The Business of Quantum Tech: From Startup to IPO

This meeting,  hosted by ULCC's Tech Group in partnership with quantum clubs from IIT, Northwestern, Purdue Northwest (PNW)/West Lafayette (PWL), UChicago, UIC and UW-Madison, will feature Nick Farina, Co-founder & CEO of EeroQ, a Chicago-based company building a highly differentiated quantum computer (QC) using trapped electrons above the surface of liquid helium. 

With a decade of experience in quantum computing, Nick has served as an advisor to multiple Fortune 500 companies, VC firms, and top-tier consultancies on the development of quantum computing for business. He is an Advisory Council Member of The Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, a Quantum Computing Governance Member of the World Economic Forum, and a founding member of the U.S. Quantum Industry Coalition. He is an active angel investor in advanced tech companies such as Extropic, nodeQ, and others..

1. Vladimir Skavysh – Data Scientist and creator of the Bank of Canada’s Quantum Lab for Advanced Analytics. He’ll share his perspectives on Quantum Computing in central banking.
2. Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers – Scientist-in-Residence at Quantum City, Calgary, and Founder of Pauli Group. He’ll discuss Quantum Cryptanalysis of Elliptic Curve Cryptography and explain how cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin might serve as the canaries for large-scale quantum computers when they arrive. 

This inaugural meeting,  hosted by ULCC's Tech Group in partnership with quantum clubs from UChicago, UIC, Northwestern and Purdue, will feature Dr. Benjamin Hall, Quantum Computing Scientist at Infleqtion, specializing in quantum algorithms and compilation.

Dr. Hall holds a dual Ph.D. in Physics and CMSE (Computational Math, Science, and Engineering) from Michigan State University and B.S. in Physics and Applied Mathematics from the University of Rochester. His doctoral research was in the application and optimization of near-term quantum algorithms for many-body nuclear physics. His extensive quantum background was further developed through research conducted at the NASA Ames Research Center, as well as Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Argonne National Labs. In his current role at Infleqtion, Ben has helped expand the capabilities of Q-CHOP, a novel quantum annealing algorithm for constrained optimization problems, developed a novel algorithm for a non-linear product of a set of quantum states, and invented an efficient way to detect and map star topologies to linear topologies for near term quantum hardware.

 This workshop aims to bring together researchers, experts, industry practitioners, visionary leaders, and relevant government agencies and to identify key challenges and facilitate discussions on the current state of the art in quantum computing.