Huawei Releases the AI Developer Enablement Program
[Shanghai, China, October 12, 2018] Huawei has released its AI Developer Enablement Program at HUAWEI CONNECT 2018. The program will help Huawei collaborate with developers, partners, universities, and research institutions. Huawei will use the program to build a better development ecosystem that can support AI resources, platforms, courses, and joint solutions. Huawei aims to work with partners to build an affordable, effective, reliable, and inclusive AI ecosystem.
According to Zheng Yelai, vice president of Huawei and president of Huawei Cloud BU, Huawei’s AI Developer Enablement Program offers a platform for technical communication, talent training, and innovation to developers, tutors, and Huawei partners.
For Developers, the program covers the following:
- 20-hour free introductory training
- Three-week beginner AI training camp
- AI developer contests
- Innovation incubation camp for top talent to help transform R&D success into commercial applications
Huawei will support its partners by:
- Building joint solutions based on Huawei’s AI computing platform and development platform to promote AI application in multiple industries
- Setting up an AI promotion alliance to build a joint innovation lab
- Providing 1000 sets of free development environments, including development modules and boards
- Providing the first 20+ partners with expert resources, supported joint solutions, and extra support for AI product launches and technical implementation
- Sharing market resources with partners, and cooperating closely to further expand the market
For universities and research institutes, Huawei’s AI talent development plan includes:
- Investing over 140 million USD (including HUAWEI CLOUD AI resources and AI suites) in AI talent education.
- Cooperating with universities and scientific research institutes to develop AI courses, publish text books, and support scientific research and talent training.
- Helping universities and research institutes build AI colleges and institutes, assisting in building AI labs, and participating in AI related programs held by the Ministry of Education.
- Helping universities train AI teachers. Students can take exams to obtain Huawei AI certificates.
- Supporting the participation of universities into Huawei cloud open community, and building a platform for communications between universities, research institutes and Huawei AI experts.
- Offering universities and research institutions the computing power and technology on Huawei’s AI platform, to promote scientific research and exploration in the AI field.
At present, Huawei has started developing AI talent at eight universities in China, including Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences of Tsinghua University, the University of Science and Technology of China, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanjing University, Southeast University, Xidian University, and the Institute of Acoustics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Huawei’s university partners, and business partners including Visystem, Gosuncn, iLumintel, WINNER Technology, Riseye, Malong Technologies, SenseTime, Seemmo, Yitu Tech, YISA, Exocr Technologies, Cloud Walk, and Intellifusion are at Huawei Connect this year to witness the launch of Huawei’s AI Developer Enablement Program.
HUAWEI CONNECT 2018 – “Activate Intelligence” – is held at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center and Expo Center from October 10 to 12. This year’s HUAWEI CONNECT conference is designed to help all businesses and organizations step over the threshold and stake their claim in the intelligent world. You will be joined by the best minds in the industry – including global ICT leaders, industry experts, and ecosystem partners – to chart the way forward and explore new opportunities.
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