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Time to Talk Quantum
Time to Talk Quantum (TTQ) is a new podcast hosted by Dr Kris Naudts, co-founder of Firgun Ventures, a $250M VC fund focused on early growth-stage quantum technology companies. Dr Naudts is also a neuroscientist and psychiatrist, and founder of Culture Trip.
In each episode, Dr Naudts applies his innate curiosity to the cutting edge of quantum innovation, exploring its intersections with AI, health, finance, defence and... art. Featuring conversations with the world’s top entrepreneurs, experts, artists and investors driving the field from lab to market, TTQ provides insights into these various verticals and industries, as the world wakes up to quantum’s game-changing potential.
Stay tuned! Episode 1 of Time to Talk Quantum launches on March 3 across all major streaming platforms and is also available to watch on YouTube.
Featuring upcoming guests including:
- Professor Mete Atatüre – Physicist; Head of the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- Refik Anadol – Media Artist & Director at RAS; Co-Founder & Artistic Director of DATALAND
- Professor John Morton – Professor of Nanoelectronics & Nanophotonics, University College London; Director, UCL Quantum Science and Technology Institute
- John Ridge CBE – Chief Adoption Officer, NATO Innovation Fund
- Professor Lara Jehi – Chief Research Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic; Professor of Neurology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
- Professor Bob Coecke – Theoretical Physicist & Musician; Emeritus Professor, Wolfson College, Oxford; Former Chief Scientist, Quantinuum
- Zeynep Korütürk – Founding & Managing Partner, Firgun Ventures; Former Executive Director, Goldman Sachs
- Joab Rosenberg – Partner, Deep33; Founder, Epistema (now Ment.io)
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- Instagram: @timetotalkquantum
- TikTok: @timetotalkquantum
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This podcast is brought to you by Firgun Ventures.
Music: NGN2 by ILĀ from their album Quantum Computer Music.
About the host: Dr Kris Naudts is the founding and managing partner of Firgun Ventures, a global quantum-first VC firm investing in Series A/B scale-ups. Prior to Firgun, Naudts was an award-winning academic psychiatrist and medical doctor at King’s College London, with a PhD in neuroscience. He later pursued his passion for entrepreneurship, culture, and creativity by founding Culture Trip, which he scaled into one of the world’s leading travel and media brands, raising over $100 million in funding and growing the platform to 20 million monthly visitors.
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- Follow Firgun: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/firgun-ventures
- Firgun Website: https://firgun.vc/
Content advisory: Time to Talk Quantum explores the intersections between quantum technology and AI, health, finance, defence and art. Some discussions may cover sensitive or technical subjects related to cybersecurity, global security, geopolitics or emerging technologies. The podcast is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment, scientific, or medical advice.
Time to Talk Quantum
Entangled: Art, AI & Quantum, with Refik Anadol & Professor Bob Coecke
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In this week’s episode of Time to Talk Quantum [TTQ], Firgun Ventures co-founder Dr Kris Naudts is joined by Refik Anadol, an internationally renowned media artist, and Professor Bob Coecke, a theoretical physicist and former chief scientist at Quantinuum, to discuss the intersection of art and quantum.
Refik shares the story behind Quantum Memories, his collaborations with Google’s AI and quantum teams, and his vision for DATALAND, the world’s first museum dedicated to AI art, set to open in LA soon. Bob dives into ancient Greece, relational quantum mechanics, diagrammatic languages, quantum natural language processing, and building a quantum guitar.
The conversation soon turns into something broader; more philosophical. Could art be the fastest path to real-world quantum applications? Might gaming and entertainment pioneer adoption before the wider industry does? And could quantum thinking itself offer a new, more relational way of understanding reality?
This conversation explores what it means to be alive at a moment when science, art, and imagination are evolving together.
Available to watch on YouTube
Episode Themes:
- When Art Meets Science
- Turning Quantum Into Something You Can See
- What Does Quantum Music Sound Like?
- Building a Museum for the Age of AI
- Doing AI Art the Ethical Way
- Can Art Make Quantum Understandable for Everyone?
- Will Entertainment Be Quantum’s First Breakthrough?
- Could Quantum Art Ever Be Controversial?
- Are We Ready for a New Universal Language?
This podcast is brought to you by Firgun Ventures, the first venture capital firm specialising in early growth-stage quantum scaleups.
Music: NGN2 by ILĀ from their album Quantum Computer Music.
About the guests:
Refik Anadol is an internationally renowned media artist and a pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine learning. He teaches in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts, serves as director & co-founder of Refik Anadol Studio, and is co-founder of DATALAND.
Prof Bob Coecke is a theoretical physicist and former chief scientist at Quantinuum. He previously served as professor of Quantum Foundations, Logics and Structures at the University of Oxford.
Links & Resources
- Quantum Concept Music Score from Quantum Picturalism: Musical Incarnation of a Bell-Pair under Measurements Paper: Quantum Concept Music Score from Quantum Picturalism: Musical Incarnation of a Bell-Pair under Measurements
- Refik Anadol talks to the FT about his art: Refik Anadol on his immersive AI-generated art
This podcast is brought to you by Firgun Ventures.
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Content advisory: Time to Talk Quantum explores the intersections between quantum technology and AI, health, finance, defence and art. Some discussions may cover sensitive or technical subjects related to cybersecurity, global security, geopolitics or emerging technologies. The podcast is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment, scientific, or medical advice.
