Honored at Google Cloud Next 2026 for AI-cloud impact and customer success
LG CNS CEO Hyun Shin-gyun (third from left) and Vice President Kim Tae-hoon, Head of the AI Cloud Business Division (fourth from left), are seen taking a commemorative photo at the ‘Google Cloud Partner Awards 2026’ site with Ruth Sun, President of Google Cloud Korea (first from left), and Karan Bajwa, Head of Google Cloud in Asia-Pacific.
LG CNS announced on April 23 that it has been selected for the Korea category of the ‘Google Cloud Partner of the Year 2026’ at the ‘Google Cloud Partner Awards’.
The awards ceremony was held at ‘Google Cloud Next 2026’, Google Cloud’s signature annual event.
The Google Cloud Partner of the Year is an award given to companies that collaborate with Google Cloud to provide new business value to customers and achieve outstanding business performance. LG CNS was recognized for its AI•Cloud technology and business capabilities, customer success creation, and contribution to growth, being selected as the sole representative partner for Korea.
LG CNS has now achieved its third award, following the Service•Sales Partner double win in 2023 and the Service Partner award in 2024, with the Partner of the Year award in 2026. Each year, Google Cloud selects award-winning companies in various categories, including Partner of the Year by country, AI, Data Analytics, Infrastructure Modernization, and Security.
LG CNS has achieved distinguished results by building hundreds of AI services in various industries such as manufacturing, finance, retail, telecommunications, and public sectors, utilizing Google’s generative AI model ‘Gemini’ and its enterprise AI platform ‘Vertex AI’. In particular, LG CNS is jointly developing Gemini-based enterprise AI business models with Google Cloud, supporting company-wide AX innovation for clients in the Asia-Pacific and Americas regions.
In the healthcare•bio sector, it is conducting AI-based research and development projects such as AI agents, genomic data analysis, and new drug development services based on protein structure prediction.
Furthermore, it is supporting the adoption of various AI solutions, including ‘Gemini Enterprise’ and ‘Google Workspace’, to enhance customer work productivity.
The collaboration between the two companies began in September 2022 when LG CNS signed a ‘DTP (Digital Transformation Partnership)’ agreement at the Google Cloud headquarters in the U.S., becoming the first Korean company to do so. Subsequently, at the ‘Google Cloud Next 2023’ conference in August 2023, the top management of both companies met to strengthen cooperation in the AI field. At ‘Google Cloud Next 2025’, they agreed to jointly expand their AX business in the Asia-Pacific and Americas regions. LG CNS has maintained its ‘Premiere Partner’ status, which is granted to Google Cloud’s highest-tier partners, since 2020.
Kim Tae-hoon, Vice President and Head of the AI Cloud Business Division at LG CNS, emphasized, “We will continue to move forward as a partner leading AX for customers in the Asia-Pacific and Americas regions together with Google Cloud.”
Kim Eun-jin
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