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Alan Baratz

President and Chief Executive Officer, D-wave Quantum

Search every verified Alan Baratz interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Alan Baratz, President and CEO of D-Wave Quantum, appeared on the London Tech Week podcast in June 2026, where he discussed the current state and commercial viability of quantum computing. He stated that quantum computing has "earned a seat at the main table" in the technology conversation, while distinguishing between annealing and gate-model approaches. Baratz said D-Wave's annealing systems are already solving business problems and delivering a return on investment, citing Q1 bookings of over $33 million, including a $20 million system sale and a $10 million enterprise license with a Fortune 100 company. He reported a year-over-year increase in bookings of approximately 2,000%. During the interview, Baratz also addressed his public disagreement with Jensen Huang's suggestion that quantum computing was decades away, reiterating his view that Huang had a misunderstanding of the technology. He highlighted D-Wave's computational supremacy demonstration on a real-world problem involving magnetic materials, claiming the computation took about 20 minutes on their system versus nearly a million years on the fastest supercomputers, while consuming roughly 10 kilowatts of power. Baratz described 2026 as a "watershed moment" for D-Wave, noting growing investor interest and accelerating sales bookings for both its cloud-based and on-premises quantum computer offerings.

Recent appearances

  • London Tech Week: Podcast | Episode 13 | Alan Baratz, CEO, D-Wave Quantum

    October 16, 2026 · 📺 London Tech Week

    Is quantum computing still the technology of tomorrow, or is it already transforming business today? In Episode 13 of London Tech Week: In Conversation, Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave Quantum, explores why quantum computing is moving beyond research and into real-world commercial applications. From optimising manufacturing and supply chains to accelerating drug discovery, Alan reveals how quantum computing is delivering measurable business value today. He also discusses how quantum and AI can work together to solve complex problems, reduce energy consumption and unlock new opportunities across i…

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  • Opening Keynote | Qubits Europe 2026

    June 24, 2026 · 📺 D-Wave

    Dr. Alan Baratz delivers the opening keynote for D-Wave's Qubits Europe 2026. Subscribe: @dwavequantum Connect with D-Wave: Website: https://www.dwavequantum.com/ LinkedIn: / d-wave-quantum X: https://x.com/dwavequantum Facebook: / dwavequantum #QuantumComputing #QuantumRealized #Qubits26

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  • D Wave CEO Dr Alan Baratz Details the Quantum Roadmap and Enterprise Adoption

    June 12, 2026 · 📺 New York Stock Exchange

    Dr. Alan Baratz, CEO of DWAVE joins (Hosts name) on NYSE Live to discuss the quantum roadmap and enterprise adoption.

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  • D-Wave Acquired QCI | Here's Why It Matters

    June 04, 2026 · 📺 Boardroom Exclusives

    Welcome into Stocktwits Boardroom Exclusives. Michele Steele is joined by Dr. Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave, as the quantum era shifts from the lab to the boardroom. D-Wave is coming off a historic start to 2026 — with January bookings exceeding all of last year, plus record revenue and rising enterprise adoption. Dr. Baratz explains what changed: key product milestones like Advantage2 (the newest generation annealing quantum computer) and a next-gen hybrid solver that blends CPUs/GPUs with quantum to tackle even larger problems — and a market that’s now paying attention higher up the corporate…

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  • D-Wave Investor Day 2026 — CEO Keynote with Dr. Alan Baratz | LIVE

    June 01, 2026 · 📺 Stocktwits

    Join us live for D-Wave Investor Day 2026, featuring the opening CEO Keynote from Dr. Alan Baratz, President and CEO of D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS). 🗓 June 1st, 2026 🕐 1:00–2:00 PM EST 🔴 Streaming LIVE from the NYSE Dr. Baratz will share D-Wave's vision and strategy for the year ahead, including the company's progress in commercial quantum computing and how its annealing and gate-model systems are being applied to solve real-world business, research, and government challenges today. D-Wave is a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, and the world's first commercia…

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  • D-Wave CEO: U.S. investment accelerates our ability to scale quantum innovation

    May 21, 2026 · 📺 CNBC Television

    CNBC's Kelly Evans talks with D-Wave Quantum CEO Alan Baratz about the expected $100 million U.S. investment in the company to advance quantum computing and more.

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  • Optimum CEO Dennis Mathew & D-Wave CEO Alan Baratz at Semafor World Economy

    May 13, 2026 · 📺 Semafor Events

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  • $QBTS D-Wave Quantum Q1 2026 Earnings Conference Call

    May 12, 2026 · 📺 EARNMOAR

    05/12/2026 Q&A: 30:28 D-Wave Quantum Inc. engages in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software, and services worldwide. It provides Advantage and Advantage 2 quantum computers; Ocean, a suite of open-source tools; and Leap quantum cloud service, a cloud-based service that provides real-time access to quantum computers and quantum hybrid solvers; and secure access and data protection services, as well as Ocean software development kit (SDK), a Python-based SDK for developers to learn and build applications on company's server. The company also provides Leap hybrid solv…

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  • Quantum CEO Series: Alan Baratz

    April 07, 2026 · 📺 S&P Global Market Intelligence

    We kick off the next in our CEO series with a look at quantum computing. Alan Baratz is the CEO of D-Wave and he joins host Eric Hanselman to explore quantum computing architectures, how they're evolving, and how enterprises should be considering quantum computing applications. D-Wave now offers both annealing and gate model quantum computing systems, with different types of problems being suited to each type. While many view quantum computing as a distant future, quantum approaches are delivering business value today, particularly in quantum annealing, where optimization of scheduling and pro…

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  • D-Wave CEO Alan Baratz on the Path to Profitable Quantum Computing | QBTS Interview

    April 07, 2026 · 📺 The Motley Fool

    D-Wave CEO Dr. Alan Baratz discusses the company's unique approach to quantum computing, including its annealing technology and the development of gate-model systems using dual-rail qubits. He shares his outlook on D-Wave's path toward profitability and commercialization. Topics covered: • D-Wave's quantum annealing technology and how it differs from gate-model approaches • Real-world applications across industries like logistics, drug discovery, and optimization • The development of dual-rail superconducting qubits for fault-tolerant computing • D-Wave's business model shift from selling qua…

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  • D-Wave (QBTS) CEO on Earnings, Quantum Computing Profits & Acquisitions

    March 05, 2026 · 📺 Schwab Network

    Dr. Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave (QBTS), talks about what he calls a "great year" for the company in 2025, and the profitability path the latest earnings paves. He notes 2026 sales of D-Wave's quantum computing products already outpaced all of last year. Alan adds that D-Wave is building a moat in the industry through a recent acquisition even though we are "years away" from profitable gateway models. ======== Schwab Network ======== Empowering every investor and trader, every market day. Subscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribe Download the iOS app - h…

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  • $QBTS D-Wave Quantum Q4 2025 Earnings Conference Call

    February 26, 2026 · 📺 EARNMOAR

    02/26/2026 Q&A: 34:20 D-Wave Quantum Inc. develops and delivers quantum computing systems, software, and services worldwide. The company offers Advantage and Advantage 2 quantum computers; Ocean, a suite of open-source tools; and Leap quantum cloud service, a cloud-based service that provides real-time access to quantum computers and quantum hybrid solvers; and secure access and data protection services. It also provides Leap hybrid solver service that offers a combination of quantum and classical computation resources and advanced algorithms to solve problems of enterprise scale; and D-Wave L…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“I think people are going to be most surprised to find out that these frankly absurd claims about achieving 100 logical qubits in 2 years or breaking RSA in 3 years were just that, absurd claims. So, you know, when you start hearing things like that, you need to dig in, right? You need to understand what's underlying that claim. How real is it? You know, look at the technology. Look at the papers. Understand if there'”

“That shifted adoption has already happened on the annealing side. Uh, for example, we have a Fortune 100 company that in Q1 signed a two-year $10 million enterprise agreement with us to use multiple applications in production. The first one is in production today. That went into production uh, a couple of weeks ago and there are a number of other applications that they are working on developing and moving into produc”

“There were three important messages that we delivered throughout the course of the meeting. The first is that D-Wave is actually the only quantum computing company that can address the full market for quantum, all the use cases for quantum computing. And the reason for that is that we are the only dual platform quantum computing company. The only company bringing both of the two important architectural approaches to ”

“Quantum Circuits just changed that debate. And the reason is the technology that Quantum Circuits brought us when we acquired them at the beginning of this year were superconducting qubits. So, they're superconducting speed, thousand times faster than trapped ion and neutral atom, but they have the quality of trapped ions. In other words, you can error correct them just as efficiently as you can error correct trapped”

“There are many hard computational problems that the US government, and frankly other governments around the world, face on a day-to-day basis. Missile defense is one example, troop resupply another example, equipment maintenance another example, and our quantum computers can be used to help improve how all of that happens. So, we created a new US government business unit within D-Wave headed by Jack Sears Jr., an ind”

“We think that there are two metrics that it's really important for everybody to start focusing on when it comes to getting to truly commercially viable gate model quantum computers. One is speed and the other we're calling lambda. This is the error correction efficiency. The chart on the left shows you the time required to perform an error correction cycle on superconducting, trapped ion, and neutral atom. Look at th”

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