The Huawei Cloud Summit Northern Africa 2025 has concluded on a high note, bringing together more than 600 public and private sector leaders, along with strategic ecosystem partners from over ten countries. Designed as a key platform to shape the region’s digital future, the summit focused on leveraging cutting-edge cloud and AI technologies to accelerate economic growth and foster inclusive development.
Since the official launch of its Egypt Region in 2024, Huawei Cloud has experienced a 140% growth across Northern Africa, supporting over 300 clients and 200 partners, and training more than 15,000 developers. This strong momentum has positioned Huawei Cloud as the leading public cloud provider in the region.
“AI is a unique opportunity for Northern Africa to leapfrog into the future,” said Jacqueline Shi, President of Global Marketing and Sales Service at Huawei Cloud, during her keynote. “Our mission is to make AI and cloud services accessible, affordable, and sector-specific, so every country in the region can build intelligent infrastructure and unlock digital transformation across all industries.”
Huawei Cloud’s strategy, dubbed “Five Inclusives,” focuses on providing equitable access to digital services in five critical areas: connectivity, public services, education, security, and energy. These pillars aim to bridge the digital divide through intelligent, secure, and economically sustainable cloud adoption.
Felix Feng, President of Huawei Cloud Northern Africa, outlined the company’s three-part strategy: simplifying cloud deployment and management, combining global best practices with local insights to deliver tailored solutions, and offering next-gen computing infrastructure to empower local enterprises to lead in AI innovation.
Jo Xu, General Manager of Huawei Cloud Egypt, announced the upcoming launch of a new Availability Zone (AZ) within the Cairo Region by 2026, promising enhanced performance and greater cloud reliability across Northern Africa.
Juan Yong, Deputy Director of Global Solution Sales, highlighted Huawei Cloud’s latest full-stack innovations built around AI. This includes ModelArts Studio, a Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform for streamlined AI model development, and additional cloud-native services like GaussDB, CodeArts, and MetaStudio, supporting sectors from DevSecOps to digital content creation.
To meet the growing demand for secure and flexible hybrid cloud infrastructure, Hu Hang, General Manager of Global Business at Huawei Hybrid Cloud, introduced Huawei Cloud Stack 8.5, a solution offering over 120 preconfigured services deployable on-premises—tailored for advanced applications like cloud-native development, AI, and big data.
Beyond innovation, Huawei Cloud continues to align with its “Cloud for Good” philosophy. Aka Dai, Director of Huawei Cloud Marketing, spotlighted the success of Egyptian AI start-up Intella, which developed the world’s most accurate Arabic speech recognition engine using Huawei Cloud resources. Today, the platform supports 25 dialects and sets new standards for linguistic innovation across the Arab world.
In terms of talent development, Huawei Cloud has formed partnerships with local institutions such as ITIDA, NTI, ITI, and major Egyptian universities. At the summit, Huawei launched the Egypt Developers Community Appointment, integrating the latest in cloud, AI, 5G, and big data into academic programs, while also offering training in soft skills and freelancing. Among the success stories, Manetho, winner of the Huawei Developer Competition Egypt 2024, created an AI-powered app that translates hieroglyphics. Now featured at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, it will soon be deployed at the Grand Egyptian Museum.
As the summit concluded, Huawei Cloud reaffirmed its commitment to empowering governments, businesses, and developers to embrace intelligent transformation — across education, public services, connectivity, and security — paving the way for a more inclusive, sustainable, and digitally advanced Northern Africa.
