Suzanne Gildert

Suzanne Gildert is a pioneering technologist, entrepreneur, and scientist at the forefront of artificial intelligence, robotics, and quantum computing. She is the Founder and CEO of Nirvanic AI, where she is developing cutting-edge technologies to understand, expand, and network human consciousness. Prior to Nirvanic, Suzanne co-founded Sanctuary AI as CTO, advancing human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots, and in 2014 founded Kindred AI, the world's first robotics company to deploy reinforcement learning in a production environment. Kindred's acquisition by Ocado in November 2020 marked the third-largest exit for a robotics company in Canadian history. Suzanne also brings deep expertise in quantum computing from her tenure at D-Wave Systems, where she ported AI algorithms to quantum annealing hardware, invented MAXCAT — the world's first game played against a quantum computer — contributed to the world's first supervised classifier run on a quantum computer, and became the first person to control a robot's motion using a quantum computer. She holds a Ph.D. in experimental physics from the University of Birmingham. Beyond her technical achievements, Suzanne is a published digital artist and poet who has pioneered quantum computer-generated art, and she channels her creativity through mixed media painting, meditation, music, and dance.