Huawei Connect 2017 previews: Emphasis on cloud implementation and practice

[51CTO.com original article] As a global ICT industry event, HUAWEI CONNECT 2017 will be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center from September 5 to 7, 2017. The theme of this fully connected conference will be "Grow with the Cloud", and it will discuss how to grasp the future direction and new opportunities, promote the digital transformation of the industry, and jointly move towards a new growth path as the fully connected intelligent society accelerates.

Recently, the reporter interviewed Suo Dayong, Vice President of Huawei's Marketing Department, Zheng Dianhai, Vice President of Huawei Cloud BU, and Li Xiangjun, Vice President of Huawei's Network Product Line, and asked them to "spoil" the exciting content of the HC conference in advance.

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Four major differences of the HC Conference

Suo Dayong, Vice President of Huawei's Marketing Department, said that compared with the first HUAWEI CONNECT flagship conference, this year's second HUAWEI CONNECT 2017 (Huawei Full Connection Conference) has four major changes: first, it inherits the concept of last year's conference and strengthens implementation and practice; second, it invites more customers and partners with practical experience to share their success stories; third, it displays more solutions based on actual scenarios to give the audience more experience; and finally, it provides more opportunities for collision and communication to stimulate more business cooperation.

Suo Dayong explained that the theme of this year's HC conference is Grow with cloud, and Huawei hopes that no matter which hot technology is discussed this year, such as digitalization, cloud, IoT, or artificial intelligence, the ultimate emphasis is on how to help customers solve business problems. "This year, Huawei focuses on implementation and practice. We call on the entire industry to take action so that the cloud can bring practical business value to society, industry, and customers." He revealed that Huawei emphasized two key points at this conference, namely Grow and action. "Only technologies that truly solve problems for customers and bring business growth are good technologies, products, and solutions. Therefore, Huawei emphasizes Grow; in addition, the consensus of the entire industry requires action, and everyone needs to focus on what to do and how to do it. Only action is the most important thing."

Suo Dayong also introduced the three-day agenda of the conference in detail. On September 5, the first day, the conference focused on business, and Huawei's rotating CEO Guo Ping and several other guests, such as executives from Pacific Insurance and Orange, will jointly present the topic; on September 6, the second day, the conference focused on technology, and Huawei's Senior Vice President and President of Products and Solutions Wang Tao will lead several heavyweight guests to give keynote speeches and share wonderful cases from a technical perspective; on September 7, the third day, the conference focused on ecology, and Yan Lida, President of Huawei Enterprise BG, and Zhang Shunmao, President of Huawei Marketing and Solutions Department, will host Huawei's ecological release, sharing and ecological activities. Suo Dayong revealed that the event will be very exciting and innovative, so stay tuned.

How to make a fuss about cloud?

Zheng Dianhai, Vice President of Huawei Cloud BU, said that Huawei's positioning for cloud is a practitioner, promoter and enabler. Huawei will open up the capabilities accumulated over the past 30 years through the cloud platform to serve the entire industry. At the HC Conference in September, Huawei Cloud will work with world-renowned partners including SAP, ChinaSoft International, and iSoftStone to fully demonstrate Huawei Cloud's capabilities in the public security industry, digital operations, digital banking, smart government, smart manufacturing and other fields. Zheng Dianhai also told reporters that Huawei Software Development Cloud 2.0 will also be released at the HC Conference.

He also shared with reporters Huawei Cloud's understanding of customers in the current cloud industry 2.0 era. He believes that most users in the cloud 1.0 era are native Internet customers who have software development capabilities and provide services to society through software. The target customers of the 2.0 era are more traditional enterprise customers. The core skills of these customers are not in the cloud, but in the product. The cloud is just a tool for them to increase their value. Therefore, this type of customer is significantly different from the 1.0 era customers. For example, they pay more attention to their own data, whether new technologies can create new value in their production practices, and whether they can achieve a smooth transition from the old IT system to the cloud platform and enjoy the benefits of cloudification.

So how to meet the special needs of customers in the 2.0 era? Huawei first emphasizes that it does not develop applications or touch data. It does not obtain profits by mining customer data for value realization, but helps customers provide tools to mine the value of their data. Secondly, Huawei creates value in enterprise production practice through its own practice and the practice of joint ecological partners, and opens these value-creating experiences and capabilities to the outside world through the cloud platform. In addition, Huawei also provides a hybrid cloud solution that integrates public cloud and private cloud, so that enterprises can protect their investments and inherit their capabilities in the process of moving from now to the future, achieving smooth migration.

The future of the Internet must be "smart" and "integrated"

Li Xiangjun, Vice President of Huawei's Network Product Line, also shared with reporters in advance some of the "new moves" of Huawei's Network Product Line at the HC Conference. He said that the next generation of networks should first be more intelligent, and this "intelligence" refers to intelligent management and connection. At the same time, with stronger connections, that is, "integration", the changes in data collection capabilities, breadth, depth, and efficiency have been enhanced, and there are also higher requirements for data integration. "At the HC Conference, we will release the concept, functional architecture, and value proposition of the new generation of networks. At the same time, this HC Conference is also the first time that the new network product line has been established to release products and solutions to the market. We will release a new generation of efficient, intelligent, open, and secure network infrastructure system, including concepts."

He gave an application scenario to let everyone feel the changes in the Internet: In the retail industry, a Spanish supermarket chain developed a special shopping APP two years ago, but the actual purchase effect was very average. After analysis, they found that the main reason was that the APP had little interaction between online and offline experience, and the APP had few product categories. Subsequently, they implemented wireless coverage for the chain stores, linked offline shopping with online APP applications, recommended products, and prompted promotional information. Soon, the user experience was greatly improved and sales increased.

From the perspective of the Internet, where is this change mainly reflected? He told reporters that now when users go to the mall, they can use the Internet to have a new experience, forming a fusion experience by connecting customers, retail terminals, goods, and shopping environments. Retail customers can use the data generated by the Internet to digitize all retail store operations, put new data-based applications on the cloud, and create a new retail experience, that is, experience in the cloud.

Get the latest meeting details

The reporter also learned more details of the meeting, and listed a few key information below. If you want to know more, you can go to Huawei's official website to read it clearly!

More communication platforms: The reporter learned that more than 20,000 guests, including business leaders, ecological partners, and industry pioneers from more than 150 countries and regions around the world, are expected to exchange ideas and seek business opportunities at the All Connect Conference. The conference topics cover business, technology, and ecological strategies in the cloud era, including 3 keynote speeches, 6 summits, and more than 140 special speeches.

The exhibition hall content is more comprehensive: This year's All Connected Conference is divided into two theme exhibition halls: industry solutions and horizontal solutions, with a display area of ​​more than 20,000 square meters, a 30% increase over HC2016. There are more than 600 solution experience exhibition points, a 50% increase over HC2016, and more than 400 partners and industry organizations jointly participated in the exhibition, including Microsoft, Intel, SAP, Accenture, etc., an increase of 225% over HC2016.

In-depth technical discussions: Huawei will discuss the path of digital transformation in the cloud era with customers, partners, and industry alliances from all walks of life around the world at this conference. Aiming at industry needs, Huawei will release eight heavyweight solutions including AI, IoT, security and other cloud services, chip-level security architecture, and intelligent cloud hardware platform based on four key technologies: cloud, all-cloud network, big data & AI, and IoT, to enable digital transformation for customers in nine industries, including government and public utilities, finance, telecommunications, energy, transportation, and manufacturing.

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