This year's event, themed "Dive into
Digital" explores how digital technology can better integrate with
business scenarios and industry know-how to address critical business
challenges, and how stakeholders can work together more effectively to foster
an open industry ecosystem and drive shared success. The event is scheduled to have
four keynotes, five summits, and 66 sessions, featuring more than 200 speakers,
including industry visionaries, business leaders, top tech experts, and
ecosystem partners. It will be live streamed in 11 languages on Huawei's
corporate website and by its media partners. The event will also feature online
exhibitions, remote visits to exhibition halls, and open panel discussions,
enabling online interaction and one-stop experiences.
In his keynote, Xu spoke about how helping industries go digital is a critical aspect of Huawei's mission to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.
Xu said, "Digital development relies on
digital technology. For digital technology to stay relevant, we must continue
to innovate and create value. Cloud, AI, and networks are three critical
digital technologies." Xu then shared some of the progress Huawei has made
in these three areas, what Huawei is doing to enable low-carbon development,
and where the industry as a whole is heading.
Xu explained that HUAWEI CLOUD, the company's
cloud service that was launched just four years ago, has already brought
together more than 2.3 million developers, 14,000 consulting partners, and 6,000
technology partners, and also made more than 4,500 services available in the
HUAWEI CLOUD Marketplace. It has become an important platform for Internet
companies, enterprises, and governments alike to take their organizations
digital.
At the event, Xu launched the industry's first
distributed, cloud-native service called UCS – a ubiquitous cloud-native
service available on HUAWEI CLOUD. With UCS, Huawei plans to provide
enterprises with a consistent experience while using cloud-native applications
that are not constrained by geographical, cross-cloud, or traffic limitations,
thereby accelerating digital transformation in all industries.
Huawei's full-stack, all-scenario AI portfolio
released back in 2018 is also progressing as expected. Its MindSpore framework has
become the mainstream AI computing framework in China. Meanwhile, the Atlas 900
cluster, as well as the cloud services based on it, currently serve more than
300 enterprises, supporting the training of many models which include the
HUAWEI CLOUD Pangu large models. HUAWEI CLOUD ModelArts has made AI application
development incredibly simple with its full-pipeline, scenario-based services.
The end goal of ModelArts is to enable each and every engineer to independently
develop their own AI applications.
Xu also introduced Huawei's innovations in the
network domain. As organizations go digital, they tend to see exponential
growth in network complexity. To tackle this, Huawei has been innovating
solutions for global networks based on the concept of autonomous driving
network (ADN). The company has been working with customers in the finance,
education, and healthcare sectors to innovate and deploy new applications, and
build networks that are self-fulfilling, self-healing, self-optimizing, and
autonomous.
Xu went on to explain how Huawei is using
digital technology to support low-carbon development, as part of global efforts
to achieve peak CO2 emissions and carbon neutrality. Specifically,
Huawei focuses on three key initiatives:
(1) Investing and innovating in energy-saving
technologies to deliver more energy-efficient ICT products for a low-carbon ICT
industry;
(2) Investing in innovations where power
electronics and digital technologies converge to promote clean energy and the
digitalization of traditional energy; and
(3) Providing digital technology to help all
sectors go digital and low-carbon.
Zhang Ping'an, CEO of Cloud BU and President
of Huawei Consumer Cloud Service, elaborated on HUAWEI CLOUD's strategic
initiatives and launched new services and products at the event. "The key
to successful digital transformation is to think cloud native and act cloud
native," said Zhang. "HUAWEI CLOUD joins our customers and partners
to dive into digital and explore the potential of Everything as a Service –
Infrastructure as a Service for global accessibility, Technology as a Service
for flexible innovation, and Expertise as a Service for shared
excellence." Zhang announced two new Regions in Mexico and China's
Ulanqab, and launched 10 new HUAWEI CLOUD services. The announcement included
MacroVerse – HUAWEI CLOUD aPaaS, OptVerse AI Solver, HUAWEI CLOUD Stack 8.1, SparkRTC
– a real-time audio and video service, and Pangu, a large model for drug
molecules.
Customers and partners in attendance included
Christophe Ozer, Head of Orange Cloud (Orange Flexible Engine) APAC; Wu Qiang,
Vice President of Tianjin Port Holdings; Chen Haining, General Manager of IT
Dept from Shanghai Pudong Development Bank; and Jiang Chuanrong, Chairman of
Shanghai Mirror Pictures. They described their experience of joint innovation
with Huawei in their digital transformation. Wu Qiang said, "Tianjin Port
is one of the world's top 10 ports, with an annual throughput of nearly 20
million containers. The HUAWEI CLOUD OptVerse AI Solver helps us improve our planning
speed by more than 100 times based on tens of millions of variables and
constraints, maximize resource scheduling, and supercharge operation
efficiency."
Xu concluded his speech with, "Nonstop
innovation has been the driving force behind digitalization thus far. Moving
forward, if we hope to reach more ambitious goals for digitalization, nonstop
innovation will continue to be key. So let's innovate nonstop for a better
future."
Huawei hosts HUAWEI CONNECT 2021 online from
September 23 to October 31. The theme of this year's event is Dive into
Digital. We're going to dive deep into the practical application of
technologies like cloud, AI, and 5G in all industries, and how they can make
organizations of all shapes and sizes more efficient, more versatile, and
ultimately more resilient as we move towards economic recovery.
For more information, please contact our local
team or check out https://www.huawei.com/en/events/huaweiconnect
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