Confidential AI
Securing data, models, and algorithms in the age of intelligent systems.
Books
Books by Stefano Tempesta
A collection of my published work spanning technology, leadership, fiction, and scouting adventures.
Technology
Practical and forward-looking books on software, AI, and digital innovation.
Blockchain Applied
Practical technology and use cases of Enterprise Blockchain for the real world, written by two expert practitioners in the field.
Leveraging Blockchain Technology for Climate Impact
This Global MBA dissertation rigorously examines whether blockchain technology can transform carbon credit markets for meaningful climate action.
Developing Blockchain Applications in the Cloud
Designing and developing of blockchain-powered applications on AWS, Azure and GCP.
Application Architecture Patterns for the World Wide Web 3.0
Design patterns and use cases for modern and secure Web3 applications.
Quantum-Proof Blockchain
A practical guide to building cryptographically secure blockchain applications that withstand quantum computing.
Building Effective Agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio
Using Microsoft Copilot Studio for testing and evaluation, analytics-driven improvement, security, governance, responsible use of AI, application lifecycle management, deployment pipelines, licensing, cost optimization, and operating agents at scale.
AI for Good
Responsible use cases of artificial intelligence applied to good humanitarian purposes.
Blockchain for Good
Responsible use cases of blockchain technologies applied to good humanitarian purposes.
Azure Confidential Computing
Protects data while it is actively being processed in the cloud by using hardware-based, attested Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs).
Building Secure AI Applications
Hands-on confidential computing, threat defense, and trust engineering for AI engineers and architects.
Build Enterprise AI Solutions with Microsoft Foundry
The architecture book for engineers who have already built an agent in Microsoft Foundry, and now have to make it survive a security review, an audit, and a cost centre.
Engineering Management in the Age of AI
What engineering management becomes when half your team isn't human.
Leadership
Guidance for leading technical teams through change, complexity, and growth.
Meteors
A novel. The story of a man who spent his life chasing what was rare and fleeting, and learned, too late, to see what had been constant all along.
Meteore
Un romanzo. La storia di un uomo che passa la vita a inseguire ciò che è raro e fugace, e impara, troppo tardi, a vedere ciò che era sempre stato costante.
The Yellow Sofa
Following the inward turn of Meteors, a story of a man who learns to see the constant light at his side only once it has moved on, The Yellow Sofa asks the same question from the most unlikely vantage of all: that of a forgotten object waiting to be noticed again.
Connected Scout Leadership
A comprehensive guide for Scout Leaders in Australia and around the world to develop exceptional leadership skills and create meaningful connections with youth.
Inclusive Scout Leadership
Building on the work of "Connected Scout Leadership", Inclusive Scout Leadership extends his vision of youth development that is at once grounded in evidence-based practice and faithful to the enduring spirit of Scouting.
Novels
Fiction exploring identity, travel, and the human side of a connected world.
Messengers of Peace
A powerful novel about love, resilience, and the unbreakable spirit of the Ukrainian people in the face of war.
Messaggeri di Pace
Un potente romanzo sull'amore, la resilienza e lo spirito indomabile del popolo ucraino di fronte alla guerra.
Mayong
A researcher's investigation into Mayong's mystical traditions becomes a descent into an ancient curse when a series of ritualistic disappearances mirror a prophesied cycle of supernatural vengeance tied to the village's darkest secret.
The Caretaker
In the year 2075, cryopreservation is mainstream. Hundreds of thousands of bodies rest in vast, humming facilities, legally dead, clinically preserved, commercially managed. The world believes they are dreamless. Dark. At peace. They are not. They never were.
Siquijor
England, 1887. James W. Morningstar boards a ship in the dead of night, leaving behind a name, a fortune, and a grief he cannot bear to carry into the morning. He sails until the world he knew is gone, and a storm delivers him to an island that appears on no map he has ever read: Siquijor.
The Way of the Stars
A powerful journey of transformation along the ancient Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route.
Il Cammino delle Stelle
Un potente viaggio di trasformazione lungo l'antico percorso di pellegrinaggio del Cammino di Santiago.
Star Gazing
A forbidden love across the most impossible divide of our time. An Israeli and a Palestinian, separated by walls and conflict, who dare to see each other as human beings first and discover that sometimes the most powerful act of resistance is simply to love.
Sotto le Stesse Stelle
Un amore proibito attraverso la divisione più impossibile del nostro tempo. Un israeliano e una palestinese, separati da muri e conflitti, che osano vedersi prima di tutto come esseri umani e scoprono che a volte l'atto di resistenza più potente è semplicemente amare.
A Bridge Between Worlds
From the author of Messengers of Peace and Star Gazing comes a powerful story about the courage to honor the past while embracing the future, and about the revolutionary idea that a true partnership means sharing not only stories, but power itself.
Un Ponte tra due Mondi
Dall’autore di Messaggeri di Pace e Sotto le stesse Stelle arriva una storia potente sul coraggio di onorare il passato abbracciando il futuro, e sull’idea rivoluzionaria che una vera partnership significa condividere non solo le storie, ma il potere stesso.
Scouting
Curious stories written for young scouts and the adults who read with them, exploring adventure and leadership.
The Country Keepers
A trilogy rooted in Australian Aboriginal dreaming traditions, where the bush is not merely a setting but a teacher, one that asks more of us than we expect and gives back more than we know.