Peter Wittek obtained his PhD from the National University of Singapore. He is the Academic Director of the Quantum Machine Learning Initiative in the Creative Destruction Lab in the University of Toronto. His research explores the synergies between artificial intelligence, machine learning, quantum information, and high-performance computing. He published the book "Quantum Machine Learning: What Quantum Computing Means to Data Mining", the first monograph on the subject. He has been deeply involved in entrepreneurship and he works on incubating startups that use quantum technologies for machine learning.