My latest Quantum Tech Pod with Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, Founder and CEO of quantum company Nu Quantum, is live!  Carmen grew up in Spain and received an MSc in Physics from Imperial College London and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.  Nu Quantum was a spin-out of the University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory in 2018. They are building the entanglement fabric required to enable large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers.  Their approach is to interconnect many...

My latest Quantum Tech Pod with Jan Goetz, Co-CEO of leading quantum company IQM Quantum Computers is live!  Jan is a quantum physicist who earned his superconducting quantum circuits doctorate at Technical University of Munich. His company IQM Quantum Computers was founded in 2018 and is building Finland’s first commercial 54-qubit quantum computer using superconducting transmon qubits working with VTT and an IQM-led consortium. IQM aims to provide on-premises quantum computers for...

My latest Quantum Tech Pod with Peter Chapman, President and CEO, of leading quantum computing company, IonQ, is live!  Peter had an atypical childhood. He grew up near the Johnson Space Center in Houston because his father was an astronaut who used to fly over the house in his trainer jet. In high school, Peter went to study with the well-known cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky at the AI lab at MIT because he wasn’t being challenged enough in school. He said that IonQ chose ions as...

My latest Quantum Tech Pod with Maud Vinet, Co-founder and CEO of quantum computing company Quobly, is live!  Dr. Vinet received her Ph.D. in quantum physics from the University of Grenoble Alpes and has authored or co-authored over 300 papers. She owns more than 70 patents related to nanotechnology, and her Google H index is 57, with more than 11,000 citations. Plus - she's a Knight of the French Legion of Honor! She also founded Quobly in November 2022.  Quobly is based in Grenoble,...

My latest Quantum Tech Pod with Elie Girard, Executive Chairman of quantum company Alice & Bob, is live!  Elie has over 20 years of leadership experience in various companies, including his most recent role as CEO and director at Atos. His company, Alice & Bob, focuses on cat qubits, a novel approach that enables them to reduce hardware requirements for building fault-tolerant quantum computers by up to 200 times compared to other current solutions. Elie shared his...

My latest Quantum Tech Pod with Ken Durazzo, VP of tech company Dell Research, is live!  Prior to joining Dell Research, Ken worked at Cisco for 20 years on myriad technologies. In 2016, he started leading research into quantum at Dell. At Dell Research, Ken's current focus includes hybrid quantum computing, quantum-safe cryptography, as well as generative AI, human-machine interfaces, and heterogeneous computing acceleration and virtualization. His take on the current state of...

My latest Quantum Tech Pod episode with Kurt Stokbro, CEO of quantum company Sparrow Quantum is live!  Sparrow Quantum is a quantum photonics company based in Copenhagen, founded in 2016 by Professor Peter Lodahl. It is widely recognized as a leader in single photon sources, achieving the world's highest light matter coupling efficiency. Kurt is the CEO and is also a major investor in Sparrow Quantum.  Kurt grew up in a small town in Denmark and studied quantum mechanics at the Niels...

My latest Quantum Tech Pod with Grégoire Ribordy, CEO of ID Quantique (IDQ)is live!  Gregoire went to EPFL (Écolepolytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) - the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - where he studied physics. After working for a year in Japan at Nikon, the camera company, he returned to Switzerland in the mid-90s.  Interesting back story: Just before 2000, one of the very first quantum companies called Magic Technologies, founded in Boston, was going around the world trying...

Chris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Kristin M. Gilkes, Ph.D., Global Quantum Leader at EY, is live! Kristin has a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences and a graduate diploma in artificial intelligence from the University of Oxford. She also has an MBA from the University of Colorado and a BBA in computer science from Texas A&M University. She and her team at EY have built a quantum center of excellence to help governments and institutions worldwide design their quantum strategy...

Christopher Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Niels Bultink, CEO and Co-Founder of Qblox, a leading quantum company, is live!  Chris first spoke to Niels almost two years ago and wanted to check in to see what he and his team have been up to. Qblox provides quantum control stacks that combine unequaled noise performance and low-latency arbitrary control flows and can be scaled up to support hundreds of qubits. They have delivered over 100 systems worldwide - in the US, Europe, and...

Christopher Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Vanesa Diaz, CEO of quantum computing company LuxQuanta is live! Vanesa grew up in a small village in the north of Spain and because she was good at math, she eventually got a degree in engineering. Her early career found her in tech roles, but she wanted to spend less time in the lab and more time with customers and developing business strategies. So, she moved to Australia and got a Master’s degree in marketing and business! When she...

Christopher Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Théau Peronnin, CEO and Co-Founder of Alice & Bob, is live!   As a student, Théau was into both physics and electronics. An innovator to the core, he competed in the International Young Physicist tournament but soon realized he was 50 years too late to develop new groundbreaking low level electronics. Quantum computers provided the perfect setting for him to apply his passion for physics with his desire to innovate.   His...

To celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Christopher Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod is a conversation with Konstantinos Karagiannis, Director of Quantum Computing Services at Protiviti. Konstantinos has been involved in the quantum computing industry since 2012 and has worked in information security since the 1990s. Protiviti is a global business consulting firm that helps companies address quantum opportunities and threats. Their clients include more than 80 percent of the Fortune...

Christopher Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with John Levy, CEO, Chair and Co-Founder of Seeqc is live! Seeqc was spun out of Hypres in 2018 where John had served as Chair for 8 years and where he remains a board member. His company is one of the first to have built a superconductor, multi-layer commercial chip foundry to design, test, and manufacture quantum-ready superconductors. Seeqc recently announced a partnership with NVIDIA to build the world’s first fully digital chip-based...

Christopher Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod is a roundtable discussion on the exciting state of quantum sensors. Guests included Stuart Woods, Chief Operating and Strategy Officer, Quantum Exponential ; Niall Holmes, Founder and Scientific Advisor, Cerca Magnetics Limited, and Pete Stirling, CEO at Delta g. Cerca Magnetics Limited has created OPM-MEG - the world's most advanced functional brain scanner – an integrated, #3D printable wearable device leveraging quantum sensors to provide “a...

Christopher Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Yonatan Cohen, Co-Founder and CTO, Quantum Machines is live! Dr. Cohen is a quantum physicist, entrepreneur and co-founder and ex-managing director of the entrepreneurship program at The Weizmann Institute of Science in Tel Aviv. He founded Quantum Machines in 2018. His company just announced OPX1000 – The Quantum Control Solution for Large-Scale Quantum Computing. This device leads the industry in key performance metrics including...

Chris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Dr. Stephanie Simmons, Chief Quantum Officer at Photonic is live! Stephanie describes herself as a “quantum native” - she was a huge nerd growing up and was upset that her parents only introduced her to programming at age nine! She came across quantum when she was 16 and has been heads down into it ever since. She is looking forward to a future with many more quantum natives! Her perspective is that human progress is always anchored in the...

Chris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Si-Hui Tan, Chief Science Officer at Horizon Quantum Computing is live! Dr. Tan has a Bachelor of Science with honors in Physics from Caltech and PhD in Physics from MIT. Prior to joining Horizon, she spent 5 years as a researcher at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Dr. Tan also spent a year as a Visiting Professor at the Niels Bohr International Academy at the University of Copenhagen. Horizon’s approach allows users to...

Chris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Antti Vasara, President & CEO of VTT is live! VTT is a state-owned and controlled non-profit, limited liability company based in Helsinki, Finland with over 2000 people. It is one of Europe’s leading research, development and innovation institutions. Almost two years ago, the VTT Technical Research Centre deployed Finland’s first operational 5-qubit quantum computer in partnership with hardware start-up IQM. The roadmap lays out a plan to...

Chris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Duncan Earl, President & CTO of Qubitekk, Inc., and David Wade, President & CEO, EPB is live! Chris led a roundtable discussion on the exciting partnership between EPB and Qubitekk to develop the EBP Quantum Network in Chattanooga, Tennessee - America’s first industry-led, commercially available quantum network. EPB Quantum Network offers quantum-as-a-service to provide quantum technologists with fiber optic infrastructure using the...

Chris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Aurélie Hélouis, CEO and Founder infinityQ Technology Inc is live! At age 24, Aurélie was the Deputy Head Officer of the Rafale jet aircraft maintenance workshop for the French navy where she served for 16 years. After moving to Montreal, she received her MBA from McGill and then worked at the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute where in 2019, she founded infinityQ. Aurélie described how skills she learned in the Navy have helped her as a...

Chris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Alexander Keesling, CEO, QuEra Computing Inc. is live! Alex is an expert in quantum computing and quantum simulation with neutral atoms. While at #Harvard , he pioneered the development of programmable Rydberg atom arrays into a leading technology for quantum information processing. Among his accomplishments are the creation and coherent control of systems with hundreds of neutral atom qubits as well as the demonstration of high-fidelity...

Chris Bishop’s latest Quantum Tech Pod with Matt Johnson, Co-Founder and CEO, QC Ware is live! Matt was a captain in the Air Force on active duty for five years and then worked as a managing director in private equity at Apollo Management. His company, QC Ware, is a quantum and classical computing software and services company focused on delivering enterprise value through cutting-edge computational technology. With specialization in machine learning and chemistry simulation...