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00:00Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back.
00:02Those of you that have been with us,
00:03because I know I'm looking out right now,
00:05and I know there are many of you that have been,
00:08maybe not sitting here all day,
00:10but I know a lot of you have been with us
00:12for a lot of the time that we've been here,
00:14right here at the Pitch Studio.
00:16And again, those of you online,
00:18wherever you are in the world,
00:19at work, at home, at work and home,
00:22wherever you are, you've been joining us,
00:24perhaps popping in and out here,
00:27taking a little bit of vivoteching
00:28and bringing it to you wherever you are on Zoom World.
00:32Right now, this is all about, as I say,
00:34as it's been all throughout the week,
00:36all about ideas, big ideas, fresh ideas,
00:39sharing it with you, creating a little bit of curiosity
00:42and hopefully conversations from that curiosity as well.
00:46We heard earlier on from different ideas from Portugal.
00:50We go from Portugal, as if by magic,
00:53we go across the ocean
00:55and we find ourselves right now in Canada.
00:59So this is all about the home of the future of quantum.
01:03So we're about to hear some fantastic,
01:06exciting startups in terms of quantum technologies.
01:10And naturally, quantum technologies
01:11are really at the cutting edge of science and innovation
01:16for both Canada and worldwide.
01:20So intriguingly, the government of Canada
01:23has invested more than $1 billion
01:25in quantum research and science from 2009 to 2020.
01:30And today, as I say,
01:32it's all about showcasing those great ideas
01:36in front of a very intriguing panel
01:39of distinguished experts in terms of quantum technologies.
01:44Let me just remind you, this is not a competition, okay?
01:47It's not a competition.
01:48What it is, it's all about showcasing quantum startups,
01:53ideas, concepts from startups within the quantum field.
01:57And a distinguished panel of jury members,
02:00but not a competition,
02:01a distinguished panel of jury members
02:04who will, at the end of this,
02:06just decide kind of like their favorite,
02:08their favorite out of these six startups,
02:11which they feel perhaps, for them, is number one.
02:15So it's almost like a coup de coeur,
02:16in fact, helping everybody,
02:18not just showcasing the winner,
02:20but everybody else from Canada
02:22in terms of quantum technologies.
02:25Let's get to know quickly
02:26who our jury members
02:29or who these distinguished experts are
02:32in terms of quantum technologies.
02:34Please welcome from Atos Quantum Computing
02:38at France director Olivier Hess.
02:41Thank you for being with us, Olivier.
02:42We also have from Honora Sylvain Schwartz,
02:48from QuantoNation Olivier Tourneau,
02:51and from EDF Lab Christophe Domen.
02:55Right, so I'm not an expert in quantum.
02:58Perhaps we have some people here,
03:00but certainly right here on my left,
03:02these guys know exactly
03:04what they're talking about,
03:05and they'll be able to identify
03:07and value the things they really value
03:09in terms of this industry.
03:12Right, how does this work?
03:14Very simple and very, very easy.
03:17Three minutes.
03:18Startup will stand here,
03:20showcase their idea,
03:21up to three minutes, no more.
03:23After that three minutes,
03:25they'll then turn to our experts,
03:27and our experts will dig a little bit deeper
03:30underneath the surface of that startup,
03:34really trying to find out
03:35really what makes this startup tick
03:37and help them decide
03:39who they feel should walk away
03:41as their favorite for this session.
03:49So, I'm intrigued as much as you are,
03:52really, to hear what these ideas
03:53and concepts are all about.
03:55I think it's time to hear
03:57from our first startup of the session.
03:59Please welcome onto the stage
04:01our first concept
04:03from Anion Systems Incorporated.
04:15Hello, everyone.
04:16Thank you for having us over.
04:17My name is Christian Basilla
04:19from Anion Systems.
04:20We're a Montreal-based,
04:22full-stack quantum computing company.
04:25We're a bit of a different breed of startup
04:28because we have been in business
04:29for seven years already.
04:30We have operations in Montreal
04:32and in Waterloo
04:33where we fabricate our chips.
04:35We've invested over $10 million to date,
04:38which is a lot of money for many startups,
04:40but in quantum,
04:41a lot more money is needed
04:42to get to a lot of the objectives
04:44that companies are aiming for.
04:46We have a team of 20-plus scientists,
04:49mostly PhDs in engineering,
04:51physics, and other fields.
04:53And to give you a sense
04:54of what we've done to date,
04:56here's a quick timeline.
04:57So we started in 2015,
05:00and our initial concept
05:01was to try to bring
05:02more sophisticated tools to the field
05:04to build more performing chips
05:07quicker, faster, and cheaper.
05:08And we developed a simulation toolkit
05:11that we then were able to license,
05:13or actually we sold services to Google
05:15to help them for some of the work
05:17they were doing,
05:18and that was really exciting,
05:19quantum computing.
05:20That turned into a second mandate,
05:23and what that told us is
05:24if we can help them create chips,
05:27maybe we can do our own
05:28and build our own
05:29integrated quantum computer,
05:30which is what we've worked on doing
05:32for the following three years.
05:33We build our own cryogenic systems,
05:35our own control electronics,
05:37we fab our own chips,
05:38and in 2020,
05:40we booked our first order,
05:42and basically,
05:43it's for the Canadian Department
05:44of National Defense,
05:45and we delivered at the end of 2021
05:48first integrated quantum computer
05:50to that customer.
05:52We're proud to announce
05:53that in early 2022,
05:54we booked a second order
05:56for a larger machine
05:57that's actually going in an HPC center,
06:00Calcul Québec,
06:00and we're planning to deliver
06:02that machine in the first half of 2023.
06:06Here's a picture of the machine
06:08we'll be delivering to Calcul Québec,
06:10and I'd like to emphasize here
06:12our vision of quantum computing
06:14and where we're pushing towards
06:15is having quantum computers
06:17integrate into the HPC fabric.
06:19We view quantum computers
06:21as accelerators
06:22to this existing computing base,
06:24a way to do some calculations
06:26that would be complementary
06:28and today cannot be done.
06:30So this is a product
06:31we're working on.
06:32It's probably 60% to 70%
06:34done at our offices,
06:35and we're very excited
06:36to work on delivering that
06:38to this HPC center.
06:41We use the superconducting
06:43qubit approach,
06:44so here's a quick picture of that.
06:46I won't go into too many details.
06:49And I think that's about it.
06:51The reason we're here
06:52is because we view
06:53the field of quantum computing
06:54as one where people
06:55need to collaborate.
06:56It's an ecosystem,
06:57and we're looking for partners,
06:59early adopters,
07:00that would be looking
07:01to learn more about quantum
07:03and potentially testing
07:04our equipment.
07:07Thank you.
07:09Ladies and gentlemen,
07:10there we are,
07:10Onion Systems.
07:11Fantastic.
07:12You just shuffle there,
07:13just take a step there.
07:14That's right.
07:14Let's hear from our experts
07:16about what we've just heard.
07:21in your scaling capacity,
07:25what are the problems
07:25you expect to find
07:26in growing the number of qubits
07:28you will add to your system?
07:30So we think those problems
07:31are going to come
07:32at three big areas.
07:34One is going to be scaling,
07:35I'll say,
07:36the surrounding hardware,
07:37so the cryogenics,
07:38the control electronics,
07:39and then the chip,
07:40manufacturing the chip.
07:41And this is the main reason
07:43why we decided
07:44to build our own
07:45from day one,
07:46because if we depended
07:47on external vendors,
07:49at day one,
07:49it could have solved
07:50our problem.
07:51But day two,
07:52as you saw in that picture,
07:53our cryogenic system
07:53is double the size
07:54of the first one,
07:55and gen three
07:56is already designed
07:57in our offices,
07:57it will be double
07:58the size of gen two.
07:59So for us,
08:00it was very important
08:00to master the vertical value chain.
08:04What are the first use cases
08:06that you believe
08:07will be solved
08:08by your machine?
08:09So we don't do
08:11quantum algorithms.
08:12We view that
08:13as something
08:14that a partner
08:15in the ecosystem will do,
08:16and that's why
08:17we're trying to partner
08:18with HPCs.
08:18That's where people
08:19work on complex problems.
08:21We provide the hardware.
08:22So we're hoping
08:23that Calcul Québec,
08:24the HPC center,
08:25when they get that installed,
08:26they already have
08:26a very large research community.
08:29They will do that part
08:30of the work.
08:32What would you say
08:33is a selling point
08:34of those type of qubits
08:36as compared,
08:36for example,
08:37to Rydberg,
08:38atom qubits,
08:39or ions?
08:42So we can get
08:43into a long discussion
08:44about that.
08:44I think at this stage,
08:45it's probably too early
08:47to conclude
08:47whether one architecture
08:48is going to dominate
08:50or earn all the market.
08:54I think it's possible
08:55that different architectures
08:57will be superior
08:58for different types
08:58of problems,
08:59but at this stage,
09:00we believe superconducting qubits
09:02are the ones
09:02that are most likely
09:03to do very well,
09:04and we take confidence
09:06in looking at
09:07all the industrial players
09:08or the majority
09:09of the industrial players
09:10in quantum computing
09:11are following that path,
09:13people like Amazon,
09:14Google, IBM.
09:16In terms of performance,
09:19in terms of number
09:20of qubits,
09:20and both also
09:21in terms of stability
09:22for the,
09:23what's the length
09:24of the algorithm
09:25you can run
09:26on your machine?
09:27What's the actual status
09:29and the next roadmap?
09:31So, with respect
09:33to qubit performance,
09:34I would invite you
09:34to look at our website.
09:35We've actually published
09:36recently the performance
09:37of our qubits.
09:39All the other technical details,
09:40we'd be happy
09:41to have a follow-on discussion
09:42because I won't be able
09:43to do that in 30 seconds.
09:46There's another 30 seconds
09:47on the clock.
09:48Any more questions?
09:49Just one question
09:50on energy consumption.
09:52Did you investigate
09:53what would be
09:54the overall cost
09:55in terms of energy
09:57of such a system?
09:59So, quantum computers,
10:00I think there's a lot
10:01of research out there
10:02and publications
10:03is going to be
10:04drastically less
10:07power-consuming
10:08than the current
10:08HPC infrastructure,
10:10but they need to get
10:11drastically bigger
10:12in terms of qubits.
10:13So, I think it's
10:14many years out,
10:15but the day quantum computers
10:18are able to solve
10:19some of the most
10:19complex problems
10:20as a society,
10:21we should expect
10:21a lot less energy consumption.
10:23There we are,
10:24ladies and gentlemen,
10:25hands together
10:25for our first startup,
10:26Anyan Systems.
10:27Thank you so much.
10:29Great.
10:30So, there we have it.
10:31This is,
10:32that sets the tone
10:33as to what this
10:34is all about.
10:35So, again, remember,
10:36it's all about
10:37Canadian startups,
10:38Canadian startups
10:39in terms of the future
10:40of quantum as well.
10:42We move on now
10:42to our next startup
10:45sharing their big idea
10:46right now.
10:46Please welcome
10:47to the stage
10:48Bita Quantum AI.
10:52Thank you.
10:53Thank you.
10:54Thank you.
10:59Thank you.
11:06Thank you.
11:18Thanks.
11:19Bye.
11:20Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
11:51One of the biggest challenges of the third millennium is to processing and analyzing big data.
11:56But where we can't find these big data?
11:58Actually, there are in many areas of science and technology.
12:01For example, in artificial intelligence, pharmaceutical industry, weather forecasting, and cybersecurity.
12:07One of the best solutions to address and solve this challenge is to use quantum computers.
12:13Let's have an example here.
12:14For example.
12:17For example, in the domain of designing new medicine and drugs, if you use a classical computer, it takes between
12:2410 to 15 years, and it costs about $600 million.
12:28With a quantum computer, it reduces to a millisecond, and it costs between $1 and $2.
12:33At the moment, most of the pioneer companies like Google and IBM use superconducting technology for their quantum computers.
12:43These quantum computers work at very low temperature.
12:45It means they need a special environment to cool down these systems, and due to this, the scalability of this
12:52system is very low.
12:53At the moment, we have just 127 qubits, and it has been promised by next year, it reaches to 1
13:00,000 qubits.
13:01Another challenge for this technology is to error correction, which has not been fully addressed, and it has been promised
13:07to be resolved in the near future.
13:09Another problem with this technology is hard to integrate with the photonic technology, which is very fast.
13:14A good solution to overcome all of these challenges is to use a plasmonic technology in a quantum material, which
13:21their thickness is about one atom.
13:23In this case, we don't need to worry about working at room temperature.
13:28There is no need for error correction, and we can put millions of qubits in a chip.
13:33And to convert the power of a plasmonic quantum processor with a superconducting processor, let's have an example here.
13:40For example, with the quantum supremacy problem, if we want to use a classical computer, we need 1,000 computers,
13:46and they have to work for 10,000 years.
13:48With the quantum computers, based on superconducting technology, Google claimed that they solved this problem with the 5 GHz clock
13:55speed in 200 seconds.
13:57With the plasmonic quantum computers, it results in one second, and in addition, it is easily integrable with photonic fibers.
14:06Regarding to opportunity in Canada, the government of Canada has invested about $1 billion in this technology, and for 2030
14:13and 2040, it has been predicted to reach $8 billion and $140 billion with a lot of jobs.
14:19This project has two phases for phase 1, and we've done the simulation, we've developed the core-rable software, and
14:27we will have two patents at the end of August, and we hope to start building our first prototype at
14:33the end of 2020-2040.
14:34Thank you so much for your attention, and this is our team.
14:39Thank you so much.
14:41Thank you so much.
14:48Okay, let's hear from our jury members, experts, about what we've just heard.
14:54So I'm just curious, this technology seems to be very innovative, so could you tell us a little bit the
14:59basic principle?
15:00What is exactly your qubit?
15:01How do you address it?
15:02Actually, we use a plasmonic.
15:05When we created a plasmon, we call it 1, and when it doesn't exist, we call it 0.
15:09Then we have the qubits, and creating this plasmonic stuff is really challenging, especially in one thickness material.
15:17How do you control it?
15:19Actually, we need to control it with lasers, the two lasers in non-linear optics.
15:26Just one question.
15:27Do you already know what would be the programming model of such qubits?
15:32Actually, no.
15:33At the moment, we need to program it, but we are going to use an advanced programming language, which is
15:38very fast.
15:39to match the programs.
15:41I see.
15:42It will not be based on the Python, but it's used a lot of memory.
15:46It's not good for programming.
15:47It will be a kind of quantum gates-based algorithm?
15:51Yes, yes.
15:53What's the actual development in terms of experiments?
15:57Could you repeat your question?
15:59What is actually the development, the level of development of research you have reached?
16:04Okay, actually, creating these one-layer materials, and creating lasers, and shining the laser, it's one of the challenges that
16:13we have.
16:14It's very difficult, but we hope to do that.
16:17Can you tell us about the IP, what university does it come from, what lab?
16:22Okay, I'm from Concordia University, then I did some courses at McGill University, but we are going to collaborate with
16:30IRNS, McGill, and other universities as well.
16:34And according to your roadmap, the first qubit will come in 2024, so why do that in a company rather
16:42than in a research lab, right?
16:44It seems very low here.
16:45Actually, we need to examine 500 materials.
16:49We need to first simulate all of this material, which material is the best for creating these qubits before going
16:54to make it.
16:56But you say it is graphene, or it is graphene, or it is other materials?
17:01No, it's...
17:012D materials?
17:02It will be, you know, there are 500 materials, not just graphene.
17:07Graphene is one of the candidates, but there are other materials, TDMs, silicium, and other things.
17:12It's 2D materials?
17:14Yes, 2D and 1D, depending on the geometry.
17:20And what is the physical size of one qubit?
17:23It will be, actually, between 10 nanometers and 20.
17:29And so how do you address this with lasers? You need to focus the laser?
17:32Yes, it's a technical, it's a technical, and the experts can do that.
17:36It's a challenging technology.
17:39And how better do you expect your qubits to be compared to super computing, photons, or the technology we know
17:48today?
17:48Okay, for example, I mentioned, it's 200 times faster, it works at room temperature, and in addition, imagine you want
17:55to send something to Mars, it will be easy to send it to Mars.
17:58There we have it, there we have it, well done, ladies and gentlemen, put a chance together for Bitter Quantum
18:04AI, well done.
18:06Again, there we are, fantastic.
18:09Again, you're just walking past, you're wondering what on earth is happening right here at the Pitch Studio, all about
18:16ideas, all about big ideas.
18:18And right now, it's all about ideas from Canada, Canadian startups from the world of quantum technologies.
18:24Right now, we move on to the next startup.
18:27This, in fact, so we're going to leave Paris, kind of, in some way or form, jump over to Zoom
18:33land, and hopefully we have our next startup remotely coming through right now.
18:39Well, we can feel it coming through, there we are, hello.
18:44Hello.
18:45Hello, hello, I'm just going to ask you, where are you right now?
18:49I am in my house in Toronto, Canada.
18:51In Toronto, welcome.
18:53We are here, a few of us here at VivaTech, right in the heart of Paris.
18:57I'm going to leave it over to you now.
18:59This startup, this is actually called Crypto for AI.
19:02You have three minutes, over to you.
19:05Thank you.
19:06Good afternoon, everyone.
19:07Thank you for this opportunity and best wishes to all the companies here today.
19:10My name is John Scott.
19:12I'm the CEO, and we have 35 engineers in Ottawa working to protect and enhance digital trust against the quantum
19:18-enabled adversary.
19:20Today, we're going to talk about digital trust.
19:23It's grounding in cryptography, which is everywhere, and the grounding of cryptography itself inside what is known as a hardware
19:29security module, or HSM for short.
19:32An HSM is a special type of computer that securely operates the digital keys that have underpinned our digital trust
19:39and assurance since the late 1990s.
19:41The first example of an HSM as we know it today was developed over 25 years ago by our co
19:46-founders, and while as much has changed since then, the functionality and cryptography inside an HSM has materially not, and
19:54that HSM remains the global market leader today.
19:59QX Crypto4A has reinvented the HSM and its functionalities for new quantum-safe cryptographies and for modern and emerging environments
20:07such as 5G, IoT, and identity-linked digital objects.
20:11Of note, Crypto4A has re-spun the HSM's core chip engine to accommodate hybrid and post-quantum cryptographies.
20:21This new HSM provides better digital trust and assurance for a connected digital economy, so if all that is true,
20:28what market progress have we made?
20:29This week, we received our government FIPS Level 3 Plus Assurance Certification for our quantum-assured hardware security module, an
20:38industry-first protected by six patents and eight more pending.
20:43The coming rotation will involve replacing today's constrained HSMs, if only because their ASIC chips are dedicated to classic cryptographies
20:51inside tamper-proof cases.
20:54For five years, we have also worked with the U.S. Global Tier 1 Cloud Tech Titan and are now
20:59deploying inside our first two European Union data centers, bringing our total to six with them.
21:05We recently won a competition for two new digital routes of trust with the Canadian government against our old box,
21:11and we have other clients such as the Canadian Internet Registration Authority.
21:15We're also an invited HSM participant in the U.S. National Cyber Center of Excellence, helping to ensure quantum interoperability
21:22amongst key global industry and government participants.
21:26Y2Q has been set at April 14, 2030, less than eight years away.
21:31In order to assist with this massive rotation, we're also offering HSM-as-a-service, as well as a range
21:37of new modules, this being undertaken in conjunction with global system integrators and application providers.
21:43I haven't mentioned yet our six onboard computers to support confidential use cases, such as AI, ML, or proprietary apps,
21:51or Quorum functionality for controlling keys remotely.
21:55And speaking of remote, we also do quantum-assured code and firmware updates, ensuring that the enterprise and its connected
22:02supply chain are up-to-date at Internet speed.
22:06But my time's up. Thank you for your time today.
22:11There we are. Guess what? Guess what? You actually have another minute. I'm going to give you another 40 seconds.
22:17Anything you want to say now, using up your 40 seconds, go for it.
22:21No, I found the three minutes quite a constraint, so I slammed it off a lot in there, and I
22:26know there's at least one jury member who will understand this, but the quantum coming of processing will both demolish
22:34asymmetric crypto and deprecate symmetric crypto, and today's HSMs need to uplift their capabilities to do that.
22:42And so this is a long timeline to uplift crypto, and so that's the reason for getting a jump on
22:48that, and the reason one of the largest Internet global companies has been working with us for five years, because
22:55of how long this will take.
22:57There we have it.
22:57So that means we have to, yeah.
22:59There we have it. I know exactly what you mean, completely. Right. Ladies and gentlemen, there we are.
23:04You might actually be able to hear, all the way from Paris, our audience clapping for you with your pitch.
23:11Can you hear that?
23:13No, I can, and thank you very much.
23:16Millions of people clapping. Right.
23:19Right, let's go over to our jury members and our distinguished experts, and they'll pick your brains a little bit
23:25to find a little bit more about how your startup ticks.
23:30There are some very large companies competing for the HSM market, and what makes you, and there are large players,
23:37what makes you a distinctive compared to them? What are your advantages?
23:42Well, the advantage is the core architecture at the chip level that allows us to offer true quantum safe updates.
23:49There's three main phases to that.
23:51One is to manufacture the HSM using PQC, PKI capabilities. The second one is to ensure that your route of
23:59trust is booted up with stateful hash-based signatures pre-approved by NIST.
24:05And the third thing is the ability to operate, update, and revise the post-quantum algorithms that NIST is approving.
24:12The choice of architecture for us, which is an FPGA, allows us to accommodate all that. As things evolve and
24:19change with quantum processing, people will not need to throw away their ASIC-based HSMs.
24:24We will simply be able to do quantum safe code and algorithm updates remotely to our HSM.
24:31So it's a little bit different. It's like taking your Tesla and getting the software updates over the air versus
24:35having to go to your dealership.
24:37So those are material advantages. Our patent searches and our discussions with other OEM players, including Trustway, indicate that there's
24:47a five-year advantage, which probably has been well-earned at the hands of the global tech titan.
25:00Cryptography is a subject that pretty much creates a lot of quiet, so I do appreciate that.
25:08I think there's actually another question coming right now. Here we go.
25:12Oh, wonderful.
25:13So to make sure I understand, what's in your box here is post-quantum cryptography, right?
25:21Yes.
25:21Not quantum cryptography itself.
25:24And so what if the quantum computer never becomes a reality and the RSA code is never broken?
25:32Is there still any advantage of developing such post-quantum cryptography machines?
25:37Well, post-quantum capabilities is only one of the features that we designed for the modern compute area.
25:46The HSM functionality, we have 100 times more software code inside the HSM compared to today's HSMs.
25:54And so there's a variety of additional functionalities involving quorum key distribution, key management techniques for cloud deployments, IT and
26:05OT connectivity, a variety of other geolocation capabilities, remote update capabilities.
26:13It's cloud-native. It contains dockers and Kubernetes, the ability to run those applications inside the cloud.
26:20So there's a variety of things for the modern environments, and you are then also quantum capable or quantum assured
26:27should and when, and we won't get notice, but should and when that happen, we've also got you covered without
26:33a time lag to rip out your HSMs at your digital root of trust.
26:37So it's really sort of, think of the quantum aspect as sort of an insurance policy.
26:41Hopefully you heard that. Unfortunately, we hate to stop you because I'm sure, I'm pretty sure, you could talk about
26:48this all day.
26:49But hey, that's a good thing. That's a very good thing. Ladies and gentlemen, again, put us together for Crypto
26:54for AI.
26:55Thank you so much. Farewell, Toronto.
26:59We move on now to our next startup right here, coming back to Paris right now.
27:04He's not, even before I introduce him, doesn't care, straight onto the stage, but I'm going to introduce you right
27:11now.
27:12Would you like to be introduced? I'm sure you will. Here we go. Put your hands, hold on.
27:15They're going to clap for you. Put your hands together for our next startup, very simply called KI3 Photonics.
27:22There we are.
27:24Thank you very much.
27:28So hello, everyone. I hope you are doing great today.
27:32My name is Johan Gestin. I'm the CEO and co-founder of KI3 Photonics,
27:36a company that is developing quantum photonic hardware for the next generation of communication networks.
27:46So we are here today to talk about quantum technologies, and something very important to take into consideration in this
27:53case relates to quantum information.
27:59And in the next future, there will be an increasing number of quantum devices that will make use of quantum
28:05information.
28:06And in order to take the maximum advantage of this technology, such devices will have to communicate between each other
28:14in order to exchange information.
28:18Ideally, they will do so to the current optical fiber network that we are using every day to communicate.
28:24They will exchange information, quantum information, in a network configuration in order to form a quantum internet.
28:37Unfortunately, to date, most of the quantum links are related to only two users.
28:43They are usually called Alice and Bob.
28:47So, at KI3 Photonics, we develop solutions for the transmission of quantum information for multiple users into a network configuration
28:57and to enable the distribution of quantum information.
29:03And we do so by going beyond the state-of-the-art of current communication systems by adding a new
29:10layer on top of the optical fiber network.
29:16And we do so by generating pairs of entangled photons that are distributed over an optical frequency comb
29:24and that can span the S, C, and L bands of telecommunications.
29:30So, imagine in this case, just one single device that can feed up to 50 different channels
29:37where the competition stays limited to one channel.
29:42Furthermore, we put the emphasis on three very important features,
29:46which are universality, transparency, and scalability.
29:51And in order to validate our devices, we have partnered with prestigious partners like Caltech,
29:59the Fermilab, but also the U.S. Air Force Research Lab,
30:02with whom we are working on the generation of high-dimensional quantum states, graph states, for networking applications.
30:11So, let's build a quantum network together.
30:14I'm very happy to announce that we will soon have access to a quantum network in Quebec.
30:19And we'll put our device in order to show that entanglement can be the future of quantum resource distribution.
30:26So, I thank you for your attention.
30:29There we have it, KO3 Photonics.
30:31Wonderful.
30:32I'm going to ask you just to stand there.
30:33Fantastic.
30:34And let's hear from our experts about what we've just heard.
30:39So, what do you think the main application of distributing entangled states through fiber networks will be?
30:44So, one of the first, let's say, use case would be quantum key distribution, of course.
30:49But, as you might know, you know, in North America, quantum key distribution is not very famous.
30:55So, we are trying to go beyond quantum key distribution and to find other use case.
31:00For example, quantum distribution storage or things like this, in order to show that, let's say, entanglement and the entanglement
31:09distribution can be used for many, many use case.
31:12Not only relative to quantum key distribution.
31:16And could this technology also be used to interconnect different quantum computers while keeping the coherence of the system?
31:25Yes, exactly.
31:26So, it depends on the system that you're going to have.
31:29But, if you have a photonic quantum computer, this is going to be easier to interact with this and we're
31:35going to transfer the information.
31:36So, in this case, we can have distributed quantum computing.
31:40What's the maturity of your product?
31:43And when will you have your first collaboration with industrial players?
31:47So, we already have some devices that are tested by Caltech and the Fermilab in quantum key distribution experiments, entanglement
31:57swapping.
31:57And we're going to integrate our device in the quantum exchange network, also.
32:04And we want to have some partners, especially in Quebec, so we are looking for some potential partners like banks,
32:11but also maybe the army that can find application and help us to demonstrate some use case on a real
32:19fiber network.
32:21Are you developing all the different components of the network, up to the plug of different, up to the end,
32:29or?
32:30So, we are basically building, constructing building blocks.
32:35So, we have expertise in the generation of entangled photons, but also in the manipulation of entangled photons.
32:43So, we can use, for example, fiber-based interferometers in order to do timing and coding and things like this.
32:49So, we kind of have different building blocks, depending what the clients or the application is going to be, but,
32:57yeah, we are building building blocks like this in order to accommodate the potential clients.
33:02And what type of source are you using to produce your photons?
33:06So, it's all based on integrated chips and off-the-shelf telecommunication components.
33:12So, it's very compact.
33:14It fits in a 19-inch rack mount.
33:17And this is one of the first demonstrations of optical quantum frequency comb that has been published in Science and
33:25Nature in the last three or four years.
33:29Right, that ends the unfortunate only because of time.
33:32Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for KI3 Photonics.
33:35Fantastic.
33:36Thank you.
33:39There we are.
33:41Already on our, that was our fourth startup.
33:44Remember, this is all about innovation from Canada, all about ideas to get all connected with the future of quantum
33:51technologies.
33:52Right now, again, we're going to leave Paris, and we're going to go straight directly to Zoom World, hopefully, at
33:58the end.
33:59There we are.
34:00Wonderful.
34:00Hello.
34:04Hello.
34:05Hi.
34:06Wonderful.
34:07Looking great.
34:08We can hear you.
34:09We can see you.
34:10Where are you right now?
34:12I'm in the capital of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
34:15You're in Ottawa, Ontario.
34:18Fantastic.
34:18So this, ladies and gentlemen, is a startup very simply called Quantropy.
34:22Here you have it.
34:23You have three minutes.
34:24All yours.
34:26All right.
34:26Perfect.
34:27Thank you.
34:29So you may have heard of us because we've been in the news a lot lately.
34:33We've been making history.
34:35Our company, Quantropy, we see things differently than most of the scientific community sees.
34:41You may have heard previously about QKD or quantum key distribution.
34:45Our company, Quantropy, comes with the two words, quantum entropy.
34:48We started there.
34:49And, you know, what really resonated with the quote that you see from the CTO of Ericsson
34:55is that, you know, it really, you know, proves that Quantropy is a contrarian play.
35:00We see things totally different because we approach the market totally different.
35:03And the reason why we had to do that is because the entire global economy is about to hit a
35:09huge,
35:10huge threat.
35:11We like to call that threat Y2Q, right?
35:14And, like, Y2K is not avoidable.
35:18And because of the kind of the unbelievable amounts of investment to quantum computing,
35:22this threat is imminent.
35:23$30 billion is a loan to this technology, right?
35:26There's a global consensus by cybersecurity leaders that this threat is as close as two years away.
35:31But regardless of when it's going to happen, people are stealing information now
35:34and harvesting it to crack it later.
35:35And, you know, this is real when the President of the United States are issuing mandates and
35:39proposing laws to put this as top priority for the country.
35:45So our solution, right, that we've done is really kind of taking the best of both worlds
35:50that's out there, QKD and PTC, but without the disadvantages, right?
35:56Our philosophy at Contribute is that you only can fight or defend against quantum with quantum, right?
36:01And to have a true cryptographic platform, you must be true, meaning that you must have trust
36:06or asymmetric encryption.
36:07You need to trust who you're doing business with.
36:09You must leverage the laws of uncertainty to encrypt your data, not just today,
36:12but forever with symmetric encryption.
36:14And you also need strong entropy for strong cryptographic keys for stronger passwords.
36:19Where Contribute is different from the competition is we found a way to use the same underlying mechanics
36:24as Photonic UKD, right, to create quantum algorithms using quantum information theory
36:30by leveraging also mathematics to express them on today's,
36:34express them through quantum algorithms that work on today's networks
36:37at line speed, top performance, and low latency.
36:40So we've created a B2B SaaS platform that has three core products under there,
36:45MassKeeper Secure.
36:46Think of it as Microsoft Office 365.
36:48It's a subscription-based model.
36:50You can start with either one of them and land and expand.
36:52With this platform, we have now enabled a whole new ecosystem of quantum secure
36:56application devices that were not possible before because of the limitations
37:00of technologies, such as digital signatures that are as small as 96 bytes
37:04for blockchain.
37:06You know, symmetric encryption that is 18 times faster than AS256,
37:09and the cold footprint is as small as 2.5 KB, which is really important for IoT.
37:14So our solution doesn't solve a problem in the future, but it also solves a problem today
37:18because three-quarters of IoT devices out there lack adequate security or even any security at all.
37:23So we can provide security today whether it does not exist or even enhance kind of like late transaction times
37:29for fintech.
37:30And, of course, you know, talking about digital QKD or quantum energy business service,
37:35this is not science fiction.
37:37We've deployed this already in Germany with digital technology.
37:43And that is where we stop you.
37:46Fantastic.
37:46Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for Quantropy.
37:49Hopefully, you can hear that all the way over there in Ottawa.
37:52Right.
37:53Let's hear from our experts about what they've just heard.
37:58Maybe come back to your last point.
38:00Do you already have some prototypes in place, some proof of concept in place?
38:06Yes.
38:07We actually, the Dutch Telecom project was funded by European Union Open QKD initiative,
38:13and we proved with that project that we were able to save Dutch Telecom over $10 million
38:19if they were to use a competitor such as ID.com or Toshiba.
38:25Are you using a NIST algorithm or your own proprietary algorithm?
38:32Our key space is a platform play.
38:33It's meant so that, you know, it's to be truly crypto agile.
38:37So no matter what finalist comes out of NIST, our platform will have those algorithms available.
38:42We also will have, you know, it available made with the top HSM of the world,
38:46such as Crypto4A or Entropy Sources.
38:48We're partnering with Testance Lab of Australia right now for the Entropy.
38:53And, of course, you know, our platform is meant to have kind of the best APIs and plugins
38:56to make it as much easier to use and easier to integrate.
38:59Our solution can also be pure software.
39:02So that's one of the key features.
39:05So you mentioned random number generators.
39:08What technology are you using for this, and how does it compare to competing technologies?
39:15So, right now, we're using Contestance Lab, TipServe for a different client,
39:19one-to-minute normal generator.
39:21We use our technology to quantum securely distribute the Entropy downstream through our platform.
39:26And then we give our kind of like SDK toolkit to our enterprise customers
39:31so that they can generate and distribute keys at line speed.
39:35Do you develop all the components?
39:39Yes.
39:40All of our technology.
39:41We have eight core patents that are internationally granted, 10-plus pending.
39:44You may have started a recent published paper in Springer for QPP, our core technology.
39:49We are also the first company to deploy encryption on quantum computers,
39:53and we deployed on IBM Q.
39:54Our team was recently as part of the Canadian delegation in Germany for the IBM visit.
40:02We've got another minute on the clock.
40:04Any last questions, or are you happy?
40:05You've heard enough.
40:07All goods.
40:08Yes, you are.
40:09Ladies and gentlemen, again, hands together for Quantropy, all the way over there in Ottawa.
40:13Thank you so much.
40:14All I will say is that, is that a hotel room?
40:17Is that a hotel room?
40:18Looks like a hotel room.
40:20Yes.
40:20It is.
40:21Isn't that a wonderful hotel room, wherever you are?
40:23Not a fake background, but a lovely hotel room.
40:25Ladies and gentlemen, once again, Quantropy, thank you so much.
40:27Farewell, Ottawa.
40:29Right.
40:29We move on now to the next startup, the next big idea from Canada in terms of quantum technologies,
40:37number six, T.O. technology.
40:46Hello.
40:48I'm Joshua, and I lead T.O. technology.
40:51We specialize in making devices to operate quantum sensors in a variety of verticals, and
40:57that includes quantum computing.
41:00Now, T.O. itself is pretty young.
41:02We incorporated last year, but the three of us have been doing exactly this for about 10 years now.
41:10And during that time, one of our greatest successes has actually been in developing the techniques
41:16and the hardware that have enabled the superconducting quantum sensors used in experimental astrophysics
41:22to scale by about two orders of magnitude.
41:27Right now, quantum computing is in a similar place.
41:30We have the systems that we're currently operating.
41:35The systems that we're currently operating.
41:37Thank you very much.
41:38And we need to scale them in complexity and size by about a factor of 100.
41:43One obstacle to doing that is actually the hardware that we're using to control the qubits.
41:49If we were to provision a 10,000-qubit quantum computer today with that hardware, the cost
41:55would push about a billion dollars.
41:57And I highlight that not because of the cost, but because it's telling us something, which
42:02is that the hardware and the techniques that we're using today aren't intended to operate
42:06a 10,000-qubit quantum computer.
42:08They're not intended to support that complexity.
42:11And that's a real problem.
42:14One of the things that we've learned over the last 10 years working with quantum systems
42:19in astrophysics is that the control hardware really has to lead the quantum system development,
42:25not follow it.
42:27One way that we can see this is that we spend most of our time when trying to build more
42:32complex quantum systems by building quantum hardware that doesn't work.
42:35And then we have to find out why it doesn't work and how it doesn't work.
42:39And the thing that fundamentally provides us insight into those systems is the control hardware.
42:44We are often limited by our understanding there.
42:47And so that's why it is essential that the control hardware is 5, 10, 15 steps ahead.
42:52So that's what we're building.
42:54The T0 control and readout system is intended to operate a 10,000-qubit quantum computer.
43:00And to do that, we've really focused on the fundamentals.
43:03That includes importing the techniques and hardware from astrophysics to enable multiplexing
43:09and deployability of hundreds of units while maintaining phase coherence.
43:13The ability to interface with high-performance computing and run distributed compute with
43:17machine learning algorithms that live right on the readout hardware.
43:21And also support for error-correcting qubits in addition to active error correction.
43:28We've finished the hardware design.
43:30We're prototyping now.
43:30We expect our first provision of hardware in a few weeks.
43:33And the first deliveries that are commercial about this time next year.
43:38We've been working with a really wonderful group of advisors and academic and industry partners.
43:43And if you'd like to join them and us, we're looking for partners to make this a reality.
43:48Thank you very much.
43:50Wonderful.
43:51Keep that microphone in your hand.
43:53I'm going to ask you just to stand there.
43:54Let's hear more about how our jury members feel about what they've just heard.
43:59So I believe you are making controls for superconducting qubits.
44:03Yeah.
44:03Our focus right now is superconducting and bosonic code coupled qubits.
44:08Any labs, research labs, also academic markets or maybe corporates, people building their own computers
44:16that you are working with in order to test your product?
44:19Yeah, absolutely.
44:20In fact, here in Paris, we're working with a research group at INRIA who's working with bosonic, catcode and GKB
44:26states.
44:26And we also have a partnership with a full-stack quantum computing company.
44:32So you mentioned a price per qubit, but should we expect the price to grow linearly with the number of
44:37qubits
44:37given that you have to interconnect all of them in principle?
44:40No, so one of the things that we're really focusing on doing is bringing that multiplexing.
44:43So that price per qubit there is assuming that we operate qubits in the same way that we're doing right
44:47now.
44:47And that cost advantage is just coming from the scaling advantage of the architecture.
44:52But implementing multiplexing is how we bring that scaling less than linear and flatten it out.
44:59Right now in astrophysics, we've moved to multiplexing at about 4,000 on a line.
45:03Now with quantum computing, if we can bring it to two or even five, it's going to make a huge
45:08difference.
45:11There are, I would say, between five to ten startups that are working in controlling the quantum computers,
45:18plus people like Google, IBM that are designing their own control tools.
45:25What sets you apart?
45:27Yeah, thanks for the question, Olivier.
45:28So fundamentally, it's this focus on both support for bosonic code qubits as well as multiplexing.
45:37It's going to take us a while to get to multiplexing.
45:40And one of the things that we learned over the last ten years is that you can only do that
45:45by figuring out the strategic tradeoffs
45:48that you can make in order to do that.
45:51To specialize a device to be able to multiplex, we're going to have to give something up.
45:56And the trick is figuring out what we can tolerate to give up and still achieve our objectives with quantum
46:01computing.
46:02And so how we differentiate ourselves is we're not testing measurement equipment.
46:06We're figuring out what those tradeoffs are.
46:08And we're making the choice to make this a specialized device that exceeds in this purpose.
46:16Do you also sell equipment for astrophysics, like sensors and so on?
46:20Yeah, absolutely.
46:21So our beachhead market is in astrophysics, both here on the ground and also space observatories.
46:29We've got 30 seconds on the clock.
46:31Any last questions, comments, anything at all?
46:34Are you happy?
46:35You're happy?
46:36Everybody's happy.
46:37Right, ladies and gentlemen, hands together for T-Zero Technologies.
46:41Fantastic.
46:42So there we have it.
46:43We've just heard, what have we heard?
46:45We have heard eight, eight?
46:47We've heard eight?
46:48No, six.
46:49We've heard six big ideas, big, fresh ideas from Canada, all connected with quantum technologies.
46:56And really, I think you'll agree with me, it really shows why Canada is really one of the leading nations
47:02in terms of this area.
47:04Right, what's going to happen now is very shortly, me together with our experts, we will go and leave the
47:10stage very shortly.
47:11And we will find out in a roundabout, not roundabout, I would say exactly three minutes time, three minutes time,
47:18I'll come back on stage and announce who, out of these six, out of these six all great big ideas
47:26startups, which one of those is kind of like the favorite, the favorite one, the one that touched our jury
47:32members the most and announced the winner for this session.
47:36So join us back here, stay with us in fact, stay with us at home as well, back here in
47:41three minutes time.
47:44Right.
47:46Right.
47:57Right.
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