6.2023-London-Kinnami-Software

GUY BUNKER: Are you getting bored of all the different people and faces and everything else? Anyway, my name is Guy Bunker. I'm here representing Kinnami and to talk to you a little bit about our hybrid data fabric.

I think everybody knows this. 75% of data is going to be created but also processed at the edge. Pushing it off into the cloud it's going to be really important. But also being able to share it across the edge as and when needed is also going to become increasingly important.

The edge is a challenge in many industries. And I realized-- when I was just pondering some of the things that were said today-- the one that I've missed here is also in the home when the little alarm went off to say that the fridge door was open. And you're thinking, oh, my goodness. How many things do you need to know?

When you're up in London, you can't close the fridge door. It doesn't tell you when the fridge door does close. It just tells you when it's open.

So it's a huge problem that we've got. And there's a number of different requirements that are needed in order for them to be successful, not least is-- I know we're in the BT. I'm sorry-- but intermittent data connectivity that occurs, whether it's at home or outside. When the network is down, what do you do? And when we talk about emergency services, that becomes a real challenge.

So AmiShare is our product, and it is all about taking data and transmitting it from point A to point B on the understanding that the network may not be there. So how do we do that?

First of all, we split it up. It's all encrypted. Security is built through from the start. And then we have an opportunistic replication, opportunistic ad hoc network creation. And it's not-- here it looks nice and simple. And in high level, it is very simple. However, all of these connections that can occur can occur over different communication means.

So here-- 5G, Wi-Fi. That's great. But what happens if they go down? Well, actually, we can pick it up over Bluetooth or any other communications that is available. And then at the far end wherever the data is getting to, it just reassembles the data from any segments that it can find, from the best place that it can find it. So this is what gives you the resilient data transmission and sharing that goes on.

We talk about a spider's web. Of course, everything can go in the middle. But it can also go all the way around the outside and any one of any different modes and ways in which it's doing it. Protected, revocable access, but also making sure the data itself is immutable when you go through because you need to be able to look back on it.

We've had a number of great bits of traction within the US, not least within the Department of Defense on a variety of different projects. One I'm not going to talk about on the next slide is about blowing up a bridge in Nebraska. So come and find me outside, and I can talk to you about that.

This is one particular example that we've got with the search and rescue group. Throughout an environment, somebody has-- they're looking for somebody, and the only way to get there is line of sight. So at the moment, what's been happening is that something flies around until they find line of sight-- quite an expensive way to do it.

What we're doing and what we're enabling is actually a mesh of drones which can all talk to themselves, so with a very short communication length. If there's better communication, obviously, that's great. But if there isn't, they can talk to themselves. You can have lots which can cover a much greater area, find the person, and then send the data back in order to make the person rescued far quicker than otherwise.

Where we see us as being unique is it is all about being able to take the data at the edge, being able to share it at the edge in a secure manner across multiple devices which have been authorized but don't necessarily have to belong to the same organizations as well. So it fits in there.

This is our tie-in to MIT is our CEO is a Sloan alumni. And, in fact, also have Dan Geer, who's an old colleague who was on the MIT Athena project as well.

What we're looking for is any other pilots which involve the need to share information at the edge, or at the edge and into the cloud. Any partnerships-- we've got a number that are going on at the moment with different places, again, around embedding the technology in order to enable that sharing.

All the team is based in the US, except for myself. I'm based over here. And so I guess I cover rest of world, as they say. Thank you very much.