Kinnami Named a Top 100 QBE AcceliCITY 2025 Resilience Solution: Redefining Smart City Resilience Through Secure, Distributed Data

We’re proud to announce that Kinnami has been selected as a Top 100 QBE AcceliCITY 2025 Resilience Solution, a global program focused on technology for smart cities hosted by Leading Cities. This prestigious initiative connects high-potential urban technology innovators with city governments and stakeholders, accelerating solutions that address the most pressing challenges in urban environments—from infrastructure resilience to public safety, mobility, sustainability, and more.

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This opportunity couldn’t come at a more pivotal time. Cities worldwide are embracing digitization at breakneck speed. As this transformation takes place, so too do the risks—and the expectations—for data to be always available, inherently trustworthy, and securely protected. In this environment, “smart doesn’t just mean connected—it means resilient”. That’s where Kinnami, and our flagship platform AmiShare, enters the picture.

Why AcceliCITY Matters for Cities—and for Kinnami

Leading Cities launched the AcceliCITY program to catalyze innovation that improves quality of life for urban residents. Cities today are under extraordinary pressure to modernize services, reduce operational costs, and protect citizens—all while navigating climate change, population growth, and aging infrastructure.

Yet, cities face a challenge that is often underestimated: managing and securing the data that underpins all these innovations. Whether it’s sensors monitoring air quality, traffic management AI, utility grids, or emergency response platforms, smart cities are built on data—and that data must be secure, available even during disruptions, and verifiably trustworthy.

Kinnami is honored to join a cohort of innovators who are rethinking what’s possible in urban resilience. But we’re not just joining—we’re redefining the backbone of how digital cities function, one resilient byte at a time.

The Urban Data Dilemma: Smart Cities Are Only as Strong as Their Data Infrastructure

Modern cities are increasingly driven by edge computing—where data is captured, processed, and acted upon in real time, often on local devices outside traditional data centers. It’s how autonomous vehicles make split-second decisions, how utilities preempt outages, and how emergency services respond before disaster strikes.

But this decentralized paradigm brings with it a cascade of vulnerabilities:

• Unreliable connectivity: Smart city infrastructure often depends on edge devices scattered across wide areas, from traffic cameras to water pumps. These devices must function in environments where network access is intermittent, or in emergencies when central systems fail.

• Trust in data: Real-time decisions rely on trustworthy information. If data is corrupted, duplicated, or tampered with, the outcomes can be catastrophic—especially in sectors like public safety, healthcare, and critical infrastructure.

• Expanded attack surface: Every edge device is a potential entry point for malicious actors. Without strong protections, they can be tampered with, hacked, or become nodes for widespread breaches.

• Complex compliance: Cities must navigate regulatory frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, and local data residency laws, many times while managing data across borders and jurisdictions.

  
  

That’s why cities need a secure, resilient, and intelligent data infrastructure that can operate at the edge and the core—safeguarding information wherever it’s created or needed and ensuring it is available where and when it is needed.

Kinnami’s Solution: AmiShare and the Future of Urban Data Resilience

At Kinnami, we believe the future of smart cities depends on transforming how data is managed. Our answer is AmiShare—a secure, resilient “data mesh” that extends trust, availability, and protection across every layer of the city’s digital infrastructure.

Unlike traditional systems that rely on centralized servers or cloud platforms, AmiShare decentralizes data management while maintaining centralized control and visibility. It is specifically designed for environments where edge devices operate with limited resources, unreliable connectivity, and heightened risk.

Four Pillars of AmiShare

1. Security & Privacy Everywhere—AmiShare encrypts data at the source—before it moves, stores, or is accessed—using client-side encryption and data fragmentation. It also adheres to a Zero Trust Architecture: administrators can set data policies but can’t see the data itself. With every fragment encrypted and scattered across devices and locations, no single breach can compromise the whole.

2. Availability Under Any Conditions—Smart city systems can’t afford to go down. AmiShare ensures data availability even in degraded environments. It uses intelligent replication, versioning, and policy-based routing to move data proactively where it will be needed—prioritizing mission-critical data, creating ad hoc networks as needed and syncing autonomously when networks recover.

3. Protection Through Automation—AmiShare doesn’t just defend against threats—it anticipates them. Using an AI-driven policy engine, it detects anomalies, triggers automated responses, and integrates with threat detection platforms to quarantine or block malicious behavior. Its smart data movement system ensures the right data is always in the right place—optimizing bandwidth, cost, and performance.

4. Simplicity Across Complexity—Managing thousands of distributed devices and data sources sounds overwhelming—but AmiShare simplifies it through a unified management interface and dynamic orchestration tools. Whether a city manages data in the cloud, in on-prem data centers, or across thousands of IoT endpoints, AmiShare’s architecture makes policy-driven management seamless.

A Smart City Use Case: Urban Resilience in Action

Imagine a coastal city preparing for hurricane season. Edge sensors are embedded in levees, sewer systems, power substations, and transportation hubs. These sensors collect real-time data on flooding, structural stress, air pressure, and energy demand.

As the storm approaches:

• AmiShare ensures data is stored and analyzed locally, even if cloud connectivity is lost.

• Critical sensor data is prioritized and routed automatically to emergency systems.

• If a threat is detected—say, tampering with a floodgate controller—data access is revoked instantly, and affected fragments are isolated.

• After the event, immutable logs and versioned records help recovery teams understand what happened, where, and how fast they need to respond—all without risking data integrity or privacy.

This isn’t science fiction—it’s what AmiShare is making possible today.

Aligning with Global Urban Goals

AmiShare doesn’t just meet technical demands—it supports broader global urban development goals:

•  Sustainability: By reducing unneeded data transfers and optimizing use of all computing assets, such as storage or networks, AmiShare minimizes the energy footprint of data operations.

• Public trust: With verifiable data integrity and detailed audit capabilities, cities can build public confidence in their digital systems.

• Equity & accessibility: AmiShare supports decentralized data governance models, enabling community organizations and regional offices to participate without compromising central oversight or security.

As cities seek to meet the The UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development goals and navigate climate, health, and mobility transitions, these qualities are not luxuries—they’re necessities.

The AcceliCITY Program: Catalyzing Real-World Impact

Our selection as a Top 100 AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge Solution will give us the opportunity to work directly with city governments around the world to solve real-world problems. The program provides access to pilots, partnerships, and visibility to urban decision-makers seeking scalable, secure solutions.

More importantly, it gives us the chance to showcase AmiShare in action, solving concrete problems like:

• Maintaining operational resilience during network outages or disasters

• Simplifying data management across complex hybrid architectures, which include public and private infrastructure

• Protecting citizen data while complying with regulatory requirements including data laws

• Ensuring tamper-proof records

• Securing sensor data in transit and at rest

Kinnami’s inclusion in AcceliCITY Top 100 validates our conviction that resilient data is foundational to resilient cities.

What’s Next?

 As part of the 2025 cohort, we’re planning to collaborate with cities, urban technologists, infrastructure operators, and civic leaders to deliver real-world solutions that are scalable, secure, and sustainable.

We’ll be looking at:

• Launching pilot programs in cities through the AcceliCITY network

• Enhancing AmiShare’s capabilities based on field needs and urban use cases

• Publishing results and sharing insights from city deployments

• Engaging in conversations around data sovereignty, ethics, and urban cybersecurity

A Final Word: Trust Is the Infrastructure of the Future

If we’ve learned anything in our journey at Kinnami, it’s that trust is not something that happens after the fact—it must be built into every byte, every connection, and every decision.

In a world where a few milliseconds of data delay can mean grid failures, transportation bottlenecks, or public safety risks trustworthy, always-on data is not a bonus feature—it’s the foundation.

That’s why we’re proud to be named a Top 100 AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge solution. Together, we can help cities move beyond “smart” and toward resilient, secure, and trustworthy.

Because the future of cities depends not just on data—but on data you can count on.