Faye and James chat to Ilyas Khan, Founder of Cambridge Quantum and Chief Product Officer of Quantinuum. The conversation covers a range of topics starting with how Stephen Hawking led Ilyas on a mission to make quantum accessible and understandable resulting in a best selling book 'Quantum In Pictures' published in February 2023.
With country after country committing to a programme to commercialise and industrialise Quantum computing, no one wants to get left behind, and this Cambridge-born company has a huge part to play.
Ilyas talks about profound and significant uses of quantum in areas such as material/pharmaceutical discovery, cyber security and natural language processing that will make ChatGPT look like an abacus.
Tune in to hear about Quantinuum’s journey and its approach as a science-led, enterprise driven business, and how Ilyas steadfastly refused to be bought and his desire to demonstrate that Cambridge (and Britain) can produce a deep science company that can be a world-leader that doesn’t sell out or dilute its founders to an inequitable level.
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