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The Quantum Portfolio

Hosted by SevenTrain Ventures

When
5:30 – 9:00 PM
Where
East Bay
Format
Happy Hour, Networking and Panel / Fireside Chat
The Quantum Portfolio artwork

/ About this event

Quantum is coming, how can you capitalize on it?

Last spring we packed a room in Cambridge with researchers, founders, operators, investors, and a bullshit horn to call the bs. In it:

Christopher Monroe, co-founder of IonQ, Yudong Cao, co-founder & CTO of Zapata, Bharath Kannan, co-founder of Atlantic Quantum, and more.

Just like on the ground, the disagreements were real, the peace was fragile, and everyone left closer to what's actually happening in the labs.

In this event we will cover four verticals with a speaker for each:

I. Application Layer: Revenue today on classical hardware. Owns the customer before fault tolerance lands; captures the upgrade. Least discussed, largest opportunity.

II. Picks & Shovels: Control electronics, cryogenics, photonics, interconnects. Every program in every modality buys this stack today. In a supply-constrained era, the component layer is golden.

III. Post-Quantum Security: Algorithm selection is over. The industry is now racing to migrate all sensitive data and firmware to PQC.

IV. Quantum Sensing: The vertical already shipping hardware with no need for FTQC.

Not your typical vanilla panel + reception. Curated, candid conversation between researchers, founders, operators, and allocators. See more on seventrainventures.com/quantum

[Speaker lineup TBD]

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