Government, enterprise, and technology pioneers discuss gearing up for 5G expansion, the burgeoning ecosystem for AI innovation, and support for local developers

Dubai, UAE - October 8, 2019: During
its fourth annual Middle East Innovation Day, Huawei, a leading global provider
of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart
devices, explored how new partnerships in the areas of Artificial Intelligence
(AI) and 5G are now scaling digital services to more people, homes, and
organizations than ever before.

The event was held on the second day of GITEX
Technology Week at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

Huawei
Innovation Day incorporated three bespoke sessions: a 5G Ecosystem Conference
under the title “5G, Gear Up”; an AI Conference under the theme “Advance
Intelligence”, and a “Huawei Developer Day Dubai 2019” session, which focused
on building a better ecosystem for Huawei partners and developers. 

Huawei
Innovation Day was attended by Jawad Abbasi, Head of MENA, GSMA, and Huawei’s
distinguish customers from more than 20 telecom operators in middle east, and
industry partners among other industry leaders, the total attendance exceeded
300.  

Involving
regulators, telecom operators, industry partners, analysts, and other ecosystem
players, the conference reviewed global 5G case studies and explored how 5G is
bringing infinite possibilities not only to individuals but to vertical industries
across the Middle East. To date, Huawei has secured more than 50 commercial 5G
contracts while shipping more than 200,000 base stations worldwide.

Anjian, President of Carrier Networks
Business Group, Huawei Middle East, noted: “Since 2009, Huawei has invested
4 billion USD in 5G research. We are not only providing the best 5G network,
but also willing to explore 5G business success with our customers and
partners. To reach customer-oriented business success, we are committed to
increasing investment in three major areas: 1. Continuous investment in 5G
technology capability, which adapts to customers' business requirements, and
brings infinite possibilities not only for person but also for industries. 2.
In terms of business development and 5G use case exploration, we will
persistent invest human and financial resources in business development to
provide more 5G use case solutions going to market with our customers; 3. Further
developing the 5G ecosystem platform, today we will announce Huawei middle east
OpenLab establishment, to work with our customers and partners to ensure the
delivery of the best possible solutions that contribute to business growth and
success for them. We will keep expanding and enhancing our collaborative
partnership in the Middle East to cultivate a strong and inclusive 5G ecosystem
in its journey to building a fully connected intelligent Middle East.”

During
the AI Conference, “Advance Intelligence”,
a deep-dive session
explored how local enterprises and governments are embracing AI as a key
enabling technology for advanced intelligence. That transformation will be
facilitated by Huawei’s next-generation intelligent product strategy and new
+AI products for the enterprise market. By adding AI capabilities to the
next-generation of ICT products, from Wi-Fi 6 to All-Flash Storage, Huawei will
help customers address a new round of digital transformation challenges to
achieve business success.

At the event,
Huawei announced the launch of three new products within its enterprise
portfolio: next-generation, all-flash
storage product OceanStor Dorado; AI-native database GaussDB, and the
highest-performance distributed storage yet, FusionStorage 8.0.

Alaa
ElShimy, Managing Director and Vice President, Huawei Enterprise Business Group, added: “The increasing scale of
intelligent technologies are bringing disruptive changes to enterprises across
the Middle East. With the rapid development of cutting-edge technologies such
as AI, a diverse range of applications and massive amounts of data are being
generated, which pose demanding requirements on real-time data processing. Data
infrastructures must be upgraded to fulfill these demands. We believe that AI
will promote innovation across the region and will change the way entire
industries are run.”

At
the HUAWEI Developers Day section, HUAWEI introduced the Huawei Mobile Services
(HMS) Ecosystem based on the core framework of HUAWEI Mobile Services (HMS Core
and Capabilities) and Developer Services. To date, HMS Core has opened up 14
capabilities to help developers build high-quality applications at low cost and
quickly, and continuously improve the app user volume and activity.

Shining-Star
Program had been announced, investing 1 billion USD to support global developer
to keep contributing in HMS ecosystem construction. Also, the first DigiX
Innovation Studio will further expand throughout the globe, with eight DigiX
Labs in 6 main regions including Dubai, providing great supports to global
developer’s innovation, including device testing, experience of capability
development and tool etc.

“We
sincerely invite all local partners to join our ecosystem construction, that’s
why we had invested 1 billion USD in Shining-Star Program and building the
first DigiX innovation labs in Dubai to fully support them.” Said Adam
Ersong Xiao, Managing Director of MENA Mobile Services, HUAWEI Consumer
Business Group.

The Innovation Day comes at a time when both
the public and private sectors are making critical investments in ICT
infrastructure. Digital innovation is now at the forefront of many national
development plans in the Middle East, and is seen as a crucial ingredient to
diversifying local economies, creating future jobs, while accelerating
sustainable development.

The combination of 5G connectivity and AI
will be particularly powerful as it enables more people, things, and devices to
share advanced intelligence than ever before. According to Huawei’s recent Global Industry Vision (GIV)
report, the company predicts that nearly 60% of the world's population will
have access to 5G by the end of 2025, and 97% of large companies will have deployed AI as applications.

It
is reported that AI will contribute US$320 billion to the Middle East economy
by 2030, which indicates the large impact AI will have on the region with the
governments’ support and implementation. The countries expected to gain the
most in their GDP from AI by 2030 are the UAE with 14%, in which AI will
contribute to their GDP the most are: the UAE at 14% increase, followed by KSA
at 12.4%.[1]

Visitors
to GITEX Technology Week can continue to explore Huawei’s latest solutions and
global case studies at its exhibition stand located at Stand Z2-A10 in Za’abeel
Hall 2 under the theme “Building a Fully Connected, Intelligent World”.

Huawei’s
participation at GITEX 2019 is supported by some of its key partners including
GAPP and Redington as Diamond sponsors; Enterprise Systems and Octalpha as Gold
sponsors.