Marco Montanari

Marco Montanari (born 12 December 1984) is an Italian software developer, researcher and open data activist from Bentivoglio. He studied computer engineering at the University of Bologna and has worked as a programmer since 2009 in web development, software architecture, artificial intelligence and large language models, including for Laboratori Guglielmo Marconi, the Joint Research Centre in Ispra and Prometeia. He has been president of OpenHistoryMap since 2016 and treasurer of Wikimedia Italia since 2025, and his activism covers open data, cultural and digital heritage, and transparency. He streamed on Twitch from 2020 to 2021.