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 ...
Jan 27, 2022•44 min
(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 quantu...
Jan 19, 2022•34 min
(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-cap...
Dec 21, 2021•49 min
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 gove...
Dec 08, 2021•34 min
(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 computin...
Nov 23, 2021•42 min
(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...
Nov 16, 2021•30 min
(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 ...
Nov 02, 2021•29 min
(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...
Oct 20, 2021•30 min
(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 a...
Oct 06, 2021•34 min
(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 eff...
Sep 28, 2021•48 min
(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.
Sep 20, 2021•21 min
(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...
Sep 09, 2021•26 min
(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 ...
Aug 31, 2021•28 min
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. He...
Aug 23, 2021•22 min
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: AC...
Aug 02, 2021•39 min
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 funct...
Jul 23, 2021•29 min
Jul 12, 2021•26 min
