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Classical Reversible Computing on Quantum Dots with Daniel Loss

Daniel Loss is RDIA Chair Professor of Quantum Computing and Director of the Quantum Center at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia, where this

Quantum-Inspired AI and Tensor Network Compression with Román Orús

Román Orús is one of the rare physicists who built a foundational mathematical tool — tensor networks — and then watched it become the engine of a unicorn. His 2013 intro

Quantum Workforce Intelligence from qubitsok.com with Piotr Lewandowski

Piotr Lewandowski is a software engineer based in Poland who, as a side project, has built something that no well-funded research institute has: a continuously updated, o

Quantum Risk, Readiness, and the Enterprise Boardroom with Richard Entrup

Richard Entrup is unusual in quantum circles: he's not a physicist, and he doesn't pretend to be. He spent decades as a CIO, CTO, CDO, and CISO at organizations including

Silicon Spin Qubits and the IBM–HRL Acquisition with Thaddeus D. Ladd

Thaddeus Ladd has spent seventeen years at HRL as the theoretical anchor of its silicon spin qubit program — co-authoring the 2023 Nature paper that demonstrated universa

Quantum in the Big Four with Aaron Kemp

Aaron Kemp sits at an unusual intersection. He holds a doctorate in cybersecurity, spent years in DoD classified environments running SCI and SAP facilities, and now lead

Investing in the Quantum Frontier and the Road to Fault Tolerance with Barak Bussel

Barak Bussel is one of the few people operating simultaneously at three levels of the quantum stack: deploying private capital into hardware and software companies throug

Building the U.S. Quantum Supply Chain with Kate Timmerman

Kate Timmerman is the CEO of the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE), and she is arguably one of the most consequential ecosystem builders in quantum today. Under her leadersh

The Open Source Substrate for Quantum with Ben Castanon

Ben Castanon became Unitary Foundation's first CEO in February 2026, after roughly four years with the organization as Chief of Staff and then COO. He came into quantum f

Quantum Cameras and Sub-Diffraction Imaging with Johannes Galatsanos

Johannes Galatsanos occupies an unusual dual perch in the quantum ecosystem. As a co-author of the inaugural MIT Quantum Index Report, he's helped map the entire quantum

Episode 100: Live at Barnes & Thornburg — Reflections on the First 100 Episodes

This is the 100th episode of The New Quantum Era, and it arrives at a moment of convergence: the book is out, the Helgoland centennial documentary is in production, regio

Quantum EDA for Ion Trap Design with Daniel Faircloth

Daniel Faircloth, PhD is an unusual figure in the quantum ecosystem: a computational electromagnetics engineer who actually helped build trapped-ion hardware before pivot

Electrons on Superfluid Helium with Nick Farina

EeroQ is unusual in two ways. It's the only company in the world commercializing electrons-on-helium qubits, a modality first proposed by Platzman and Dykman in Science i

Quantum Drug Discovery and the Path to Advantage with Sabrina Maniscalco

Why This Episode Matters Sabrina Maniscalco is one of the few people in quantum who has lived the full arc: two decades of academic work on open quantum systems and non-

Funding the Quantum Middle: Series A/B Capital with Kris Naudts and Zeynep Koruturk of Firgun Ventures

Why This Episode Matters Firgun Ventures launched in late 2025 with a $70M first close anchored by the Qatar Investment Authority and a mandate that doesn't exist anywhe

Quantum Book Launch with Yuval Boger

Why This Episode Matters Yuval has a rare profile in the quantum industry: an M.Sc. in physics from Tel Aviv University, an MBA from Kellogg, two decades as a CEO and CM

Fault Tolerance for Quantum Inputs and Outputs with Matthias Christandl

Fault Tolerance for Quantum Inputs and Outputs with Matthias Christandl Why This Episode Matters Most discussions of fault tolerance quietly assume a classical-in, clas

Philosophy of Physics Meets Quantum Engineering with Elise Crull

Philosophy of Physics Meets Quantum Engineering with Elise Crull Why This Episode Matters Elise Crull is Associate Professor of Philosophy at CCNY and the CUNY Graduate

The Quantum Control Stack with Niels Bultink

Why This Episode Matters Niels Bultink earned his PhD at QuTech under Leonardo DiCarlo, where he performed some of the first real-time feedback experiments on solid-stat

Hardware-Faithful Digital Twins for Quantum Computing with Izhar Medalsy

Hardware-Faithful Digital Twins for Quantum Computing with Izhar Medalsy Izhar Medalsy is not a career qubit theorist. His path runs from a physical chemistry PhD and an