Josh Speyer previously worked at D-Wave in 2025 in a strategically important role between technology and revenue. While there, he was alarmed at a number of ways that the outside narrative differed from reality. The Coherence Report is releasing a comprehensive due diligence report on D-Wave Quantum Inc., presenting an independent analysis of the company’s

AI “respondent panels” are being aggressively marketed as the future of research — but are they legitimate, or just the latest form of hype? In this session, we’ll pull back the curtain on how synthetic panels actually work from a technical perspective, why their outputs can’t be trusted as real consumer data, and how vendors

Everyone hypes Gen-AI, but there are far more advanced technologies out there for research analysis. This session educates on the other AI techniques for quant research that you never hear about, and how they can be used to automate statistical analysis across enterprise-scale datasets. In a recent engagement with a consumer services organization, a task

Synthetic respondent panels promise faster, cheaper sample at the scale researchers have always wanted. But what are you actually buying when you purchase AI-generated data, and is it appropriate for market research insights? In this session, Josh Speyer offers a technical breakdown of how synthetic panels work, without the marketing hype. Drawing on a background