SINGAPORE, 25 mars 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Theme Connection, Glory, Futurethe Huawei Information and Communications Technology (ICT) competition, the world’s largest ICT skills competition. Asia Pacific (APAC) – attracted more than 5,300 Huawei ICT Academy students and teachers in 2022.
Opening of the competition, Nicolas MaPresident of the Huawei APAC Enterprise Business Group (BG), stated, “As an initiative of the Huawei ICT Academy program – which has a total of 272 ICT Academies across APAC – the Huawei ICT Competition operates in 14 representative countries in the region. To date, more than 100,000 digital talents have been trained under the program, and Huawei closely cooperates with 300 universities across APAC. Over the next five years, Huawei will continue to invest in the region, committing $50 million to cultivate a total of 500,000 talents. Huawei is committed to building a healthy ICT talent ecosystem, working with partners, customers and society at large to boost ICT engineering and skills, equipping the region for the future, Ma explained. .
The overall objectives of the competition include cultivating talent to drive the future of digital transformation, promoting effective mapping of talent supply and demand, and developing a strong talent ecosystem. Hailing from 272 leading universities and colleges located in 10 countries, participants competed in one of two technology streams: Network or Cloud.
The competition not only recognizes and rewards students’ achievements in the ICT field, but also provides guidance to help guide their future career development. For participants, the Huawei ICT Contest means more than just friendly rivalry: it’s a journey of exploration, covering the latest ICT technologies and products, as well as emerging industry trends.
The event is honored to invite Prof. Dr. Adiwijaya, Rector of Telkom University (Indonesia) to share his views on the Huawei ICT Academy program. “Telkom University has trained thousands of students, while in 2021 only Telkom University managed to train more than 800 students, the highest number compared to other Huawei ICT Academy partners and we believe that collaboration between universities and industry will further develop the skills of students. become excellent students and provide graduates with high skills to increase their chances of finding employment,” he said.
Liem Agung Risky Sanjaya, one of the former students of Telkom University (Indonesia) participated in Huawei ICT Competition Indonesia 2018-2019 and won the second winner. He then represented Indonesia The team participated and won first place in the Huawei APAC ICT 2019 competition. He said the competition helped him gain the upper hand in job search, especially in companies that used IT technologies. Huawei.
Joe Yanglecturer and head (CET and industrial partnership) of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Singapore Polytechnic, said, “Through the collaboration with Huawei, our graduate students in computer engineering and graduates in electrical and electronic engineering have been able to identify their strengths and weaknesses, hone their ICT skills and improve their competitiveness in future business opportunities. use. The collaboration is a platform to develop an innovative and application-oriented talent pool for Singapore and the global ICT industry.”
Among the students who participated in this year’s preliminary round, 114 progressed to the regional finals, 18 of whom received bronze, silver or gold medals in the Network and Cloud streams. For network track results, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) of Malaysia won first prize while Macao University of Science and Technology (MUST) of Macao and STI College (STI) of Philippines won the second and third prizes of the Huawei ICT Competition Asia Pacific 2022. The Multimedia University (MMU) of Malaysia won the first prize in Cloud track, the second and third prizes went to Nanyang Polytechnics (NYP) of Singapore and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). The 18 winners will continue their journey for the Huawei ICT competition by June 2022 which will be held in Shenzhen, China.
For more information about the Huawei ICT competition, please visit: https://bit.ly/3qmrlzj
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