I work with regulated and mission-driven organizations on the hard parts of artificial intelligence, strategy, privacy, security, and compliance, and write about where it’s all going.
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Noah M. Kenney is CEO and Principal Consultant at Digital 520, a global technology and AI consultancy. He has advised more than 120 organizations, including Fortune 500 companies and agencies within the U.S. Federal Government, and delivered more than 150 enterprise applications and digital platforms supporting millions of users.
In 2026, he was named one of the world’s top 10 AI governance experts and selected for the European Data Protection Board’s Support Pool of Experts in new technologies and information security. He is the author of Governing Intelligence, a comprehensive AI governance textbook with more than 300,000 readers, and host of the top-100 AI podcast Building the Future with AI.
He designed the nation’s first AI Privacy Engineering course at Georgia Tech. He speaks publicly to more than 50,000 people each year and is regularly cited by leading business, technology, and broadcast media.
Engagements are delivered across boardroom strategy, hands-on implementation, and the governance structures that make systems durable.
Explore services ⟶Define where AI creates enterprise value, which systems to prioritize, and how to move from experimentation to scalable adoption.
Learn more⟶Translate legal and ethical requirements into practical controls, workflows, and structures that teams will actually implement.
Learn more⟶Senior leadership across product, infrastructure, and modernization, where organizations need strategic depth with execution oversight.
Learn more⟶Academic papers, applied analyses, and strategic frameworks covering AI governance, privacy, cybersecurity, and emerging technology policy.
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What happens when the systems we trust get it wrong — and what the people closest to the failure learned. A hardcover companion to the governance work, written for operators, regulators, and anyone accountable for a model in production.
A 488-page open-access textbook covering the legal, technical, and organizational foundations of AI governance, written for practitioners who have to build and defend real programs.
Used in university classrooms and by teams accountable for AI in production. Free to read and cite.
Keynotes for boards and executive teams, lectures inside university programs, regular media commentary, and a podcast that ranks among the top in its category.
Book a keynote ⟶Industry keynote on the trajectory of artificial intelligence, emerging risks, and policy horizons.
Co-developed the country’s first AI Privacy Engineering course at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Building the Future with AI and The Noah Kenney Podcast — for builders, regulators, and operators of AI systems.
On how routinely published records become re-identifiable once joined with commercial data, and what election offices can do about it.
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