Hi everybody. I am Rebel Brown and I am the VP of Strategy and marketing for quantum Computer Inc. And we do both hardware and software for quantum computer ready to run hardware and software. And our focus is to make quantum more accessible to non quantum experts.So our whole focus is to democratize the availability of Q of quantum. And I'm gonna see if I can figure out how to make this full screen. So you're looking at it instead of me or at least something bigger. Let me see if I can do that. There we go. OK. So I want you to imagine if you, I wanna talk a little bit about quantum first and then we'll talk about careers. OK? I want you to imagine a future. All right. So let me just talk through this. So quantum computing, let's talk. Is that good mckenzie? We'll just get through right? So um quantum computing, imagine, let me give you an example of how quantum computing is gonna change our world. Let me give you some examples. So imagine a world where you walk into a grocery store and everything you need is there all the time. Unlike some of the problems we're having now we've had before, as we all remember our toilet paper opportunity and now we have everything from cars to formula, et cetera, which is going to now change because now we have supply chain gluts because the market changed.

So now we're gonna have too much inventory. So making sure you always have the products you need on time at the best price. Imagine a world where you have weather forecasts that are accurate and precise and they're true. OK. Imagine a world where you have driverless vehicles that can deliver both your um that can deliver your kids to school safely, your products to your doorstep can even you can use right? Then they're all safe. Imagine a world where security is uncompromising. That's the world of quantum computing.

Now quantum is totally different from classical computing. I've been in classical computing since 1980. So I'm as old as dirt and I can tell you I've always been, I've worked for venture capitalists and, or, and boards in bleeding edge companies for over 30 something years. And I can tell you that quantum computing is like nothing I've ever seen. It's like nothing any of us have ever seen because in computing before we've always had stair steps. So we've had the same fundamental technologies, but we've advanced them. So, you know, I started in punch cards and now we have phones that do more than I could do with a punch card in a mainframe when I started. So we've changed the form factors and the power and the usability. But we've always had the same basic paradigm, which is a binary paradigm. We all know, you know, well, maybe we all don't know, but computers run on zeros and ones, right. It's called bits and they run in a serial fashion and they read these strings and strings of bits that make up characters that are the data, right? So I may have billions of millions and millions of bits in a string that a computer, a classical computer has to read every one of them in serial. Like we read a book. OK.

Now quantum computers are based on quantum mechanics which is based on quantum physics, which is the language of nature. It is the Big Bang and how we were formed, it is the use of subatomic particles to actually compute energy variations based on the data and the computation we want to give us a multidimensional. I imagine it like I'm standing in a hologram or I'm standing in the Holodeck of a star trek or of a future thing. And I have data all around me as as and as I change one piece of data, everything morphs to the result of that and it can be millions of sets of data that I can change two or three things. Like how many trucks do I have? How many planes do I have, how much shipping do I have? How many containers and everything re morphs to, to start to show you what the impact of that is? All right. That's quantum, which is, it's totally different, right? I'm in a multidimensional space. I'm processing using energy and I'm using something called cubits that can hold multiple bits of data that can process enormously more data, they can process it faster and they also process it with much more precision because I'm able to use this, this, this multidimensional, this multidimensional area which is known as a Hilbert space in quantum, right, to be able to do what ifs and literally change different constraints and see everything run at once and then what they do is they measure energy.

So they look for the maximums and the minimums. So let's say they're looking for the something with the most energy which would be your best result if you wanted the most revenue. All right, they're gonna give you back. Not just one result like like classical computers do, they're gonna give you back multiple results that may be within 0.00. 1 of the perfect result, the ultimate perfect result, the optimum result, right? So I may get 10 results that are all within 0.006 of that ultimate optimum result.

But I can look at those and I can go which one meets my best scenario. Let's say I'm doing supply chain tracking which one I've got 400 destinations, right? Which one of those gives me the best scenario for my situation right now versus I only have one and I have to prove it's best. I'm much more precise because I'm processing more data and, and faster and I'm processing it in this geom this multidimensional space where literally I can say if these things change, what does it do to my result? And I can change and it looks at every single possibility in this multidimensional space versus running in pa in serial and comparing the answers. So that's my simple way. And I wish I had the pictures I drew for you guys. But I don't. That's my simple way of explaining quantum bottom line is right now. Quantum is not quite ready for production time. It's you know, the hardware is in its early stage software is a nightmare to build, which is why we did my the company I work for, which is my first full time job in 30 something years because I've been a consultant. But this is so exciting.

I took this job. What we are doing is we're building ready to run software for quantum and supply chain logistics uh quantum machine learning for modeling applications because it it literally can take a year to write a quantum program because it's so different from what we know today.

All right. So we built the programs to make it easier for people to start to use the machines versus spending a year with quantum experts building out a program, an application if you will, we also are in the process of acquiring a hardware vendor that is quantum photonics that has a whole different way of looking at how at the processing and and how you can do it to be able to scale and be very easy to use, et cetera.

So anyway, so now I really need my slides. I'm gonna post my slides up in the chat. You guys, I think I can load an application. I think I can load something. No, I can't, I can't even load it in the chats. Um I'll figure out how to load something later anyway. So, so what can you do if you look at quantum, it's so different. There's nothing but opportunity. Anytime you see more opportunity or you see differences and changes, it's an opportunity. I don't care if it's in a product in a re in a you know, service or in your life. It is an opportunity. So now what are the things you need to look at to get into quantum? OK. So first of all, there, there are only 10% that, you know, there's a statistic that says that only 10% of the quantum start ups have women in them. And the average in tech is like 19% 17% I think um or 24%. It's 24%. The reality you guys is that's not bad. Um I've been in markets for th like I said, 30 years, I have done nothing but bleeding edge start ups. I've had more than 300 clients and I can tell you I started when I was the only woman in the company. Um I'm still the only woman in the board room most of the time, I'm the only woman in the executive team many times.

Um But I can tell you in quantum, the the role of women is much more advanced. They're scientists, they're mathematicians, they're operational research experts. They it's it's a much more robust role for women and women. I have found women to be much more accepted in this, in this community than I've seen in some others. So there is the opportunity. Now, the first thing you need to do is figure out where you wanna focus in quantum because there's all kinds of quantum hardware, whether it be and things for computers, whether it be hardware or or supporting devices, whether it be software, writing those applications, right?

Doing the orchestration which is managing the quantum computer. Um there's machine learning and A I which are huge opportunities within quantum computing. There's all kinds of things that you know, there's much around the computing, but then there's also a lot of quantum technology from sensors to imaging, which is things like lidar and MRI s and and and pharmaceutic, you know, or I'm sorry, healthcare, there's um um quantum networks and quantum networking, which will be highly secure and fast networking.

There's all kinds of subfields of quantum and you and you kinda wanna figure out gee what attracts me then you wanna look at. OK. So what do I really want to do? What you know, where do I wanna study? And I will tell you the education I believe is critical now, I do not have a physics. I don't have a mathematics, I don't have a quantum mechanics background. So physics math quantum mechanics, quantum physics, those backgrounds are really helpful in this market. I don't have any of them. I've been on bleeding edge tech for 30 years. I pick up new technology like that. This has been hard for me because I don't remember my college, I don't remember linear algebra and I don't remember quantum from or you know physics from college. So one of the things I would tell people is do the linear algebra get linear if you're gonna go into quantum learn linear energy algebra. So you understand the math, learn do some quantum physics courses. So you understand those and that will help. All right, you've got to have the science background if you want to get into that side of the house, if you want to get into the business that you know the side I'm on, you really need to understand based a lot of fundamentals of enterprise technology, high performance computing technology, big classical computing, et cetera.

And that's one way to do it. The other thing you can do is you can go and you can learn about quantum hardware. We talked about quantum software, but you can also go into the different industries and you can go and become an expert in those industries that does things like operational research, data analytics, data science, become the expert in a retail firm on merchandizing computations and optimization.

So you can also go into those industries. And those industries are anything that has a supply chain logistics, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, government financial services with portfolio, an analysis asset modeling, arbitrage, et cetera. Those are all ways you can get in as well. OK.

Now the the so you you need the education, you need to kind of know where you're gonna focus. The third thing is go network with other women. There are tons of women's group and groups in quantum. All right. And they're everything from QE DC which is the Quantum Economic Development Corporation for the government has has that um they have groups, many of the universities go Google Univ universities have women's groups. There's lots of women in quantum one quantum has a women in quantum group.

That's very exciting. Go join those groups and network with other people and other women in quantum. Then go look at the universities because and I mentioned that before, there's lots of academic approaches in groups for women in quantum. Also go to the quantum vendors and find out where the women are, reach out. What I have learned about the women in quantum is that we are all there to help other women. OK. So that's our goal and, and that, that's really what we want to be able to do. All right. So those are the kinds of things for quantum for, for women. Now, let me tell you from my personal experience, I have been a consultant in high tech for over 30 years. OK? I've worked on bleeding edge and I can tell you that the things that I that I wish I knew to step into this industry are all about the science and the math. Um I'm learning it again. I am going to if I can figure out how to post things in the chat.

I'm actually gonna see if I can go and capture a link from a Google doc that I am gonna put in the chat for you guys and see if I can at least paste a link in there. I think I can. This is a document I did for all of you that is um a link to some uh some text. Why won't it? Let me do that. Here we go. It won't even let me paste anything into the chat you guys. Maybe it's because I'm sharing. Let me stop sharing. Nope, I am inactive in the chat. I can't do anything. Um So let me try again. Let me see if I can get it again. Hang on. I am so sorry you guys, technically this is not good. Ok. It won't let me paste. All right. So I'm gonna find out from the sponsor from everybody how I can load my presentation? Um Let me see my agenda. No event. No, I can't do that. Ok? Um Let me see you guys if I can figure out anyway, what I've learned is I had to go find a lot of different things to, I had to go find a lot of resources. Oh I just put that in the question session. OK? So if you guys go over and look at the Q and A, I put the doc in the question session, it'll let me post there. OK? And now I'm gonna go back to the chat and I see it here.

I see uh fantastic news that quantum is more female friendly. It is uh there's still a lot of, I mean, if those of you that have been in the tech environment, there's still a lot of typical tech stuff. I mean, it just is, it's the guys that are brilliant being the guys that are brilliant and the women too. But it is much more. I have found it to be much more acceptable of women. I found many more women that are in high responsibility roles and driving in quantum computing. And I think that is, you know, a huge difference for those of us that have been in tech forever. I also think the opportunities are there because the more women, you know, I think 19% of women now are coming out with degrees in STEM and that's increasing and that's much more than it used to be. Um, so I think, you know, you'll find that there are, it's a much more, uh, women are much more accepted, I believe. I also believe it because it's a nation industry and you don't have the same mix of, of people in it because there's a lot of researchers, a lot of scientists, a lot of quantum gurus, right?

And I think, you know, they kind of don't see whether you're a man or a woman, they kind of see, you know, what are you doing and they're focused on their stuff, which is good, right? So that's there. Now let me talk to you about the link I sent. So what I gave you on the link, there's two books, there, one is programming the universe, there's four, but one is programming the universe and one is uh quantum computing. Um it's quantum physics for beginners. I this quantum physics for beginners, I just found maybe a month ago and I'm loving it because it, this is all physics you guys, this is all based on quantum mechanics and physics which I kind of understood, but not at the detail of the actual processing of the systems and how they work and the data.

And it's harry, I'll be honest with you. Uh That helped that book helped me a lot because it explains the fundamentals of quantum physics which you have to understand to be able to understand what these guys are talking about. All right, what the quantum experts are talking about then programming the universe is a book that our head of quan of advanced quantum science gave me. And he and I spend a lot of time together and he gave me that book and when I first read it, I had trouble um I didn't get past the first couple of chapters, but then I read the quantum in physics, the quantum physics for beginners. And that got me through that first book. So I would start with the quantum physics for beginners. All right, be be thoughtful. Don't push your if you get Harry, just take a breath, don't try to read it. Like you read a normal book because it's a lot but just learn the terms and what I love about both of them, the quantum physics book really starts you from the beginning and explains the Big Bang and and all kinds of things. And so does programming the universe. So you kind of come come from where was the application in nature? Because if you look around you, everything you see in nature is based on quantum mechanics, that is what Qu I'm computing about.

It's applying the the uh probabilistic and predictive and now the things that are in quantum science, to running computations to doing scientific modeling, to monitoring chemicals and pharmaceutical modeling portfolios and what's gonna happen and the trending over 90 days with stocks, et cetera, that all is the same thing that models our universe and decides what's gonna happen and what and what's gonna be in front of us.

So those books will really help you. And then if you have questions here, I'm also in the Q and A, I'm gonna type since I can't type in the chat here. I am re at quantum computing inc that's my email address. OK? So you can find me there. All right. And then I wonder, I can't put a sl I can't put my slides. You know what I'm gonna see? I have just a little time left. You guys, I'm gonna look, I am hoping the Q and H stays open. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna upload my powerpoint that I have for you guys to drive and then I'm gonna give you the drive link. OK? So that I can send that to you because I want you guys to be able to get the powerpoint hang on one second and I'll get that done. OK? Give me one second. Then if do you guys have other questions while I'm trying to get my technical problem solved? I am so sorry you guys, do you have questions? If you do just put them in the chat and I will um get to them. All right. And then as soon as I get this, it is uploading, it says it has less than a minute left. Yay. Ok. So do I have any questions in the chat? Let me see if I have any questions in the chat. I don't see anything. Ariel Laurie mckenzie Patricia.

Thank you for joining me. Do you guys have any questions? If not, I'm gonna, I'm uploading my slides. So you can see my slides that I didn't get to go through, but you'll see some things in there. I hope that will be interesting to you. OK? So mckenzie, you asked about uh classical versus quantum. OK. So if I had my slides um classical. So, so let me, let me see. So I'm gonna, so classical programming is done with circuits and gates and they'll talk to you about quantum as if it's done in circuits and gates, but they're totally different. Here's the thing you have to totally, excuse me, you have to totally learn a total, a completely new way of programming to program a quantum computer. OK? So a quantum computer does not, it, it it doesn't accept a program. You start with a classical computer, you start with a classical application and data, you then do what's known as conditioning it for quantum. So you have to take the classical computer application and you change it into a quantum algorithm. All right. And that is a totally different coding.

I have an example. You know what, I'm gonna upload another slide deck into, into um while I'm talking to you, I'm gonna upload another slide deck. So I'm gonna talk and do that at the same time. Hang on it. Um For quantum you have to, you basically have to write the rewrite the algorithms and they have to run as things as if they're energy. So quantum process is an energy not data. So a bit is transformed into a cubit by turning it into energy, not data. Don't ask me how they do that. I can tell you that the way it's done is it's injected through a laser or another type of energy that heats and cools. OK. So what you have to do in order to run a to write a quantum program is you have to be able to go rewrite every bit of code you have. OK. So and it's a different kind of coding. So if you know, for example, if you know how to code s uh uh uh you know uh uh an advanced programming language in in classical it will do you no good in quantum. You have to totally think differently. You have to have a quantum expert to code. So I'm uploading a presentation right now. Hang on a minute that shows you an example and you can get the uh hopefully you can get the slide OK. I'm just gonna show you an example um of what a quantum program looks like. OK?

So let me get that uploaded really quickly here to drive. It won't take a second. It's one slide. So new file upload and then I can put this up on the screen for you guys maybe. Um hang on one minute. There we go. OK? Let me see if I can get this slide up on here. Now let me go back to the share session and see if it'll let me share. I don't know if it will or not share. OK? A window here. I wanna share this. There you guys, I can't get it. I don't know if I can get it to play. I don't know if it'll show in the window but here it is. Can you see that code that I'm sharing? This is what a quantum program looks like and none of that is anything to do with what you've seen before. You have to learn. Those are all specific codes for specific quantum things that you have to go look through and find over on the right is what you have to submit to understand to, to our catalyst software to be able to run this same problem. OK? I don't know if you can you guys see that, does that make sense? Mckenzie? You were the one that was asking.

So if you look at this, this every one of these lines is called a qua is a quantum specific line of code that you have to get from the quantum computing vendor and then load it and then run it in there and build your program. OK. This we estimated this is gonna take you anywhere from six months to a year to build a program. And this is literally doing what's called an optimization, multi constrained optimization. It's for constraints I have to be there in this amount of time, I have this many trucks, I have this many boxes and I have this fuel amount, right? And it takes that much code with us. We we had a quantum phd who was at a uh one of our vendor partners who's been in quantum for six years. It took him nine months to learn how to use one of the SDK software development kits from one of the quantum vendors. He ran an optimization problem in our system five or the day after he installed it, right? It's it's not just and and Laura, you're right, it's not just learning a new language, it's also learning a whole new way to construct problems. Because remember when we do when we do math or when we do a normal problem, we're running data like this, we're running data in quantum in a multidimensional space. So you literally have to program which way the qubits are going it.

I mean it is highly technical to program these things. If you're into programming, it's a great market. It's a great thing to get into because the software is going to be as always is gonna be what makes the quantum computers come into reality, right? So that's, that's the software would be a place I would pick multidimensional meaning um meaning every si mean, literally you're living in, imagine you're in a Holodeck and you have all of these GM dimensional points around you that are data, you know how in minority report and all that they pull these things up that are all multiple dimensional and all of that, that's quantum computing.

Classical computing is rows of zeros and ones that have to be read sequentially, right? And it may take, you know, 16 bit 32 bit that 32 bit 64 bit, that's how many is in one character, right. So the quantum gives you all of this multidimensional and you have to learn how to do that. Then you have, once you write the programs they're transformed by a laser or by some mechanism from the classical system and injected into the quantum computer, the data as well as the program, the computation itself and then the quantum computer runs. But as soon as you measure it with a result, it collapses OK, it goes away because it's energy. So then you have to inject it again and you'll hear people talk about iteration, you inject that same problem and data set again, it runs again, you measure it again, store that measurement and you inject again and again and again and again and run again and again, it's called iteration.

And once you get enough results that you can see you're getting the same results, you take those results and analyze them on the classical system and then return them in a way that a user can understand them and use that information. OK. So that's what a program has to do. And that whole, that whole there's the program itself, which is the application logic, there's conditioning the data and then there's what's known as orchestration, which is orchestrating. OK. How do I take this classical computer? Turn it in and system and apple turn it into quantum condition it, then I have to condition it for the specific quantum computer because every quantum computer has to have a different piece of software. So you have to maintain applications for each one you're gonna use and every time you upgrade that hardware, you have to upgrade the software, it's like ancient times and classical. And then you go and you have to iterate how many times you iterate et cetera. There's also writing the orchestration of managing all of that, bringing the data back and, and then building that data in a way that's understood. So there's all of that in software as well. Does that make sense? Laurie? Thank you guys for hanging with me. I'm sorry. It's been rather haphazard. So, so that's so mckenzie us too. Right. So that's kind of, I mean, the software is really complicated, the hardware, I can't even begin to tell you how the hardware works.

I can just tell you it's light, it's, it's different things, it's electrons, it's ions, trapped ions, it's photonics. Everybody's using different technologies now and there and it's starting to, you know, what we had is the first machines and the first generation are moving into what I call a next generation with regard to looking at different ways to build the systems versus not just um not just semiconductor but other, other materials like with the company we're buying is a photonic vendor.

They have a quantum photonic system that is the foundation for everything from sensing to light R to, you know, to computing, to quantum machine learning, to optimization. You name it. We're, we're, we're learning, here's the thing we all know quantum computing works. Look at the world around us, it works, we just don't understand enough about it yet to get it to do what we want it to do. And we've got to figure out the biggest problems with it right now are how to get the hardware to scale, to be able to support larger processing and to get the hardware to be error free in some areas, some hardware has an error problem because of the way it's built some isn't, the newer ones are finding we don't have error problems.

So you know, so we're learning like anything else. If you go back to early stages when I started, they had just gotten over using vacuum tubes and we're still using punch cards. And 10 years later I was in front of a screen using applications on a PC. Right. So we're in that same kind of, it's going like this but it's it and now's the time to get in because we're learning so fast and there's so much opportunity and as it hits the market and really moves into commercial, as well as government, it's gonna be there, it's gonna explode.

You guys. It's not a question of it. If it's a question of when. All right. And I think for women, if you're really, I'm a geek, I'll admit it. I do outbound stra product strategy and strategy and all of that. And I also do marketing because I'm really good for some reason at taking really complex technology and explaining it to people and helping them understand what the value is. I love doing that. But there are so many roles for women in this market and this market is so fascinating. So if you like really cool new stuff, really cool new technology working and being challenged all the time and breaking edge, bleeding edge and breakthroughs and changing the world. This is a great place for you to be. All right. So do you guys have other questions? Anything else? I'm looking at the chat since I'm, I can't, I think they may have cut me off. Yeah. So and you guys, if you want to reach out to me privately, I put my email in um the Q and A. I'm also on linkedin. You can find me on linkedin. I am always happy to talk to other women about how about this and about everything. I mean, I've worked in 300 companies. I've been doing this since, since dirt and I have a really rare background as a woman. So I'm always really, really happy to help. All right, seriously, if you want help, if you want advice, I also on the side do coaching.

I've coached, uh abused women and kids for 15 years. I do a lot of neuroscience work and help them release their stuff. But if you want help or if you want to just chat, reach out to me. OK? Um I hate that we're not in an interactive environment and that my slides didn't work but go to the Q and A, my slides are there. OK? And seriously. All right. Thank you so much. You guys, I know you've got other sessions to go to, but seriously reach out to me if you have any questions. OK. All right. Thank you, Mackenzie guys. Reach out to me on linkedin and connect and we'll, we'll keep chatting if you want to. If you want, I'll put together a little women in quantum group and we can have conversations. Let me know if you're interested in that and I'll do it. Yeah, Mackenzie. If you want me to do that, I'll do that. Reach out to me. All right, nice to you guys. Thank you guys for hanging with me. Bye.