Huawei 2023 Global Analyst Summit Lays Out Digital Future
Huawei kicked off its 20th annual Global Analyst Summit (HAS), attended by more than 1,000 industry analysts, financial analysts, key opinion leaders, and media representatives from around the world, outline the future roadmap for digital transformation.
The milestone meeting is also expected to discuss the current status of the ICT industry, including development strategies.
In her opening keynote address, Sabrina Meng, Huawei’s Deputy Chairwoman, Rotating Chairwoman, and CFO, said that digitalization remains a blue ocean for the whole industry and that Huawei would ramp up its investments by targeting domains like connectivity, computing, storage, and cloud.
“We expect customers to continue demanding digital infrastructure that has the simplest possible architecture with the highest possible quality – that delivers the best possible experience at the lowest possible costs. Our goal is to help organizations go digital in four stages: digitizing operations, building digital platforms, enabling platform-based intelligence, and putting intelligence to use. The time is ripe to thrive together in this new and exciting digital future,” she noted.
Meng went on to share three major takeaways from Huawei’s nearly 10 years of digital transformation experience. “First, strategy is essential. At its essence, digital transformation is about strategic planning and strategic choices. Any successful digital transformation has to be driven by strategy, not technology.”
“Second, data is the foundation,” she continued.”Data only creates value when it flows across an organization, so methodical data governance is key. Integrating data across different dimensions will create even greater value.”
“Third, intelligence is the destination. Data is redefining productivity. Digitizing operations and building digital platforms helps clean, visualize, and aggregate data, laying the foundation for digital transformation. Putting intelligence to use makes data on-demand, easier to understand, and actionable, taking digital transformation to the next level.”
Dr. Zhou Hong, President of Huawei’s Institute of Strategic Research, also spoke at the event. He shared Huawei’s hypotheses and visions for a future intelligent world, detailing how we can transform experience into structured knowledge, and lay the foundation for intelligence.
“Rethinking approaches to networks and computing is critical as we move towards an intelligent world,” said Zhou. “In networking, we have what it takes to move beyond the limits of Shannon’s theorems – as well as applications of his theory – to drive a 100-fold increase in network capabilities over the next decade. In computing, we will move towards new models, architectures, and components, and improve our ability to both understand and control intelligence. We will also continue to explore the use of AI for industry applications, science, and more.”
2023 marks the annual Huawei Global Analyst Summit’s 20-year anniversary.
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