Carlo Piana


Lawyer (Bar of Milan) with 25+ years’ experience in the IT&TLC Law sector, strategic consultant.

Active in several fields of IT law, including technology transfer, ad-hoc software contracting, copyright, trademarks & domain names, antitrust litigation. Counsel for companies, governments, in the field of Data Protection and IT security, licensing, online services, analysis, competition & procurement, interoperability with public IT services, governmental work, open data, cryptocurrency, Open Source Artificial Intelligence. Free/open source software, digital liberties, openness advocate.

Chair of the Board, Open Source Initiative (OSI); President of the Board, EuroITcounsel; member of the Steering Committee, Eclipse Oniro Working Group.