A specific problem first
Support venue security leads, event safety teams and risk owners with context, assessment preparation and controlled handover. A focused application provides a setting in which to evaluate usefulness and workflow effort.
Company & Investors
Domain-led technology
With room to grow
AIREKON’s starting point is public event safety and security: work in which evidence, uncertainty and accountable judgement matter. SecureEventPro brings that focus into a connected pre-event workflow.
Methods, not just a model
The REKON architecture separates underlying capabilities from each module’s methods and decision boundaries. Domain knowledge, source lineage and versioned review are central to the approach.
Beyond the first application
Our longer-term ambition is to expand into sectors including aviation, defence and insurance, applying our approach to their security, risk and compliance workflows. Expansion would build on domain validation, integration work and evaluation tailored to each sector.
Product and workflow
See the current agentic contextual intelligence prototype, developed augmented risk identification and mitigation module and intended workflow.
Explore the product →Technology and expertise
Understand the architecture and the boundaries between intelligence, automation and authority.
Explore the approach →The team
Science, technology,
and applied domain experience
Our team combines scientific understanding, deep domain knowledge, technical expertise and practical security experience.
CEO
Dr Paul McFarlane
LinkedIn profileA senior leader with experience leading high-performing teams. Former Royal Marine and UK law enforcement officer specialising in covert operations against organised crime and terrorism. Significant expertise in AI augmentation of human workflows.
Built data-driven capabilities to counter cybercrime and national security threats, collaborating across law enforcement, intelligence and business sectors.
Multiple commendations for leadership and bravery; represented Great Britain in international sport.
CPO
Dr Kartikeya Tripathi
LinkedIn profileFormer investigative journalist in South Asia, later trained as a lawyer, with an MSc from Oxford and an award-winning PhD from UCL.
Expert in applying behavioural psychology and mixed-methods research to improve frontline security decision-making.
Developed a threat assessment matrix for the world’s largest commercial airline, counter-terrorism protocols for global metro rail systems and a cybercrime prevention strategy for large banks.
CTO
Mr Rama Voruganti
LinkedIn profileTechnology and product leader with 30+ years of experience building and transforming global engineering organisations and creating enterprise product lines with industry leaders including Google, DEC, McAfee and Symantec.
Architected planet-scale, high-performance enterprise platforms, with expertise spanning multi-cloud application modernisation, AI-led deep learning, developer ecosystems, advanced threat analytics, cybercrime, storage virtualisation and memory-management architecture.
Future capabilities
A path to scalability and expansion
Our roadmap explores evaluation, organisational learning and portfolio insight. The capabilities below are planned or at concept stage.
Performance and evaluation
SecureBench is proposed as a way to compare evidence quality, contextual relevance, reliability and review effort across controlled versions. Controlled evaluation would establish evidence of performance and guide improvement.
Post-event learning
A future governed review could compare event outcomes with the approved assessment, identifying lessons for subsequent planning without silently changing retained records.
Concept stage · Pre-operational · OD-M0.1
Opportunity Delta (OΔ)
A proposed estimate of unrealised revenue opportunity within approved organisational risk tolerance, expressed as a range with a confidence classification. It remains subject to controls, operational capacity, financial assumptions and accountable human approval.
This is a separate future portfolio concept—not an instruction to consume risk capacity and not an operational event-safety capability.
Who we are
AIREKON
The company behind SecureEventPro
AIREKON is a UK limited company and a UCL technology spinout. We have received the largest investment by UCL Ventures in a UCL tech spinout. We build software for organisations and people responsible for understanding, assessing and managing security and risk.
Our approach brings domain knowledge, traceable evidence and responsible AI into the workflow, with explainability, data security and safety central to the design.
We welcome conversations with customers, investors and partners about the product, evaluation and future direction.