Huawei Cloud drives intelligence for Singapore industries

With the rapid advancement of technology, organisations are now looking to make the best out of their digitalisation journeys. This point was highlighted at the Huawei Cloud Summit 2025 under the theme Accelerate Intelligence, Ignite Smarter Future.  

Enterprises in Singapore have adopted cloud to enhance their operations and promote innovation while tackling challenges with the use of technologies. 

Speaking at the event, Huawei International’s CEO, Maxi Wang said: “In the era of intelligence, Singapore has always valued practical innovation [that] lifts productivity, streamlines operations, and empowers every individual to grow”. 

Huawei Cloud Asia Pacific’s President, Sunny Shang, added that Singapore was a crucial innovation hub for the region and globally, and it was home to Huawei Cloud’s five local data centres, known as Available Zones (AZs).  

The sessions at the summit shared successful case studies of companies leveraging Huawei solutions and presented innovations that can help to accelerate intelligence across different domains.  

For a smarter Singapore 

Huawei Cloud Singapore’s Managing Director, Gigi Hu, noted that those enterprises that have successfully leveraged Huawei Cloud technology to their operations have begun expanding their business regionally.  

She added that Huawei Cloud would continue to provide professional services to the public sector, fintech, and internet companies to help them plan and design solutions that fit their needs. 

Huawei’s current goals are to empower around 10 enterprises to implement multi-cloud solutions and achieve cloud neutrality, and support over 50 Singaporean companies to upgrade from cloud adoption to intelligent transformation, shared Hu. 

Currently, Huawei Cloud has 500 technology partners and 50 service partners in Singapore, reflecting the continuous collaboration locally over the past 23 years, she added. 

Leveraging data with cloud and intelligence 

The pull toward more intelligent solutions stemmed from the problem of segmented data that customers faced, shared Huawei Cloud Marketing’s Director, Aka Dai.  

He shared that while cloud adoption was an established trend, the proliferation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools often resulted in siloed data that made it difficult for organisations to leverage the data stored on the cloud. 

The solution was a one-stop service capability stack that enabled customers to optimise their use of data and intelligence in the cloud by integrating data through Huawei Cloud’s data engineering services and KooSearch Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solution, Dai added.  

Additionally, the full stack integrates intelligence across business functions to facilitate collaboration within organisations and turn ideas to real outcomes, he noted. 

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Cloud for good  

Huawei International’s Managing Director, Frank Guo, noted that the efforts to implement technological innovation for sustainable development, nature conservation, and everyday life, continue as a core commitment for the company. 

Guo added that the “Cloud for Good” aimed to enable the continuous growth of digital talent locally. 

Through hackathons and competitions like Tech4City, young innovators in Singapore improve their tech skills to bring ideas to tangible solutions for the public good.  

The flagship competition takes place annually in Singapore under different themes that align with the national objectives of leveraging technology for a digital and future-resilient society. 

Some of the projects developed through this initiative and supported by Huawei’s mentorship and technology capabilities have been trialled in real life to assess their impact. 

These included the Sign Language Virtual Assistant (SiLViA) which helps hard-of-hearing commuters to travel independently and safely on MRT stations in Singapore. 

Implementing technology to solve real-world problems also provides an opportunity to train local talent by involving them in the development of each solution, noted AI Singapore’s AI Innovation Director, Lawrence Liew. 

“We will continue working with our industry and higher education partners to equip the local workforce with globally competitive skills, helping them stay relevant in a fast-changing world,” Wang concluded.