Stefano Noferi

Tech entrepreneur. He works on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and digital health, with a focus on AI agent governance: agents are becoming autonomous actors inside software systems, but today's architectures were not designed to control them.

He proposed OISG (Open, Intelligent, Secure, Governed), the paradigm he proposed for autonomous AI and adopted by noze, and maintains Admina, the open source framework sponsored by noze that builds governance into AI applications and powers DataGovern, IntelliPA, AgenticHealth and VerdePilot. With DebugABot he does deep tech research on runtime debugging of agents and robots.

In over 25 years he has worked with more than 100 clients and partners and contributed to over 30 European, national and regional research projects with universities, CNR, hospitals and industry. For international organizations, public bodies, universities and media groups he has designed cloud architectures, document systems and web portals, two of which won Il Sole 24 Ore awards.

His background is in hardware, networking and electronics and he has always worked with software and open source. As a radio amateur (IZ5AWZ) he migrated Italy's first radio gateway between AMPRNet and the Internet (IW5DAM) to GNU/Linux at ISTI-CNR in Pisa. He took part in the Linux, Python, Zope and Plone communities and contributed to C.I.R.S., the first Italian consortium of FLOSS companies, to T-OSSLab and to PloneGov Italia.

As a lecturer and coach he has trained over 1,000 professionals in university master's programmes, ITS Academies and companies on AI, cybersecurity, cloud and open source. Founder, mentor and advisor, he supports Italy's startup ecosystem.

Sailing instructor with Lega Navale Italiana and UISP, including inclusive projects. FISAR sommelier and keen cook, interested in music, art, physics and mathematics.

He is naturally curious.

Writes about

• Artificial intelligence
• Governance
• Cybersecurity
• Digital health