Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology solution provider, recently hosted first ever Huawei IT congress in Sri Lanka themed ‘Huawei Lanka IT Congress 2018 – Intelligent IT Inspires Digital Future’.
The event showcased Huawei’s commitment to partners and desire to contribute to the Sri Lankan ICT ecosystem and Digital Transformation, bringing together over 500 senior management personal across leading partners, and from companies from a number of sectors including IT & ICT, Banking & Finance, State sector key public organizations. The event witnessed Huawei presenting technologies, IT technology trends, in-depth insights into the industry, introduction to Huawei’s latest IT solutions and Huawei’s technological innovations in the field of ICT. The event provided an ideal opportunity and a platform for all IT and ICT industry participants in Sri Lanka to communicate and share, inspire each other and also jointly explore the success of the digital transformation. The event also saw IT and ICT heads of public and private sector organizations engage in discussion on how to achieve digital transformation through creating new opportunities that boost efficiency, and embracing platforms that are open, agile, and equipped with state-of-the-art AI capabilities.
Addressing the event, Chief Executive Officer of Huawei Technologies Lanka Shunli Wang went onto say that “Through this congress, Huawei had the opportunity to engage with all participants in the IT and ICT industry in an open and constructive dialogue about Digital transformation in Sri Lanka and how Huawei the other organizations could work together with its comprehensive IT product portfolio to get the optimal benefit of the transformation”.
He said that Huawei help organizations and industries go digital by providing them with open, flexible, and secure ICT infrastructure platforms that promote greater synergy between devices, networks, and the cloud.
Further assuring on company’s support towards Digital Transformation CEO Shunli Wang said “With strong industry initiatives, skilled workforce, and forward-thinking governance, Sri Lanka could get assistance from Huawei and company’s local partners that is already helping to turn industries to digital transformation as a driver for growth”. He further pointed out that Digitization is gaining momentum around the globe and investment in cloud computing is ramping up on a regional and national scales, whilst ICT infrastructure is now an important pillar of national economic growth.
“If Sri Lanka want to position as a competitive developed economy, it is high time that Sri Lanka focus on ICT infrastructure development in order to add more value to the country’s educated generations and future generations” he added.
Whilst the future is envisaged to be a fully-connected intelligent world, Huawei believes that digital transformation is unavoidable for enterprises to sustain in this future environment. Thus accelerated computing, limitless storage and intelligent cloud platforms are the key enablers for enterprises to achieve digital transformation.
Huawei is an active member of more than 360 standards organizations, industry alliances, and open source communities, where we work together on mainstream standards and lay the foundation for shared success. Company has also joined forces with industry partners to innovate in emerging domains like cloud computing, software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), and 5G, driving the industry forward together.
“Therefore working with Huawei it will always bring in synergies that we could further explore as business opportunities creating win-win situations for our partners and our company” Shunli Wang said,
Huawei’s end-to-end portfolio of products, solutions and services are both competitive and secure. Through open collaboration with ecosystem partners, the company create lasting value for our customers, working to empower people, enrich home life, and inspire innovation in organizations of all shapes and sizes. Huawei’s innovation focuses on customer needs and company invest heavily in basic research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward. Together with the partners, Huawei serve government and public utilities, as well as enterprise customers in sectors such as finance, energy, transportation, and manufacturing.
Huawei has been operating in Sri Lanka from 2005 and is a top ICT company in Sri Lanka. At present, Huawei had achieved to become the main ICT solution provider in Sri Lanka creating over 1,000 jobs directly and indirectly, whilst Huawei developed network is serving 70% of the population in Sri Lanka. Huawei is also the top smart phone provider in Sri Lanka, with a significant market share. We are very proud to provide our high-quality products and services to all operators and our smart phones are welcomed by Sri Lanka consumers.