Jun 9, 2026 · 1 hr · 10 segments
In this insightful interview, Dr. Policarpio Soberanis shares his journey from applied mathematician and systems engineer to a business development leader. He discusses the importance of critical…
I really think it's interesting because I wasn't aware of the family connection as far as import-export.
I was just thinking it's very interesting how these things can transcend, kind of really generations.
You had the opportunity to spend some of your life there.
My mom is a saleswoman, a businesswoman.
She's got the gift of gab as well.
And her grandfather was a big, big policy and economics guy.
And here I am, you know, grabbing people's arms in traffic, trying to have these sorts of conversations.
Yeah, man.
portion is a really big part.
I try to touch on it as much as possible, but I do want to stay on the education part of it a little bit longer.
So we met on Capitol Hill.
It was National Science Foundation Day, Quantum Computing Day in particular, and it was nearby your station.
This gentleman, I can't remember his name or who he worked for, but I can never forget his enthusiasm.
He was really, really excited about his program that was bringing quantum computing education to the south side of Chicago.
I think they were partnered with Senator Dick Durbin and some of the Illinois delegation on that.
He said that we're getting some traction, we're getting a lot of interest from the kids, boys and girls.
And There's the exposure element as far as what these technologies are and what the pathway is.
And then there's also the foundational parts of things.
You talked about your math foundation.
One of my first guests on this program was as a curriculum specialist we talked about the trends in math and reading amongst american students and sort of you know how these foundations bleed into you know bleed into future career prospects so just could you could you give a comment on i guess the investments in development uh besides just the exposure of things that are necessary to make sure that the kids like like those once indicated have the best chance to compete for sort of these future careers and You mentioned you do some work with your kids yourself, so if you could give us a little insight from that perspective, I think that
Happy to name drop some of my friends and former colleagues, even from Belize, if you will.
I really think it's interesting because I wasn't aware of the family connection as far as import-export.
I was just thinking it's very interesting how these things can transcend, kind of really generations.
You had the opportunity to spend some of your life there.
My mom is a saleswoman, a businesswoman.
She's got the gift of gab as well.
And her grandfather was a big, big policy and economics guy.
And here I am, you know, grabbing people's arms in traffic, trying to have these sorts of conversations.
Yeah, man.
portion is a really big part.
I try to touch on it as much as possible, but I do want to stay on the education part of it a little bit longer.
So we met on Capitol Hill.
It was National Science Foundation Day, Quantum Computing Day in particular, and it was nearby your station.
This gentleman, I can't remember his name or who he worked for, but I can never forget his enthusiasm.
He was really, really excited about his program that was bringing quantum computing education to the south side of Chicago.
I think they were partnered with Senator Dick Durbin and some of the Illinois delegation on that.
He said that we're getting some traction, we're getting a lot of interest from the kids, boys and girls.
And There's the exposure element as far as what these technologies are and what the pathway is.
And then there's also the foundational parts of things.
You talked about your math foundation.
One of my first guests on this program was as a curriculum specialist we talked about the trends in math and reading amongst american students and sort of you know how these foundations bleed into you know bleed into future career prospects so just could you could you give a comment on i guess the investments in development uh besides just the exposure of things that are necessary to make sure that the kids like like those once indicated have the best chance to compete for sort of these future careers and You mentioned you do some work with your kids yourself, so if you could give us a little insight from that perspective, I think that
Happy to name drop some of my friends and former colleagues, even from Belize, if you will.
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