Chad Sakac

Dad/husband/friend/curious explorer/global traveller. ❤️science, math, tech and people! Balancing life @ IonQ + focus on family, friends! 🇨🇦

[Chad Sakac @sakacc]

@daverdfw Welcome to Toronto @daverdfw hope you’re well brother!

[Chad Sakac @sakacc]

Happy #CanadaDay everyone! Water, trees, rocks, peace, friends, family - what more could anyone ask for. Thank you 🇨🇦 for being an awesome place, an amazing home. #TrueNorth strong and free.

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Goooooooaaaaalllll!!! 🇨🇦 go @TeamCanada

[Chad Sakac @sakacc]

Alright - team @Croatia_hr let GOOOOO @FIFAWorldCup (btw absolutely loved the John Malkovich ad https://t.co/CZGuEGNHtg, and he’s not wrong, it IS beautiful)

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@qollabxyz @IonQ_Inc Keep it up @qollabxyz! These efforts are brining quantum app dev to whole new groups of ppl. I can vouch for the fact that curious classical devs pick quantum up just fine, and there’s nothing more fun than a new tool!

[Chad Sakac @sakacc]

Happy Father’s Day out there to all the dads! As a friend told me “best job I’ve ever had”. So thankful for my wife and kids, truly a pleasure and an honour to be their dad and husband.

[Chad Sakac @sakacc]

@IonQ_Inc Welcome!!! Going into 2027, I’ve got a sneaking feeling that @IonQ_Inc (and my teams for sure) be doing more internships, co-ops and generally more partnership efforts with places like @QuantumIQC @CQIQC_Toronto @EPFL and other great institutions. Talent +culture = everything

[Chad Sakac @sakacc]

@qollabxyz I love love love all the contributions coming in to @qollabxyz. Like all waves of new tools, the scaled magic happens past the early magic in labs / R&D, when the tools get in the hands of MANY wonderful creative humans. What happens next (time and time again) is unforeseen.

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@FIFAWorldCup @TeamCanada great game - and we got a point!!!!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[Chad Sakac @sakacc]

@nic_delfosse @IonQ_Inc Thanks to you and the crew! Have an awesome #QEC2026

[Chad Sakac @sakacc]

@nic_delfosse @IonQ_Inc OMG indeed...

[Qollab @qollabxyz]

Bet: developers who play with quantum logic first will absorb gate-level code faster later.

Shivani Mayekar is building Quantum Canvas to test it: drag-and-drop primitives (shake, mark, boost, link) instead of raw gates.

[Chad Sakac @sakacc]

@Cat_States The proof will be in the pudding, and what ships. That said, encourage all to be asking “what’s the logical error rate” when ppl talk about logical qubits. This varies & is a key metric to assess (for us at @ionq and everyone). Some of the early examples now are toy LER.

[Chad Sakac @sakacc]

Every day when I wake up and read this quote, it makes me smile and think of the mantra throughout the day.

[Chad Sakac @sakacc]

A really great, practical, mission focused #DEFSEC conference. Looking at how we support the @CanadianForces, the @NRC_CNRC, @NATO and others. Glad to be there as @IonQ_Inc along with the ecosystem. Net: sensors, security, space use cases everywhere. QC next. @canada_quantum

[Chad Sakac @sakacc]

Thinking of #MemorialDay weekend for my American colleagues. Along with #RemembranceDay in Canada, I try to reflect on the sacrifices of those who serve and protect freedom. Thank you. A propos will be at this @canada_quantum @IonQ event on Monday: https://t.co/lTh0X4Cini

[Chad Sakac @sakacc]

Travelling supporting @IonQ_Inc customers and partners in Germany and Switzerland this week. Many cities and visits. Great progress, great science, commerical work and dialog. Sidebar: North Americans are really missing out on a world class train system.

[Chad Sakac @sakacc]

In fact, at least for now, all meaningful workflows are hybrid. Finding that skills of applying quantum algorithms in practice need people w sharp AI skills and experience as well as classical solvers and industry vertical skills, Think this will be a booming job market.

[Chad Sakac @sakacc]

To be clear (because some haters seem to want to create conflict where there is none): I don’t think GPUs will be replaced by QPUs, ever. They will operate in hybrid workflows (point of the @IonQ_Inc paper below). The analogy of “purpose-built offload processors” fits.

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2) Important paper on quantum-enhanced LLM fine-tuning. 24% reduction in classification error. Favorable energy scaling. One of the first measurable energy-to-solution for hybrid GPU/QPU AI workloads. Expect a truckload of this in the coming months: https://t.co/HXgvfJ9Xaf

[Chad Sakac @sakacc]

@ChikoosJourney Hey, don't short change me, I'm short (for those that know me) as it stands - I have 20K+ followers 😂 . .