Archive: May 20, 2022

Huawei APAC Digital Innovation Congress: Innovation for a Digital Asia Pacific

[Singapore, May 19, 2022] The Huawei APAC Digital Innovation Congress, jointly held by Huawei and the ASEAN Foundation, began today, gathering over 1,500 government officials, experts, researchers, partners, and analysts from more than 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The congress explores the future of digital innovation and the digital economy. Topics included ongoing advancements in ICT, speeding up digital transformation across industries, as well as green and low-carbon development.

“The Asia-Pacific region is one of the most culturally and economically vibrant regions in the world,” said Ken Hu, Huawei’s Rotating Chairman, during his opening speech. “It has long played an important role in global economic growth, and now plays an equally important role in digital innovation,” he continued, citing the fact that many APAC countries have elevated digital transformation to a strategic policy level and are actively going green.

“Huawei has deep roots in APAC. We have been serving our customers here for over 30 years, and we are proud to support digital development in the region. Moving forward, we will keep investing heavily in innovation to help our partners in the region meet their strategic development goals. In 2022, we will increase our support for a Green and Digital APAC by promoting digital infrastructure, low-carbon development, and digital inclusion.”

Yang Mee Eng, Executive Director of the ASEAN Foundation, also spoke at the event. “The Huawei APAC Digital Innovation Congress 2022 marks another critical milestone in the ASEAN Foundation-Huawei partnership to continue creating a talent development-focused learning ecosystem that will help address the digital skills shortage in the region.”

Other guest speakers included Satvinder Singh, Deputy Secretary-General for ASEAN Economic Community; Ajarin Pattanapanchai, Permanent Secretary of Thailand’s Ministry of Digital Economy and Society; Dr. H. Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, BBA, MBA, Indonesia’s Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy; Dato’ Sri Dr. Adham Bin Baba, Malaysia’s Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation; and Mustafa Jabbar, Bangladesh’s Minister of Posts and Telecommunications. Each speaker shared their goals and prospects for the future of digital transformation, and gave insight into how top-level digital strategy has helped shape the digital economy in their own countries – and in ASEAN as a whole.

Simon Lin, President of Huawei’s Asia Pacific Region, gave a speech on the abundance of digital opportunities in APAC. He spoke about the company’s mission, “In Asia-Pacific, for Asia-Pacific”, under which Huawei is committed to becoming a key contributor to the digital economy in Asia-Pacific, and working with its customers and partners to build a better green digital life.

Lin said, “Huawei hopes to help Asia-Pacific build a leading and green infrastructure, create a thriving industry ecosystem, and empower an inclusive and sustainable Asia-Pacific.”

According to Lin, Huawei has provided connectivity for more than 90 million households and one billion mobile users in Asia-Pacific. Huawei’s IaaS market share ranks No. 4 in the emerging Asia-Pacific market, and Huawei is integrating digital and power electronics technologies to enable energy digitalization for a greener future.

In Asia-Pacific, Huawei has established partnerships with nearly 10,000 enterprise and cloud partners and plans to invest US$100 million in the Spark startup ecosystem. Together with its partners, Huawei has trained 170,000 locals on digital skills, and plans to provide digital training to another 500,000 within five years as part of its efforts to develop a talent ecosystem that can drive the digital economy forward.

200+ Startups and investors to join Startup Summit ‘21 by 72’ in Surat organized by Ivy Growth Associates

18-05-2022: Surat-based IVY Growth Associates in partnership with Sapio Analytics announces ’21 by 72′ Startup Summit and Expo which will bring together more than 200+ startups and investors to the ‘next upcoming startup city’ in India. The expo and summit is going to be held on 17th, 18th and 19th June 2022 at Avadh Utopia in Surat. ’21 by 72′ is an event showcasing over 200+ Start-Ups/investors, attracting 5000+ attendees from across the country and globe, focused on developing the Start-Up EcoSystem where the National & International Investors interact with VCs, Angel Networks, Entrepreneurs from across the Globe. This summit will establish Surat’s, India’s ninth largest city, image as the renowned business and startup hub for the world.

The summit is made in a format where there are multiple activities planned for the startups, right from pitching events, to exhibitions, round-table discussions, and 1-o-1 networking. ’21 by 72′ Startup Summit and Expo has already garnered the interests of speakers and participants like Mahavir Pratap Sharma, Deepanshu Manchanda of ZappFresh, Anuj Parekh of HealthySure, Sheetal Soni of MI Capital and Jatin Kataria of We Group who are serial entrepreneurs, investors and mentors!

The startup summit and expo is aligned with IVY Growth Associates’ vision of nurturing and accelerating 500+ startups in India and globally by 2030. To this effect, IVY Growth has collaborated with Atal Innovation Centers and Incubation centers across India, where they will scout and target to make 50 startups market-ready every year. Talking about the startup summit, Sharad Todi, Founder Member, said “Over the past few months since Inception of IVY Growth Associates, our team has been working with a vision of creating an impact in the Global Startup Ecosystem and have invested and mentored 40+ startups. We have organized events in cities like Delhi, Guwahati, Dubai & London to create an awareness about Startups as an asset class and growth trajectory of the Indian ecosystem. With our first ever summit in Surat ’21 by 72′, we aim to create a recognition for the diamond city in the startup ecosystem by bridging the gap between startups and investors. We aim to attract Investors and Startups from Pan India and globally to collaborate and create value for all the stakeholders involved.”

The delightful city of Surat is rapidly becoming one of the top business destinations in India. Surat is one of the Special Economic Zones of India, with a clear goal to increase foreign investments in India. Talking about choosing Surat for the summit, Shubhangi Toshniwal, Founder Member of IVY Growth Associates said, “Adjudged as the “Best Smart City in India” for consecutively two years, Surat has grown to become one of the largest hubs for various businesses of western India. Surat will be the world’s fastest growing city from 2019 to 2035. With India’s second largest Diamond Bourse coming up in Surat, the city is sure to shine brightest among any other Indian destination.”

Qlik Announces 2022 Global Transformation Awards

Philadelphia / India – May 20, 2022 – Qlik^® today announced the winners of its annual Global Transformation Awards, recognizing customers who are leveraging Active Intelligence™ through Qlik for transformation and impact. The awards were presented by Qlik’s EVP, Global Partnerships and Chief of Staff to CEO Poornima Ramaswamy at QlikWorld, the company’s global customer and partner event. The winners represent a cross-section of organizations from various industries and NGOs that are leveraging Qlik to activate their data for outcomes.

“Data is the true transformation agent in today’s organizations and we’re proud to recognize these leaders’ efforts in activating their data for outcomes,” said Mike Capone, Qlik CEO. “These stories show the real-world impact any organization can realize when leveraging Qlik as a core of their strategies to turn raw data into value.”

The 2022 Qlik Global Transformation Award Winners: 

• Leroy Merlin:Leroy Merlin is a multinational retailer with presence in over 12 countries, supporting people around the world in improving their living environment and lifestyle by designing and achieving the home of their dreams. The company has over 130,000 employees and supports 42 superstores throughout Brazil, which has seen a significant and continued increase in business due to COVID-19 and the rush for home improvement projects. Leroy Merlin Brazil leverages over six hundred Qlik Cloud^® analytics applications to align and drive performance across every department, including Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing and growth projects. The organization has also adopted Qlik Catalog^® to help provide the business with on-demand access to analytics-ready data to fuel the delivery of trustworthy, actionable data across all departments.

• Mayborn Group:For nearly sixty years, Mayborn Group’s mission has been to become the world’s most-loved baby company. As the parent group to the well-loved brand Tommee Tippee, the company has been solving real issues faced by parents the world over with inventive and innovative baby products that transform family life. The organization has been executing a digital transformation effort over the past few years and has accelerated its transition to Active Intelligence through the combined power of Qlik Data Integration, Qlik Cloud analytics and a global Data Literacy program. Mayborn Group has realized incredible efficiency gains and six-figure savings by consolidating systems and leveraging Qlik to drive its global analytics center of excellence strategy.

• Siemens Healthineers: Siemens Healthineers is a leading medtech company committed to helping fight the world’s most threatening diseases. By constantly bringing breakthrough innovations to market, Siemens Healthineers helps healthcare professionals deliver high-quality care to make the best possible decisions – from quick, early diagnoses to the most effective treatments and follow-ups. Qlik is the foundation of its efforts to elevate the ability of everyone at

 Siemens Healthineers to leverage state-of-the-art technology for BI reporting and analytics. The organization is now enabling over 13,000 employees every year with Qlik, with hundreds of experienced citizen developers in the business spread out to over forty countries around the world. With the recent move to Qlik Sense^® SaaS, Siemens Healthineers expects to accelerate their transformation strategy through the cloud while enabling team members with recent innovations such as Qlik AutoML™ and Qlik Application Automation^®.

• Tata Consultancy Services: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over fifty years. A part of the Tata group, India’s largest multinational business group, TCS has over 592,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in forty-six countries. TCS has transformed their internal processes with an enterprise-wide deployment of over seven hundred Qlik dashboards across more than seventy groups to drive data democratization and bring the power of actionable insights into the hands of 20,000 decision makers, including the CXO level. With Qlik, TCS has realized incredible efficiency gains, with 80% faster availability of critical operational information, reduction of reporting development from months to weeks and 90% reduction in analytics related data storage requirements. Most recently, Qlik enabled tracking and proactive measures related to organization-wide COVID vaccination efforts for more than 400,000 employees, not only reducing disease spread but saving $2 million in people hours due to reduced leaves over a five-month period in 2021.

This year for the first time we are also proud to celebrate two NGOs doing truly impactful work leveraging Qlik Cloud.

• Amref: With headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, Amref Health Africa is the largest Africa-based healthcare nonprofit, serving millions of people every year across thirty-five countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Starting as the Flying Doctors bringing surgical services to remote communities, Amref now focuses on strengthening health systems and training African health workers to respond to the continent’s most critical health challenges. Amref uses Qlik to deliver better health outcomes through evidence-based decision-making and drive more impact in target communities through increasing transparency. For example, Amref is currently leveraging Qlik to monitor COVID-19 vaccine distribution across different countries in Africa, which helps to identify vulnerable populations and support closing the vaccine inequity gap across the continent.

• Engage Together: Engage Together^® is an organization focused on ending human trafficking and protecting vulnerable populations around the world. Created by the Alliance for Freedom, Restoration, and Justice^® (AFRJ) and powered by Altus™, the organization offers a transformational community assessment and mapping tool, known as the Engage Together Project, for communities to strengthen insights, strategies, partnerships and resources to combat human trafficking. Working with partner Pomerol Partners, Qlik is delivering an analytics community assessment and mapping tool to enable community and state leaders across the United States to better understand and partner together on strategies and resource allocation to engage communities on minimizing trafficking risks, strengthening intervention efforts, and increasing care for all victims of labor and sex trafficking.