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Hello everyone. Your eyes do not

deceive you. This is my second live stream today.

Candace. I think that's great. I feel super special.

I think you should. I do. Not only do I have my hipster

glasses on still, but in case you're wondering who the heck is

this guy? I'm Frank Lavinia. You can catch me at the following URLs franksworld.com

datadriven TV and of course Impact Quantum. And with me

is Kansas Cooley. How's it going, Candace? It's going great.

It's going great. I'm very excited. I'm very excited.

It is cool. I was talking to somebody the other day about

the march of technology and obviously everyone thinks about AI, but at one

point, to do what we're doing now would have required thousands

of dollars of equipment. And this is like 10 years ago. I remember

when I was at Microsoft, my first stint at Microsoft,

I was the one pushing for us to do more live streams out of the,

the, the K Street office in dc. Okay, right. Because they would have these

panel discussions all the time of, you know,

DC Span type stuff, right. Which, you know, not exactly mass

market appeal. And you know, one guy was

like, you know, one firm would charge thousands of dollars per live stream, so they

would hardly ever do it. And I'm like, you know, like we could

do this with this particular type of equipment was a Tricaster

Mini. And as the rest they say is history. So that's, so

that Tricaster mini was about $10,000. And this is

2013, 2014. It's when, when this was

thing. So here we are. Now I can stream on my phone, I can

stream on my, you know, laptop or whatever, all entirely in

browser, which is pretty wild. It makes people who,

you know, are not technical

feel technical. Right. Because the

tools are really easy to use. And I

think that's a good segue because I think

10 years from now we'll be looking at 2025, 2026

in very much the same vein for Quantum. Right.

And we're already seeing kind of these, these big, big shifts you were

telling me about.

Let me share this tab. This story

comes to us from Reuters. And

let's see if I can get that up on the screen. Come on.

Ionq to buy Skywater for

$1.8 billion. Now I know inflation is a

thing, but $1.8 billion is still a lot of money, right?

I think you can buy a house in the San Francisco Bay

area for about that now.

Really, it's, it's a tremendous amount of money that's coming out of

a company that is not like

Pepsi or Coke or like, not in a company that hasn't

even been around a long, long time.

Right. I mean, surprising. It was, it's

a lot of money. And it is still a lot of money. And

apparently there it's a hardware play and it's a cash for

stock. And I think this is interesting. This is what this is, I think going

to be the theme of the 2000s and as we close out the 2000s, which

is very scary thing to say out loud.

It's basically secure supply chains, chip

manufacturing. I mean this is going to be the story of this, right? Semiconductor

manufacturing in house and boost the next generation of

quantum processors. Because I think, as most folks didn't know up until the pandemic

was our semiconductors are made basically in a very small

geographic part of the world. Right. Some of

it on very contested real estate like Taiwan

and basically Shenzhen and kind of that part

of the world. All it would take would be for one

geopolitical crisis to go the wrong way or a typhoon

or an earthquake to really disrupt a vast

majority of the supply of

semiconductors in the world. And I think it's interesting that they, as a

quantum computer company are acquiring something for this,

but it's fascinating to see how this works.

So their stock rose 4% in early morning

trading and Skywater rose 8%. That's typical.

But you were telling me that today their stock was kind of down. Right.

So I, I read. So you know that they said that the, the stock

dipped like it dipped, you know,

in late 2025 and then again dipped in early

2026. I think it dipped like a couple days ago.

And it made me question why did this happen

right after the Skywater deal was announced?

Interesting. I thought, well, wait a minute, people should be into

the idea of in house chip fabrication. I mean, look

what we're dealing with, with, with Taiwan, like just what you're saying, it's a limited

regional ownership and we,

it's better that you know, if you're bringing it in house then you know,

you could, you know, there's more competition. But

I wondered if maybe the moves that they were making were just too big.

Right. Because they also, if you look now. They'Re up, they're up a little bit

today. Okay. Okay. So maybe. But I mean that always happens though, right? Like

people will, I don't know, like, not that I'M a stock

market genius. But weird things

happens when, when people, like, buy and, like, there's acquisitions and stuff like

that. Some of them go up, some of them go down. It's. I can't figure

out the rationale.

Yeah, I don't know, but they're hitting everything. I, I just, I was

just looking at this like, we didn't talk about the, the, the acquisition

of Skyloom Global. Right. Apparently they have a thing for the sky.

Because when you told me that, I'm looking for the tab.

And so, so I just did a search for acquisition, IonQ

acquisition, and said that they completed Skyloom Global. And I thought, I remember this

happening a little while ago, but I'm like. And then you sent me the

link. I was like, yeah,

11-25-25. And I was like, you sent me like, no,

that's Sky Water. This is Sky Loom. So

maybe, Candace, you and I should start a company called Sky Quantum. I'm telling

you. And we'll get some of that sweet paper.

Yes, I'm all for it. So, so, you know, so with,

with, with Skywater, you have,

you have hardware. With Sky Loom, it's all about

quantum networking and communication capability,

which is super important. Right.

And then they had, they did a software

acquisition with something called Seed Innovations,

and. Really? Yeah. And Seed Innovations,

they have an expertise in AI driven software,

machine learning, and cloud automation. And

it's an idea that, you know.

It sounds like they're, they're building out the

entire supply chain and software supply

chain. I mean, it sounds like they want to be,

they want to be like a big, big dog in this. It's looking like that.

I mean, that sounds pretty cool. Like, you know,

I mean, it's definitely. I think if anyone had

any doubts about the future of what the quantum industry was going to be, I

think, you know, when you start tossing around billions of dollars, like I said that

that's. Now you're in real money, right? Like, you know, hundreds of millions of

dollars is still real money. You might be able to buy a tiny condo in

the Bay Area. Oh,

for, for a couple hundred million. You can buy a solid house in D.C. for

a couple hundred million. So. Right. That's like. I think Jeff

Bezos's house was, Was that

the county we used to live in? That would get you a nice big house.

Okay. Yeah. Right where I grew up, you get a

little, A nice, A nice little pad. Not today, though. I don't know.

Yeah, but, but no, I mean, this is serious money, and

I Think that you're going to see a lot of this. I'm

sorry, go ahead. No, I want to tell you this because you're going to love

this part. So IonQ also brought on a new

CIO. Oh really? Defense

tech experience. There it is.

And you. Is this. If you check this

out, like there's a lot of

interesting here about the Department of War.

Formulino's Department of Defense.

It's interesting how there's a ban now on

QKD or Quantum Key Distribution.

That's interesting. Now they're hiring the former CIO

of IonQ. That's interesting.

800 million dollar revenue by 2027. That's.

That's just next year. I mean this is very real, you

know. Right. And I mean, remember we were talking about, you know,

the next iteration of. Yeah. You know, where everything

is going to go. Right. So. Yeah, this is, this is

kind of right up what we were talking about. Right, Right.

Yeah, yeah. So they're up, I don't know, depending on when this was

written. So it's written in

2026. So it's. They're already up 5%. So I guess the.

Maybe what happens is with stock sometimes like it'll go up a certain amount, then

people just dump it either through an automated thing like, hey, if it gets to

this point, just dump it or, or whatever. But I, you know,

but it's up nearly 300 over the last five years. I mean, that's.

That's pretty good. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. So

that's. I'm telling you, like this is the dawn of a new

era. And you know,

this is the dawn of a new era. Speaking of defense,

military industrial complex, here's an interesting thing

in. It's called the Intelligence Community News. Intelligence Community news dot

com. I have no affiliation with them. I just somehow ended up on their.

Oh, I remember I spoke at an event that they hosted. That's why I got

on their mailing list. That's why it came in for

my work email. Not. I'm gonna call it

Sky. Sky Quantum. There we go. Sky Quantum. We gotta

check it out, see if it's taken already. Yeah, seriously. Although by the time

we check, it will be right. Because. Right.

Just promises a ride on your private jet. But

basically for those Outside of the D.C. metro or

Baltimore Metro, IC usually means intelligence community.

But it's interesting how this is starting to become more

and more of a thing. Right? Like

in the security space, quantum key distribution,

quantum networking. We actually recorded an

episode that's not out yet recently about

quantum networking. Really brilliant, really

brilliant conversation. But I mean, it's like,

it's interesting how now the focus is, and the show we

released today was about,

you know, quantum safety and quantum preparedness. Right.

And I think this is going to be another buzzword for the next decade

is quantum safe. Yes, yes.

Obviously the intelligence community is going to need it sooner

than, than the average Joe or average

Jane. But I, I mean, if you're a Fortune 5,

500 company and you're not thinking about this,

you're in trouble. Right. Like we said in the show, right

now is not the time to panic now. That comes later.

Right. But certainly you need to

start thinking about this now. Right. Even if, even if your industry

isn't, even if your, your industry isn't something that

you know is, is going to be enhanced by

quantum, then you're still going to have to

secure the information that you have as a business. And that, that

just, that is going to make you have to,

you know, delve into, you know, quantum encryption.

It's just to protect your data. Exactly.

And if you're really worried about that, then there's also quantum safe networking.

Quantum networking, right. So like protecting your data, I think is going to be the

new baseline, like the table stakes of,

of the future. Right. Even, even now. Right. I mean, it's just one of

those things where even if you're in a, like you said, in the company industry,

it doesn't really care about this if you're in the business of, you know,

plowing driveways with snow. Right. Quantum is probably not

going to radically change how you do your day to day. But your data

best be protected with that lest, you know,

I can't imagine a nation state would be interested in getting access to your

data, though. Stranger things have

happened. But certainly once the script kiddies get their hold of this

post quantum stuff, everybody's at risk, you know,

so don't think you're, if you think you're immune, you're already in trouble.

Right. And speaking of, this is what is

an interesting. Oh, Benita is brilliant. Really. This is a

great episode. This really was a great episode.

And she does work for IBM actually, and she is a leader

very much tied into the same thing. Right. Quantum safe initiatives. Yes.

And there's actually a whole thing apparently at IBM

about this. Right. Making the world quantum safe.

And yes, that is a red fedora you see behind me. Right. So full

disclosure, I, I do work in my day job for

Red Hat, which is an IBM company. Right. So I'm not,

you know, I don't know what the regulatory things like you know, have to

say but like I mean IBM really is on top of this. Call me

IBM, give me a call. I'm ready to talk to you. Give me a

call. So you're like IBM, you're like IBM royalty.

Well, you know, I gotta, I gotta go by my maiden name. But yeah,

so there's probably a conference room named after your dad or

something. It very well might be right. But so go on. You're talking about the,

oh, NIST Post Quantum Cryptography Standards. Absolutely.

Standards and practices. I mean it's needed

guidelines out there. 100. My wife works at NIST,

not working on this. Although did I ever tell you that story?

My older two boys, when we live closer to nist, went

to the daycare center there and there was some kid there

who, you know, you go there, you pick up your

kids, sometimes you chit chat with the parents. Right. It's kind of a typical daycare.

Right. But one day they had this thing for

they might have been Mother's Day, like what does my mom do at work? Or

something like that. And you know, the kids put, you know, what their moms did.

And unless one kid had like, you know, my mom

works on quantum crypto, post quantum

cryptography. And this was my God, I mean

to trying to think like my oldest would have been in kindergarten. So

this is like 11 years ago. And

I was like holy cow, that's cool. Like, you know, so I don't know,

it's small world I suppose what I'm trying to say. But this has been on

this problem for a while because I think a lot of people thought about, been

thinking about this for quite some time.

I don't know where I was going. With that but, but that's why understanding that,

you know, every business needs to protect their data. If everyone can kind of

just understand that basic, then

it'll make adoption of new standards and practices.

It'll just, it'll, it'll, it'll happen, you know, more smoothly.

You know, like I, I was, I, I just had a conversation with somebody

and we were just talking about climate and I said, you know,

imagine when finally, you know, we have, you know,

quantum efforts looking at climate

predictions and we, you know, look at this massive craziness that

happened over the past week, you know, where everyone

heard they were going to get snow. And I'm in Montreal, by the way.

I just want to preface that by saying and of course my mom is in

New York. So I'm, like, always obsessed with what's going on there, because that's where

I'm from. But, you know, people are predicting what, like,

2 inches to 25 inches? That's what. That's what we got here

in Maryland was like, well, you're either going to get 2 inches or 2ft.

Like, it was kind of like what we ended up getting, about 14 inches, I'd

say. Okay. But. But, but again, it's relevant again,

because I haven't looked today, but there's a nor' Easter

brewing. Yeah. And depending how far it is from the core, from the

coast, we're either going to get another significant

snowfall, and for us, that's like five, six inches.

Five, six inches of snow is like, you know, you

know, a warm spring. Day in Montreal, a day that ends in y.

Right. Absolutely right. But no, seriously, just think of all the

effects. I mean, you know, everything from schools. Right. To.

And then to flights, you know, airlines. Oh, yeah. I mean,

flights. Flights have just been completely disrupted. You know,

there's a. In case you're wondering, Frank, why are you wearing these hipster

glasses? You know, I had a concussion almost a month ago, and,

like, I was supposed to be going. I was supposed to be in Vegas this

week because there's a big internal conference going on, and

my doctor's like, there's no way in hell you're going to. Basically was

kind of what he said. And.

But, I mean, my God, I mean, I'm seeing stories about people

being stuck, like, you know, in Dallas and stuck here now. I think

it's working its way through the system now, but still, I can't imagine what that

would be like. Like, oh, right. And obviously, news stories. Yeah, it's great.

But also not for nothing in Toronto, which is, you know, financial

capital of. Of, you know, Canada,

Pearson Major International Airport, it was hit with

legitimately, like, two feet of snow. And of all the. Of all the

airports in the world, that they're probably best equipped, certainly

in North America, like, one of the best equipped to handle that sort of thing.

But no, it's. It's an interesting.

But, I mean, I. I'm looking at the. The forecast for this weekend, and they're

like, well, you know, nothing will happen or you'll get another dump of snow. Like,

it doesn't really help for planning. No, it really doesn't. And

then people go crazy and they. And they. And they go to the supermarket and

they wipe out the supermarket of eggs. And milk and butter and

bread and. And, you know, the salt that

you put on the driveways and the, you know, and it's just like

you can't. And the funny is really. It's really also a language thing.

Honest to goodness. Like, I watch the American news and the Canadian

news every night. Right. And the way they talk about the

same storm is hilarious because like in the States,

it's like the death march across the country

of snow and, you know, people losing power

and, you know, just making it like a apocalyptic, you know. And

then, well, too, in their defense, if you're like this, that's the thing.

Like, if you're in the south, like, they really can't handle this.

No, like Tennessee got wiped out by several inches of snow because they just don't

even know how to handle that. They don't. Forget it. You know, that's fair.

That makes sense. Do you know? But like, in Canada. Most of Canada is north

of a certain, what, the 49th parallel or something like that? Like

the majority of it. So, like, snow would just hat. Like you said, it's a

day ending in Wired Montreal,

at least in. I'd say D.C. is about as far south as you

go in the US where they can actually handle snow. Okay. And

even then, people in Chicago will say, we don't

know how to handle snow. Yeah, I

suppose, compared to Chicago, but they can at least handle it. When I lived in

Richmond, Richmond, they wouldn't put salt down. They would do this

thing where they throw sand down and the only thing sand did was make a

mess. You know, floor mats in your car would be dirty, your rugs in your

house would be dirty. That's the only thing it ever did. I. I don't. It

was like, it's salt. It's not complicated. Like, But.

Nope. But again, they would get it so rarely that they just never

invested in the infrastructure. I got stuck in my hotel in Dallas a

couple years ago when they had like 2 inches of snow and

like a quarter inch ice. Right. The

ice is hell. Like, you can't. Yeah. No one can drive on it. And

you have to respect it. Nature is. Nature is just stronger than

you are. And, you know, you have to give in. I mean, that's like when

I first moved here and. And all of a sudden my kids had to have

two pairs of shoes. You had your. Oh, yeah, you were telling me about that.

Yeah. Crazy. You'd your winter boots. And then when they got inside the

school, then they put on their sneakers. Okay. But they

had to leave their sneakers at the school so that they would be there

for them the next day. So if they had an activity

that they needed their sneakers at outside of school, well, then the kids

had three pairs of shoes. It just was like, right.

But then you kind of, kind of got it, you know what I mean? Otherwise

everything would be wet and kids would be schlepping around in, in,

in heavy, heavy boots all the time. So it just, it just made sense.

But. Oh, anyway, we digress. We digress.

Just real quick, a special surprise.

What's our special surprise? Candace? I'm very excited about

this. I really, really am. We're going to be launching a new

podcast and it's going to be called Women in

Quantum. And I'm really, really excited

about it because I want young

women to understand that they get

to be curious and there gets to be a space for them in

the ecosystem when they find out how different

women that, you know, we're going to be speaking to all came

upon Quantum in very different ways. That was the

thing that really struck me was like, you know, not. And not just women, men

too, but like, you know, the stem fields tend to be

male biased anyway. But like, you know,

we've met some interesting characters since restarting this podcast almost a

year ago and like, the stories of how some people get to

Quantum are just like, really like, wow, like, how'd that happen?

You know, because it's not linear necessarily at all. It is

very non linear, which I suppose is very appropriate. Very appropriate.

Absolutely apropos. But yeah, so like just today I was

speaking to this really exciting individual who was

born in Russia and,

and the experience that she had in school

was very different than the experience the lady

that I spoke to yet last week, who was, who was born and raised in

Egypt. Okay. And then there's another woman

who I spoke to who was born and raised in Iran, and

it's just incredibly interesting to see how very much the

culture will define the opportunity.

Yes, by and large, I, I don't think we're

completely victims of our circumstance. But yes, I mean, it

definitely does set the tone. And

yeah, no, I'm, I'm really, I haven't listened to the recordings yet, but I'm really

looking forward to it. I am too. I'm really, really, really excited about it.

So, so we, we don't have a logo quite to reveal yet, but soon,

soon. So stay tuned, folks. And

I have to jet. But

if you're listening to this, because we're also going to post this on the main

feed too, you know, thanks for watching. Thanks for

listening. Thanks for watching all that stuff. Any. Any parting thoughts, Candice?

You know what? I want everyone to stay safe and be kind.

And that's like parting. Parting note. And stay warm, too, because

there's still winter. Yes. Yes, it

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