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# Utz Bacher
Software leader at Q.ANT building the ecosystem for photonic AI computing.

## About

Utz Bacher builds the software ecosystem for photonic processors at Q.ANT. He focuses on making emerging compute paradigms accessible for AI and high-performance workloads, exploring how hardware that computes with light integrates into standard x86 systems.

Before joining Q.ANT, he spent 25 years at IBM. He wrote high-speed networking code for Linux kernels, served as the lead architect for Linux on IBM Z, and designed the infrastructure to bring IBM Quantum to the cloud.



## Past Sessions

### World Congress 2026 Europe · July 8, 2026
Berlin, Germany
- [Photonic Computing: Programming a New Class of AI Accelerators (incl. Live Coding)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100196-photonic-computing-programming-a-new-class-of-ai-accelerators-incl-live-coding) · 30 min · 🎥 Watch recording



## Videos

- [Photonic Computing: Programming a New Class of AI Accelerators (incl. Live Coding)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100196-photonic-computing-programming-a-new-class-of-ai-accelerators-incl-live-coding) · Christoph Lohrmann, Utz Bacher


## Links

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/utz/)