NORFest 2025 speaker: Lautaro Matas

Coloured headshot of Lautaro Matas, NORFest 2025 event speaker.

We are pleased to welcome Lautaro Matas to the National Open Research Festival (NORFest) 2025, at which he will participate in the Global Open Research discussion on Thursday, 6 November 2025 at 11:00.

Lautaro is Executive and Technical Director at LA Referencia and Project Leader/Developer of the LA Reference Software Platform. He studied Computer Science at the University of Buenos Aires. Since 2002, Lautaro is member of the Center for Studies on Science, Development and Higher Education (Centro REDES). He was part of the technical team of the Ibero-American Network of Science and Technology Indicators (RICYT). Between 2005 and 2011, He worked at the Argentine Center for Scientific and Technological Information (CAICYT-CONICET), oversaw the implementation and coordination of the SciELO Argentina project and later the development of software for the area of patents and strategic intelligence.

Between 2009 and 2019 Lautaro was part of the technical team of the Ibero-American Observatory of Science, Technology and Society (CAEU/OEI), acting as Coordinator/Developer portal Intelligo, an open explorer of open access repositories and collections of invention patents based on natural language processing and machine learning techniques.