At the Middle East Huawei Cloud Summit held online on Monday, Huawei executives shed light on the company’s cloud strategy, the value of data released in the digital economy, and its role in contributing to the region’s ongoing digitisation efforts. The virtual summit was attended by customers, partners, industry experts, and thought leaders from across Qatar.
The event opened with a keynote speech titled, “Harnessing the Power of Cloud & AI, Powering the Intelligent Engine of Qatar” by Zoe Gao, managing director of Cloud & AI Business Group of Huawei Gulf North. She spoke about the unprecedented opportunities the digital world brings to Qatar. As the only end-to-end ICT industry leader, Huawei will use the integrated digital infrastructure of cloud, AI, and 5G to build an intelligent foundation for the nation.

 
 

During the summit, Hank Shao, director of Cloud Business Department of Huawei Gulf North, said that cloud is the key ICT infrastructure for intelligent transformation of governments and enterprises. Huawei Cloud will provide innovative services that will meet the needs of governments and enterprises in Qatar. He emphasised that data is the most important information asset in the intelligent era. The rapidly growing data needs to be processed with more powerful and diversified computing power to implement intelligent service upgrades.
Based on Huawei's 30 years of experience and capabilities in the ICT field, Huawei cloud leverages full-stack innovation capabilities that combine software and hardware and cloud-connectivity collaboration to meet data storage and computing process requirements in various service scenarios. Huawei Cloud can also conduct joint exploration and AI practices with customers and partners in multiple industries, such as manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare, helping customers implement intelligent upgrades of services and management.
Huawei Cloud collaborates with more than 23,000 partners around the world. At the summit, Huawei also released the oasis plan for building an ecosystem for smart government and enterprise transformation in Qatar during the next three years. Huawei Cloud will cultivate more than 100 consulting partners and 50 technology partners. Additionally, Huawei Cloud will collaborate with more than 10 universities and help more than 500 technical experts to complete Huawei Certification.