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 Quan...
Apr 05, 2023•33 min
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 chi...
Mar 29, 2023•43 min
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 per...
Mar 22, 2023•40 min
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 capab...
Mar 08, 2023•25 min
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 an...
Feb 28, 2023•29 min
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 ...
Feb 01, 2023•48 min
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 develope...
Jan 04, 2023•56 min
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 c...
Dec 07, 2022•42 min
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 ...
Nov 16, 2022•58 min
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 di...
Nov 02, 2022•43 min
Chris 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 dig...
Oct 12, 2022•41 min
Chris 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, ...
Sep 28, 2022•38 min
Chris 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 superc...
Sep 07, 2022•30 min
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 a...
Aug 25, 2022•48 min
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 t...
Aug 10, 2022•38 min
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 dil...
Jul 27, 2022•29 min
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 hard...
Jul 13, 2022•26 min
(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 wit...
Jun 08, 2022•30 min
(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 “everl...
Jun 01, 2022•27 min
(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 qu...
May 18, 2022•24 min
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 jus...
May 04, 2022•41 min
(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...
Apr 27, 2022•26 min
(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 intera...
Apr 20, 2022•31 min
(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...
Mar 30, 2022•43 min
(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...
Mar 23, 2022•36 min
(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 ...
Mar 16, 2022•35 min
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. Il...
Mar 03, 2022•45 min
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 Medici...
Mar 02, 2022•29 min
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 quant...
Feb 24, 2022•29 min
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 hap...
Feb 09, 2022•38 min
