Passed event: Christmas Dinner and Charter Awards, 14.12.2023
CFA Society Finland happily invites you to join us for a Christmas and Charter Awards event and dinner on Thursday 14th December 2023 at 6 pm EET at Scandic Grand Central, Helsinki. Join us during this festive season, and recognize the new Charterholders in our Society.
Our event will feature an interesting presentation by Costantino Carugno, Ph.D., Quantum Research Scientist at VTT, who will speak to us about "The Impact of Quantum Computing on Finance" .
AGENDA
18:00 Welcome drinks
18:30 Presentation by Costantino Carugno
Quantum computers were once found only in science fiction books, but today they are a reality. But how do they work? What can they actually do? Are they the ultimate disruptive technology? In this talk, you will be introduced to a new fascinating world, as you will be guided in the exploration of the current quantum landscape. You will discover that quantum physics is actually simple to understand, that money can be quantum, and that you can program a quantum device from your laptop. We will discuss what quantum computing can do specifically in the realm on finance, and speculate on what the near future may hold. Will every financial analyst be using a quantum computer soon?
19:30 Dinner and Charter awards ceremony
SPEAKER
Costantino Carugno received a B.Sc. in General Physics from University of Pisa, a honors M.Sc. in Physics of Complex Systems from University of Turin, with a thesis carried out at University College London, on Quantum Computing for Chemistry, and a Ph.D. from Polytechnic of Milan in Information Technology, where he benchmarked and fine-tuned quantum computers. During his research, he worked both on quantum annealers and quantum gate-based computers. He recently joined VTT as a Research Scientist, to work on the new 5 and 20-qubit quantum devices, alongside the calibration team, and to develop dedicated applications for international collaborations and interested customers.