MIT CISR is excited to bring a new type of event to our member organizations! Featuring leading-edge research findings from a variety of sources, Hot Topics are delivered live online without an attendance cap. Anyone from an MIT CISR member organization who is interested in the topic may register to attend.
Quantum technology maturation incentivizes investment to uncover new applications by leading global enterprises. These enterprises aspire to harness properties of quantum mechanics to deliver more secure, more efficient, and more accurate analytic solutions underpinning core business models. Quantum technology also poses a large risk to the enterprise, along with opportunity, as it can provably break ubiquitous encryption protocols exponentially faster than classical algorithms. McGrew will discuss how HSBC developed and executed a quantum technology strategy designed to capture near-term value from quantum applications and mitigate cyber risk across the Group. This strategy resulted in HSBC becoming a leading financial institution, recognized globally in quantum technology alongside driving real business transformation in post-quantum security and quantum algorithm integration. This talk will deep dive into an existing, well-developed use case relating to financial crime, and discuss how the HSBC quantum team partnered horizontally with the financial crime analytics team to build and scale this quantum application. The technical approach leverages quantum-inspired algorithms—quantum methods on classical computers—that can drive immediate business value whilst subsequently preparing the business for more advanced, future quantum hardware.
Dr. Mekena McGrew is a Quantum Information Lead at Deloitte, specializing in applying quantum technology to business analytics. With a robust background in quantum computing research from Berkeley Lab and hands-on experience delivering quantum solutions at HSBC, Mekena bridges emerging technology research with practical enterprise applications. At HSBC, she was instrumental in developing the global quantum technology strategy, positioning the company as the 2nd top financial institution delivering quantum. She invented and architected a quantum-inspired machine learning solution that significantly improved fraud detection, showcasing the commercial impact of integrating quantum methods with accelerated computing. Prior to her tenure at HSBC, Mekena was a Research Scientist in the Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Merced, and has published 18 scientific papers on quantum technology.
This event is available for our consortium members and a small number of invited guests. To register, please log-in to your MIT CISR website account and enter your voucher code on the registration form.
Please contact Chris Foglia if you work at an MIT CISR member organization and you'd like to register but do not have a voucher code.
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