Dubai:On ‘Unleash Digital with Everything as Service’, second Huawei Cloud Summit Middle East and Africa kicked off in Dubai. Event brought together over 300 government officers, cloud native industry experts, and customer representatives from Middle East, Central Asia and Africa, with aim of exploring how to make best out of cloud and vital role of cloud in boosting digital economy.

At event, Zhang Yiming, Chinese Ambassador to UAE, gave keynote speech on significance of cloud computing on digital economy. “China is poised to partner with UAE and countries in Middle East and Africa in their digital cloud journey. Together, we will invigorate industry with innovation, expand pilot projects with partnerships and promote technical advances with young minds. Together, we will achieve technology and industry development centered on cloud computing and pave way for digital transformation and digital enablement,” said Zhang.

Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, delivered an opening speech. She shared latest progress of Huawei Cloud in Middle East and stated Huawei Cloud’s stance on paving way to bigger success for local customers and partners as well as companies that want to run businesses there. “In 2020, Huawei Cloud established its business departments in Middle East. This year, we are launching Saudi Arabia Region. We keep developing. We keep going digital. And we want to share our latest technologies and proven digitalisation experience to you. We are always ready to serve you best.” said Ms. Shi.

Also at this Summit, Frank Dai President of Huawei Cloud Middle East and Central Asia shared digital transformation trends in Middle East and how Huawei Cloud can pave way to digital success by providing technical innovations, proven expertise and ecosystem support. He said, “It has become consensus that cloud is best way to accelerate digitalisation. Our responsibility is to help enterprises go cloud, use cloud and manage cloud better, so we can better deal with challenges such as data security, ROI optimisation and new technology application.”

Huawei Cloud launched Huawei Cloud Startup Program 2023 for Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. Joining launch ceremony were representatives from UAE Ministry of Economy, Dinarak (a licensed payment services provider from Jordan), Ignite (a VC firm from Pakistan) and Eyon TV (startup representative from Kuwait). Through three key initiatives innovative cloud platform, entrepreneurship enablement and business resources Huawei Cloud will provide lifecycle support for startups in Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. –Agencies

Published in The Daily National Courier, March, 24 2023

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