Francesco Lapenta is the Founding Director of the John Cabot University Institute of Future and Innovation Studies.
Currently, he is also a Mozilla-Ford Research Fellow and the Technical Editor of the I.E.E.E. P7006 standard on Personal Data Artificial Intelligence Agents His research focuses on emerging technologies, innovation, technologies’ governance, and standardization processes, ethics and impact assessment, and future scenario analysis. He holds a Ph.D. In Sociology from the University of London, joint supervision Goldsmiths College and the London School of Economics. He has worked as Associate Professor in New Media Studies and Business Innovation at the Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies at RUC University, Denmark (2009-2019), and Assistant Professor (2007-2009). Visiting Professor at New York University (2011-2012) and John Cabot University (2019). He has organized many international conferences in the United States, Latin America, and Europe and participated in, and organized, countless academic and public events worldwide. He has for years served on the executive board of the IVSA association. Prof. Lapenta has been teaching courses and seminars in Business and Information Technologies, Digital Rights and Media Ethics, New Media Studies, Advanced Media Based Research Methods, Ethics and Impact Assessment of Emerging Technologies. He has supervised countless student-industry collaborative projects as part of his Master’s courses.
