The activities of the second edition of the Huawei Cloud Summit Middle East and Africa 2023 focused on building bridges of cooperation in the field of ways to make the most of cloud software to enhance business, raise its level of efficiency, growth prospects, quality of services, and contributions to the development of the digital economy in the region.
The company also launched the “Huawei Cloud Startup Program 2023” for the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa, based on Huawei Cloud’s keenness to develop local talents and support startups with high potential.
The company said that through its three main initiatives of innovative cloud platform, entrepreneurship enablement and business resources, Huawei Cloud will support startups in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. The company announced its commitment to building a global business ecosystem to enable 1,000 local startups to continue innovating and growing over the next three years, relying on its software.
Over the past few years, the Middle East has been a major destination for many Chinese companies. The “Go Cloud, Go Global” program launched by Huawei Cloud will help Chinese companies expand in the Middle East. During the summit, Huawei Cloud invited more than 50 decision-makers in more than 40 Chinese companies with the aim of enhancing business exchange opportunities with local entities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. There is no doubt that these visits represent ideal channels that allow Chinese companies to understand the supportive policies for business, the local business environment, and opportunities for development and growth.
The opening speech of the summit was delivered by Jacqueline Shi, Head of Global Marketing and Sales Services at Huawei Cloud, in which she reviewed the latest developments in the field of cloud computing services and solutions at the global level. She said: “In 2020, we launched Huawei Cloud in the Middle East, and this year we are preparing to launch our presence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and many countries in the region. We are determined to continue developing our cloud computing capabilities to support digital transformation efforts and provide our digital technologies and expertise with the support of cloud services that It has proven its worth in terms of enabling the digitization of businesses for their development and raising the efficiency and quality of services.”
Huawei Cloud strives to provide solid foundations for an intelligent world based on the “Everything as a Service” model. It will continue to expand its global cloud infrastructure and provide customers, partners and developers with advanced and sustainable cloud services. From this standpoint, the speech of Frank Dai, President of Huawei Cloud in the Middle East and Central Asia, focused on digital transformation trends in the Middle East, and the role assigned to Huawei Cloud to reach digital success by providing technical innovations and expertise and supporting the system for achieving digital transformation. He said: “The cloud is the key to digital transformation, so we have to facilitate the transition of organizations to the cloud and provide them with capabilities that allow them to use and manage the cloud in the best possible way, so that they can overcome data security challenges, improve investment returns, adopt new technologies, and the like.”
