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closely with our partners and customers
to create new value together across
various industries and further drive the
growth of our Enterprise Business Group
and contribute to the digitalization of the
Middle East and Central Asia." As Huawei
continues to focus on bringing digital to
every person, home and organization for
a fully connected and intelligent world,
Hao is poised to spearhead the efforts
in embracing new ICT technologies to
pursue technological innovation in various
domains, fostering collaborations with
customers and partners to accelerate
industrial intelligence and transform the
digital economy into an intelligent one.
Huawei in 2005. Throughout his career, to take on the role of President of the Today, over 700 cities and 267 Fortune
he has played pivotal roles in Huawei's Enterprise Business Group in the ME&CA Global 500 companies have chosen Huawei
business development, earning recognition region. Huawei's commitment to innovation as their digital transformation partner, and
for his outstanding contributions to the and intelligent transformation aligns with Huawei’s EBG now works with more than
company's success. Speaking about his the evolving needs of businesses in this 38,000 service and operation partners
new role, Derek Hao said, "I am honored dynamic region. I look forward to working around the world.

Huawei Cloud Unveils Infrastructure of Choice for AI with 10 Innovations

This year’s Huawei Cloud Summit
demonstrates how Huawei Cloud is the
infrastructure of choice for AI applications.
With the theme of “Accelerate Intelligence
with Everything as a Service,” the 500-strong
event brought together executives and
experts from diverse industries, such as
carrier, finance, and more. Huawei Cloud
presented 10 AI-oriented innovations and
extensive industry expertise in Pangu
models. The objective is an AI-ready
infrastructure tailored to each industry
for a faster journey towards intelligence.
Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud
Global Marketing and Sales Service, said
in her speech: “Huawei Cloud is one of the
fastest growing cloud service providers in
the world. At Huawei Cloud, we’re all about
pushing boundaries and bringing cutting- forget AI – it is reshaping everything, and you with two strategies. AI for Cloud uses
edge tech to customers around the world. we’re at the forefront. We’re building a AI and foundation models to elevate your
We have launched a series of local cloud solid cloud foundation for everyone, for experience. They revolutionize software
Regions in recent years, such as in Saudi every industry, to accelerate intelligence.” development, digital content production,
Arabia, Ireland, Türkiye, and Indonesia, Today’s foundation models redefine and more. Cloud for AI makes AI adoption
giving customers easy access to the best- production, interaction, service paradigms, seamless and efficient. Architectural
performing cloud. With over 120 security and business models for traditional innovation, AI-native storage, and data-AI
certifications worldwide, you can be sure applications. They make AI a new engine convergence empower you to train and use
your business and data are safe and sound. for the growth of cloud computing. While AI like never before.” At the Summit, Huawei
But it is not just about the tech. We believe the potential is vast, implementing AI in Cloud unveiled ten AI-oriented innovations
in helping our partners grow alongside us, line with business objectives requires that make it the cloud infrastructure of
and this goal is now backed by our GoCloud systematic innovation. Huawei Cloud CTO choice for AI.
and GrowCloud programs. And let’s not Bruno Zhang said, “Huawei Cloud will help

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