Blond & Quantum

Send us Fan Mail Quantum hardware exists. But making it work? That's an AI problem. Isaiah Hul l, co-founder and CTO of FirstQFM, joins Eva Galant on Blond & Quantum to talk about the missing layer in the quantum stack — foundation models built specifically to improve quantum hardware performance. Listen to find out: 📍 Why we've been working on this since before ChatGPT 📍 The comme...

Send us Fan Mail Q-Day might have already happened. In the 1990s. Joe Spencer, UK Director at Global Quantum Intelligence Platform, joins Eva Galant  on Blond & Quantum to talk about the real-world defense applications of quantum — beyond the hype and headlines. Listen to find out:   📍 Why the UK is betting billions on quantum defense  📍 The quantum technology that already matters (clocks)  ...

Send us Fan Mail "Harvest now, decrypt later" isn't a theory. It's happening right now. Marc Kaplan , CEO of VeriQloud , joins Eva Galant on Blond & Quantum to talk about the quiet cybersecurity threat hiding in plain sight — and why waiting is the riskiest move you can make. Listen to find out: 📍 Why your encrypted data might already be at risk today 📍 What "harvest...

Send us Fan Mail The top hedge funds just dropped billions on AI compute. The other 95%? They're still using 10-year-old models. Yianni Gamvros , CEO and founder of Quantum Signal , joins Eva Galant on Blond & Quantum to talk about the quiet revolution in intraday trading — and why most firms are already losing. Listen to find out: 📍 Why Jane Street spent $6B on compute (and what it mean...

Send us Fan Mail Think quantum is still stuck in the lab? Think again. Thien-An Nguyen , CTO of Orca Computing , joins Eva Galant on Blond & Quantum to talk about what happens when you stop hyping the future and start shipping hardware today . Listen to find out: 📍 Why "how many qubits?" is the least relevant question you can ask 📍 How room-temperature photonic systems fit into exi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Blond & Quantum , host Eva Galant sits down with Jerome Paye , Co-Founder and CEO of TAU Systems a Texas-based deep-tech startup building compact particle accelerators and soft X-ray lasers ⚡🔬.  TAU's technology miniaturizes what normally requires kilometer-long government facilities with applications ranging from space radiation testing ☢️ to next-ge...

Send us Fan Mail Bill Vass, CTO of Booz Allen Hamilton, joins Eva on Blond & Quantum to separate signal from noise in quantum. Bill built Amazon Braket. He runs thousands of engineers working on quantum, AI, and national security. And he has some surprising takes on what's real — and what's not. Listen to find out: 📍Why a motion sensor and a ceiling light once broke a quantum machin...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Blond & Quantum, recorded on World Quantum Day, I sit down with Professor Eleni Diamanti — a rare force who moves seamlessly between fundamental research, national quantum strategy, and deep-tech entrepreneurship. Eleni is a head of one of France's major quantum technologies hubs (PCQT) , and co-founder of Welinq — a quantum memory startup. She also ser...

Send us Fan Mail   In this episode of Blond & Quantum, I sit down with Ish Dhand, Founder and CEO of QC Design — a startup building the essential design automation (EDA) layer for fault-tolerant quantum computers. We dive deep into why designing scalable, error-corrected quantum computers has become the industry's biggest bottleneck. Ish explains how QC Design is turning 30 years of acade...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Blonde and Quantum , I sit down with Michael Cuthbert , Director of the UK's National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) — the organisation established by the British government to shape and develop the quantum industry across the United Kingdom. We dive deep into the UK's quantum journey, from its pioneering 2014 national programme to the latest £1 billi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Blond & Quantum , Eva sits down with Olivier Tonneau from Quantonation to unpack what it really takes to build — and back — a global quantum ecosystem. Fresh off closing more than $260M for Fund II, Olivier shares what this milestone signals not just for Quantonation, but for the entire deep-tech and quantum landscape. We go back to 2018, when investing in q...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Blond & Quantum, Eva sits down with André König — Co-founder & CEO of Global Quantum Intelligence — for a high-level, honest breakdown of the real geopolitical landscape of quantum technology. From the accelerating race between the US and China, to surprising emerging players like the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Singapore, André shares what go...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the premiere of Blond & Quantum — the podcast where we break down quantum technology into real-world business impact. No Schrödinger equation required. In this first episode, host Eva Galant sits down with Dr. Wasiq Bokhari — Executive Chairman of Pasqal, serial entrepreneur, investor, and one of the early pioneers shaping the quantum industry. Together, they dive i...