HUAWEI CONNECT 2022: Industrial Digital Transformation driven by Innovative Infrastructure

HUAWEI CONNECT Dubai was held in the United Arab Emirates, with more than 3,000 industry stakeholders coming together to discuss the theme of “Innovative Infrastructure to Unleash Digital”.

To explore new avenues for industrial digital transformation, representatives from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Egypt, Nigeria’s Galaxy Backbone Limited, Huawei and other organisations highlighted their most recent digitalization practices.

Steven Yi, President of Huawei Middle East & Africa Area, gave the opening remark that expressed gratitude to customers and partners for their ongoing trust and reaffirmed Huawei’s commitment to contributing to local development.

He talked about three important initiatives of Huawei and its customers and partners to unleash digital productivity. Together, they aim to strengthen local digital ecosystems and lay a strong digital foundation for everyone to support the development of digital nations.

Ken Hu, Huawei’s Rotating Chairman, delivered a keynote outlining three ways the ICT ecosystem can help break through common barriers in digital transformation:

• Boost digital infrastructure, including more robust connectivity and stronger, more diverse computing resources.
• Help organizations go beyond simple cloud adoption and truly make the most of the cloud, focusing on advanced technology services that drive leapfrog development.
• Build out local digital ecosystems including partner development, strengthening the digital talent pool, and providing more support for SMEs.

Innovative, scenario-based technologies enhance digital infrastructure to unleash digital productivity

Bob Chen, Vice President of Huawei Enterprise BG, discussed how multi-tech synergy is critical for finding the right technology for the right scenario. He explained in his keynote speech “Innovative Digital Infrastructure Accelerates Digital Transformation” that “Data is at the core of digital transformation, and data ingestion, transmission, storage, and analysis are key steps. Huawei provides full-stack products and product portfolios to support end-to-end data processing, accelerating customers’ digital transformation.”

When it comes to data connectivity, Huawei unveiled NetEngine AR5710, a hyper-converged gateway which is ideal for small and midsize branches and NetEngine 8000 F8, an ultra-compact universal-service aggregation router. These new products are supporting in laying a solid data foundation.

The company has been exploring how to apply the fifth-generation fixed network evolution across various industries. A digital pipeline corridor inspection solution was launched by Huawei and a Dubai customer, which is based on optical fibre sensing technology, allowing for automatic pipeline corridor inspection.

A data protection solution that offers enterprise customers secure and dependable data security from beginning to end was jointly introduced by Huawei and Commvault, a provider of data management software. This makes it possible for businesses to maximise the value of data by building a dependable and effective storage base.

Joy Huang, President of Huawei Cloud Strategy & Industry Development, pointed out that Huawei’s approach to digital transformation has three pillars: greener infrastructure, ongoing innovation, and shared experience. Huawei Cloud aims to be the best digitalization partner for customers and is working with partners and customers to unleash digital with Everything as a Service.

Innovative infrastructure is being deployed in industries to drive industrial digitalization

Customers from various industries in the Middle East and Africa also shared their best practices with Huawei in digital transformation.

Dr Hesham Farouk Ali, Egypt’s Assistant Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, said that ICT would make education more people-centric and accelerate the transformation of both teaching and learning methods. The company’s expertise in education and research networks, cloud, and AI is giving key support and laying the groundwork for the digitalization of higher education in Egypt.

Galaxy and Huawei have been collaborating on innovations, according to Baffajo Beita, CIO of Galaxy Backbone Limited, to help Nigeria create a unified e-government cloud network, expediting the government’s digitization, and fostering the nation’s digital economy.

Huawei Empower Program: building a thriving digital ecosystem for global partners

Huawei launched the Huawei Empower Program, which aims to help develop a thriving digital ecosystem for global partners. With the help of this programme, Huawei will work with its partners to innovate jointly through OpenLabs, give partners access to a new framework, a new strategy, and an integrated platform, and develop a talent pool through the Huawei ICT Academy and Huawei Authorized Learning Partner (HALP) programmes. To support its international partners, Huawei also disclosed a $300 million commitment over the following three years to this programme.