Business Computing:
the Second 50 Years

The Guildhall conference for business leaders

Speaker details

DK Matai founded mi2g, the eRisk Management and Bespoke Security Architecture group, whilst developing simulations for his PhD at Imperial College in London and was selected to present Knowledge Management to the Queen in 1998. This followed a high-flyer career at IBM, Inmos, SGS-Thomson and Helvar Electrosonic developing Massive Parallel Processing (MPP), super computing applications and new patents.

DK Matai is an authority on electronic attack and counter-attack, hacker etymology and Open Source hardened kernel solutions. mi2g has liaised closely with government departments since DK Matai predicted the NATO-Serbia and China-Taiwan sympathetic hacker attacks in 1999.

DK Matai believes passionately that the future for digitisation lies in its ability to drive down client costs within a secure operating environment. mi2g is now launching MFX, a new IT outsourcing company with Canada’s US$20 Billion Fairfax Financial Holding (FFH.TO) providing smart-sourcing solutions with managed security services to the banking, insurance and reinsurance industries.

DK Matai divides his time between mi2g clients in North America and Europe and heads up research projects into Open Source kernels and trusted computing infrastructure. He is a trusted contributor to defence and security debates and was recently introduced by Andrew Pinder, eEnvoy to the Cabinet Office, UK Government to present on asymmetric warfare post 11 th September.

DK Matai is 33 and, in addition to mi2g and his research, his main interests are people, technology and languages. He has lived in Asia, Europe and North America but he now lives in London with his family.