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.
Noah M. Kenney is a consultant, researcher, and writer whose work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, privacy, and security, particularly in the regulated and mission-driven environments where the stakes of getting it wrong are measured in lives, livelihoods, and institutional trust.
He is Principal Consultant of Digital 520, a boutique advisory serving healthcare systems, financial institutions, public agencies, and growth-stage companies navigating AI adoption, enterprise modernization, and data governance. In parallel, he is Chief Scientist of the Disruptive AI Lab, where applied research ranges from medical imaging diagnostics to novel neural architectures for high-risk decision support.
As President of the Ethical Tech Forum, a not-for-profit think tank, he advances standards, frameworks, and public conversation around responsible AI and emerging technology policy. His forthcoming textbook, Governing Intelligence, is available open-access to universities and organizations committed to taking governance seriously.
He writes, speaks, and advises widely, and keeps a short list of engagements open each quarter for organizations where the work genuinely matters.
Read full biography →Every engagement, commercial, academic, or policy, aims at the same thing: advancing emerging technology in a way that is sustainable, ethical, and operationally real.
Engagements are delivered across boardroom strategy, hands-on implementation, and the governance structures that make systems durable.
Define where AI creates enterprise value, which systems to prioritize, and how to move from experimentation to scalable adoption.
Translate legal and ethical requirements into practical controls, workflows, and structures that teams will actually implement.
Senior leadership across product, infrastructure, and modernization, where organizations need strategic depth with execution oversight.
Modernize legacy infrastructure, streamline operations, and align technology investments with long-term strategy.
Adopted by universities and practitioners worldwide, a 488-page reference for law, privacy, security, and compliance in the age of artificial intelligence.
At the core is the AI Governance Stack, a five-layer framework for operationalizing governance across data, models, systems, monitoring, and audit. Written for academic courses and for practitioners actually responsible for building and governing AI.
Noah is making the full textbook available free to support adoption across universities and organizations. Widely received across academia, industry, and government.
AI governance is not a compliance exercise. It is the practice of making a new kind of infrastructure — one that must be legible to regulators, useful to operators, and accountable to the people it affects.
Academic papers, applied analyses, and strategic frameworks, covering AI governance, privacy, cybersecurity, and emerging technology policy.
Keynotes for boards and executive teams, lectures inside university programs, regular media commentary, and a podcast that ranks among the top in its category.
Featured commentary on AI governance, privacy, and emerging technology in TechTarget, Computerworld, The Register, CIO.com, Business Insider, Yahoo Tech, Reader's Digest, CGTN News, and NTD News.
View press coverageTwo interview shows — Building the Future with AI and The Noah Kenney Podcast — for builders, regulators, and operators of AI systems. Currently between seasons; new episodes return soon.
Regularly quoted as an industry expert on AI governance, privacy, and emerging technology strategy.
Answers to the questions most frequently raised by prospective clients, collaborators, and press.
Reach out directly, most inquiries are answered within a business day. For press, please include your outlet, deadline, and topic.
Primarily three shapes: advisory (monthly retainers and board advisory), fractional (part-time CTO / CAIO / privacy leadership), and retained programs (scoped governance, modernization, or research initiatives typically 3–12 months).
Industries served include healthcare, financial services, public sector, and growth-stage technology.
Occasionally, typically when the founding team is selling into regulated sectors and needs a credible governance posture to close enterprise contracts. For very early stage, a short advisory engagement is usually the right fit.
Advisory engagements are flat monthly retainers; fractional engagements are day-rate or monthly; retained programs are scoped and fixed-fee with defined milestones. NDAs and MSAs are routine.
Yes. Governing Intelligence is available open-access to universities and organizations; peer-reviewed research is published in journals of record. Reach out for adoption materials, syllabi integrations, or citations.
Yes, for keynotes, panels, executive briefings, and expert commentary. Lead time of 4–6 weeks is preferred for keynotes; press requests are handled same-day when possible.
A 30-minute discovery call to understand the problem, constraints, and desired outcome. If there's a fit, a scoped proposal follows within a week. If there isn't, you'll get a candid referral or a pointer to the right resource.
Whether you need strategic guidance, technical execution, or governance oversight, the first step is a short conversation.
info@noahkenney.com