Rodrigo Brito leads globally the area dedicated to Nokia’s entire portfolio for network automation. This includes, at a first level, network assurance, monitoring alarms, and the creation of network topology; at a second, subscriber experience; and at a third, cybersecurity products for telco networks.

In a conversation with Convergencia during MWC Barcelona 2026, the executive said an unavoidable starting point is for operators to stop viewing these three fields in isolation: “data must be shared across the entire system and also across AI models,” he explained.

The vendor works with different AI models: machine learning (behaviors that predict based on patterns two or three hours in advance); LLMs (static and dynamic training based on the history of alarms and tickets); and AI agents (correlation of attempts across different agents, in what is referred to as “hierarchical agentic AI”).

“We moved from producing interfaces to agents that handle tasks,” Brito summarized.

Telcos’ ambitions behind the autonomous networks initiative range from increasing ARPU to exposing the network through APIs, optimizing operations, and improving the customer experience.