How to cultivate talents needed for ecological collaboration? Huawei's talent ecosystem indicates that AI talents are the key training targets

[51CTO.com original article] On March 22, Huawei China Ecosystem Partner Conference 2019 entered its second day. At 10 a.m., Yang Wenchi, Vice President of Huawei Enterprise BG China and President of Huawei Ecosystem University, delivered a keynote speech on "Integrating Resources to Operate Ecosystem and Win-Win in the Intelligent Era". Yang Wenchi pointed out that our strategy has evolved from "platform + ecology" to "platform + AI + ecology". Huawei hopes to use AI technology to empower the platform, form a new ecological cooperation relationship based on application scenarios, and achieve more efficient ecological collaboration with ecological partners.

The reporter still remembers that Huawei emphasized that it wants to be the black soil of the ecosystem. In fact, the smallest unit in the black soil is people, so the talent ecosystem is extremely important and is an indispensable core element in the entire "platform + AI + ecosystem" strategy. So what information will Huawei's talent ecosystem convey at this ecosystem conference? What has Huawei done for the talent ecosystem in the past year? How should the ICT industry cultivate the talents needed by the market? With questions, the reporter listened carefully to the keynote speech in the morning and went to the talent ecosystem booth in the Huawei exhibition hall to learn and consult, trying to restore the panoramic view of Huawei's talent ecosystem from different angles.

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Three major colleges create three major values

At the Huawei Ecological University booth, the reporter learned that Huawei Ecological University is a new carrier of Huawei's ICT talent ecosystem, including three colleges: Innovation Digital College, Applied Technology College and Partner College. These three colleges have different focuses. The Innovation Digital College is mainly committed to cultivating innovative talents, cooperating with universities and scientific research institutions to conduct special research projects, and promoting digital innovation in the industry; while the Applied Technology College cooperates with universities to carry out the Huawei ICT College project, establish an ICT application talent training base, and accurately match talents through the Huawei ICT Talent Alliance to build a bridge between ICT companies and job seekers; the Partner College mainly targets partners, providing authoritative professional knowledge and skills related to the Huawei industry chain, as well as one-stop capacity improvement services.

So where exactly does the value of Huawei Ecological University lie? After interviews and consultations, the reporter summarized its value into three points: First, the support for innovation. The Ecological University incubates and cultivates innovative talents; second, the Ecological University gathers the most professional people in the industry, shares their abilities and wisdom, provides better resources for the talent ecosystem, and produces more professional content; third, the Ecological University provides a platform for display and communication. For example, it organizes the College Student ICT Skills Competition and the Huawei Ecological Partner Elite Competition for students and partners respectively, allowing outstanding talents to stand out.

16 words of success to produce 10,000 AI talents

Objectively speaking, Huawei is not the only company that values ​​talent. The ICT industry chain has long been thirsting for talent. So why can Huawei's Ecological University grow bigger and bigger and quickly gain market recognition? The author believes that the successful experience of Huawei's Ecological University can be summarized in 16 words: large investment, end-to-end, altruistic and win-win, wide coverage, and high quality.

These 16 words are very easy to understand if explained in detail: Since its establishment, Huawei Enterprise Business has invested hundreds of millions of yuan each year in the construction of China's ICT talent ecosystem, which is a huge investment; Huawei has created a talent supply chain from student enrollment, certification, job hunting, employment to advanced advancement, and Huawei will provide corresponding assistance in every link; on the platform of Ecological University, the talent ecosystem can have in-depth exchanges, collisions and create more ideas; relying on Huawei's many years of R&D investment and technological accumulation in the ICT industry, Huawei has aggregated more high-end resources and has more high-quality content to share.

This year, Huawei will further build a talent ecosystem from three dimensions:

First, Huawei will establish various certification standards, especially AI certification for engineers. In addition, Huawei found in its surveys in cities and counties that the standardization of partners in project sales needs to be improved, so it also launched certification for business sales to help partners sign orders faster.

Secondly, Huawei will launch the "Partner Pre-sales Newcomer Short-term Training Camp" empowerment program, providing hierarchical, systematic, step-by-step learning content and digital empowerment auxiliary tools to help new pre-sales personnel grow quickly.

Huawei will strengthen its in-depth cooperation with universities in AI research and plans to provide the society with more than 10,000 talents with various levels of AI certification within three years to meet the ecosystem's demand for talent in new AI technologies.

Cross-fertilization promotes the cultivation of innovative AI talents

The above content highlights Huawei's emphasis on the talent ecosystem and expresses the industry's thirst for talent under the goal of ecological synergy. At the same time, talent is indispensable in integrating resources and operating the ecosystem; especially in the intelligent era, talent is the foundation of the inclusive ecosystem of intelligent technology. Wu Fei, director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at Zhejiang University and leader of the working group of the Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Innovation Expert Group of the Ministry of Education, said at the Huawei China Ecological Partner Conference 2019 that artificial intelligence has an inside at the smallest and no outside at the largest, and only interdisciplinary and industry-education integration can truly promote theoretical and methodological innovation in artificial intelligence education.

At the meeting, Zhejiang University and Huawei jointly initiated the establishment of the "Artificial Intelligence Talent Training and Technology Innovation Working Committee" of the Information Technology New Engineering Industry-University-Research Alliance. The first batch of members includes 22 universities, aiming to focus on talent training, promote technological innovation, and provide inexhaustible power for the continuous creation of ecological value. Wu Fei, Director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Zhejiang University and Leader of the Working Group of the Artificial Intelligence Technology Innovation Expert Group of the Ministry of Education, Chen Baoguo, Executive Vice Secretary-General of the China Software Industry Association and Deputy Secretary-General of the Information Technology New Engineering Industry-University-Research Alliance, Yang Wenchi, Vice President of Huawei Enterprise BG China and President of Huawei Ecological University, Li Tongguang, Vice President of Huawei Enterprise BG China, and representatives of 15 member universities present witnessed the establishment of the working committee, marking that Huawei's AI talent ecology has entered a new stage of development.

As the saying goes, "before the troops move, the food and grass must go first." After a visit, the reporter clearly felt that Huawei's accelerated talent training and reserve of AI talents may seem to be silent and the short-term effect is not visible, but in fact it is a far-reaching layout, and it can be said that it is playing a long game of chess. The future collaborative ecosystem cannot be separated from talents of all types and colors, and Huawei's "black soil" has already begun to breed talents. When these talents play their strengths in various industries in the future, Huawei's ecosystem will surely be more prosperous and vibrant.

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