Industry committee  Yes, I want to agree with Professor Hall. Just adding to Alliance and CREATE and these existing NSERC programs would actually be business as usual. There is no evidence that these programs in the past have really led to including everybody who wants to contribute to this field to

Industry committee  Yes, sure. Firstly, I'm happy to share my course details. Secondly, a lot of the questions for AI ethics, technology ethics and the use of technology in general would of course also apply to quantum. I think that's important to keep in mind. Additionally, I think that at this

Industry committee  I'll start with the reason it's important. There are many reasons. Whether you want to talk about social justice or economic progress, the point is if we wanted to really have an edge in quantum or even other areas of STEM, AI, or many other areas where there's an under-represent

Industry committee  I think, to answer the second part of your question first, when we don't include EDI, the effects have already been clear. For example, you could look at AI where there's all these unintentional consequences where we have built-in bias into all of these training systems. That's a

Industry committee  I think a whole spectrum of actions need to be taken, starting with recruitment and retention for sure, and also, as you said, building a classroom and a workplace environment that is inclusive. There's lots of research about how this can be done. We need to bring experts to th

Industry committee  Is that question for me?

Industry committee  As far as I know, there isn't a coordinated, large-scale international effort. I think there is collaboration at the research level for sure, but not at any kind of a national strategy or at the industrial level.

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. I think that's a really important piece of developing our national strategy. I think it was a strong message that also came out in the consultations that happened already to try to create a plan for the future. So yes, I am a strong supporter of the

Industry committee  If I may, I can jump in. I'll say, maybe in addition to what Professor Brassard said, that a lot of information that is current will not be vulnerable to ransomware, but it could be that there's historical data or something in somebody's past that needs to be kept safe, as perhap

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Shohini Ghose, and I have suffered my whole life from insatiable curiosity about how the universe works. In my office hangs a poster that says, “There is no cure for curiosity.” That curiosity inevitably led me to the strange quantum world, and n