UMESH PERERA

"Umesh is a technologist, serial inventor and entrepreneur, with over 30 years of technology experience and intellectual property in the media, defence, governmental and financial sectors. Umesh specialises in problem, solution and execution, using technology to combine artistic creativity and scientific excellence.

One of his greatest accomplishments was as a program head working with Microsoft, in the revolutionary development of systems used to identify refugees, reunite families and re-build war torn areas in the Balkan’s Kosovo war of the late 1990’s. Later, he was involved in the creation of Kosovo with using this technology for the countries back-bone systems, later adopted and deployed in other war-torn areas. His expertise has also been used in conflict zones and security needs by the UK, NATO and Europe.

Having chosen the profession of ITC at the age of 14, he began with special interests in algorithms, networking topology, search engine tech, operating systems and hardware engineering. He has a vast amount of commercial and R & D experience in large scale technology architecture, deep technology, deep learning, algorithms, crawling, indexing, blockchain, security, encryption, development and many other areas. In addition, he has developed operating systems, developed hosting technologies and contributed to the Hadoop project, big data.

He founded AYOZAT, with a deep technology product, that powers, stores and distributes different ecosystems and market sectors, reliably and securely, through SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and AaaS (Anything as a Service). This year, through a new deep learning brand, he will be launching a proprietary artificial neural network aiding fraud detection, medical research advancements and financial prediction.

As a Research & Development and Security expert he has appeared on TV including ABC News with Bill Gates and Frank Schott. He has been featured and quoted in both mainstream and industry press, including Bloomberg, Business Insider, Daily Mail, VNU, Reed and IT online media. For his social work, he has appeared on UK national and local press, as well as online publications."