 Quantum just made a major announcement yesterday about advancing and creating your first generation quantum random number generator microchip. Can you tell us a little bit about this please? Yes of course. So yes it was actually a very important milestone for us because we created already about a year and a half ago I mean our first I would say working prototype what we call our foundation you know technology and with that we are creating several iterations you know several possible device that will contain the same characteristic you know I mean basically creating that source of entropy that comes you know from quantum mechanics and that source of entropy just to remind everybody is a very important you know was crucial to make the encryption of a very high quality. So in that perspective you know I think now the possibility to miniaturize in fact our technology this is actually what the microchip does basically without you know we compromise any functionality and any even the throughput you know and I would say efficiency of the technology you're able basically to have the basically our device now on the size of a basically a nail this is what you know it's about a one centimeter square you know I mean as big you know and so it is for us actually it means that you could be able later on you know I mean to put our technology basically in anything that is connected to the internet in one way or another so and the purpose for that obviously of doing that it's actually to microchip would participate to create an encryption and cybersecurity basically defense that would allow most of these products containing that microchip to become unhackable or at least extremely difficult to hack. Well I'm certain that most of our audience understands what the microchip is but they may want you to dumb down what a quantum random number generator is and how a company can use that to protect themselves. So I mean when you look at how everything is I mean any communication over the internet you know or any communication in general has to be scrambled you know if you want that no third party able to read or interfere with your the content of your message. So encryption exists for a long long long time and and without getting too you know technical here because it can become extremely technical one particularly when you talk about behind there is a science of encryption called cryptography and that could be extremely complicated. So without getting too technical what is important is that the way you seed or you start in fact encryption depends very much on the randomness of the architecture of that encryption. Basically it is well recognized that the most random in fact your encryption is the better it's going to be or the most difficult it to be for a third party actually to guess what is there is a very sequence or not into your encryption and that would prevent in fact the third party to be able to guess what is the basically the encryption pattern and if they able to do that they able to predict what's going to the future of your message and decrypt the message. So having a high randomness basically prevent you know that these two happen. So what do we do here is that okay well why don't you use a randomness well pure randomness is impossible to obtain in our in our world you know the world we live today which is called classical physics there is nothing random pure random you know there is a lot of complex phenomenons but there is no pure random numbers or numbers or pure random phenomenons. If you wanted to obtain a pure source of randomness you have to rely on quantum physics and this is why the reason why there is a connection now with the quantum quantum technology and the quantum revolution is to obtain that in fact that source of pure randomness. So we do that in fact we it's an invention that was done at the University of Sherbrooke by a professor you know a world renowned specialist in quantum noise and what you do basically is using the property of quantum particles that are at the same time they are a particle with a mass and at the same time they can behave like a wave. How they behave like a wave or as a as a particle is a completely random phenomenon. So you exploit that to create basically a stream of electrons of the current you know I mean that's what that's the reason why quantum the name of the company is called quantum e-motion is due to the motion of electrons okay and obtaining that basically you can create a current of electrons that are completely time you know independent so that means that you can that signal can be after that transform in the device into a source of pure random bits that's what they call it. I'm sorry to be a little technical but there is very difficult to explain that without getting it to a little bit technical. I then want to ask you we really enjoyed your presentation at yesterday's investor talk and some of our investors were interested in how the larger corporations the Intel's out there would they not be able to create an AI driven quantum directed code you know breaker for all intents purposes to counter I mean how can a small company provide such an incredibly competitive way for cybersecurity. First of all I mean the research on QRNGs and everything exists already for a while so there are companies out there we're not the only one you know I mean that doing that however the majority of these companies are using another I would say source of I mean they're using another quantum particle it's called a photon to actually generate it the same basically randomness so our difference here is like we're using electrons and we're pretty much the you know the the only ones who at least we have you are the only ones who have the the original patterns on that okay so and we believe that you know our approach is with I would say very robust it's a very I would say efficient you know and provides actually you know a source of randomness that is extremely you know producing a randomness at high speed and ultimately it's extremely I would say also cheap to produce so and since it's electronics electrons you know it embeds you know Siemens less you know with the the other electronics so we have a technology that actually is superior I think to the competition in many ways so how does the incorporation of this QRNG technology into a microchip microchip represent a pivotal advancement in quantum communication technology because at the same time and now that it allows actually to you know and bring that you know basically technology to almost everything connected to the internet you know I mean any device you know I mean because now you're a lot of device will need to be also self-sufficient when it comes to security because attacks sometimes are so fast for example one of the big markets for the technology down the road would be you know the self-driving cars you know in the in the you know we we expecting at some point you know that when the that technology or that cars will be ready that will have actually on the roads a lot of cars will driving themselves without having a driver you know I mean it will and they will be driven by GPS it's already exist you know but it's still not mainstream and and in the future so how do you prevent somebody to attack or actually hack a car actually there are already movies sci-fi movies that actually you could see in fact cars you know the you know electric cars that actually hacked you know and basically they're starting to to create havoc on the streets you know because basically they out of control so how do you prevent that you know this is going to be a big challenge because you know to be able to do that this the security systems in the cars will have to be almost independent you know so of external you know any input so you need to starting to create now systems that are going to be in terms of security self-sufficient and the source of randomness to create for example a very high you know security encryption in that case will need actually technologies like the microchip to be able to be efficient in responding to an attack they'll have to be a respond to in milliseconds you know to prevent actually these attacks so right now what's your initial line of sales that you can use with the quantum random number generator microchip first of all we still I mean if you if you read the you know the the press release you know we we have the chip now we still need to do a run you know I mean we're expecting actually the finding because we had to do a few changes you know I mean improvements you know on the chip you know but it's pretty trivial though so that should not be an issue we should expect actually by next fall to have the fully functional you know chip so once we have that I think our first for us you know I said I think I said in the previous interviews that we had that we focused very much on health care for example who is a it's a huge it's a huge market you know not very well served in terms of cyber security and on top of that it's a market where whoever supplies a solution health care is responsible for the security and security is becoming actually integrated as part of the quality of the product so medical device for example you know they're almost every new medical device is one way or another connected to the internet so it's extremely important you know to to have the you know the top notch security technology to prevent actually that patients you know suffer an attack you know from from hackers there's been so many give you a few examples that are actually already you know famous in I think it happens in the United States several times there's been people that had these new for example pacemakers that are connected you know with with the internet you know for better monitoring etc well they've been hacked you know imagine if you receive a message you know saying oh if you don't send these you know numbers of dollars or bitcoin to you know buy tomorrow will turn off you can make pacemaker so I don't think you're going to spend the nice you know very good night you know that at that moment you know I mean this is obviously very dramatic but I mean these situations can can can happen actually more and more in the future and let's not forget that why we're interested in health care is that it's the number one or at least one of the top assets that the hackers are going after it is a very lucrative that actually to sell to steal the resell or actually patient health care data so how long after the adjustments and enhancements are made with you know your prototype and your prototype testing before it can actually make it to market what kind of timeline are we looking at I mean we should happen and by the end of the by the end of the year you know I mean obviously you know we're not manufacturing ourselves a medical device etc so we'll need to to find you know obviously partners you know partnerships you know with manufacturers that want to integrate their their chip into their system of security for a medical device for example so we we're not selling the medical device we're just selling and you know an important element of their security how are you protected for patents and licensing right now we have four patents that have been granted by the the US office for example with the main actually institution you know that for intellectual property so and we are continuing in building our intellectual property so it's you know we we not like most I mean because let me directly understand that our inventions are physical you know I mean it's very difficult as you know to to create a very strong IP if you only have the in our software solutions like most most people most the industry in in cybersecurity it's all about software it's very difficult you know we have that strength that our foundation IP is connected to physical device and physical phenomenon so that's what we protected so it's very strong well we've touched on how you can enhance protection for high-value assets like self-driving cars and critical systems obviously there's nothing higher more important than our healthcare systems but if somebody wants to get in touch with you to discuss other applications can they just reach out to you via your website francis or is there another way we have all information is available in our website you know and you know they can they can reach me very easily and I will always respond to them and of course you talked about a timeline which I consider for incredibly aggressive and exciting we by end of this year can you tell us what other shareholder updates we should be looking forward to in the first or second quarter here for 2024 yes we we actually right now we in discussions with you know potential partners you know and you know and hopefully you know we'll be able to announce at some point you know these collaborations you know and I think that could hopefully that will be pleasing the shareholders and on the future maybe investors in the company well as always francis thank you so much for the update it's very exciting and always reminds me of a good science fiction thriller when I get off any interview with you so we appreciate the update and for everybody out there looking for more information please go to the quantum emotion website listed below thank you my pleasure all right