Brian Turnbow is Technical Director for AI at ALPS, where he leads the technical strategy for repurposing large-scale compute infrastructure toward AI and high-performance workloads. He brings more than twenty-five years at the intersection of networks, data centers and cloud in the Italian market as CTO of TWT and Unidata , most recently, leading technology and sovereign-cloud architecture at CDLAN,. A long-standing voice in the Italian internet community, he serves on the board of ITNOG.