineers were students and colleagues of Drs. Anderson and Saffman. Lipman explained the name "Hilbert" for ColdQuanta' quantum computer. David Hilbert was a famous German mathematician and he invented the concept of infinite mathematical space named "Hilbert Space." So it is fitting to be naming a quantum computer after this mathematician. IQT hopes that our conversation with Paul Lipman will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

Inside 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 Quantum. At that time, Denise wanted to try something more entrepreneurial and first went to quantum software and then after a year to IonQ, which is a "different modality" than IBM. Basics of IonQ solution. . IonQ makes a quantum compouter modality trapped Ions. She explained that the 'Trapped Ion solution runs at room temperature and reduces the size of device. IonQ has an aggressive road map, Denice emphasized. She also discussed IonQ's application team and said she is "very impressed with the applications team" and commented "They move projects along very quickly". Denise also shared that she grew up in Southern California and her mother is a physicist. IQT hopes that our conversation with Denise Ruffner will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

Inside 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 software developers, and quantum physicists headquartered in Austin who seek to humanize quantum computing and make it accessible to everyone. By guiding companies through the confusion of quantum computing, Strangeworks helps accelerate the integration of this new technology in corporations, universities, and enterprises. IQT hopes that our conversation with whurley will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

Matthew 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 interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.