This episode of Disruption/Interruption features Poolad Imany, founder and CEO of Icarus Quantum, a company spun out of NIST that is building modular, room-temperature quantum links. Rather than chasing ever-larger monolithic quantum computers, Icarus is tackling the industry's cryogenics bottleneck by connecting smaller quantum modules together, similar to how classical data centers scale. The conversation covers the physics of cryogenic cooling, why quantum interconnects are the missing piece for utility-scale quantum computers, and what Icarus's move to Harvard and MIT clean room facilities means for its fabrication process. Imany also touches on the energy efficiency gains quantum computing could offer and where he sees the industry heading over the next decade.

Key Takeaways:

• 3:35 — Who is Poolad Imany and what pulled him into quantum computing?
• 5:36 — What is broken about how the industry currently scales quantum computers?
• 6:49 – How does modularization solve the quantum scaling problem?
• 25:48 — When will quantum and AI converge, and what happens next?

Quote of the Show (6:49):
"Let's actually modularize this. Let's take these small modules and connect them in a quantum way to each other to make a bigger quantum computer." — Poolad Imany

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Ways to connect with Poolad Imany:
Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poolad-imany
Company Website: https://www.icarusquantum.com/

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