Speaker: Ali Jaber Ali Alyafei, Division CEO, YAS Holding UTH
What does your company specialize in?
Ali Jaber Ali Alyafei: Over more than three decades, ITQAN has been the trusted partner in the UAE to deliver digital transformation services. Our services have a large spectrum of offering: we provide infrastructure, hardware, data centers, cybersecurity, applications, and IT services.
Why did you choose to partner with QuEra?
Ali Jaber Ali Alyafei: We realized early enough that computing is a technology that's inevitable and it will contribute to the progress of nations and will contribute to GDP increase. So we've been looking for a partner that has a special technology that overcomes the hurdles and the difficulties of taking quantum computing technology from the labs to real life commercial applications. During that search, we found that QuEra had the answers and was the ultimate partner that could help us bring this to the UAE.
Together with QuEra, what benefits are you hoping to deliver to customers?
Ali Jaber Ali Alyafei: With our deep understanding of the local market and understanding the need and the strategic direction of the nation and with the help of QuEra and their capability and advanced research they are doing in quantum computing, we believe together we can bring the use cases that could be real and could be implemented to make sure that quantum computing is not just a theory or an area where it's still under research, it actually could be commercialized. And also we're hoping to work with QuEra together to bring in an ecosystem that encourages academia, private sector, and the government to work and collaborate together to make sure that quantum computing is reaching to the aspiration that the UAE has in terms of leading in this technology.
