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Huawei Cloud Summit
Middle East & Africa 2023

21st March, 2023
Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai

2023 Highlights

Invitation

We are proud to announce our upcoming Huawei Cloud Summit Middle East and Africa 2023. We believe that cloud is the key to digital transformation, and the migration to the cloud should be followed by the efficient use of the cloud.

This summit provides an opportunity for the region’s valuable customers to exchange insights, and also an opportunity to exchange with industry and investment bank KOLs based on market opportunities and successful experiences. Besides that, it is a window to understand the emerging technologies in the industry to enable digital transformation and make good use of good cloud practices. Finally, it is also a good opportunity to understand Huawei Cloud and start your journey with Huawei Cloud.

Sincerely,

Frank Dai

President, Huawei Cloud Middle East and Central Asia

Agenda

Keynote

Time

Topic

Speaker

10:30 - 10:40

Welcome Speech

H.E. Zhang Yiming
Chinese Ambassador to the UAE

10:40 - 10:55

Digital Economy in Middle East Under New Political and Economic Situation

H.E. Dr. Thani Al Zeyoudi
Minister of State for Foreign Trade
Minister in charge of Talent Attraction and Retention at Ministry Of Economy, UAE

10:55 - 11:05

Keynote Opening Speech

Jacqueline Shi
President, Global Marketing and Sales Service, Huawei Cloud

11:05 - 11:25

From AI 1.0 to AI 2.0

Hua Wang
Managing Partner & Co-CEO, Sinovation Ventures

11:25 - 11:40

Talent: The Key to Productive Interaction Between Technology and Investment

H.E. Aymen Tawfeeq Abdulrahman Almoayed
Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports of Bahrain

11:40 - 12:00

Unleash Digital with Everything as a Service

Frank Dai
President, Huawei Cloud Middle East and Central Asia

Forums

Time

Topic

Speaker

13:30 - 15:10

Forum 1: Transformative Technology: Web 3.0

Local/International Cryptocurrency Exchanges, Investors, Huawei Cloud, et cetera

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13:30 - 13:35

Joining Hands Towards Web 3.0

13:35 - 13:45

How Dubai Boosts Web 3.0 Enterprises

13:45 - 14:00

Opportunities and Challenges in Web 3.0

14:00 - 14:20

Huawei Cloud: Building Infrastructure for Web 3.0

14:20 - 14:35

Metaverse: To Infinity and Beyond

14:35 - 14:50

The Future of FinTech

14:50 - 15:10

Polygon: Onboarding the Next Billion Users to Web3

13:30 - 14:45

Forum 2: Building a New Digital Banking Model

Huawei Cloud, Top 30 Banks, and Investors

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13:30 - 13:40

A New Era of Digital Banking

13:40 - 13:55

Need for Speed – Accelerate Banking Business With Next-generation Digital Platforms

13:55 - 14:05

Some Notes About Digitization Which Everyone Knows But Very Few Aware

14:05 – 14:15

Boost Go-to-market With Cloud and SaaS in Europe

14:15 - 14:25

Digital Banking Strategies in Middle East

14:25 - 14:45

Huawei Cloud: Everything as a Service for Smart Finance

15:30 - 17:00

Forum 3: Unleash Cloud and Become New Cloud Native

Huawei Cloud, Chinese Enterprises, Local Internet Enterprises, and Investors

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15:30 - 15:50

Empowering Industry and Accelerating Digital Transformation with Everything as a Service

Jet Liu
Director, Product Operation, Huawei Cloud

15:50 - 16:00

The Path to Digital Infrastructure Globalization

Essay Zhu
Partner & COO, PayerMax

16:00 - 16:10

Build a Digital Solution for City Life

Peter Zheng
CEO, Maoyan Entertainment

16:10 - 16:20

Achieving Success in Your Business & Cloud Journey with One-Step Services

Jade Huang
Business Partner, OneCloud

16:20 - 16:35

Building Ecosystem, Empowering Startups to Innovate and Grow

Xiaolei Duan
General Manager,
Global Startup Ecosystem, Huawei Cloud

16:35 - 16:45

The Internet in the Middle East: Trends and Areas to Invest In

Yatin K Thakur
Founder & General Manager, Chairman GEN Asia

16:45 - 17:00

Joint Launch of Huawei Cloud Startup Program in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa

Speakers & Guests

H.E. Zhang Yiming

H.E. Zhang Yiming

Chinese Ambassador to the UAE

H.E. Dr. Thani Al Zeyoudi

H.E. Dr. Thani Al Zeyoudi

Minister of State for Foreign Trade Minister in charge of Talent Attraction and Retention at Ministry Of Economy, UAE

H.E. Aymen Tawfeeq Abdulrahman Almoayed

H.E. Aymen Tawfeeq Abdulrahman Almoayed

Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports of Bahrain

Jacqueline Shi

Jacqueline Shi

President, Global Marketing and Sales Service, Huawei Cloud

Hua Wang

Hua Wang

Managing Partner & Co-CEO, Sinovation Ventures

Frank Dai

Frank Dai

President, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Mark Chen

Mark Chen

Director of Huawei Cloud Computing Solution Sales

Qiang Qu, Prof. Dr.

Qiang Qu, Prof. Dr.

Blockchain Lab Director, Huawei Cloud Blockchain Lab Director, Huawei Cloud

William Dong

William Dong

President, Huawei Cloud Marketing

Jet Liu

Jet Liu

Director, Product Operation, Huawei Cloud

Essay Zhu

Essay Zhu

Partner & COO, PayerMax

Peter Zheng

Peter Zheng

CEO, Maoyan Entertainment

Eric Wan

Eric Wan

Vice President – Ecosystem & Partner Development, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Xiaolei Duan

Xiaolei Duan

General Manager, Global Startup Ecosystem, Huawei Cloud

Yatin K Thaku

Yatin K Thaku

Founder & General Manager, Chairman GEN Asia

Wang Shunli

Wang Shunli

Vice President, Huawei Middle East & Central Asia

Roy Luo

Roy Luo

Vice President – Cloud Consulting Sale Solution, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Chinese Ambassador to the UAE

H.E. Zhang Yiming

H.E. Zhang Yiming

Chinese Ambassador to the UAE

Minister of State for Foreign Trade Minister in charge of Talent Attraction and Retention at Ministry Of Economy, UAE

H.E. Dr. Thani Al Zeyoudi

H.E. Dr. Thani Al Zeyoudi

Minister of State for Foreign Trade Minister in charge of Talent Attraction and Retention at Ministry Of Economy, UAE

Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports of Bahrain

H.E. Aymen Tawfeeq Abdulrahman Almoayed

H.E. Aymen Tawfeeq Abdulrahman Almoayed

Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports of Bahrain/p>

President, Global Marketing and Sales Service, Huawei Cloud

Jacqueline Shi

Jacqueline Shi

President, Global Marketing and Sales Service, Huawei Cloud

Managing Partner & Co-CEO, Sinovation Ventures

Hua Wang

Hua Wang

Managing Partner & Co-CEO, Sinovation Ventures

President, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Frank Dai

Frank Dai

President, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Director of Huawei Cloud Computing Solution Sales

Mark Chen

Mark Chen

Director of Huawei Cloud Computing Solution Sales

Blockchain Lab Director, Huawei Cloud

Qiang Qu, Prof. Dr.

Qiang Qu, Prof. Dr.

Blockchain Lab Director, Huawei Cloud

Director of Marketing Dept, Huawei Cloud

William Dong

William Dong

President, Huawei Cloud Marketing

Director, Product Operation, Huawei Cloud

Jet Liu

Jet Liu

Director, Product Operation, Huawei Cloud

Partner & COO, PayerMax

Essay Zhu

Essay Zhu

Partner & COO, PayerMax

CEO, Maoyan Entertainment

Peter Zheng

Peter Zheng

CEO, Maoyan Entertainment

Vice President – Ecosystem & Partner Development, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Eric Wan

Eric Wan

Vice President – Ecosystem & Partner Development, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

General Manager, Global Startup Ecosystem, Huawei Cloud

Xiaolei Duan

Xiaolei Duan

General Manager, Global Startup Ecosystem, Huawei Cloud

Founder & General Manager, Chairman GEN Asia

Yatin K Thaku

Yatin K Thaku

Founder & General Manager, Chairman GEN Asia

Vice President, Huawei Middle East & Central Asia

Wang Shunli

Wang Shunli

Vice President, Huawei Middle East & Central Asia

Vice President – Cloud Consulting Sale Solution, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Roy Luo

Roy Luo

Vice President – Cloud Consulting Sale Solution, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Vice President – Enterprise Cloud, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Ryan Zhan

Ryan Zhan

Vice President – Enterprise Cloud, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Quotes

H.E. Zhang Yiming
Chinese Ambassador to the UAE
China is poised to partner with the UAE and countries in the Middle East and Africa in their digital cloud journey. Together, we will invigorate the industry with innovation, expand pilot projects with partnerships, and promote technical advances with young minds. Together, we will achieve technology and industry development centered on cloud computing, and pave the way for digital transformation and digital enablement.
H.E. Dr. Thani Al Zeyoudi
Minister of State for Foreign Trade
Minister in charge of Talent Attraction and Retention at Ministry Of Economy, UAE
The UAE has, over the past two decades, been focused on being a front-runner globally when it comes to digital transformation. Economic and global challenges have served as a source of inspiration and motivation for the UAE’s public and private sectors to work together to allow for innovation to be supported by proactive policies. As we move towards cloud and Ai based solutions at a pace never been seen before, the UAE remains ready to work with its trading partners and neighbors in creating and nurturing a world-class digital economy culture for the generations to come
H.E. Aymen Tawfeeq Abdulrahman Almoayed
Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports of Bahrain
We have already shifted to a Digital Reality, a Digital Economy. The new normal is Digital Literacy and Digital Connectivity. The new normal is Digital Nativity
Jacqueline Shi
President, Global Marketing and Sales Service, Huawei Cloud
We keep developing. We keep going digital. And we want to share our latest technologies and proven digitalization experience to you. We are always ready to serve you best.
Frank Dai
President, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia
It has become a consensus that the cloud is the best way to accelerate digitalization. Our responsibility is to help enterprises go cloud, use cloud, and manage cloud better, so we can better deal with challenges such as data security, ROI optimization, and new technology application.
William Dong
Director of Marketing Dept, Huawei Cloud
Now with our Cloud Native Core Banking solution, you build Bank on Cloud, and we enable Banking Everywhere together.
Jet Liu
Director, Product Operation, Huawei Cloud
As foundation and enabler, Huawei cloud offers global channels, application modernization and digital solutions, together with partners to help enterprises unleash could and become new cloud native, empower industry and accelerate digital transformation with Everything as a Service.
Xiaolei Duan
General Manager, Global Startup Ecosystem, Huawei Cloud
We are dedicated to unleashing the power of startups, and are always willing to join hands with all the stakeholders to create a more enabling and inclusive ecosystem for startups. Jointly, we are building a fully-connected, intellectual world for all.

Files Download

IDC Whitepaper

Highlights key trends that are shaping digital transformation in the Middle East region and sheds light on the role of cloud in helping organizations achieve the business goals.

Gartner Newsletter

Highlights the strategy of “Everything as a Service” and how it can help government, enterprises, and SMEs to benefit from emerging cloud technologies and further enable digital transformation through infrastructure, technology, and expertise.

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With the theme of "Inspire Innovation with Everything as a Service", HUAWEI CLOUD Summit Middle East and Africa 2022 was held in Dubai on March 28 - 29. Huawei aims to work with customers and partners in the digitalization of their industries to build the cloud foundation for an intelligent world, a world with cloud and intelligence everywhere.

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