Cybersecurity is preparing for one of its biggest challenges yet: the quantum era. Vanesa Díaz, CEO of Luxquanta and President of the Spanish Quantum Alliance (SQuA), explains to Humans of Technology why the quantum threat is already a present-day concern and what role Europe can play in the global race to develop quantum-safe technologies.
Before joining Luxquanta, you spent more than a decade in market development at Corning, one of the world’s leading fibre optics companies, in a solid and stable position. What made you take the leap into an academic spin-off that was only a few months old, and what did you see in the project that others with a similar background might have missed?
Precisely that: it was a solid and stable position. At 40, I realised that I was working in a market — fibre optics and optical communications — that had essentially become a commodity. Although the company had always supported me enormously and entrusted me with innovation projects, after ten years in the sector I felt ready to try something new. And because it was a multinational headquartered in New York, the opportunities for real career progression outside the headquarters were also limited.
You reach 40 with professional experience that you want to put to the test, bringing everything you have learnt into a demanding project where you can take on greater responsibility, apply that knowledge and, above all, grow very quickly. I have always enjoyed learning new things, technology fascinates me, and I needed the change that Luxquanta offered me from the very beginning. It was a role with enormous potential for growth: starting as Business Development Director with a year ahead of me to become CEO — a position I had always seen as almost unattainable coming from a large multinational.
Through friends, I had also seen first-hand what life in a startup was like, and that encouraged me to join a project that, at first glance, might have seemed risky, in exchange for the opportunity to experience a great adventure. Luxquanta’s founding team placed enormous trust in me, as did ICFO, the research centre from which Luxquanta emerged as a spin-off, where I found people of extraordinary professional and human quality. With that support behind me, the sense of adventure and the opportunity to grow significantly outweighed the security of what had been wonderful professional years in which I had learnt so much at Corning.
I will always be extremely grateful to Corning because it gave me the foundations for everything that came afterwards. I spent that decade developing new markets based on the product innovation Corning generated every year, differentiating the company from its competitors through the exceptional quality of every new proposition.
Coming from a company that sells precisely that — high-quality innovation that delivers genuine value to customers — I realised when I met Luxquanta’s founding team that I could continue working from a foundation of technical excellence and scientific rigour. It was impossible to say no.
You joined Luxquanta as Business Development Director and, just over a year later, became CEO. What do you think the founders and investors saw in you that gave them the confidence to entrust you with such a rapid transition, and what did you have to prove to yourself before accepting it?
I think they saw passion and a natural ability to translate the innovation taking place during the company’s early years into a market vision, together with the experience I had gained at Corning navigating the telecommunications industry and building and maintaining commercial relationships within the sector.
I had spent twenty years speaking the language of telecom operators and engineers at the same time, and that was exactly what an exceptionally strong technical spin-off needed: complementing deep expertise in quantum cryptography with a business vision capable of translating it into products and markets.
It is true, however, that I had to make a conscious act of courage not to let fear of failure guide me, and instead focus on contributing to the project to the very best of my abilities. The enthusiasm, determination and desire to give everything I had were there, but the professional leap was enormous, full of challenges I had never faced before and that I needed to learn how to manage in record time.
It required me to step outside my comfort zone without hesitation and prove to myself that, even if I did not have the traditional profile of a CEO — at least as I perceived it — I could learn to lead a quantum technology company and a team of people with an extraordinary level of technical expertise.
I was fortunate because my career, far from following a straight line, had allowed me to move from product engineering to manufacturing and then into business development. So, after a year, when our co-founders and investors on the board gave me their confidence to formalise my appointment as CEO, I accepted — with gratitude and, above all, with a tremendous sense of responsibility — the challenge of continuing to lead the project and turning it into a global reference in its field.
So far, we are succeeding. I also combine my role as CEO of Luxquanta with the presidency of the Spanish Quantum Alliance (SQuA) and my recent appointment by the Spanish Ministry of Defence as Spain’s Official Delegate to NATO’s Transatlantic Quantum Community (TQC). It is a genuine privilege because both organisations are crucial.
The TQC is the community NATO created in 2024 as part of its Quantum Strategy to bring together experts from governments, industry, academia and research centres across Allied countries. Spain’s Ministry of Defence recognises quantum technologies as dual-use technologies, with both civilian and defence applications, which is why it is important for Spain to have its own voice at that table.
Representing my country in a forum where decisions are being made about how NATO will protect its technological advantage against the threats of the quantum era is a major responsibility, and one that excites me enormously.
I feel something similar about SQuA, although perhaps it is even closer to my heart. The Spanish Quantum Alliance was created because Spain has an extraordinary pool of quantum talent, with companies working across all areas of quantum technology, giving us a very real opportunity to position ourselves as one of the world’s leaders in this sector.
It is the first association to bring together Spain’s entire quantum ecosystem across all verticals: computing, communications, sensing and metrology, and enabling technologies. It has more than 50 founding organisations — a figure that continues to grow as new companies join every week — including major corporations, universities, research centres, investors and startups.
At its official launch in May, all the organisations that had registered up to that point came together for the first time, and I had the honour of announcing it publicly. It was incredibly exciting to see so many people I have worked with for years in the sector gathered in the same room: exceptionally talented, intelligent and enthusiastic people with a strong ambition to lead this technological race and bring prosperity to our country.
We have a great deal of work ahead of us, but being President of this association is a genuine honour and an extraordinarily enriching experience for me, both professionally and, above all, personally.
When you have to explain to a board of directors or executive committee — people who are neither physicists nor engineers — why the quantum threat is not a problem for “ten years from now” but something organisations need to address today, how do you explain it? What image or example has worked best to make the risk immediately understandable?
The first thing is to explain how important it is for our network communications to remain confidential. We all understand the role cybersecurity plays in protecting static information stored within our companies and even in our homes.
What we are less aware of is that, the moment we communicate over the internet, the same information we protect while it is in our possession also needs to be protected while we are sharing it with somebody else. That is the role of cryptography.
The image that works best for explaining cryptography is the difference between a postcard and a letter.
Unencrypted data travels like a postcard: anyone who intercepts it on its journey to the recipient can read it directly. Data that is encrypted and transmitted over fibre-optic networks, on the other hand, travels like a securely sealed letter, protected inside an envelope or parcel with a password. That password is the mathematical lock — a problem that, using today’s computing power, could take 40 years to break.
That encrypted letter can pass from hand to hand or, in the world of digital communications, from one point in the network to another without anyone being able to read its contents along the way.
It is also worth remembering that the network is not something abstract. It consists of fibre-optic cables running beneath the streets of our cities and alongside roads connecting one city to another. That is where our sealed letter travels today.
Once that image is clear, we can explain the threat that quantum computers pose to our current cryptography. These computers are capable of performing certain calculations at speeds vastly beyond those of today’s supercomputers. Problems that are currently impossible to solve within a reasonable timeframe could potentially be solved in minutes or hours by a sufficiently advanced quantum computer.
If industry and investment in quantum computing continue progressing as they have been, this development will represent one of humanity’s greatest technological advances, accelerating fields such as materials science, medicine and research.
However, that same computing capability will make it possible to solve the extraordinarily complex mathematical problems on which our current cryptography is based — the mathematical locks we use to protect information as it travels across our networks.
Quantum computers are still under development and do not yet have the computing capability required to carry out this type of attack. But the threat is closer than it might appear, with major technical developments taking place worldwide and fuelled by extremely aggressive levels of public and private investment.
Even though the point at which quantum computers will have sufficient capability to compromise today’s communications remains an estimate, migrating existing cryptography takes time, including at an organisational level.
There is also a very real possibility that attackers are already intercepting and storing encrypted data today, waiting until they have access to the computing capability required to decrypt it.
In other words, someone may already have intercepted and stored the letter containing our data without opening it, waiting for a future quantum computer capable of breaking the seal.
This is known as a “harvest now, decrypt later” attack: capture the information today and decrypt it later.
That is why the key message we communicate to industry — one that is widely supported by leading security agencies around the world — is that the threat is already here. Every piece of sensitive information transmitted today could potentially be intercepted and stored to be compromised and exposed five, eight or ten years from now.
That changes the question from “When will it happen?” to “Which data can we not afford to have exposed several years from now?”
Medical records, industrial secrets, national security information and, ultimately, almost everything that genuinely matters and will remain sensitive for many years.
Luxquanta has backed continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD), taking a different path from much of the industry, which has traditionally focused on discrete-variable QKD. What was the riskiest technological decision you made in the early days, and what would have happened to the company if that bet had failed?
The decision to focus on continuous-variable rather than discrete-variable QKD was made quite naturally by our co-founders at ICFO because telecom operators — one of the major potential adopters of this technology — saw considerable potential in this approach.
To understand why, we need to go one level deeper.
With discrete-variable QKD, the first QKD technology to emerge, the information contained in the cryptographic key — the password — is encoded by the transmitter using properties of individual photons, particles of light, such as polarisation or phase.
Reading that information requires detectors in the receiving machine at the other end of the connection that can count individual photons, typically over a dedicated optical fibre that is not simultaneously transmitting data.
With continuous-variable QKD, the keys are instead encoded by the transmitter onto the electromagnetic wave by modulating amplitude and phase. They are then read by the receiver using coherent detection: the pulse interferes with a strong reference signal, the local oscillator, and the measurement is extracted from that interference.
This difference in detection changes everything from an industrial perspective.
Counting photons requires highly specialised and expensive detectors, and the most sensitive and advanced versions need cooling. Coherent detection, by contrast, uses the same components already found in equipment deployed across today’s optical communications networks.
In other words, continuous-variable QKD has allowed us to build a quantum cryptography system using the same component supply chain as the telecommunications industry.
It also enables us to connect our machines to fibre-optic cables that are already carrying data.
When you tell a telecom operator that it can deploy QKD over infrastructure already in production rather than having to build and finance an entirely separate network — and that the components involved are already standard within the telecom industry — the conversation around adoption becomes significantly easier.
The major bet, therefore, was to mature our technology so that we could deploy it in the field as quickly as possible and obtain direct feedback from industry.
Industrialising a technology as such a small company was an enormous challenge that required substantial resources. We had to transform a laboratory setup, made robust through years of work at ICFO, into a product capable of operating in a real production environment.
Real users want technology that is easy to install and intuitive to use, without requiring any knowledge of quantum physics, and that can continue operating for years without anybody touching it inside a telecom operator’s facility or a data centre.
If the bet had failed, we would have lost a great deal of time, because a spin-off has an enormous amount riding on its first strategic decisions.
Thanks to our collaboration with ICFO and its technology transfer office, we were able to confirm that if we could deliver a mature product, continuous-variable QKD could compete with existing technology despite being younger and, at the time, offering lower performance than legacy alternatives, precisely because of how easily it could integrate with existing networks.
Today, we can say with enormous pride that it was the right decision.
Selling our first machines early allowed us to understand customers’ real-world requirements, continue refining the technology alongside our R&D team and build the operational and human support needed to manufacture, service and accompany customers throughout their journey.
We have also built a strong reputation in the industry based on credibility and technological rigour, established a customer base across Europe and other regions of the world, and gained enough confidence from the market to close an €8 million Series A round with leading deep-tech investors — Big Sur and A&G — major telecommunications companies including GMV and Telefónica, and significant public institutions such as the European Investment Bank and CDTI.
From here, we continue advancing in a market with enormous potential, with an increasingly robust product and the ambition to become one of the European and global leaders in this technology.
You have moved from selling to telecom operators and governments to deploying projects with hospitals, banks and major public cloud providers. Which sector has surprised you most in how quickly it moved from “yes, but later” to “we need this now”? What exactly changed in the conversation with customers?
From the outset, we identified that the early adopters — the first organisations to implement these solutions — would come from the public and government sectors.
The European Commission considers QKD technology important both for securing communications and for technological sovereignty.
Quantum technologies — and particularly companies like ours that work at the core of R&D in this second quantum revolution by developing hardware — are strategically significant. Hardware is the most complex part: it requires greater capital investment and longer, more expensive development processes in terms of both human capital and technical equipment and infrastructure, because it is the part that actually works with the laws of quantum physics.
This is increasingly recognised as a strategic intellectual property asset from a geopolitical perspective, particularly as major powers compete to maintain technological relevance.
That is why the European Commission is encouraging and co-financing quantum cryptography deployments across Europe.
In fact, we are already entering a second phase in which the QKD deployments implemented by individual Member States over the past three years are beginning to be interconnected.
In Catalonia, a particularly ambitious project led by CTTI will soon be officially announced, involving the deployment of 14 nodes using this technology.
The project brings QKD into a production environment using the Generalitat’s own optical network infrastructure to provide quantum-safe cryptographic keys to government institutions — from the Palau de la Generalitat to the City of Justice, as well as hospitals, universities and police facilities.
We also knew that telecommunications companies would become major adopters of this technology and that one particularly sensitive area of the network — and therefore a logical place to begin protecting — is the interconnection with data centres.
What has genuinely surprised us is the domino effect we have witnessed over the past six months.
Tier-one telecom operators are inviting us into framework agreements and selecting us as a trusted manufacturer so they can begin offering QKD as an additional security layer over their existing fibre networks, particularly for customer connections to data centres.
We are precisely at the tipping point for adoption of this technology, where major telecom operators have already analysed and recognised its enormous potential to generate new profit margins for their businesses.
As with any deployment of new hardware infrastructure, we are beginning with the most critical links. But the journey will probably resemble the evolution of fibre optics: it was initially deployed across top-tier connections and then progressively expanded throughout the rest of the network until it became the foundation for much of the communications infrastructure within our cities.
I believe we will see a very similar expansion with this technology.
This acceleration is a direct consequence of progress in quantum computing. Development milestones are arriving increasingly quickly, and forecasts for when a computer capable of compromising today’s security might emerge continue to move closer.
At the same time, governments and security agencies around the world are warning businesses and the wider public about the quantum threat and publishing recommendations for migrating towards cryptography capable of protecting information in the quantum era.
That migration has, in reality, already begun.
Many CISOs already have post-quantum cryptography (PQC) on their roadmap as the answer to the quantum threat. Why should a security leader also consider QKD — an approach based on physics rather than algorithms — and how can the two coexist within a real-world cybersecurity strategy rather than competing with each other?
Quantum key distribution (QKD) begins from a completely different premise to PQC.
Rather than relying on mathematical problems, it uses the principles of quantum physics to securely distribute perfectly symmetric keys between two or more points, while providing the ability to detect any attempt to intercept those keys as they are distributed across the fibre connection between them.
That detection capability comes from the physical properties of the system rather than a mathematical assumption.
This adds a layer of protection to communications that can withstand future advances in computing: the security offered by QKD does not depend on the attacker’s computing capability.
PQC, by contrast, relies on the mathematical assumption that certain problems cannot be solved within a reasonable amount of time — an assumption that could potentially be challenged by future developments, just as previous algorithms in classical cryptography have been compromised in the past.
There is another important point: QKD is considerably easier to deploy than many people assume, and industry data makes this increasingly clear.
Migrating to PQC is neither simple nor quick. A recent analysis of enterprise migration estimates realistic timescales of between five and seven years for small businesses, eight to twelve years for medium-sized organisations and twelve to fifteen years or more for large enterprises.
And this is not simply about time. It is also about dependencies.
PQC requires organisations to inventory their existing cryptography, update software across every application, replace hardware that does not support the new standards and, crucially, wait for suppliers to make new libraries available.
You do not control those dependencies. Your suppliers do, and their timelines therefore become your timelines.
In fact, at the beginning of 2026, only 1.8% of TLS 1.3 connections observed by Cloudflare were already using post-quantum key exchange, illustrating how early real-world adoption still is.
QKD, on the other hand, acts as an additional layer operating at the link level and can provide quantum-safe cryptographic keys to any machine or application running above it, using a communications protocol that has been standardised and adopted by the industry through ETSI for years.
And what we see in the field confirms this.
Between two nodes, QKD machines can be deployed in less than a day. In fact, we are already allowing industry installers themselves to carry out deployments at our customers’ sites without requiring us to be physically present.
If a technology enables that, it is because it is straightforward to deploy.
Quantum talent is scarce: very few people in the world combine photonics, quantum information theory and industrial product development. How does Luxquanta compete for that talent against multinationals with far greater financial resources, and what have you had to invent — in terms of culture, internal training or relationships with universities — where no established playbook existed?
By offering something no multinational can ever offer: the certainty that your work, every single day, is a fundamental part of a mechanism made up of exceptional people working alongside you to move this project forward.
Here, you are not a number. You are Matías, Mel, Carlos… Each person contributes their knowledge and capabilities towards a common objective, taking part in an adventure we share while surrounded by intelligent, courageous and fun people who love their work, learning and growing.
Today, there are more than 50 of us at Luxquanta — families that depend on one another according to how well we do our jobs at the end of each day.
Together, we sustain the adventure of becoming the company that started small in Barcelona and now dares to help define what QKD technology can contribute to cybersecurity worldwide.
We manufacture in our own production laboratory what our technical team has designed from scratch, and sell it across dozens of countries in Europe and beyond to major corporations and governments.
We have seen our efforts translate into recognition across the industry and the confidence of major investors turn into capital because they have recognised our potential and want to make this journey with us.
We can also offer something that can be difficult to find even within a multinational: an extraordinarily broad range of opportunities to learn within the same company, with genuine possibilities to grow, lead new projects and challenge yourself every day beyond the routine.
We offer access to an entire industry that is still being built, with projects capable of engaging even the most restless personalities, adventurous professionals and brilliant minds.
We have also been deliberate about diversity within the team.
We require balanced candidate lists in terms of gender, age and nationality, always seeking the best person within a diverse talent pool.
On some occasions, we have even brought forward the creation of a position to hire, for example, women with strong technical backgrounds rather than allowing a shortage of female candidates to determine the diversity of our team.
That diversity is essential if we want to remain relevant, agile and courageous — and also enjoy ourselves along the way. It allows Luxquanta’s energy and culture to continue spreading as we grow.
None of this came from a manual.
When I met the founding team, I realised that we shared the same values, and from the beginning we translated those values into a strong commitment to our team culture.
It is a culture we have built deliberately, one that accepts criticism, mistakes and adjustments coming from the team itself, and prioritises what makes us human: honesty, transparency, listening and supporting one another.
The journey of a company like ours is difficult, but working with people who have this level of human quality, capability and enthusiasm makes the adventure more than worthwhile.
You are one of the women leading a deep-tech company in a highly technical and emerging field such as quantum cryptography. What has it meant to lead while remaining true to your own personal style rather than adopting the leadership model people might expect from a CEO in this sector? And what would you say today to another woman considering making a similar leap?
It has given me the certainty that I am part of an evolution that enriches our companies and our society, because diversity is where our true ability to remain relevant, capable and innovative lies.
It is extremely tempting to try to blend into the environment you enter, but it is as tempting as it is pointless.
A different mind will always work differently, and losing your own essence in an attempt to adapt eliminates precisely your ability to think differently and contribute something distinctive to a common project for the benefit of the group.
The truth is that I am quite tired of ageism, misogyny, racism and all those prejudices that have lost sight of the fact that, if humanity has made it this far, it is because we have empathised, collaborated and pushed one another towards a fairer world for our collective benefit.
Only a few months ago, I discovered that, in addition to being a woman in a predominantly male world, I have a neurodivergent brain, with twice-exceptionality combining giftedness and ADHD.
As a result, I have been given all sorts of labels, from “intense” to “dramatic”, as well as receiving criticism for the way I communicate or work.
I therefore see this challenge as an opportunity, not only to champion gender diversity as a woman in this industry, but also to raise awareness of neurodivergence and advocate for our ability to contribute to a project through a different way of thinking and seeing the world — one that enriches it.
Within my company, neurotypical and neurodivergent minds work together, as do men and women, people in their early twenties and people with grey hair, and colleagues representing 13 nationalities, bringing with them an extraordinary variety of cultures and traditions.
And I can assure you of one thing: if Luxquanta has become the reference it is within its sector, it is unequivocally thanks to this wonderful, enjoyable and extraordinarily enriching diversity.
It is uncomfortable. It is difficult. You receive criticism and encounter prejudice. We all have prejudices — myself included; I too have sometimes failed to imagine that the woman standing in front of me might also be a CEO.
And challenging established norms in order to change things often requires enormous courage and resilience.
But if we are in a position to do it — I always say that we should embark on whatever makes sense for us at each stage of our lives — I believe we have a responsibility to be agents of change and progress.
So, to any woman who reaches a point in her life where she feels able and willing to embark on a leadership project in which she does not fit the conventional mould, I would say: go for it.
Grit your teeth, remain humble along the way and listen to the people travelling with you, but try to remain true to yourself.
The journey is not easy and comes with moments of intense self-criticism, insecurity and fear. But those experiences also bring enormous joy and lessons that change and shape us for the rest of our lives.
Above all, they allow us to work side by side with exceptional people from whom we can learn and whom we can help to grow — people with whom we can build not only a better project or a better company, but a kinder world for future generations, where there is room for absolutely everyone.
Looking ahead to 2030, do you think the quantum cybersecurity market will ultimately be dominated by two or three global giants, or is there genuine room for specialist companies such as Luxquanta to lead strategic areas? What should Europe do differently to avoid repeating its dependence on external providers for critical technologies, as happened with semiconductors and cloud computing?
It is true that Europe has not been fast enough to capture or generate the technological capital needed to lead any of those technologies, although we are now seeing a very interesting sprint to recover a relevant position and greater technological strength.
But Europe’s role in quantum technology is different. Here, we genuinely are a global reference.
According to the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, 32% of the world’s quantum technology companies are European.
The problem is that we account for only 6% of the sector’s patents. So we have industrial strength, but we still have work to do to convert that strength into our own intellectual property, particularly when it comes to companies working on quantum hardware.
Hardware is the core of this revolution. It is the foundation upon which the many applications and services offered by other companies within the quantum ecosystem ultimately depend.
The European Commission has been pushing in this direction for years.
The Quantum Flagship is a programme worth more than €1 billion over ten years, covering quantum computing, communications, simulation and sensing across the European Union, while Horizon Europe has committed to maintaining at least €500 million in additional funding for the programme.
In quantum cryptography specifically, Europe has been a pioneer through the EuroQCI initiative, encouraging deployments at continental scale.
We are already interconnecting countries, working on satellite QKD, encouraging technological maturity through multimillion-euro investments in European QKD companies such as ours to guarantee technological sovereignty, legislating to protect that sovereignty and monitoring the supply chain to ensure companies like ours retain access to critical components.
I genuinely believe in Europe.
I believe in Europe because I have seen my European competitors and the other quantum technology companies across the continent, and what I see are exceptionally strong people with an ambition that is measured, capable and courageous.
We tell one another that we are not simply going to avoid losing this race — we are going to win it.
It is the determination of a multidisciplinary European community, supported by the European Commission, that gives us the opportunity this time to consolidate a position we can aspire to without hesitation.
As for the quantum cryptography market, I believe the major strategic moves that will determine who leads the broader quantum technology era are beginning to take shape.
In the United States, a major industry player has emerged that is bringing multiple quantum technologies — computing, sensing and quantum cryptography — together under a single organisation.
If we focus specifically on cryptography, major manufacturers are already considering how to integrate this technology into their highest-level networking equipment.
It is therefore difficult to predict exactly what will happen or which decisive move will position the next generation of industry leaders in the quantum era, taking over from AI, cloud computing or semiconductors.
What I can tell you is that we are part of those conversations.
Our goal is not to remain a niche company. Our ambition is to become the next quantum unicorn — if you will allow me the joke.
We are still small, but we have the human capital, best-in-class technology on a global level and the courage to think big.
Luxquanta has passed the five-year milestone with a technologically powerful product, a multidisciplinary team that excels in the areas that matter most for a company of our size, and major investors who share our belief that we have an extremely promising future ahead.
And we are not afraid to fight for it.
Because success in any project, whether personal or professional, requires rigour, enthusiasm and a great deal of courage — and we have a team of more than 50 people who possess all three in abundance.
If you could go back to the moment when you decided to leave the security of a large multinational and join a startup that was only a few months old, what would you tell that version of Vanesa? And today, how do you measure personal success on this journey beyond the company’s financial results?
I would tell the Vanesa who joined this startup several years ago to trust herself and the people travelling alongside her.
I would tell her that the journey will be hard, but that it will be worth it; that she will grow more than ever before and discover herself through every moment of joy and, above all, through every stumble along the way.
Being a CEO is an extremely demanding job.
You have to remain relevant within a project that grows exponentially every year and requires you to learn and adapt at the same speed.
You have to make high-impact decisions with incomplete information, trusting your own judgement and that of your colleagues while accepting the inevitable uncertainty that comes with the job.
At other times, you have to make difficult decisions to protect your team, decisions that are not necessarily easy to explain to them.
For that reason, simply remaining at the helm of this company, celebrating successes and overcoming the many difficulties we have faced, is already a victory in itself.
This project, which I began without fully understanding what I was getting myself into, has effectively become the great work of my life.
Ever since I was a child, I have asked myself the question: “What is life really about?”A couple of years ago, I reached my answer: “Learning, loving and helping.”And that is exactly what I am able to do at Luxquanta every day.
I learn from my colleagues, from the industry, from customers and from partners.
I work with quantum technology, something that has always fascinated me — a technology so extraordinary that even Einstein himself struggled with some of its implications — and that our team has learnt to understand and manipulate in order to create machines that harness phenomena that seem like science fiction at the touch of a button.
Above all, this project gives me the opportunity to help my colleagues grow and to help the world protect its digital communications as society enters the quantum era.
So it is perhaps unsurprising that, for me, success beyond the company’s numbers means being able to continue working with this technology, continuing to have the confidence of my investors to lead this project and, above all, being able to work every day with an extraordinary team that enjoys what they do as much as I do — and with whom I also laugh a great deal.
