NAIT launches unique certificate in the impact and applications of quantum computing

Source: NAIT Staff | · TECHLIFETODAY · | February 12, 2025

What you should know about the 2nd Quantum Revolution

It’s OK if your mind drifts to science fiction upon hearing the words “quantum mechanics.” For years, creators have rooted devices such as parallel universes, time travel, teleportation and more in that branch of physics dealing with subatomic particles.

It’s hard to fault them. The complexities and oddities of that beyond-tiny world are inversely immense, making for limitless – and wondrous – storytelling possibilities.

It so happens that the same applies to the real world. If those stories were projections of the future, that future has arrived earlier than expected, for all manner of industries, in the form of quantum computing.

“Everybody thinks, ‘This is 20 years down the road,’” says AJ Sikora, chief learning officer at Qubo Consulting. “Well, we thought ChatGPT was going to be five years down the road.”

To help understand how fiction has turned to fact, Sikora and Qubo CEO and quantum physicist Dr. Katanya Kuntz are collaborating with NAIT to offer “Introduction to the 2nd Quantum Revolution for Professionals,” Canada’s first certificate of its kind.

It’s aimed at executives and engineers in fields ranging from banking to manufacturing to supply chain management to anywhere that classical computers may fall short in solving extremely complicated problems that require something more, well, wondrous. We talked to Kuntz and Sikora about what the technology means to decision-makers today.