Brian Naughton

Brian Naughton is a Senior Principal Architect and Director at Google Cloud, where he leads Customer Engineering for the EMEA Telco sector. He partners with Google Cloud's strategic telco customers to help drive their evolution to an AI-native telco. Drawing on Google’s internal experience in applying AI to global networks, Brian helps operators accelerate their journey toward Autonomous Networks. Before joining Google Cloud, he served as the CTO of Network Automation at IBM and has held several senior technology leadership roles throughout his career in the telecom industry.