Blond & Quantum
Quantum computing explained for business leaders, investors and founders — without the equations.
Blond & Quantum is a conversation series with the people building, funding and deploying quantum technology. In each episode, host Eva Galant sits down with founders, scientists, investors and technologists to unpack how quantum computing, quantum sensing, quantum networking and post-quantum security are reaching real industries — finance, pharma, logistics, energy, defense and beyond.
Guests have included Nobel laureate Prof. Alain Aspect (Pasqal), Reza Nejabati (Cisco), Dr. Yaakov Weinstein (MITRE), Bill Vass (Booz Allen Hamilton) and Dr. Bert de Jong (Berkeley Lab).
Expect real use cases, startup stories, quantum business and investment insight, and an honest line between hype and reality. No PhD required. Not even if you're blonde. 😉
And if you hear a black cat in the background… he's very much alive. 🐈⬛
Quantum without the equations. Real business. Real founders. Real cat.
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Episodes
20 episodes
Quantum Sensors That Navigate Without GPS | Dr. Karsten Pyka, TII (Ep. 16)
Blond & Quantum Episode 16: Quantum sensors that navigate without GPS | Dr. Karsten Pyka, Lead Technology Development – Quantum Sensing at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu DhabiWhat happens to navigation when...
Can a Tiny Chip Stop Quantum Hackers? | Francesco Raffaelli, KETS Quantum (Startup Series #7)
Blond & Quantum start-up series episode 7: The tiny chips protecting banks, hospitals and governments | Francesco Raffaelli | CTO at KETS Quantum Security.We asked a quantum security CTO where he wants his technology to be in ...
Einstein Was Wrong — and Onto Something Fantastic | Nobel Laureate Alain Aspect, Pasqal (Ep. 12)
Blond & Quantum Episode 12: Einstein was wrong — and onto something fantastic | Prof. Alain Aspect. Nobel Prize winner in Physics 2022 Co-founder of PasqalProfessor Alain Aspect won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022 for p...
Someone Is Stealing Your Data Now to Decrypt It Later | Dr. Yaakov Weinstein, MITRE (Ep. 11)
Blond & Quantum Episode 11: Someone is stealing your data right now to decrypt it later | Dr. Yaakov Weinstein, Chief Scientist Officer for Quantum Technologies at MITREEveryone in quantum will give you a date. Dr. Yaakov Weinstein ...
Quantum Networking: The Quantum Era Starts with a Connection | Reza Nejabati, Cisco (Ep. 10)
Reza Nejabati, Head of Quantum Research at Cisco, joins Eva Galant on Blond & Quantum to pull back the curtain on the part of quantum most people never hear about — not the race to build a quantum computer...
We're Selling Quantum Computing Today, Not Tomorrow | Pouya Dianat, Quantum Computing Inc. (Ep. 8)
Most quantum podcasts talk about physics. This one talks about money.Pouya Dianat, Chief Revenue Officer of Quantum Computing Inc., joins Eva Galant on Blond & Quantum to pull back the curtain on the busin...
We've Always Lived in the Quantum Age | Dr. Bert de Jong, Berkeley Lab (Ep. 9)
Dr. Bert de Jong, Director of the Quantum Systems Accelerator at Berkeley National Lab, joins Eva Galant on Blond & Quantum to pull back the curtain on the part of quantum most people never hear about — the national labs quietly driving the...
Is AI the Missing Piece for Quantum Computers? | Isaiah Hull, FirstQFM (Startup Series #5)
Quantum hardware exists. But making it work? That's an AI problem.Isaiah Hull, co-founder and CTO of FirstQFM, joins Eva Galant on Blond & Quantum to talk about the missing layer in the quantum stack — fou...
Q-Day Already Happened and Nobody Noticed | Joe Spencer, GQI (Ep. 7)
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 ...
Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Who's Recording Your Data? | Marc Kaplan, VeriQloud (Startup Series #4)
"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 — an...
AI Trading Agents Are Beating Hedge Funds | Yianni Gamvros, Quantum Signals (Startup Series #6)
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...
Why the 'Boring' Quantum Computer Changes Everything | Thien-An Nguyen, ORCA (Startup Series #3)
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 shippin...
Shrinking Particle Accelerators and X-Ray Lasers | Jerome Paye, TAU Systems (Startup Series #2)
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-ra...
The Quantum Race Nobody Is Talking About | Bill Vass, Booz Allen Hamilton (Ep. 6)
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 sur...
Will Europe Lose the Quantum Race? | Prof. Eleni Diamanti, PCQT (Ep. 5)
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.<...
Designing Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers | Ish Dhand, QC Design (Startup Series #1)
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 w...
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Quantum Advantage and Real-World Use Cases | Michael Cuthbert, NQCC (Ep. 4)
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 quan...
Inside a $260M Quantum Fund: Investing in Quantum Early | Olivier Tonneau, Quantonation (Ep. 3)
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 ...
The Global Quantum Race: US, China and Europe | André König, GQI (Ep. 2)
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 ...
What Is Quantum Computing? A Business Guide | Wasiq Bokhari, Pasqal (Ep. 1)
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 ...