What does it feel like to immerse yourself in 50 industry scenes in a 7,000-square-meter exhibition hall?

[51CTO.com original article] From March 9 to 10, 2017, Huawei China Eco-Partner Conference 2017 was grandly held at Changsha International Convention and Exhibition Center in Hunan Province. As one of the important modules of the conference, the exhibition hall of Huawei Eco-Partner Conference is divided into three parts: industry exhibition area, ecological partner exhibition area and ICT infrastructure platform, which attracted great interest from many people.

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The reporter visited the exhibition hall at 4:00 pm on March 10, only 2.5 hours left before the end of the conference. Usually, at 4:00 pm on the second day of a two-day conference, almost all the booths in the exhibition hall begin to be dismantled. However, no booth was dismantled in the exhibition hall of Huawei China Eco Partner Conference 2017, because the exhibition hall was still crowded with people, and there were people in front of each booth. (Seeing this, some people may ask the reporter why he didn't choose to visit the exhibition earlier? The truth is: there were too many people in front of the booth before, and it was really hard to squeeze in.)

Ecosystem + full life = immersive full experience

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After a tour of the exhibition, I felt for the first time what an immersive experience is. I have to admit that this exhibition hall is really designed with great care. In the exhibition hall with a total area of ​​7,000 square meters, more than 100 ecological partners and Huawei jointly displayed 12 major industries, 50+ industry scenarios, and more than 150 industry solutions jointly developed based on Huawei's ICT infrastructure platform.

Outside the exhibition hall, from the entrance, you can see the industry application theme exhibition areas such as smart grid, smart manufacturing, smart building, fully connected transportation, smart city triage medical care, smart city basic education, smart city public safety, and smart city public services. In each theme exhibition area, Huawei has designed corresponding business application scenarios. In this way, participants no longer have to imagine with promotional brochures, but can quickly understand how technology and products are deployed in the scene, and truly experience everything Huawei and its partners have silently contributed behind the scenes in our daily lives and work.

At the core of the exhibition is a glass house. No one could have imagined that Huawei would move the ICT room supporting the conference from behind the scenes to the front stage. In this cloud data center, 24 cabinets constitute a complete set of architectures for an actual, fully active cloud data center and the corresponding ICT. The guide told the participants that this is really a "live" data center, which actually carries more than 50 industry scenarios, 100 application systems, and more than 10,000 audiences digitally participating in the conference and full-module conference management. Through this cloud data center, Huawei allows participants to immersively experience the seamless combination of ICT infrastructure and industry application scenarios, making digital transformation within reach.

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The reporter also noticed that there was not a single PC used as a display screen at any booth in the exhibition. All display screens were connected to the cloud data center, and real-time data was displayed on the data platform at the top of the data center.

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Around the core booth of Cloud Data Center, Huawei has extended four core branch booths, namely Big Service Enabling Digital Transformation, Openlab Enabling Technological Innovation, ICT Talent Ecosystem Enabling Sustainable Development, and Business Distribution. Guests can experience on site how Huawei uses a powerful back-end remote technology platform to support partners in their transformation.

Thousands of people freely communicate at the same venue

Huawei's meticulous design of the exhibition hall also gave the attendees a great experience. Huawei's ecosystem partners were sharing, communicating, and negotiating with each other on their own, and the open speech platform of more than 20 ∑-Talks, which focused on innovation releases, partner growth stories, and discussions on technology and industry hot topics, attracted a large number of people to stop and watch, and actively asked questions and interacted on the spot.

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In the two rows of cabinets in the cloud data center, a customer pulled a Huawei staff member and pointed to the display screen of the data center and asked why there were frequent alarms in his data center, but he could not find any problems. Huawei staff took him to talk about the battery modules, air conditioning and refrigeration units, resource pools, and elastic networks in the data center, and told him how to check the equipment warnings in the computer room step by step and how to distinguish different warning signals. The customer was very satisfied in the end and praised Huawei's creativity in moving the ICT computer room to the site. He told Huawei staff that this kind of explanation with real objects was more effective than the previous explanation with the manufacturer's promotional brochures.

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This customer was not the only one who gained something from the exhibition hall. The reporter saw that in front of every booth, there were interested customers actively asking questions. In front of the public service booth, a customer first held a technical brochure and asked the staff to explain some technical issues. Later, more and more people gathered around and asked more and more questions. Finally, the staff called up the relevant information on the display screen and patiently explained, just like the interaction between a star and his fans.

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The reporter also found a very interesting detail. Usually at auto shows, beautiful car models are more popular than cars, and there are flashes flashing around the car models almost all the time. But in this exhibition hall of Huawei and its ecological partners, it was completely reversed. Everyone was asking questions about the technical details and application scenarios of the Internet of Vehicles and taking photos for the record. Poor beautiful car models were left alone.

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In just two days, the Huawei China Eco-Partner Conference 2017, ΣCO-Partner, was successfully concluded. On this stage, Huawei and hundreds of ecological partners jointly created an exhibition hall for the entire industry, multiple scenarios, and in-depth experience, showing the ecological power of the digital transformation community in the future intelligent society. It is hoped that in 2017, Huawei and its ecological partners can move forward more steadily and go further.

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