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Dr Vikram Sharma: Sensitive information such as health records, financial information, valuable intellectual property is typically protected by a set of technologies broadly known as encryption.
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Our mission at QuintessenceLabs is to provide technologies that will ensure trust in our digital society.
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Quantum computing will actually break much of the mathematics that underlies the encryption technologies we use today.
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My name is Vikram Sharma. I am the founder and CEO of QuintessenceLabs.
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We took the seed of science that we inherited from the research at ANU and spent a number of years maturing the science into technology that could be manufacturable, reliable and cost effective, and most importantly solving real world problems.
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Most of our R&D occurs here in Canberra, but more broadly we have people scattered throughout the country.
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We are very much in the business of the scientific translation and putting that into products whereas our cutting edge scientific research is best undertaken by the brilliant minds in the university sector.
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And seeing the technology deployed is incredibly fulfilling.
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We are really fortunate to have a diversity of people both in terms of their professional backgrounds, but also in terms of their cultural backgrounds and upbringing which really adds to us being able to produce high quality outcomes for the company and for our stakeholders.
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We are really excited to take the well recognised customer base that we have today and build a globally recognised, quantum cyber security company that’s headquartered here in Australia.
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It's a remarkable honour to receive the Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation.
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For me it represents recognition of the researchers, entrepreneurs, policymakers that are working in this space to really position Australia as the best place in the world to study, research and work in quantum.
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