Huawei gets top honour at Bitex

Manama : ‘Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications, Kamal Ahmed, has honoured Huawei with the ‘Exclusive Digital Transformation Partner’ of BITEX 2018 award.

As the exclusive ‘Digital Transformation Partner’ of Bahrain’s top ICT event – Huawei took center stage by connecting with top government authorities and business leaders to showcase more agile, more intelligent, more connected solutions designed to shape the future of smart and safe cities.  

John Lu Yuedong, CEO of Huawei Bahrain accepted the award on behalf of Huawei from the Minister. 

Dr. Ebrhim Janahi, CEO of Tamkeen alongside Bitex Management visited Huawei Booth on the first day of Bitex exhibition, for a first-hand look at Huawei’s solutions for smart cities, safe cities, smart hospitality, cloud data centers, and agile network 

Lu said, “Huawei started its operations in Bahrain in 2004 and shifted its Middle East Regional office to Bahrain in 2009. As the Kingdom strengthens its position as an ICT hub, we are proud to contribute to building the infrastructure in Bahrain that is propelling the overall digital transformation throughout the Middle East.”

Attendees at Bitex experienced how Huawei’s Smart City solutions use new ICT to sense, analyze, and converge data from city management systems and enable intelligent response to governance, livelihood, and business needs. Huawei also showcased its Agile POL for hospitality, new construction and smart buildings projects, which enables a full-cloud network that is agile, intelligent, open, and secure.

Lu delivered the opening speech, while Faisal Ameer Malik, CTO, Huawei Middle East delivered the first keynote of the Meet ICT Conference under the theme ‘Never Stop Exploring on the Road to Digital Transformation’.