Huawei Cloud is showcasing its advanced cloud capabilities and innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions tailored for the Saudi market at LEAP 2024 from March 4 to 7. 

 

The company's participation aligns with Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, which emphasises economic diversification and digital transformation. Accordingly, Huawei Cloud is committed to helping the Saudi government and industries achieve their digital transformation goals and upgrade intelligence through its class-leading cloud platform.

 

Huawei Cloud's Riyadh Region, the central hub for Huawei Cloud services in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa, has been providing cutting-edge and reliable cloud services since its launch in September 2023. 

 

3 Availability Zones

With three Availability Zones, it ensures low-latency, secure, and innovative services for customers, covering major network carriers and offering a comprehensive range of cloud services, including infrastructure, databases, containers, big data, and AI services. Obtaining the Class C license within three months of launch reflects Huawei Cloud's commitment to enhancing connectivity, cloud computing, and AI services in Saudi Arabia, contributing to the country's core competitiveness in the digital era.

 

During LEAP, Huawei Cloud is displaying its Cloud Riyadh Region, demonstrating its dedication to customer-centricity and advancing local innovation and development. The main highlight at the event will be the Huawei Cloud Pangu Large Model 3.0, a commercial Arabic large model with 100 billion parameters and industry-leading understanding and generation capabilities. The model adopts a layered and decoupled architecture, providing diverse deployment modes, and meets the different needs of enterprises for large models. 

 

Pangu AI-powered solutions

Pangu AI-powered solutions include government and enterprise question-and-answer assistants and smart city solutions. The government and enterprise Q&A assistant provides multi-language Q&A services based on the Pangu Arabic large model and digital human technology. Meanwhile, the smart city solution completes multi-data analysis through multi-modal large models to assist intelligent operation centres in the fields of cities, electric power, energy, transportation and other fields. In addition, Huawei Cloud will showcase intelligent solutions for industries such as automotive, e-commerce retail, government affairs, electricity, finance, and media and entertainment. 

 

Alan Qi, President of Huawei Cloud Middle East and Central Asia, said: "We believe that our solutions can help drive digital transformation across various industries and enable the creation of smarter, more sustainable cities. We invite partners and customers to the stand and explore how we can collaborate to build a fully connected intelligent world." 

 

At its stand, Huawei Cloud is demonstrating how its GeoGenius Digital Twin Solution can power the next evolution of the Smart City, the Cognitive City. The Digital Twin solution can help cities better provide public transport, electric power, emergency services, and more. Additionally, the company is showcasing its Video Ingestion and Analysis Service (VIAS), which collects, distributes and analyses camera video data and reports alarm events. Using Huawei Cloud's leading AI and big data technologies, VIAS enables event detection, analysis, and decision-making for smart campus, city governance, smart water, and smart transportation.

 

Huawei Cloud is also hosting the Huawei Cloud Automotive Forum on Day 4 of LEAP, which aims to provide opportunities for automotive companies to connect with local government and help expand their business to the Saudi market.

 

Reshaping Industries

Dr Zhu Shenggao, Vice President of AI, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia, is giving a Keynote speech at the Deepfest stage titled "Reshaping Industries with AI". Dr Shenggao will illustrate how Huawei Cloud has made "AI for Industries" one of its core missions. He will explore how Huawei Cloud Pangu models can empower everyone from every industry with an intelligent assistant, making them more productive and efficient.

 

Qi is appearing on the main stage at a panel discussion on "Cloud innovation, AI and sustainability". Huawei Cloud believes that technology should be used to create a better world for all, and the company is committed to using its expertise to drive sustainable innovation.

 

Over the next five years, Huawei Cloud aims to empower 200,000 developers in Saudi Arabia through creating joint solutions with 1,000 local partners and supporting 2,000 startups. In collaboration with global and local partners, Huawei Cloud aims to facilitate digital and intelligent transformation for countries and organisations and promote a robust digital transformation ecosystem across the region. 

 

Cooperation memoranda

At LEAP, Huawei Cloud will sign cooperation memoranda with multiple partners, indicating not only the alignment of cloud technology with the development goals of partners but also symbolising the firm mutual recognition of common goals and the profound commitment to continuously pushing the boundaries of possibilities in the digital intelligence era. Huawei Cloud will work hand in hand with numerous partners to achieve more fruitful results through unremitting efforts, leaving a profound impact in various industries and jointly creating a new chapter in the digital era.--TradeArabia News Service