Mike Piech

Vice President of Business Development

Rigetti Computing

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Mike Piech is Vice President of Business Development at Rigetti Computing, with responsibility for sales, partnerships, and marketing. Prior to Rigetti, Mike was vice president and general manager of several business units at Red Hat, managing teams responsible for the product management, strategy, and marketing of Red Hat’s AI and middleware offerings. Prior to Red Hat, Mike held executive product roles at Magnet Systems (mobile app server) and Engine Yard (cloud platform) after five years at Oracle and BEA with product responsibility for WebLogic, Java, and other enterprise platform technologies. Mike began his career at Sun Microsystems in R&D engineering roles in video and image processing. Mike holds an MBA from INSEAD, a B.S. in computer science and engineering from MIT, and several patents.

Diamond Sponsor Speaker

Presentation Title: 

Rigetti’s Relentless Progress to Quantum Advantage

Presentation Abstract:

We outline Rigetti’s vision and strategy for delivering quantum compute systems that materialize quantum advantage for government, academic, and commercial organizations. We’ll review recent breakthroughs and milestone achievements along with our roadmap for the next several years. We’ll highlight productive relationships with national labs and other organizations as well as developments in algorithms and use cases.