Katie Pizzolato is Director of Quantum Theory, Applications, and Software for IBM Quantum. She leads a team of researchers whose work encompasses everything from the fundamental to the practical of quantum computing, all in pursuit of demonstrating quantum advantage. She is also responsible for academic and industry partnership research within the IBM Quantum Network. She has extensive technical and engineering leadership and development experience, including roles such as Program Director for Systems Development and Design, and Packaging Lead in the IBM Systems Group. Katie has a well-established track record of defining and executing strategy in new field.
How are breakthroughs in software and hardware performance driving greater levels of scale, speed, and quality for quantum computing? Hard quantum circuits are the value statement of quantum computers — so how do you map applications, for which classical approaches fail, to hard circuits? How are classical resources going to accelerate the path to quantum advantage and how do you deliver these to the user? This talk will highlight these important questions while taking you through the IBM Quantum roadmap and progresses made in our ecosystem collaborations.