Huawei Hosts ICT Industry Leaders at Kuwait Huawei Day

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Huawei Hosts ICT Industry Leaders at Kuwait Huawei Day

Huawei Technologies Kuwait, a leading global Information and Communication Technology solutions provider, held Kuwait Huawei Day, a high level forum under the theme Leading New ICT: The Road to Digital Transformation aiming to elevate recognition of the role of ICT in driving digital transformation throughout a variety of key sectors and display Huawei's latest options.

Huawei dedicated the day to showcasing the role of innovation, expedition, and visibility in developing advanced knowledge-based economic situations, in line with Kuwait's national growth schedule. Industry companions and business professionals signed up with forces to go over Kuwait's digitization method, trends and the future of the ICT industry, innovative services for Smart and Safe Cities, Agile Network, Cloud Datacenter, the future of IoT, and ideal techniques for digital transformation in the federal government and Oil & Gas market.

Commenting on Kuwait Huawei Day, Trevor Liu, Huawei Kuwait Chief Executive Officer said: "Digital transformation is a government concern and we continue to be committed to working with government authorities to drive this forward, in collaboration with our partners. Digitization will bring amazing chances, along with new challenges, to all sectors and will develop new incentive for sustainable development and enhanced performance. Public safety and security, banking, Oil & Gas, education, government and others are all starting to feel the complete impacts of exactly what it implies to be far better linked and smart, so we need to continue to harness the power of arising modern technologies. Platforms such as these are critical to unfold locations of potential partnerships to attain common successes.".

The event additionally worked as a platform to announce the champions of Huawei's sought after ICT Skill Competitors, a global nation-wide championship launched for the first time in Kuwait this year, in tactical partnership with KDIPA. Focused on raising the digital fluency of the young technological leaders of tomorrow, the ICT competition allows Kuwait's finest ICT skill to learn about the most up to date technology innovations and complete around the world. Zainab Al Baqsami of Kuwait University, Saad Al Sheetan and Khaled Al Metairi of American University of Middle East are the Kuwait's finalists who will certainly currently compete in the global champion that happens at Huawei's Head office in Shenzhen, China between 23 to 27 December 2017.

Winners of the Kuwait Finals will certainly also be given traineeship or employment possibility with Huawei, as part of its Enterprise Business Group, where they will certainly be exposed to a mix of innovative technologies, including cloud computer, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Big Data, and Internet of Points (IoT) and engage with ICT professionals from different sectors such as government, oil & gas and banking. All competition victors will be compensated with Huawei's latest laptops and smartphones.

Kuwait Huawei Day, that happened at Four Seasons Hotel in Kuwait City, combined senior government officials, industry leaders, business professionals, foreign very important people and media agents, consisting of: Mr. Mohammed Yacoub, Assistant Director General for Business Development, KDIPA; Qusai Al Shatti, Acting Director, Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT); Abdulkarim Taqi, Acting General Manager, Public Authority for Industry; Abdulaziz Alduaij Manager - Information Technology, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), Alaa Ali Ali Elshimy, Managing Director and Vice President, Huawei Enterprise Business, Middle East Region; Sanjay Kumar Sainani, Vice President, Data Center Solution, Huawei Middle East Region; Hazem Mahmoud Mostafa Bazan, VP Channels & Commercial Sales, Enterprise Business, Huawei Middle East Region; and Trevor Liu, CEO Huawei Kuwait.

The event is an initial of a collection as Huawei stays fully commited to encouraging further discussion with industry companions and federal government stakeholders regarding the critical role of ICT in safeguarding financial development with development of critical sectors with the ultimate goal of to improving cultures and attaining Kuwait's vision of ending up being a Smart City.