MOSTAFA ELKORDY
Mostafa Elkordy brings over two decades of hands-on experience in software architecture and large-scale system development, with a focus on secure, interoperable, and resilient digital systems in complex international environments. His work spans enterprise integration, identity and access management, and security assurance, including adversarial validation and penetration testing of large-scale systems. He currently serves as Senior Cybersecurity Solutions Officer at UNICC and as Chair of Open Source United, a Community of Practice within the United Nations ecosystem.
He has led initiatives in secure platform engineering and digital trust, with a strong emphasis on practical approaches to cybersecurity, system resilience, and cross-organizational interoperability.
He is also the founding author of OSARA (Open Sovereign Agent Reference Architecture) and its companion AI Bill of Rights, an emerging open framework intended to provide holistic guidance on how individuals, enterprises, and governments can interact through AI agents in a sovereign, secure, and interoperable manner. The work also explores broader implications for the future of work, as well as the regulatory and governance considerations required to support agent-driven digital ecosystems.
Session
Most conversations about agentic AI start with autonomy: how to remove people from the loop and automate work. That path may improve short-term efficiency, but it risks displacing human value as models and agent stacks become widely available.
This talk proposes a different national trajectory: empower people with sovereign agents that act as lifelong digital extensions of their identity, skills, and judgment. Instead of competing with autonomous systems, citizens, public servants, and enterprises would operate through a Human + Agent model where humans remain accountable, agents expand capability, and sovereignty is designed into the architecture.
The session introduces OSARA (Open Sovereign Agent Reference Architecture) as an open implementation path for countries and institutions: identity, control, interoperability, evidence, and governance mechanisms that help humans stay in the economy, excel within it, and outperform systems optimized only for full autonomy.