Quantum Tech Pod

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, offering new role models to inspire the next generation of the quantum workforce and encourage them to break current stereotypes. You can order the book on Amazon. Check out this very interesting conversation! #quantumcomputing #QSI #JILA Inside Quantum Technology #IQT

Chris 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 so-called ‘dressed’ qubits that rock back and forth like a metronome rather than spinning in circles – delivering coherence times of more than 230 microseconds. Take a listen to this great conversation! #diraq #quantumdots #siliconqubits #ARC #quantumcomputing Inside Quantum Technology #IQT

Chris 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 Lab at NASA Ames – over 8 years ago! Today, D-Wave is the only company developing both annealing and gate-model quantum computers. Take a listen to this fascinating conversation! @DWavesystems #quantumannealing #quantumcomputing Inside Quantum Technology #IQT

Chris 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

Inside 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 leads IBM’s Quantum Safe Team focused on securing the world’s digital infrastructure for the era of quantum computing. Take a listen to this great conversation! @IBMQuantum IBMQuantumSafe #BlackHistoryMonth #HBCU #quantumsafe #PQC #quantumcomputing Inside Quantum Technology

Chris 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 temps - and Albert - a cloud-accessible BEC implementation specifically targeting the development of sensing (inertial and RF) and quantum signal processing. Take a listen to this great conversation! #BEC #Bose-Einstein Condensate #coldatoms #hilbert #albert #quantumcomputing #quantumsensing #IQT #Fermi InsideQuantumTechnology

Chris 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 quantum-driven solutions in biopharma, materials science, and battery chemistry. Take a listen to this great conversation! #quantumcomputing #quantumencryption #SNDL #Alphabet Inside Quantum Technology #IQT #sandboxaq

Chris 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 High School students. Look for it on Amazon. And take a listen to the conversation! #quantumcomputing #QNLP #quantumphysics #quantuminformationscience #TKET #quantumstudents Inside Quantum Technology  Quantum in Pictures Coecke's book available soon on Kindle, and early January paper copies

Chris 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 $8M, led by Airbus Ventures, with additional participation from Quantonation and SandboxAQ. Check out the conversation! #quantumnetwork #quantummemory #quantumrepeaters #quantumcomputing

Chris 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 excited about the fact that #TKET, their advanced software developer kit, has been downloaded over 500K times. Check out the conversation! #quantumcomputing #quantum #quantumsoftware #quantumhardware