Cloud Expo Asia, the leading tech show in the APAC region, returned on 9-10th October 2024 for its 10th edition at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. This event brought together prominent cloud professionals, tech specialists, CXOs, startups, and developers for insightful discussions on the trends of cloud, AI, and other cutting-edge technologies, as well as future opportunities they present. Tens of thousands of industry practitioners and exhibitors from Singapore and the APAC region attended the event. Having attended Cloud Expo Asia every year since 2019, Huawei Cloud has been using this event as an important platform to showcase its latest technology and success stories to customers, partners, and the industry across the APAC region.
This year, Huawei Cloud focused on the convergence between AI and big data, and how it may help enterprises drive sustainable growth with data. Besides keynote speeches given by several speakers from Huawei Cloud, a number of impressive exhibition booths were also set up by Huawei Cloud.
Li Yibin, Vice President of Huawei Cloud MKT & Solution Sales in Singapore, received a delegation of VIP customers at the Huawei Cloud booth at the expo. While introducing the solutions on display, Li Yibin talked about Huawei Cloud's impressive growth in Singapore: "Over the past five years, Huawei Cloud has maintained rapid growth in Singapore. In 2023, Huawei Cloud's revenue in Singapore grew by more than 100% year-on-year. Huawei Cloud has deployed five AZs in Singapore, serving over 1,000 enterprise customers from sectors like the government, e-banking, e-commerce, the Internet, and large local companies. Huawei Cloud offers not only reliable cloud infrastructure, but also best-in-class AI and big data services, helping local companies accelerate innovation and intelligent transformation and expand their business."
James Tan, Vice President of Huawei Cloud Solution Sales in APAC, gave a speech at the Cloud AI Horizon Keynote Theater. In the speech, he said: "With the rapid development of AI technology, the convergence between big data and AI has become a major trend. In the era of data-AI convergence, many enterprises face challenges like low efficiency in data mining, management, and use, as well as increasing data security risks. To help customers surmount these challenges, Huawei Cloud's data-AI convergence platform offers a lakehouse solution and AI integration capabilities, supporting data lifecycle management, adoption of AI models of various sizes, and search solutions powered by enterprise knowledge bases. These capabilities help enterprises upgrade from logical data lakes to enterprise knowledge lakes that are specialized in unleashing the value of data. This platform has been verified with impressive results in many projects. At Huawei, leveraging a financial knowledge lake that integrates business data across various corporate processes, the Group Finance Mgmt Dept has been able to accurately identify contract risks and improve efficiency in decision-making. A leading renewable energy company in Singapore is using this data-AI convergence platform to process data from over 300 million IoT sensors. It has also developed its own predictive maintenance platform based on real operational data, significantly boosting equipment reliability, lowering the risk of equipment outages, and improving resource utilization. With powerful technology and service capabilities, Huawei Cloud stands ready to help enterprise customers from various industries unleash the value of data and achieve data-driven growth in the era of data-AI convergence."