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Quantum Industry Talks: Quantum Security

Join Peter Mountney, Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence at UCL and UCLQ Honorary Research Fellow, for a series of talks on the latest industry-led developments and advances in quantum technology.

26 November 2020

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  • Quantum Industry Talks: Quantum Security

HOST: Peter Mountney

SPEAKERS: Andrew Lord | BT , Chris Erven | KETS and Ramy Aboushelbaya | Quantum Dice

TIME & VENUE: Thursday | 3 December, 2020 | 13:00 PM | Online / Virtual event, via ZOOM

TITLE: Quantum Industry Talks - Quantum Security

ABSTRACT: 

Join Peter Mountney, Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence at UCL and UCLQ honorary research fellow, for a series of talks on the latest industry-led developments and advances in quantum technology.

You can watch our last talk where we discussed quantum computing hardware on YouTube.

Our next talk in this series explores the advances and development of quantum security and communication with:

Andrew Lord

Senior Manager, Optical Research at BT

Andrew joined BT in 1985 after a BA in Physics from Oxford University. He has worked on a wide range of optical network systems, including long haul subsea and terrestrial DWDM. He currently heads BT’s optical research including quantum communications.

Chris Erven

CEO at KETS
Chris is the CEO and founder of KETS. He has been thinking about quantum encryption for over 12 years since he started building these systems experimentally. He is current director of the Quantum Technology Enterprise Centre at the University of Bristol.

Ramy Aboushelbaya

CEO at Quantum Dice
Ramy is the CEO of Quantum Dice, an award-winning quantum hardware spin-out from Oxford University which is developing the world’s first compact completely embedded self-certified quantum random number generator.

Thursday 3 December 13:00-14:00GMT

Short talks will be followed by a panel discussion and audience Q+A.


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Aimed at those in research and working in the quantum sector, these short talks delivered by industry players from IBM, Microsoft, Volkswagen, BT, and others, will explore different quantum sectors including: computing hardware, computing software, computing applications, security and sensing.

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