qBraid HAQS ❯ MIT + Deloitte

​WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 2 ❯ 11am-12:30pm US-EST
MIT and Deloitte

​qBraid HAQS! Tune in on Wednesday!

​A Brief Introduction to Optimisation in the Wild!
Dr. Will Oliver (MIT) ❯ 11am US-EST

A Consultancy’s Perspective on the Quantum Future!
Dr. Barbara Wellmann (Deloitte) ❯ 12pm US-EST

​Dr. William Oliver is appointed Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer-Science, Professor of Physics, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He serves as the inaugural Director of the MIT Center for Quantum Engineering and as Associate Director of the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics. Will’s research interests and expertise include the Materials, Fabrication, Design, and implementation of superconducting qubit processors, as well as the development of cryogenic packaging and control electronics for extensible Quantum Computing applications.
Will is an avid public speaker, technical lecturer, educator, entrepreneur, and coauthor of more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts on quantum science and technology. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS Physics), Senior Member of the IEEE, serves on the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee and the US Committee for Superconducting Electronics, and was a coauthor of the 2019 The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus study report entitled, “Quantum Computing: Progress and Prospects”. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Stanford University in 2003.

​Dr. Barbara Wellmann is the Lead of Quantum.Link, Deloitte / Deloitte Consulting Germany’s technology consulting unit focusing on quantum technologies and its implications for the future of businesses and industries. She helps clients to leverage the benefits and to understand the risks of quantum and develops suitable long-term implementation strategies in a business context. Her particular aim is to develop ecologically sensible and sustainable concepts. Barbara completed her PhD in applied laser physics at the MQ Photonics Research Centre in Sydney, Australia. Before joining Deloitte she worked at the boutique consultancy Förderbar focusing on disruptive startup incubation and innovation projects and at DB mindbox, the startup hub of Deutsche Bahn. She combines extensive innovation management and digitization expertise with industry experiences and a passion for new digital business models.