Huawei Technologies organised the first ‘Train the Trainers’ training for Huawei Certified Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Associate or HCIA on Artificial Intelligence (AI) here.
The training was managed by Huawei jointly with Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission (HEC) at the HEC Secretariat in Islamabad.
The eight-day training, conducted by Huawei AI Experts from China, was attended by trainers from 11 universities across Pakistan.
The training is a part of Pakistan Presidential Initiative for Artificial Intelligence and Computing (PIAIC). The training aims at Artificial Intelligence talent development in Pakistan.
The HCIA-AI training and certification will cultivate entrepreneurial talent for the professionals of Artificial Intelligence and help them to use the AI framework in the industry for development and innovation.
Dr. Fateh Marri, Executive Director HEC, was chief guest in the closing ceremony, which was also attended by Shahzad Rasheed, Chief Technical Officer (CTO), Huawei Enterprise Business Group Pakistan and the delegates from various universities.
Addressing the audience, Dr. Marri emphasized on the importance of Artificial Intelligence in understanding modern tools in education sector and its relevance for overall economic growth of any nation.
He also mentioned the importance of close relationship between industry and academia to achieve the objective of problem solving in all aspects of life.
Shahzad Rasheed congratulated the trainees for being selected for the prestigious training.
He elaborated usefulness of Artificial Intelligence in building bridges for solving various problems faced by the country and assured Huawei’s complete support.
This week, Prime Minister Imran Khan invited Huawei, the Chinese telecom and IT giant, to explore huge business opportunities created in Pakistan under the new E-policy.
Speaking to Chairman of the supervisory Board Huawei Li Jie - who called on him along with his delegation in Islamabad - Prime Minister Khan urged the company chairman to involve brilliant young minds of Pakistan working in technical fields.
He said that Pakistan had inexpensive labour and this competent and enterprising youth potential of the country would help the foreign countries to further grow.
He also highlighted attractive incentive package, being offered by the government to the potential relocating industries. The possibility of relocation of manufacturing units to Pakistan also came under discussion.
Chairman Li Jie informed the Prime Minister about the progress being made by the company in the network domain and said that they have successfully established a new ecosystem so as to become independent of reliance on companies enjoying the monopoly in the field.
He said the delegation was really impressed with the intellect of the Pakistani students. He said that they were running a Program of merit awards to the students of a Pakistani university.
Meanwhile, after a great success of the Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 in the Pakistani market, now the Chinese mobile giant is going to launch Huawei Y9s in Pakistan.
The details about the exact launch date are kept as a surprise but it is believed that soon the device will rock the Pakistani market.
This new smartphone is running Android Pie-based EMUI 9.1 out of the box and comes with 128GB of storage, that is expandable up to 512GB via microSD card.
The fingerprint scanner is present at the side edge of the phone. The pre-orders of the phone are starting in the last week of the November while the stock will be available in the first week of December in the Market.
Source: http://en.ce.cn/main/latest/201911/12/t20191112_33588787.shtml