Nicholas Lee at Fujitsu and Karin Pinto at Terra Quantum partner to create Entangle Community
Nicholas Lee, Vice-Head Solution Innovation at Fujitsu and Karin Pinto, Head of Growth at Terra Quantum have partnered up to create the premier Quantum Computing community platform, Entangle Community, to bridge the gap between technical, business professionals, academia, and venture capitalist in accelerating the practical application of Quantum Computing. Nicholas Lee and Karan Pinto discuss the driving forces and future-state for the Entangle Community.
Can you explain what your community does within the quantum landscape?
The Entangle Community aims to bring together the quantum ecosystem in a humane, high-signal and knowledge compounding way to accelerate practical applications that benefit society. We have community members across four pillars: Applications, Technology, Capital, and Academia. The Entangle Community is a non-profit, simply put – we are working to build the #1 quantum computing community platform and have seen significant interest since our launch in August-2020.
How do people access your community? What should they expect?
We are an open & global quantum technology community platform, intentionally built to foster real connections, share high signal content & compound our collective quantum intelligence. We look to bring together all facets of the quantum technology spectrum and stakeholders in the ecosystem from governments, VCs, Big Tech, enthusiasts to startups, academics, corporates. We look for practical applications through simplifying quantum jargon, demystifying opportunity & value and sharing industry insight.
After signing up, we highly recommend you download the app as this provides a greater user experience.
You can access the app by scanning the attached QR-code. You should expect a growing community of like-minded professionals in their own domains that are eagerly looking to collaborate and connect across a broad spectrum of quantum computing spaces. Our intuitive platform provides a very simple interface and means to explore, connect, and collaborate.
We have developed some simple steps to guide new community members on how to introduce themselves, how to guide their interests, and how to be sure that their profile is up to date and can be seen by other professionals wanting to engage.
How has your experiences helped shape the Entangle Community?
We have spent the last 20 years at the edge of many technological waves, from the rise of data centers, to cloud, to IoT, to Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, to advancements in High-Performance Computing, and now for the last three years in the quantum computing ecosystem, working with some of the largest global companies, on some of the hardest problems, all while seeking business advantage through early-stage practical application of quantum computing.
Through our regular discussions and ecosystem engagements we saw a pressing need to connect and bridge the discussion between the business and the technology. Quantum computing is of only value once you find the killer business applications, and companies are racing to this space but to bring these two worlds together, we first need to speak the same language, engage in a neutral playing field, and all of us need to immerse ourselves from the 50,000 foot headlines into what really will make this industry tick.It has become very apparent in building the Entangle platform that there is a need for this space to engage. Our goal is about quality over quantity and enabling a real digital ecosystem community that works.
What are your long-term aspirations for the Entangle Community?
Our vision for the Entangle Community is to become the #1 quantum computing community, and a central beacon of the quantum computing ecosystem. We are partnering to make that happen, by shaping Entangle as a neutral facilitation space, to be the platform of choice for our partners and the community abroad. We want to ask the hard questions and help distinguish fact from fiction. If we fast forward to 5-years from now, we will see compounding discussions and knowledge being amassed inside the platform, we will see local pop-up / meet-up events, we will see an immersive community membership, and we anticipate, we will all know each other and work well within this small ecosystem of Quantum Computing. How do you see the quantum landscape evolving over time? Quantum computing advantage will be like the shift from calculators to computers, only computers to quantum computers. It is that big of a change but for specific applications only. Fundamentally we will see better and faster medicines, better answers to climate change, better efficiency in our supply chain, more efficient AI training,… a paradigm shift that is hard to classically fathom.
Today you really don’t worry about how many bits or what type of connections your laptop has, you just want the application to be efficient. You trust the system as much of your daily life depends on it, but today there is no silver bullet that solves all of these common day problems. Quantum will not take away all our problems, it will drive new solutions, though also create new challenges.
This too will be true for quantum computers, as we have simulators, emulators, annealers, and gate-based systems. We also need classical compute and high-performance computing to augment and solve complex problems where maybe quantum computers find limitations. This landscape will continue to evolve into a hybrid mix of capabilities that will be stitched together to solve real world problems. This landscape is vast, and one of the key reasons we started a neutral platform like the Entangled Community. We see the future of the quantum computing landscape being one where society works together, where competitors become partners, and where there is enough society and business problems that we all rise together in success.