Over 20 live de­mo ex­hibits show­cas­ing ICT so­lu­tions for var­i­ous sec­tors will be pre­sent­ed at the Huawei Bet­ter Con­nect­ed ICT In­no­va­tion Ex­hi­bi­tion.

Huawei, a lead­ing glob­al in­for­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tions (ICT) provider has an­nounced that its ICT Ex­hi­bi­tion 2015 will come to T&T for the first time on No­vem­ber 24�25 at the Ban­quet & Con­fer­ence Cen­tre, Movie Towne, Port-of-Spain.

The In­no­va­tion Ex­hi­bi­tion is Huawei's glob­al road­show and it has been host­ed in sev­er­al coun­tries around the world, in­clud­ing Aus­tralia, Egypt, Malaysia, Colom­bia and Pana­ma. The two-day event will en­ter­tain hun­dreds of part­ners and cus­tomers in gov­ern­ment and the ICT and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions sec­tor, as well as oth­er guests with lead­er­ship talks, pre­sen­ta­tions and prod­uct launch­es and dis­plays. Dur­ing the ex­hi­bi­tion, vis­i­tors will have ac­cess to Huawei's lead­ing prod­ucts and so­lu­tions to ver­ti­cal in­dus­tries and ad­vanced tech­nolo­gies, in­clud­ing Da­ta Cen­tre, 4.5G, Big IT, Safe City and In­tel­li­gent Trans­porta­tion.

The road­show al­so un­der­scores Huawei's role as a leader in pro­vid­ing in­sights on key in­no­va­tions dri­ving the glob­al tech­nol­o­gy in­dus­try, as the com­pa­ny an­nu­al­ly re-in­vests be­tween 10 per cent to 15 per cent of its rev­enue in­to ICT in­no­va­tion re­search and de­vel­op­ment. It al­so shows Huawei as an en­abler of ICT for en­ter­prise cus­tomers to lever­age emerg­ing ICT trends that will in­crease their ef­fi­cien­cy and com­pet­i­tive­ness and dri­ve more in­no­va­tions with­in their busi­ness.

"Trinidad and To­ba­go is very pro­gres­sive in its ICT de­vel­op­ment and am­bi­tions, so it was the nat­ur­al choice for our com­pa­ny to se­lect this coun­try to host our ICT In­no­va­tion Ex­hi­bi­tion for 2015," said Ja­son Deng, gen­er­al man­ag­er of Huawei's T&T of­fice.

"ICT is dri­ving tremen­dous ad­vance­ment of our so­ci­ety. Ac­cord­ing to re­cent sta­tis­tics, dig­i­tal in­fra­struc­ture, rep­re­sent­ed by the broad­band In­ter­net, has sur­passed high­way in­fra­struc­ture in terms of eco­nom­ic im­por­tance, con­tribut­ing over 35 per cent to glob­al eco­nom­ic out­put. ICT is play­ing a more and more cru­cial role in help­ing na­tions world­wide de­vel­op their economies and en­hance their over­all na­tion­al com­pet­i­tive­ness.

"In T&T, the na­tion­al ICT vi­sion is to cre­ate 'a dy­nam­ic knowl­edge-based so­ci­ety, dri­ven by the in­no­v­a­tive use of ICTs to en­hance the so­cial, eco­nom­ic and cul­tur­al de­vel­op­ment of the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go'. The cur­rent Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Colm Im­bert, dur­ing his pre­sen­ta­tion in the 2015-2016 Na­tion­al Bud­get, has recog­nised the im­por­tance of ICT to the growth of the T&T econ­o­my, say­ing that: 'A first-world IT net­work is need­ed to dri­ve de­vel­op­ment'. Our ICT Road­show, will show­case Huawei's so­lu­tions and rich ex­pe­ri­ence that can help the gov­ern­ment achieve their ICT am­bi­tions."

Deng con­tin­ued: "The theme of our road­show is In­no­v­a­tive ICT for a Bet­ter Con­nect­ed World be­cause Huawei strong­ly be­lieves that we must pro­vide ubiq­ui­tous broad­band con­nec­tiv­i­ty, en­able ag­ile in­no­va­tions every­where and bring a su­pe­ri­or tech­nol­o­gy ex­pe­ri­ence to every­one at an af­ford­able price. We want to work with T&T on their jour­ney of na­tion­al dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion."

Deng al­so sees the road­show as a means of fur­ther in­creas­ing Huawei's brand aware­ness since the launch of its smart­phone de­vices in­to the T&T mar­ket in Au­gust of this year.

Since Huawei start­ed its op­er­a­tions in T&T in 2006, the com­pa­ny has sup­port­ed the ad­vance­ment of the coun­try's telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions in­dus­try. In or­der to sus­tain the long-term, sus­tain­able growth of the lo­cal sec­tor, Huawei has ex­tend­ed its reach to help pro­vide train­ing to the lo­cal mar­ket to trans­fer its knowl­edge in the aim of in­creas­ing the com­pet­i­tive edge of the lo­cal ICT tal­ent in the glob­al mar­ket.

Ear­li­er this month, Huawei signed a three-year mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing (MOU) with the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies St Au­gus­tine which, among oth­er col­lab­o­ra­tive ini­tia­tives, will in­clude joint re­search ac­tiv­i­ties; stag­ing of joint sem­i­nars; con­fer­ences and aca­d­e­m­ic meet­ings; "Ed­u­ca­tion Abroad" pro­grammes for both grad­u­ate and un­der­grad­u­ate stu­dents (in­clud­ing ex­changes and in­tern­ships); tech­ni­cal cer­ti­fi­ca­tion; and col­lab­o­ra­tive aca­d­e­m­ic pro­grammes which in­volve an el­e­ment of cul­tur­al ex­change.

Deng says that the com­pa­ny will con­tin­ue to ac­tive­ly par­tic­i­pate in ini­tia­tives that will de­vel­op the lo­cal telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion and ICT in­dus­try and en­hance com­mu­ni­ca­tion for all.

En­trance to Huawei's ICT Road­show 2015 is by in­vi­ta­tion on­ly.

Huawei prod­ucts on dis­play

Some of the fol­low­ing prod­ucts will be show­cased:

�2 Next Game FMC2.0

�2 Serv­er & Stor­age So­lu­tion

�2 Mod­u­lar UPS so­lu­tion

�2 Open Cloud for Busi­ness Trans­for­ma­tion

�2 In­tel­li­gent Video Sur­veil­lance So­lu­tion

�2 Uni­fied Com­mu­ni­ca­tion So­lu­tion

�2 Easy­On Video Con­fer­enc­ing So­lu­tion

�2 Dig­i­tal in­Cloud & Traf­fic Mon­eti­sa­tion