-- Huawei Proposes a Value-Driven Model for Industrial Digitalization in the 
Post-pandemic Era

Today, Huawei holds its online Industrial Digital Transformation Conference, 
themed "New Value Together". Nearly 50 customers and partners from more than 10 
countries and regions shared their industrial practices and jointly explored 
the new value of digital transformation in the post-pandemic era. 

In his speech, Mr. Ken Hu, Huawei's Rotating Chairman, pointed out that digital 
transformation is speeding up across industries, and full cloud adoption will 
happen 1 to 3 years earlier than expected. Going digital is no longer just for 
internet companies. It's expanding to traditional industries, and from the 
office to the production floor. We'll keep innovating in technology and 
scenario-based solutions to help all industries take advantage of this 
opportunity.

So far, Huawei has built 13 Open Labs around the world to support joint 
innovation. In places like Munich and Dubai, the company is working with almost 
900 ecosystem partners to incubate different solutions for industrial 
scenarios. To date, it has successfully verified more than 60 solutions in 
areas ranging from smart retail to smart manufacturing. On the technology side, 
Huawei is innovating in areas like smart campuses, deterministic networks, 
hyper-integrated data centers, smart clouds, and green energy to lay the 
foundation for an intelligent future.

A Value-Driven Model for Industrial Digitalization: Create New Value Through 
Continuous Improvement Based on Business and Scenarios

Ideas and models must be tested in real situations. After years of practice, 
Huawei has proposed a value-driven model for industrial digitalization. Huawei 
maintains that digital transformation should be focused on actual business use 
and scenarios, which can then be used to create value for customers through 
continuous improvement. 

In his keynote speech, Mr. Peng Zhongyang, Board Member, President of 
Enterprise BG, Huawei, stressed that three basic principles must be followed 
during digital transformation. First, companies must continue to be 
customer-centric, which is the starting point of digital transformation. 
Secondly, they must seize two key factors: the convergence of technologies and 
scenarios is the key to digitalization, while cloud is critical to continuous 
optimization and value creation in the digital era. Thirdly, businesses should 
focus on customer requirements to build a symbiotic and shared digital 
ecosystem from three dimensions: scenario exploration, capacity building, and a 
cooperation model to jointly create new value for industries.

New challenges and uncertainty will emerge in the post-pandemic era. Huawei 
will be more open and continue to work with our 30,000 global partners to 
complement each other's strengths and help overcome new challenges. 

Cooperating with Customers to Create New Value in the Industry 

Huawei is committed to working with customers and partners to integrate core 
business scenarios with ICT technologies, and accelerate industrial 
digitalization and upgrade through scenario-specific, innovative solutions. 
This is also the key to the digitalization of the industry. 

In the finance sector, through joint innovation with partners, Huawei has 
provided NCBA Bank Kenya, the largest commercial bank in the East African sub 
region, with a new digital core system. The system provides inclusive financial 
services for more than 18 million users in Kenya and neighboring countries, 
empowering the real economy and promoting sustainable social development. Eric 
Muriuki Njagi, Director of NCBA Digital Services, said: "Our cooperation with 
Huawei aims to solve current problems as well as grasp new opportunities 
brought by future services."

In the transportation sector, Dr. Georgia Ayfantopoulou, Research Director 
Intelligent Infrastructure, Networks, Mobility & Logistics; Deputy Director 
Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) of Center for Research & Technology 
Hellas (CERTH), took Europe as an example and shared the situation of digital 
transformation of port construction. European Union (EU) ports offer services 
to a global maritime fleet (Greece, for example is ranked first with a share of 
17% of the world fleet in 2020). Seaports and the shipping industry are an 
important nexus of the EU economy, but are facing challenges such as structural 
performance gaps, lack of high-quality infrastructure at ports and other 
low-performing services. To address this, the EU has formulated a strategic 
agenda for the European ports, focusing on maritime infrastructure as part of 
raising EU's global competitiveness.

In this context, the Green Port Proposal has been developed in collaboration 
between CERTH and Huawei. Dr. Georgia Ayfantopoulou said: "The Green Port 
project is deeply involved in the transformation process of the ports' 
ecosystems: the users of the ports together with the port's authorities, the 
cities try to solve problems of accessibility, efficiency, operation 
optimization and environmental impact. Ports of the future are sustainable, 
smart, multimodal and interconnected. Technology solutions from partners like 
Huawei will contribute to efficiently meeting various challenges." 

In the education sector, Soochow University partnered with Huawei to jointly 
build a "Cloud-based Soochow University" that is digital and intelligent. With 
this project, all people, environments, objects, as well as academic and 
cultural activities in the campus are digitalized and mirrored on the cloud, 
allowing for digital integrations in teaching, scientific research, and 
management.

Xiong Sidong, President of the Soochow Iniversity, remarked in his keynote 
speech: "Soochow University and Huawei have applied cutting-edge technologies 
such as AI, big data, cloud computing, and IoT in the planning and construction 
of a cloud-based campus for information exchange and data sharing. Our aim is 
to shape a new form of university that is built with future technology and 
integrates reality and virtual interactions."

In the energy industry, Gao Kunlun, CIGRE Study Committee D2 Regular Member, 
and Vice President of the Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute, 
pointed out that in recent years, AI is gradually being applied in many fields, 
such as equipment maintenance, power grid operation, and customer service. 
Whilst this effectively improves the efficiency and benefits of the power grid 
it also reveals technical limitations. With the development of AI theories and 
technologies, AI-powered electric power systems are now capable of knowledge 
learning and independent decision-making optimization in complex environments, 
playing a crucial part in key services such as autonomous power generation and 
autonomous scheduling of power grids.

From March 24 to 26, Huawei hosts the Industrial Digital Transformation 
Conference 2021 online. For more information, please visit us at 
https://e.huawei.com/en/events/industry-digital-transformation/2021 

SOURCE: Huawei

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