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=== Dr. Peter C. Mason ===
 
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'''Director, The Internet of Things: Quantum Sensors Challenge Program, National Research Council ''' <br>
 
Born and raised in Nova Scotia,  Dr. Mason completed a bachelors degree in mathematics at Mount Allison University in 1990, gathering medals for the top graduate in both math and physics, and intramural athletics, before moving to Guyana to do volunteer work installing emergency backup electrical systems in remote communities.  After doing a masters degree at McMaster University, he spent a year travelling and volunteering in Indonesia then returned to McMaster to complete his PhD in physics.
 
Born and raised in Nova Scotia,  Dr. Mason completed a bachelors degree in mathematics at Mount Allison University in 1990, gathering medals for the top graduate in both math and physics, and intramural athletics, before moving to Guyana to do volunteer work installing emergency backup electrical systems in remote communities.  After doing a masters degree at McMaster University, he spent a year travelling and volunteering in Indonesia then returned to McMaster to complete his PhD in physics.
 
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=== Neil Bouwer===
 
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'''Vice-President, Innovation and Policy Services Branch, Canada School of Public Service''' <br>
 
Neil Bouwer has also served as an Assistant Deputy Minister at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Natural Resources Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and the Privy Council Office of Canada; and in executive positions at the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, Human Resources and Social Development Canada and the Business Development Bank of Canada. He has also worked at the Department of Finance and Western Economic Diversification Canada, and has Economics degrees from McGill University and St. Thomas University. Neil actively supports the Government of Canada policy and data communities, the Advanced Policy Analyst Program and the Free Agent HR Program.
 
Neil Bouwer has also served as an Assistant Deputy Minister at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Natural Resources Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and the Privy Council Office of Canada; and in executive positions at the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, Human Resources and Social Development Canada and the Business Development Bank of Canada. He has also worked at the Department of Finance and Western Economic Diversification Canada, and has Economics degrees from McGill University and St. Thomas University. Neil actively supports the Government of Canada policy and data communities, the Advanced Policy Analyst Program and the Free Agent HR Program.
 
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=== Geneviève Tanguay ===
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'''Vice President, Emerging Technologies, National Research Council ''' <br>
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In April 2016, Dr. Geneviève Tanguay joined the National Research Council of Canada as the first woman Vice-President Research. She leads the Emerging Technologies Division which oversees Nanotechnology, Metrology, Herzberg Astronomy and  Astrophysics, Security and Disruptive Technologies, and Advanced Electronics and  Photonics. As part of her remit, Dr. Tanguay is also responsible for NRC’s support to TRIUMF. She chairs the NRC’s Governing Committee on the Recruitment and  Retention of Women and is responsible for coordinating interactions with Canadian universities. Dr. Tanguay also serves as the Canadian Co-Chair of the Canada Germany Joint Science and Technology Cooperation Committee. Prior to joining NRC,  she served as Vice-Rector Research, Creativity and Innovation at the University of  Montreal, one of the four universities with the biggest volume of research in Canada.  Prior to this, she served as the Assistant Deputy Minister responsible for Research,  Innovation, Science and Society in the Quebec Government, responsible for preparing and implementing the Quebec Research and Innovation Strategy (2007-2010 and 2010- 2013). She is an active member of boards for national and international organizations.
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=== Christian Weedbrook ===
 
=== Christian Weedbrook ===
 
'''Founder and CEO, Xanadu'''
 
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Christian Weedbrook is the Founder and CEO of Xanadu, a photonic quantum computing company based in Toronto. Christian has over a decade of industry, government and research experience in quantum computing. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Queensland and was a postdoc at MIT and the University of Toronto.
 
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=== Alireza Yazdi ===
 
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Alireza Yazdi is the founder and CEO of Anyon Systems. Alireza specializes in high performance computing and superconducting quantum information. Prior to founding Anyon Systems, Alireza was a postdoctoral  researcher at McGill University and RWTH Aachen where he worked on massively parallel simulation and modeling of multi-physics and multiscale phenomena in aero-engine combustion. His research on quantum chemistry led  him to quantum computing in 2012. He finally founded Anyon Systems in 2014 with the goal of developing and commercializing  quantum computing platforms. In 2020, Anyon Systems secured its first order from the Government of Canada to deliver its Yukon generation quantum computer to Defence Research and Development Canada.
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Alireza received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University where he is also an Adjunct-Professor.
 
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'''Co-Founder and Professor, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo''' <br>
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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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Dr. VLAD GHEORGHIU is the CEO, President and co-founder of softwareQ Inc., a
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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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Canada. Vlad is also a senior researcher at the Institute for Quantum
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He worked on cryptography during his BMath (Waterloo) and MSc (Oxford) and obtained his Doctorate (Oxford) on Quantum Computer Algorithms.
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=== Ghislain Lefebvre ===
 
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'''Partnership development manager, Université de Sherbrooke''' <br>
 
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=== Maxime Dion ===
 
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'''Quantum Computing Developer, Université de Sherbrooke ''' <br>
 
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Maxime Dion completed his doctorate in experimental physics at the Université de Sherbrooke in 2017 on quantum materials, more specifically, on the superconductivity in thin films. Since then he has had a strong interest in theory, programming and pedagogy. In 2020, this prompted him to join the Institut quantique team as a quantum computing developer in order to participate in the IBM Q space project. Maxime’s current contributions to quantum efforts involve training and supporting various research projects using the particular characteristics of quantum computers. His research interests cover the simulation of quantum systems and the optimization of machine learning algorithms.
 
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