Quantum Technology in British Columbia — Transcript

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1. 0:00BC has been a quiet leader for decades
2. 0:02in the quantum space. The global quantum
3. 0:04industry was born here in British
4. 0:06Columbia.
5. 0:07>> Hi, I'm Lisa Lambert. I'm the CEO of
6. 0:09Quantum Industry Canada or QIC for
7. 0:11short. And BC has long been doing
8. 0:14research in the sector and it was
9. 0:15actually the global quantum industry
10. 0:17that was born here in British Columbia.
11. 0:20>> For folks who don't know, what is
12. 0:21quantum technology?
13. 0:23>> Quantum technology uses the strange
14. 0:25rules of physics at the scale of the
15. 0:27very small to do things that the tech
16. 0:29that we have today simply can't do. This
17. 0:32is so much more than just computing. It
18. 0:34includes ultra-precise sensing. It
19. 0:36includes ultra-secure communications and
20. 0:39new ways of processing information. You
21. 0:42can kind of think of it as a new
22. 0:43foundation layer for how we measure, how
23. 0:45we move, and how we process information.
24. 0:48>> So, what kinds of real-world problems
25. 0:51could quantum technologies be used to
26. 0:53help solve? Quantum will underpin
27. 0:55security, infrastructure, entire
28. 0:57industries. And if BC builds and scales
29. 1:00here, it's not just participating in
30. 1:02this new frontier. It's ultimately
31. 1:04setting the terms for the next
32. 1:05generation of the economy. So, it's ours
33. 1:08to grasp right now and it's BC's
34. 1:10opportunity to build and help shape and
35. 1:12define what's on the frontier.
36. 1:14>> What sorts of roles and positions are
37. 1:16going to be actually needed as this
38. 1:18industry grows?
39. 1:19>> You go take a look. There's jobs across
40. 1:21the board with this and you don't uh
41. 1:23need a PhD necessarily to be working in
42. 1:25quantum. Though, if you have one and
43. 1:26you're you're focused in that space,
44. 1:28there's certainly an opportunity for you
45. 1:29as well. But, there's companies hiring
46. 1:31right now um physicists, engineers, but
47. 1:34also software developers. They're
48. 1:35looking for people on their go-to-market
49. 1:37teams, on their business teams, human
50. 1:39resources, technicians, and just really
51. 1:41people who um who can bridge worlds
52. 1:44together and are really excited about
53. 1:46building the future.
54. 1:47>> So, looking to the future, what
55. 1:48breakthroughs or milestones are you most
56. 1:51excited to see within quantum
57. 1:52technology?
58. 1:53>> I think one of the most exciting things
59. 1:54right now that we're on the precipice of
60. 1:56is with quantum really playing with the
61. 1:58real world. Technologies are moving from
62. 2:00the lab into the market and they're
63. 2:02moving to the hands of people who are
64. 2:03actually going to take these and shape
65. 2:05them and be able to look at them from a
66. 2:06very different way than say a quantum
67. 2:08physicist does and they'll be able to
68. 2:10see new possibilities with it. Just as
69. 2:12when the internet came out, it was
70. 2:13exciting to have the internet but was
71. 2:15what was so exciting was seeing what
72. 2:16people ultimately did with that and
73. 2:18seeing their imaginations run wild and
74. 2:21that's what I'm most excited about in
75. 2:22the next 5 to 10 years because we'll be
76. 2:24seeing that across all of quantum
77. 2:26technologies.