Sebastian Hassinger

Sebastian is a veteran of emerging technology markets stretching back to early commercialization of the Internet. He built Apple's first customer support website, IBM's first Internet systems management technologies and mobile computing products and holds over a dozen patents. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded two ISPs (the one in Canada was too early, the one in Texas too late) and an iOS development studio in Ho Chi Minh City. He has co-authored technical books on HTML, CGIs (remember those?), VRML (bet you don't remember that!) and other topics. Since 2017 he has been working on the early development of quantum technologies, first for IBM and now for AWS. He created and co-hosted the podcast "Forwards & Backwards, a History of Quantum Computing" while at IBM and now co-hosts "The New Quantum Era," a podcast that features interviews with the scientists and engineers at the very bleeding edge of this new technology.