Huawei Connect 2022 Begins Global Tour in Bangkok

Huawei Connect 2022, Huawei’s 7^th annual flagship event for the global ICT industry has begun in Bangkok, Thailand. The event with the theme Unleash Digital is drawing over 10 thousand ICT industry leaders, experts, and partners globally. Together, they will explore how they can effectively unleash more digital productivity, promote digital economy, and build a stronger digital ecosystem.

At the inaugural event, Huawei shared the steps it is taking to enhance digital development on a range of industries. It also released over 15 innovative cloud services for the global market.   

Three initiatives to help global industries go digital

Kickstarting the event, Ken Hu, Huawei’s Rotating Chairman delivered a keynote wherein he outlined three ways ICT ecosystem can help break through common hurdles in the digital transformation.

• Enhance digital infrastructure, including stronger, more resilient growth in connectivity, and more diverse computing resources.
• Help organizations go beyond a mere cloud adoption and make the most of the cloud services, emphasizing advanced technology services that drive leapfrog development.
• Develop local digital ecosystems, including partner development, strengthening the digital talent pool, and providing more support for SMEs.

Huawei says that the GDP growth has remained unstable in the past two years. However, the digital economy has remained steady and consistent globally – more than 15% in 2021. It argues that the growing practice has compelled many companies to shirt their operations with next-generation digital technology.

“Going digital is clearly the right choice,” said Hu. “The demand is there, and so are the technologies. The world is unleashing digital productivity, and it’s happening right now.”

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New Huawei Cloud Region in Indonesia, and 15+ new services launched at Huawei Connect 2022

At the event, Zhang Ping’an, the CEO of Huawei Cloud, announced the launch of new Huawei Cloud Regions in Indonesia and Ireland. By the end of 2022, Huawei Cloud will be operating in 75 availability zones in 29 regions around the world. This will boost services for over 170 countries and regions.

Huawei Cloud and its partners also used the opportunity to launch the “Go Cloud, Go Global” ecosystem plan. The plan is to accelerate the development of global digital industry on global scale for joint innovation and shared success with Everything as a Service mantra.

With this, Huawei Cloud is dedicated to building the industry-leading platform for innovations for cloud services. Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud’s Global Marketing and Sales Service, announced the global launch of 15+ new advanced services. This includes Huawei Cloud CCE Turbo, Ubiquitous Cloud Native Service (UCS), Pangu wave model, DataArts LakeFormation, Virtual Live, CodeCheck and CloudTest, KooMessage, KooSearch, and KooGallery.

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Building out local ecosystems for shared success

Similarly, Huawei also extended its commitment to start collaboration for shared success. It called for governments and enterprises to work more closely together to cultivate local digital ecosystems that build innovation partners, strengthen the talent pool, and support startups.

Simon Lin, the President of Huawei Asia-Pacific Region, also delivered his keynote. In it, he released the Digital First Economy whitepaper that concerns the targeted policy suggestions for digital infrastructure construction and digital economy development in the Asia-Pacific region.

“The Asia-Pacific region is standing at the forefront of the global digital landscape,” said Lin. “Huawei is committed to becoming a key contributor to the digital economy in the region. We will keep supporting its digitalization and sustainable development efforts, and building out the industry ecosystem.”

At the same event, a distinguished group of government representatives from the APAC region also took the opportunity to share the progress they have made with advancing digital economy development in their respective countries. These include H.E. Supattanapong Punmeechaow, Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy; H.E. Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn, Minister of Digital Economy and Society of the Kingdom of Thailand; H.E. Airlangga Hartarto, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia; H.E. Muhammad Abdul Mannan, Planning Minister of Bangladesh; H.E. David Almirol, Undersecretary of E-Government, Department of Information and Communications Technology, Philippines; and Dr. Yang Mee Eng, Executive Director of the ASEAN Foundation.

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The three-day conference in Bangkok is the first stop on HUAWEI CONNECT’s global tour in 2022. This features two keynote sessions, six summits, as well as multiple breakout sessions and demos. This year’s event explores into the challenges the governments and enterprises face at all stages of their digital transformation journey, Huawei’s advancements in digital infrastructure, as well as the company’s latest cloud services and ecosystem partner solutions.