Huawei awarded the winners of the Saudi chapter of its ICT Competition 2018 an exclusive fully paid trip to the company’s international headquarters in Shenzhen this month where they will compete with international finalists and receive knowledge training from top executives at Huawei’s headquarters in Shenzhen. They will gain unrivaled exposure to Huawei’s expertise in telecommunications, enterprise, and consumer business, not to mention a priceless cultural experience and knowledge exchange.
The announcement was made at an event in Riyadh attended by the Deputy Minister of MCIT Dr. Ahmed Althenayan, Chinese ambassador to Saudi Arabia Li Huaxin and Huawei KSA CEO Dennis Zhang.
Althenayan said: “We are delighted that 6 Saudi students reached the final in this prestigious national skills competition, it shows the quality of our technology students, this also highlights Saudi Arabia’s huge segment of talented young people and we are proud to announce our solidarity to empower these young people and give them the opportunity to sharpen their skills and help them become the leaders of tomorrow in the field of information and communication technology wit the help of Huawei, being the leading global technology player.”
Huawei KSA HR Director Faisal AlOtaibi said: “Knowledge transfer and nurturing future ICT talent has always been a core pillar of the Huawei way, and we are thrilled to run the ICT Skill Competition in Saudi Arabia in collaboration with MCIT for that exact reason. The future of ICT progress lays in the hands of our students, and by developing platforms and programs that allow them to grow and mature into experts, we can better equip the next generation of technology leaders to go ahead with achieving Saudi Arabia national transformation program and Vision 2030 targets.”
The trip to China will conclude the 2018 ICT Competition, which so far has gone through two rounds of rigorous examination at the local and national level. In total, 14,748 students across the Middle East applied for the competition, from which 4,915 were selected to take part in the preliminary rounds. 214 students passed on to the final round, and 39 in total from 13 teams will be traveling to China to compete internationally.