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Line 74: − + − + − + − R “Ray” Wang (pronounced WAHNG) is the Founder, Chairman and Principal Analyst of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc., a research and advisory firm which studies disruptive business and exponential technology trends.+ − Ray’s the co-host and co-founder of the widely watched DisrupTV, a weekly enterprise tech and leadership webcast that averages 50,000 views per episode. He’s also the author of the popular business strategy and technology blog “A Software Insider’s Point of View” that has received millions of page views per month. Wang also serves as a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council's GeoTech Center.+ + + + + + + + − Since 2003, Ray has delivered thousands of live and virtual keynotes around the world that are inspiring and legendary. Wang has spoken at almost every major tech conference, including Salesforce’s Dreamforce, Adobe Summit, IBM, HR Tech Conference, NASSCOM, Mobile World Congress, CES, NRF, HIMSS, Oracle, Microsoft, Wipro, ServiceNow, Google Next, SAP, Infosys, TCS, SXSW, CIO100, TEDX, and sessions at Davos for various clients. His clients include the Global 2000 companies, governments, startups, and investment firms.+ − Wang has held executive roles at institutions such as Forrester Research, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and Johns Hopkins Hospital. His ground-breaking best selling book on digital transformation, Disrupting Digital Business, was published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2015. Ray's new book about Digital Giants and the future of business titled, Everybody Wants to Rule The World will be released July 2021 by Harper Collins Leadership.+ − <br><br> − Wang is well quoted and frequently interviewed in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Fox Business News, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Cheddar, Bloomberg, CGTN America, Tech Crunch, ZDNet, CIO Magazine, Forbes, and Fortune. Ray frequently receives accolades and awards from various independent organizations as one of the top technology and business analysts in the world. − + − + − + − + − + − Karen Eltis is a Faculty member at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society and a Full Professor of Law within the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section. She is a past Affiliate with Princeton’s CITP (Center for Information Technology Policy) 2016-2018. A past director of the uOttawa Human Rights Centre, Karen Eltis specializes in artificial intelligence/ innovation law and policy and cybersecurity from a comparative perspective. She served as Senior Advisor to the National Judicial Institute and has taught at Columbia Law School. Fluent in French, English, Hebrew, Spanish and Romanian and proficient in German and Italian, Karen Eltis holds law degrees from McGill University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Columbia Law School (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar). Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Ottawa, Karen was a litigation associate in New York City. Her research was twice cited by the Supreme Court of Canada (in the landmark case A.B. v. Bragg, 2012 and in '''Quebec (Attorney General) v. 9147-0732 Québec''' inc. 2020 SCC 32) and other Canadian and foreign courts. Karen’s latest book is titled “Courts, Litigants and the Digital Age: Second Edition” (Irwin Law, 2016) supported by the CIRA grant. Her research on Artificial Intelligence and Expression is supported by the Foundation for Legal Research.+ − − + − + − + − As a driven, passionate and creative leader and change agent, my career, skills and experiences span across public service, private interests and personal goals. My goal is to reimagine and revitalize the public service - transforming it into an organization that can meet and exceed the needs and expectations of Canadians.+ − <br><br> − Over the past 17 years I've worked on immigration enforcement, investigated war crimes, patrolled Toronto with the Toronto Police Service, conducted surveillance and counter smuggling activities with as an RCMP officer, participated in public relations duties in Japan, managed national security activities with the Canada Border Services Agency, developed legislation, regulations and policy on import, export and cross-border law enforcement operations, contributed to the re-writing of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, created and lead a community of passionate managers in Public Safety Canada, worked to improve the traveler experience with the CBSA and currently lead the Government of Canada's enterprise social network and wiki - working to build a single, collaborative and high performing public service to better serve Canadians. − <br><br> − Driven and imaginative, I've reverse mentored three Deputy Ministers, reimagined and built new ways to improve the traveler experience and acted as a catalyst for change - driving innovation in policy thinking, service delivery, information management and collaboration. − <br><br> − An avid Python and Go developer, I've built web apps, event simulations, conducted social network analysis, graphed and analyzed social media, analyzed big data with Spark, built machine learning classifiers and used natural language analysis to directly improve my organizations. − <br><br> − I'm a top level communicator and writer, a powerful presenter and, above all a storyteller - bringing data, business experience, curiosity and play together into a single narrative. − <br><br> − Starting a new adventure as DG Digital Services at the CSPS.
CSPS Digital Academy Events/Moving Quantum Computing from Theory to Practice - Speaker Biographies (view source)
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=== Christian Weedbrook ===
'''Founder and CEO, Xanadu'''
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=== Alireza Yazdi ===
'''Founder and CEO at Anyon Systems Inc.'''
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=== Michele Mosca ===
'''Co-Founder and Professor, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo''' <br>
Dr. Mosca is a founder of the Institute for Quantum Computing, Professor in the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo, and a founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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He is globally recognized for his drive to help academia, industry and government prepare our cyber systems to be safe in an era with quantum computers. He co-founded evolutionQ Inc. to provide services and products that enable organizations to evolve their quantum-vulnerable systems and practices to quantum-safe ones. He was a founder of the ETSI-IQC workshop series in Quantum-Safe Cryptography. He co-founded softwareQ Inc. to help organizations benefit from the power of quantum computers.
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=== Vlad Gheorghiu ===
'''CEO, President and Co-Founder of softwareQ Inc'''
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=== Sarah Blanchette ===
'''Principal Analyst, Founder and Chairman, Constellation Research Inc.''' <br>
'''Junior quantum computing developer, Université de Sherbrooke''' <br>
Sarah Blanchette graduated in 2021 from the University of Montreal with a bachelor’s degree in physics. During her studies, she held a junior data
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=== Kenneth Wood ===
'''Global Business Development Director, IBM Quantum System Program '''<br>
Kenneth Wood is the Global Business Development Director for the IBM Quantum System Program reporting into the IBM Intellectual Property organization. Mr. Wood provides management and direction to quantum business development resources located in North America, Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific. Under his leadership, the IBM quantum team has finalized technology access, joint development and license agreements with JP Morgan Chase, ExxonMobil, Samsung, Goldman Sachs, Amgen, BP, Mitsubishi Chemical, Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Labs, and many others.
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=== Maxime Dion ===
'''Law Professor, University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society'''<br>
'''Quantum Computing Developer, Université de Sherbrooke ''' <br>
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=== Marco Armenta ===
'''Director General, Digital Academy, Canada School of Public Service''' <br>
'''Quantum computing software developer, Université de Sherbrooke''' <br>
Marco Armenta did his bachelor’s and master’s degree in mathematics in Mexico. He then got a Ph.D in mathematics in a joint program between the University of Montpellier in France and CIMAT in Mexico. He moved to Sherbrooke in 2019 to do a postdoc at the departments of mathematics and computer science at Université de Sherbrooke and worked on the mathematics of artificial neural networks. He is now a quantum software developer at Institut quantique.
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