[Barcelona, Spain, February 27, 2019] During Mobile World Congress 2019, the 7th "Beyond Borders" Global User Summit was held at Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona. It attracted representatives from many well-known telecom operators, vertical industries and senior media analysts such as Informa and Ovum to gather in the palace of football arena to discuss cross-border enabling new business growth poles, and discuss cross-border transformation together to break the boundary between telecom and vertical industries, integrate the boundary between the real world and the digital world, and eliminate the boundary between different industries. Pakistan's Minister of Communications Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui attended the summit and delivered opening remarks.
Pakistan's Communications Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui delivered the opening remarks
Zhou Yong, CEO of Hulwhale Technology International, said in his opening speech: "Digital service value has been redefined and the industry ecosystem has been reshaped. We hope that through this summit, we will explore the rich implications of digital transformation and demonstrate how we can help operators innovate their business models by leveraging leading technologies, innovative business formats and benchmarking practices to enable vertical enterprises to maximize the benefits of digital transformation."
Hao Whale Technology International CEO Zhou Yong opening speech
Wang Yiming, president of international business of Alibaba, the partner of Whale Technology in the 2019 Mobile World Congress, said in his speech that innovation in vertical industries will be defined as the next blue ocean -- smart business. Around the topic of how to enable smart business, he said: "Smart business is expected to form the next trillion market, network collaboration and data intelligence become the key to smart business landing. Alibaba will use its strong technological advantages to awaken smart commerce."
Ali Cloud International business President Wang Yiming keynote speech
John Byrne, GlobalData Services Director, analyzes the opportunities and challenges of digital transformation in vertical markets from an industry perspective. Various verticals, including energy, oil, health, healthcare, finance, retail and insurance, are already exploring digital transformation, he said. However, challenges such as the complexity of cloud computing technology, the complexity of operations management, and the lack of talent will hinder the vertical market transition.
In order to better support the whole industry to achieve digital transformation, Whale Technology analyzed how to effectively integrate artificial intelligence, 5G, big data, cloud computing and other technologies from multiple dimensions of products, schemes and projects at the summit to break through adjustment and help transformation.
Hao Whale technology CTO Huang Xianglong (Long Jue) said, Hao whale technology's digital transformation program, using platform + application architecture, relying on the bottom of the ability of Taiwan, and with the ability of open platform, fast, convenient, safe support cloud computing cash, Internet of things vertical application, new retail, digital city, digital enterprise vertical innovation, open up a new business blue ocean for operators.
With the support of Alibaba technology, Digital Telco Maturity Map (DTMM) was launched at this summit. Cao Zhenzhong, chief digital analyst of Hulwhale Technology, said, "DTMM brings together the practical experience of Hulwhale Technology in the field of telecom IT for nearly 20 years and the technical capabilities of advanced Internet companies to provide a set of scientific methodology for the digital transformation of operators and enterprises.
Patrick Reisdorff of Post Luxembourg spoke about his digital transformation journey since 2015. Patrick said the introduction of the Hulwhale Technology ZSmart BSS solution will move all mobile and fixed services onto a unified BSS. At present, the first phase of transformation has been basically completed, and the introduction of ZSmart BSS has greatly shortened the time for traditional business to enter the market.
Oscar Rodrigo Marquez Villar, chief technology officer of America Moil's Global Hitss, and Kam He, Director of Aliyun Solutions and Consulting in the United States, followed with a joint presentation: "Alibaba and Whale Technology will work together to solve customers' problems in the process of digital transformation, create value for customers, and help operators and enterprise customers realize the development of the traditional economy to the digital economy.
Kam He, Director of Aliyun US Solutions and Consulting, and Oscar Rodrigo Marquez Villar, chief Technology Officer of Global Hitss, spoke jointly
Hulwhale Technology has successfully held seven global User summits. The annual summit provides a good communication platform for carrier customers, industry customers, technical experts and senior analysts from all over the world.
