Quantum Conversations III: Hardware Overview and Investment Landscape
ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference In this installment of our series, we turn out attention to the two areas not yet covered in QCs: Hardware and Investment. Hardware is what makes quantum computing possible and its progress will determine everything else. We’re pleased to host Nick Bronn of IBM with fundamental insights and overview of the field. Another barometer of practical progress is startup investment. In the true spirit of Silicon Valley, we want to provide a market perspective to see where most work and employment will occur, based on what the startups think. We welcome questions and discussions as always, and would be happy to hear lightning talks after the main program – please propose yours in the RSVP! (1) Enabling Near-term Noisy Quantum Hardware with Qiskit Pulse Qiskit is IBM’s open source framework for quantum computing, and Qiskit Pulse provides pulse-level control of deployed quantum computers over the cloud. In this talk, I will overview the control and measurement of superconducting transmon qubits with microwave pulses, programming such pulses with Qiskit Pulse. Finally, we’ll summarize some recent applications of Qiskit Pulse. Speaker: Nick Bronn is a Research Staff Member in the Experimental Quantum Computing group at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. He received B.S.’s in Applied Mathematics and Physics and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech, a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Mathematics from Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter…