Kevin McDonnell is a Research Director and AN Architect at Huawei in the Ireland Research Centre. His recent work is focused on Autonomous Driving Networks using intent-driven closed loop autonomy and adaptive learning. Kevin also leads the technical standardization work in the Autonomous Network project for the  TM Forum and participates in standardization activities related to network and service automation in ETSI, 3GPP, LFN and GSMA. Prior to joining Huawei, Kevin served as chief product architect in Oracle Communications, for orchestration, network intelligence, inventory and monetization (SaaS).