Brance Hudzietz will speak at the Austin Forum on Technology & Society Quantum Computing Meetup on September 26th in Austin, TX.

Quantum computing promises the potential to solve tremendously challenging real-world problems that are unaddressable by traditional, or classical, computing machines today, tomorrow, and maybe forever. However, while the principles of quantum mechanics are well understood, building reliable, large-scale quantum computing presents tremendous engineering challenges. Furthermore, discovering optimal quantum computing algorithms and developing effective quantum computing applications is also important if quantum supremacy--or quantum advantage, or quantum value--compared to classical computing is to be achieved. Still, while we're in the early days of quantum computing, there are exciting developments and tantalizing results almost weekly that provide reasons for great optimism (and, unfortunately, hype) that quantum computing systems from one or more vendors will achieve quantum value on useful problems in the very new future--and that more widespread quantum advantage may be achievable in years, not decades. So, the excitement is high and the time is now to learn about this transformational technology and understand how you can best evaluate it for your business, or contribute to its advancement and adoption.

Please join us as quantum computing professionals from several quantum computing companies and labs explain their companies' approaches, results, and directions, and which domains, verticals, and companies/organizations are aggressively pursuing quantum computing for new solutions. Then, mix and mingle with quantum computing experts and enthusiasts to learn more and make relationships that will help you and/or your company track this technology and be among the first to use it for innovation and competitive advantages.

This meetup will be held at Remedy, located on the first floor of The 360 Tower, Ste 30.

Public street parking is available, as well as paid garage parking at State of Texas Garage N located at 300 San Antonio St, Austin, TX 78701.

Speakers

• Scott Aaronson, Chair of Computer Science, Schlumberger. Scott Aaronson is Schlumberger Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, and founding director of its Quantum Information Center.  He received his bachelor's from Cornell University and his PhD from UC Berkeley.  Before coming to UT Austin, he spent nine years as a professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.  Aaronson's research in theoretical computer science has focused mainly on the capabilities and limits of quantum computers.  His first book, Quantum Computing Since Democritus, was published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press. He received the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award, the United States PECASE Award, the Tomassoni-Chisesi Prize in Physics, and the ACM Prize in Computing, and is a Fellow of the ACM and the AAAS.

• Brance Hudzietz, Infleqtion. Hudzietz maintains a robust network of government, academic, technology, and capital partners across the country who are key to and share a common vision of a world radically evolved through quantum sensors, information, and computing. As Director of Partnerships at Infleqtion, Hudzietz serves as the liaison between Infleqtion and current and prospective partners, strengthening collaboration, building strategic alliances, and driving business growth. Prior to joining Infleqtion, Hudzietz worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence for the Army Applications Lab, the leading innovation organization of the U.S. Army, where he built relationships between non-traditional government innovators to support the Army's modernization priorities. Prior to this, Hudzietz served as Ambassador of Emerging Technologies for Capital Factory, Texas' premier early-stage technology accelerator and venture fund. There, he spent eight years advising large organizations on how to best leverage early-stage technologies for institutional innovation.

• William "whurley" Hurley, Founder and CEO, Strangeworks. whurley is founder and CEO of Strangeworks, an Eisenhower Fellow, a Senior Member of the IEEE, founder of the Quantum Computing Standards Workgroup at the IEEE, the first Ambassador to CERN and Society, and the co-author of "Quantum Computing For Babies” and the upcoming “Quantum Computing for Dummies” (available for pre-order now). Prior to starting Strangeworks he was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs [NYSE: GS]. He came to Goldman Sachs via the acquisition of his second startup, Honest Dollar. Prior to Honest Dollar whurley founded Chaotic Moon Studios which was acquired by Accenture [NYSE: ACN].

• Philip Farah, VP Sales, Industries and Strategic Relationships, IonQ. As VP Sales, Industries and Strategic Partnerships at IonQ, Philip Farah is responsible for developing IonQ’s strategic partnerships with a focus on revenue growth and on strengthening IonQ’s position at the center of the Quantum Computing Ecosystem. Prior to joining IonQ, Philip ran Services and Engineering Sales, Global Accounts for Worldwide Technology, a leading systems integrator and IT infrastructure value-added reseller. Philip started his career in the US as a consultant with McKinsey & Co, and has held several leadership roles at Gartner (Senior Managing Partner, Financial Services), Cisco Systems (head of Global FSI Innovation strategy practice), and Capital One Financial (head of Recoveries Analytics).

• Wil Oxford, Founder and CEO, Anametric. Wil is founder and CEO of Anametric, Inc. Based out of Austin TX, Anametric has been building Quantum Photonic chips for the cybersecurity market for the last 6 years and their chips are a key part of Leidos’ DARPA QuANET program effort. In addition to Leidos, Anametric also works closely with teams from Southern Methodist University (Dallas TX), the Air Force Research Lab (Rome NY) and the Army Research Lab (Adelphi MD).

• Avinash Palaniswamy, Quantinuum

• Sumit Puri, IBM

• Kartik Dixit, D-Wave Systems

• Varun Dixit, ORCA Computing