Trevor Lanting

Chief Development Officer, D-Wave

Trevor Lanting leads D-Wave’s product development organization, which includes teams responsible for software, systems, and cloud services.  He has helped drive the development and deployment of five generations of annealing quantum computing systems and specializes in connecting fundamental research results and insights with real-world applications, focusing on harnessing quantum mechanics to produce fundamentally new computational capabilities. He holds a BSc in physics and astronomy from the University of British Columbia and a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley.