Event overview
The speakers will introduce the project, currently in progress, to build the UK鈥檚 first quantum computer to be commercially available. The project backed by the UK鈥檚 goverment, titled 鈥溾, is being led by Rigetti, in partnership with Oxford Instruments, Standard Chartered, Phasecraft, a Bristol and London-based quantum software start-up, as well as the University of Edinburgh. In the second half of the talk, the speakers will present quantum generative and discriminative models applied to financial use cases, part of the project鈥檚 quantum machine learning in finance work stream.
Short Biographies
Elena Strbac is an Executive Director at Standard Chartered Bank, and focuses on developing innovative data science methodologies for finance use cases. Her initiatives include Quantum Computing for Financial Markets, and contributing to the consortium that is building the first Quantum Computer on UK soil. Elena studied Mathematics at 91桃色 College, and has worked in Data Science for the last 10 years.
Marco Paini is the Technology Partnerships Director, Europe at Rigetti. Marco is currently managing Innovate UK鈥檚 鈥淨uantum Computing Platform for NISQ Era Commercial Applications鈥 project and previously led QxBranch鈥檚 quantum computing applications portfolio development. Prior to QxBranch, Marco spent more than eighteen years with Accenture. Marco studied physics at the University of Pavia.
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