Dr. Jay M. Gambetta is the Vice President in charge of IBM’s overall Quantum initiative. He was named an IBM Fellow in 2018 for his leadership in advancing superconducting quantum computing and establishing IBM’s quantum strategy. Under his leadership, the IBM Quantum team has made a series of major breakthroughs in quantum computing: the IBM Quantum Experience –the world-first cloud-based quantum computing platform, Qiskit — an open-source quantum software development kit — and the IBM Quantum System One, a family of quantum processors for clients. IBM Quantum continues to expand in the market by providing Quantum as a Service with more than 40 quantum systems, building the foundations of the quantum industry. Dr. Gambetta received his Ph.D. in Physics from Griffith University in Australia. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has over 130 publications in the field of quantum information science with over 27000 citations.