Huawei Lanka IT Congress pledge commitment to uplift SL’s enterprise digital transformation

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology solution provider, recently hosted the first-ever Huawei IT congress in Sri Lanka themed ‘Huawei Lanka IT Congress 2018 – Intelligent IT Inspires Digital Future’. 

The event showcased Huawei’s commitment to partners and desire to contribute to the Sri Lankan ICT ecosystem and digital transformation, bringing together over 500 senior management personnel across leading partners and companies from a number of sectors, including IT and ICT, banking and finance, and State sector key public organisations. The event witnessed Huawei presenting technologies, IT technology trends, in-depth insights into the industry, introduction to Huawei’s latest IT solutions and Huawei’s technological innovations in the ICT field. 

The event provided an ideal opportunity and a platform for all IT and ICT industry participants in Sri Lanka to communicate and share, inspire each other and also jointly explore the success of the digital transformation. The event also saw IT and ICT heads of public and private sector organisations engage in discussion on how to achieve digital transformation through creating new opportunities that boost efficiency, and embracing platforms that are open, agile, and equipped with state-of-the-art AI capabilities. 

Addressing the event, Huawei Technologies Lanka Chief Executive Officer Shunli Wang went onto say that “through this congress, Huawei had the opportunity to engage with all participants in the IT and ICT industry in an open and constructive dialogue about digital transformation in Sri Lanka, and how Huawei and the other organisations could work together with its comprehensive IT product portfolio to get the optimal benefits of the transformation”. 

He said that Huawei help organisations and industries go digital by providing them with open, flexible, and secure ICT infrastructure platforms that promote greater synergy between devices, networks, and the cloud.

Further assuring the company’s support towards digital transformation, CEO Shunli Wang said: “With strong industry initiatives, skilled workforce, and forward-thinking governance, Sri Lanka could get assistance from Huawei and the company’s local partners that is already helping to turn industries to digital transformation as a driver for growth.” 

He further pointed out that digitisation is gaining momentum around the globe and investment in cloud computing is ramping up on a regional and national scales, whilst ICT infrastructure is now an important pillar of national economic growth.

“If Sri Lanka wants to position as a competitive developed economy, it is high time that Sri Lanka focuses on ICT infrastructure development in order to add more value to the country’s educated generations and future generations,” he added.   

Whilst the future is envisaged to be a fully-connected intelligent world, Huawei believes that digital transformation is unavoidable for enterprises to sustain in this future environment. Thus accelerated computing, limitless storage and intelligent cloud platforms are the key enablers for enterprises to achieve digital transformation. 

Huawei is an active member of more than 360 standards organisations, industry alliances, and open source communities, where they work together on mainstream standards and lay the foundation for shared success. The company has also joined forces with industry partners to innovate in emerging domains like cloud computing, software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualisation (NFV), and 5G, driving the industry forward together. 

“Therefore working with Huawei it will always bring in synergies that we could further explore as business opportunities, creating win-win situations for our partners and our company,” Shunli Wang said. 

Huawei’s end-to-end portfolio of products, solutions and services are both competitive and secure. Through open collaboration with ecosystem partners, the company creates lasting value for their customers, working to empower people, enrich home life, and inspire innovation in organisations of all shapes and sizes. Huawei’s innovation focuses on customer needs and the company invests heavily in basic research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward. Together with the partners, Huawei serves government and public utilities, as well as enterprise customers in sectors such as finance, energy, transportation and manufacturing. 

Huawei has been operating in Sri Lanka from 2005 and is a top ICT company in Sri Lanka. At present, Huawei is the main ICT solutions provider in Sri Lanka, creating over 1,000 jobs directly and indirectly, whilst Huawei developed a network which is serving 70% of the population in Sri Lanka. It is also the top smartphone provider in Sri Lanka, with a significant market share. 

Sri Lanka’s ICT and IT industry professionals visit the Huawei Industry Solutions Exhibition