Suzanne Gildert

Suzanne Gildert is Founder and CEO of Nirvanic AI, and is obsessed with understanding the depths and power of the human mind. Her current project is focused on creating technologies to understand, expand and network human consciousness. Prior to Nirvanic, Suzanne co-founded and was CTO of Sanctuary AI, building Human-Like Intelligence in General Purpose Robots. Before Sanctuary, Suzanne also founded Kindred AI in 2014, the world’s first robotics company to use reinforcement learning in a production environment. The acquisition of Kindred by Ocado in November 2020 was the third-largest exit for a robotics company in Canadian history. Suzanne also has deep expertise in quantum computing from her time at D-Wave Systems, where she ported AI algorithms to D-Wave’s quantum annealing hardware. She also invented and implemented MAXCAT, the world’s first game ever played against a quantum computer, worked on the world’s first supervised classifier run on a quantum computer and was the first person to control the motion of a robot using a quantum computer. Suzanne holds a Ph.D. in experimental physics from the University of Birmingham. She is also a published digital artist and poet, has worked as a graphic designer, and pioneered a technique for creating art using a quantum computer. In her spare time, she loves mixed media art and painting, meditating, music, and dancing.