Bijan Burnard is a technology entrepreneur, software architect, and data and artificial intelligence specialist working across financial data, sovereign AI infrastructure, enterprise automation, and sustainable technology.
His work spans the development and application of advanced data systems, artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, distributed technologies, and emerging technologies designed to address both commercial and societal challenges.
He is the founder and principal technology leader of Alphoradata, a data and technology business providing advanced data capabilities and technology solutions to hedge funds and institutional investment organizations. His work through Alphoradata focuses on the collection, processing, structuring, enrichment, and delivery of data for professional investment and financial organizations.
Burnard is also involved in two complementary technology ventures focused on the development and practical deployment of artificial intelligence. D-AI focuses on sovereign artificial intelligence, AI data infrastructure, and data-centre strategy, advising governments, enterprises, and institutions on becoming AI-ready while maintaining appropriate control over sensitive data, computing infrastructure, and critical digital systems. Lattice is an AI-agent orchestration and autonomous enterprise platform designed to help organizations deploy, coordinate, and manage AI agents that automate business processes and operational workflows.
In 2024, Burnard co-founded the Burnard Foundation with Alina Burnard, establishing a platform to support sustainable technologies, ventures, and research with the potential to address significant humanitarian and environmental challenges. The Foundation works across six principal areas: food systems and agriculture, clean energy and materials, space technology, social innovation, sustainable mobility, and sovereign AI. Its approach emphasizes scientific evidence, independent validation, long-term thinking, and the development of the partnerships and value chains required to move promising innovations from early concepts toward practical deployment and scale.
Alongside his entrepreneurial work, Burnard conducts research into digital sovereignty, sovereign AI, and critical digital infrastructure. Through D-AI Research, he is the author of the Sovereign Digital Infrastructure Series (SDIS), a thirteen-part research series examining the technical, institutional, and policy foundations of digital sovereignty, including data governance, sovereign cloud, compute infrastructure, digital identity, cybersecurity, interoperability, financial infrastructure, and sovereign AI.
Burnard’s broader technical and research interests include artificial intelligence, machine-learning infrastructure, data engineering, data governance, sovereign computing, distributed systems, blockchain technology, cybersecurity, digital identity, financial technology, and enterprise automation. His work is particularly concerned with the practical deployment of emerging technologies at scale and the infrastructure required to make those systems secure, resilient, and operationally independent.
He holds a BEng in Computing (Computer Science) from Imperial College London, graduating in 2013, and has developed technology businesses, software platforms, and digital infrastructure across multiple industries. His continuing work explores how data, computing, artificial intelligence, and sustainable technologies can contribute to more secure, scalable, resilient, autonomous, and responsible systems for businesses, institutions, governments, and society.