Okay, welcome to this special edition of the Cybertraps podcast. We're here live at the Inch360, uh, event here in beautiful Spokane, Washington. And, uh, we've got Matt Porter on the program. He's the founder and chief solutions officer at AmorFati Labs. Matt, tell us a little bit about yourself and, uh, what AmorFati Labs is. Yeah, absolutely. thank you so much for having me and really just been enjoying the Inch360, uh, events.
So I, Morfati Labs is really the outpouring of the fact that I'm a former intelligence officer. I spent eight years after graduating from West Point, then left the military to start medical education over here at WSU. It was really once I saw the, we'll just call it, emergence of a lot of technologies I'd seen previously, combined with seeing really where medicine was going and has been. I'm taking a pause to be able to start.
I really found my company, Morphati Labs, being a deep tech, uh, studio and wanting to really bridge the previous experience that I've had through the lens of holistic medicine. Okay, interesting. So, that's a, that's a really fascinating approach. Holistic medicine and deep tech. Deep technology. What does that look like in practice? Yeah, absolutely.
So we're already seeing, I think in the farthest end, institutions like the Cleveland Clinic making use of the first instance of IBM's System 1 quantum computer to accelerate drug discovery and research. But what we're seeing is systems like that are not ubiquitous.
And we're also seeing a lot of issue in medical education with just A difference of placing more financial strain on students, while at the same time fewer and fewer spots, really it's more competitive to be able to even get to residency. Three, five, seven years of training just to then maybe decide that medicine is not for them. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's that is a real challenge that late opportunity to determine whether or not this is really for you My background's education and part of this same exact problem exists that you don't get in front of kids in a classroom Until your senior year of college and you've already invested all this time money and energy Into the degree and then you get there and you realize boy, I hate standing in front of these kids all day long That's that's a bad time to learn That about yourself
and so giving people opportunities to get in beforehand and be able to experience it So they know what it is. They really should be doing. So what brought you to this inch 360 conference?
so to me what we're seeing right now, I think is a Wanted to get a view of where the current landscape for cybersecurity is and really where the conversation around zero tech network architecture Jethro is within a place like Spokane that is not exactly your Seattle or your San Francisco because it's in a place like this where it's more important, not less, that people have really the view of seeing where the bleeding edge of technology intersects with the most
vulnerable populations, whether it be medicine, education, or finance. It's these kinds of communities that are going to be hit hardest and it's most important that they Really have that, they're prepared. Mm hmm. Absolutely. And, and what is your takeaway from this conference so far?
I, I think it's a the fact that I spoke with a couple of folks who were actually not only aware, but actively building with things like IBM's Quantum Computing Language Qiskit that's open source uh, looking at Mojo that's a superset of Python to accelerate it and then the CISA uh, uh, Cybersecurity Infrastructure, Security Agency, all being here is a huge comfort, and people, really a reflection of people having this, the Overton window shifting to not
fear based security, but more prudent, probabilistic based, and seeing it. We live in a time where technology can do both great harm and great good. How do we safely and prudently use that to accelerate the good and do our best to defend against the bad? Yeah, yeah, that's good. I like that perspective because I felt the same way. That it's not about, we need to be afraid of it.
It's about recognizing that Something is probably going to happen, and that's not like depressing or fatalistic or anything like that, it's just, hey, this is the world that we live in, there are bad actors out there, and we need to be prepared and know that something is going to happen, and be prepared for when it does, that we know how to deal with it and respond.
And, uh, well, nobody has to be a quantum physicist to really value Rather, I'll, I'll say that the principles of quantum mechanics and why quantum computing is both as exciting as it is, uh, scary, I think it speaks to, at the end of the day, the realistic simplicity of the current posture we have of, it's not about one or zero. Yeah. It's not about yes or no, or secure or not secure, it is, there's probabilities. Yeah. And, coming to terms with that.
And accepting that we can't dictate what that's going to be, but placing trust in people to move us forward prudently. Yeah, that's good. Uh, so tell us how people can get in touch with you at Amorphati Labs. Yeah, so the, uh, right now landing page is www. amorphatilabs. org. And on social media, because I suppose everybody uses that, the handle is PhaedrusFlow, spelled P H. A E D R U S F L O W in homage to my Harley Davidson 2023 breakout, Phaedrus. Also another philosophical point there.
And then flow, because flow state is something that I think is getting a lot more more focused and better attention with gamification in the learning space. Yeah, yeah, cool. I think we can talk about a lot of things. This says AmorFatiLabs. net It sure does because I had to recently, uh, change over a domain. All good. It's org. Okay. Go there, people. Alright. Thank you very much, Matt. Appreciate you being part of the Cybertraps podcast and coming to the Inch360 event.
Well, I appreciate you very much for giving the space and the conversation. I think it's really great. Very good.