Huawei Global Intelligent Education Summit 2020

Huawei Global Intelligent Education Summit 2020 was held on 27^th Aug 2020.  The theme named “Embracing the New Era of Intelligent Education”.  It aims to explore the use of cutting-edge technologies — including Artificial Intelligence (AI), 5G, cloud computing, big data, and high-speed networking — that promote the digital transformation of the education industry and facilitate innovation in teaching management.  Mr. Thomas Xu (VP, Huawei Global Government Business Unit) was the first speaker and his topic entitled “Technological Innovations Boost Digital Transformation of Education 2020”.

Firstly, Mr. Xu introduced education models on learning, contents and teaching which transferred to more personalized.  And he briefed three challenges of such model transformation process and they were ‘Connectivity’, ‘Efficiency’ and ‘Resources’.  

And then Mr. Xu proposed ICT that could improve education models transformation to achieve diversified teaching approaches.  Finally, he introduced Huawei’s Technological Innovations Facilitate Education Transformation which was a complex and systematic project.

Dr. Tao Zhan (Director, UNESCO Institute for IT in Education (IITE)) was the second speaker and his presentation title named “How COVID-19 is Reshaping Education Today and Tomorrow”.   Firstly, he mentioned the challenges and UNESCO’s response because of the world education system not prepared for the pandemic. 

Secondly, Dr. Zhan mentioned the leassons-learned from COVID-19 pandemic that was to accelerate digitalization of education.

Finally, Dr. Zhan concluded that going digital was a new era of education.

The third speaker was Mr. Fahem al Nuaimi (CEO, Ankabut, UAE) and his presentation was “Activate Intelligent Era - Intelligent Education Cloud”.   In the beginning, Mr. Nuaimi introduced the top 5 trends in education industry.

Then he briefed how ICT drive intelligent education that would be no longer passive learning, fixed classroom, difficult to find knowledge, lack of teaching resource and poor management.

Lastly, Mr. Fahem al Nuaimi summarized Ankabut Cloud Education including Cloud Business Transformation, Operations Reliability, Unified Management and Service Innovation.

Prof. Wu Peng (Director of the Principal's Office, Director of the Data Resource Management Office, Soochow University) was the fourth speaker and his presentation entitled “On-Cloud Soochow University - Education of the Future”.  Firstly, Prof. Wu Peng briefed the on-cloud Soochow University was Digital, Mirroring and Intelligent.  He said digital transformation needed Mindset, Architecture and Mechanism transformation together.

Then Prof. Wu mentioned for cases as follows:

Case 1: On-Cloud Classroom

Case 2: 360 degree Smart Classroom

Case 3: On-Cloud Growth System

Case 4: Operation Center (On-Cloud Brain)

Finally, Prof. Wu expected the future outlook included to create a new campus life, to explore a new form of university and to develop a set of standards for future universities.

Prof. Francisco Herrera (President, Central American Higher Education Council (CSUCA)) was the fifth speaker and his topic was “Consolidating ICT Infrastructure Construction and Embracing Teaching Mode Innovation”. He briefed some challenges of the future teaching and learning, and then pointed out technology was the answer.

He also encouraged to make a better future of scientific research and teaching through ICT innovations.  Lastly, he concluded that technology is the road to the future, especially in campuses.

The last speaker was Mr. Anthony Xu (President of the Education Indsutry of Huawei Global Government Business Unit) and his presentation entitled “Building Better Education World Through ICT Innovations & Release of the Scenario-based Solutions”.  In the beginning, he said ICT is one of key elements for improving the education quality.

And then Mr. Xu introduced Smart Education Hierarchies included three layers and they were Smart Education ICT Infrastructure, Education Application & Platform, and Digital Education Contents.

Finally, he introduced Wi-Fi 6 products and IdeaHub Series to enhance learning experience under Huawei Smart Education Hierarchies in Smart Classroom.

Before end of summit, a Smart Classroom Solution video was played.

The last session was panel discussion.

Mr. Augustine Chiew (Global Government Industry Expert, Huawei Global Global Government Business Unit)

Mr. Martin Reil (CEO, Microstaxx GmbH)

Mr. Allen Zeng (Director of Equipment and Asset Management Office, CUHK, Shenzhen)

Mr. Frank Huang (Senior Consultant of Solutions Education Dept. Global Government BU, Enterprise BG, Huawei)

Reference:

Huawei (HK) - https://e.huawei.com/hk/

Huawei Global Intelligent Education Summit 2020  - https://e.huawei.com/topic/intelligent-education-2020/en/index.html

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