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Huawei Rotating Chairman Reaffirms Continuous

Innovation for Faster Digitalization Across World

Huawei's annual flagship event for the
global ICT industry – HUAWEI CONNECT
2021 – kicked off . Huawei Rotating
Chairman Eric Xu opened the event with a
keynote speech titled "Innovating Nonstop
for Faster Digitalization". This year's event,
themed "Dive into Digital", explores how
digital technology can better integrate
with business scenarios and industry
know-how to address critical business
challenges, and how stakeholders can
work together more effectively to foster an
open industry ecosystem and drive shared
success. In his keynote, Xu spoke about
how helping industries go digital is a critical
aspect of Huawei's mission to bring digital
to every person, home and organization
for a fully connected, intelligent world. He
said, "Digital development relies on digital
technology. For digital technology to stay
relevant, we must continue to innovate alike to take their organizations digital. The end goal of ModelArts is to enable
and create value. Cloud, AI, and networks As of September 2021, HUAWEI CLOUD each and every engineer to independently
are three critical digital technologies." At and partners operate 61 Availability Zones develop their own AI applications. Xu
the event, Xu launched the industry's first (AZs) in 27 geographic regions worldwide, also introduced Huawei's innovations in
distributed, cloud-native service called covering more than 170 countries and the network domain. As organizations go
UCS – a ubiquitous cloud-native service regions. Zhang Ping'an, CEO of HUAWEI digital, they tend to see exponential growth
available on HUAWEI CLOUD. With UCS, CLOUD and President of Huawei Consumer in network complexity. To tackle this,
Huawei plans to provide enterprises Cloud Service, commented: “The key to Huawei has been innovating solutions for
with a consistent experience while using successful digital transformation is to global networks based on the concept of
cloud-native applications that are not think cloud native and act cloud native. autonomous driving network (ADN). The
constrained by geographical, cross-cloud, HUAWEI CLOUD joins our customers and company has been working with customers
or traffic limitations, thereby accelerating partners to dive into digital and explore in the finance, education, and healthcare
digital transformation in all industries. the potential of Everything as a Service sectors to innovate and deploy new
HUAWEI CLOUD also announced two new – Infrastructure as a Service for global applications, and build networks that are
regions, and ten new services including accessibility, Technology as a Service self-fulfilling, self-healing, self-optimizing,
MacroVerse aPaaS, OptVerse AI Solver, for flexible innovation, and Expertise as a and autonomous. Xu went on to explain
HUAWEI CLOUD Stack 8.1, Pangu drug Service for shared excellence.” Huawei's how Huawei is using digital technology
molecule model, and SparkRTC. It full-stack, all-scenario AI portfolio to support low-carbon development, as
was also revealed that the first virtual released back in 2018 is also progressing part of global efforts to achieve peak CO2
human, Yunsheng, is set to join HUAWEI as expected. Its MindSpore framework emissions and carbon neutrality. Huawei
CLOUD. Xu added that HUAWEI CLOUD, has become the mainstream AI computing hosts HUAWEI CONNECT 2021 online from
the company's cloud service that was framework in China. Meanwhile, the Atlas September 23 to October 31. The theme of
launched just four years ago, has already 900 cluster, as well as the cloud services this year's event is Dive into Digital. The
brought together more than 2.3 million based on it, currently serve more than 300 company will dive deep into the practical
developers, 14,000 consulting partners, enterprises, supporting the training of application of technologies like cloud,
and 6,000 technology partners, and also many models, which include the HUAWEI AI, and 5G in all industries, and how it
made more than 4,500 services available CLOUD Pangu large models. HUAWEI can make organizations of all shapes
in the HUAWEI CLOUD Marketplace. It has CLOUD ModelArts has made AI application and sizes more efficient, more versatile,
become an important platform for Internet development incredibly simple with its and ultimately more resilient as we move
companies, enterprises, and governments full-pipeline, scenario-based services. towards economic recovery.

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