Huawei's 7th annual flagship event for the global ICT industry, began this Monday in Bangkok. The event, themed with "Unleash Digital," gathers over 10,000 ICT industry leaders, experts, and partners from around the world to explore how to more effectively unleash digital productivity, promote the digital economy, and build up stronger digital ecosystems.
At the event, Huawei has reinforced its commitment to open collaboration and shared success. The company called for governments and enterprises to work more closely together to cultivate local digital ecosystems that build up innovation partners, strengthen the talent pool, and support startups.
In the keynote Simon Lin, the President of Huawei Asia-Pacific Region says, "Huawei is committed to becoming a key contributor to the digital economy in the region. We will keep supporting its digitalization and sustainable development efforts, and building out the industry ecosystem".
Distinguished group of government representatives from the Asia-Pacific region also took the stage to share the progress they have made with advancing digital economy development in their respective countries. These include H.E. Muhammad Abdul Mannan, Planning Minister of Bangladesh; H.E. Supattanapong Punmeechaow, Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy; and others from Indonesia, Philippines
The Planning Minister MA Mannan has highlighted the growth of Bangladesh in his keynote on the first day of this arrangement. The minster portrayed the development of Bangladesh in terms of ICT development, infrastructure, power generation, etc. Considering the importance and development of telecommunication sector in past few years, he praised the pace of journey from 2G to 4G while the nation has ensured a wide 4G coverage. He finds it most auspicious to stand on the same technical level as other countries in the world do since 5G network construction has also begun in this country.
In his keynote he addresses Huawei as an industrial partner for realizing the dream of Digital Bangladesh with its assistance in ICT and digital power sector in Bangladesh for 23 years. The determination to bring advanced telecom communications, cloud computing, digital energy, smart photovoltaics technologies to release digital productivity in Bangladesh have been also mentioned in the keynote. In addition to that minister also admires the contribution of this company to develop local talent and the role it plays in the emergencies occurred due to natural calamities.
Simon Lin has released the Digital First Economy whitepaper that delves into targeted policy suggestions for digital infrastructure construction and digital economy development in the Asia-Pacific region.
The three-day conference in Bangkok is the first stop on HUAWEI CONNECT's global tour in 2022. Featuring two keynote sessions, six summits, as well as multiple breakout sessions and demos, this year's event dives into the challenges that governments and enterprises face at all stages of their digital transformation journey, Huawei's advancements in digital infrastructure, as well as the company's latest cloud services and ecosystem partner solutions.
