Huawei Developers Conference marks challenge to traditional ICT software vendor community

First Huawei Developers Conference (#HDC2015) coupled with Huawei’s recent announcement to train 10,000 cloud engineers signals a potential intent to challenge traditional ICT vendors providing enterprise cloud computing, industrial IoT, and telecom NFV and SDN solutions

Huawei is set to host its first Huawei Developers Conference in Shenzhen, China. The two-day conference, which is scheduled to open Oct. 19, is expected to attract more than 2,000 developers and outline Huawei’s strategy for its Enterprise Cloud, “Internet of Things” and Telco Capability Cloud initiatives.

Trillions in shareholder value tied to embracing software development community

Bottom line: billions – if not trillions – of dollars in future shareholder value is tied to carriers, over-the-top service providers, and information and communication technology vendors embracing the software developer community.

1. Competition for scarce developer community resources is increasing.
2. Developer community is critical to longer-term value creation for carriers, ICT vendors and OTT service providers (Facebook, Google, Twitter) and their investors.
3. Over the next five to seven years, billions of dollars in ICT-related (enterprise and telco) software and service revenue is at stake. Traditional software vendors (i.e., Amdocs, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle) are now competing directly with traditional hardware vendors (i.e., Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, Alcatel Lucent, Cisco, Juniper) to help communications service providers – wireless, wireline, cable – compete with OTT service providers.
4. Huawei, a telecommunications equipment maker with more than 170,000 employees and $28 billion in revenue for the first half of 2015 (a 30% increase over the same period a year ago), is aggressively expanding software investment in cloud computing, network functions virtualization, software-defined networking, IoT and telco customer experience capabilities.

Overview of Huawei Developers Conference

In addition to 100-plus technical “open architecture” sessions on Huawei’s cloud, network pipe and device domains, the conference is set to include:

• Thirteen panel sessions in which industry experts share their success stories from acts of co-innovation with Huawei.
• The 6,000-square-meter “Innovation Factory” where interactive demos and hands-on labs will look to inspire innovation and creativity.
• Launch of the Huawei Developer Community and its end-to-end technical support system for developers.
• Developers’ sphere initiatives, featuring discussions on how to build a specialized component for developers in Huawei’s Enterprise Cloud, IoT and Telco Capability Cloud ecosystem.
• Interactive events, like the Developers’ Salon, Developers’ Night and other activities catered to the developer community.

Github co-founder Scott Chacon among keynote speakers discussing open cloud platforms

During his keynote speech at the 5th Huawei Cloud Congress held in September, Huawei’s rotating CEO Eric Xu described the company’s strategy of focusing on “IT infrastructure, software platforms and enterprise cloud services when creating a cloud ecosystem.”

At this year’s developers congress, Huawei plans to showcase how its open cloud computing platform will effectively serve developers and help bring the industry a step closer to an open and dynamic cloud ecosystem.

Below is a sampling of keynote topics and speakers:

• Together, Making Dreams A Reality – Ryan Ding, Huawei/executive director of the board, president of products and solutions.
• Sharing by Industry Leaders – Scott Chacon, Github/co-founder, board member, CIO.
• Huawei Enterprise Cloud, Your Innovation Dreams Start Here – Cao Jianhui, Huawei/GM of public cloud solution.
• Succeeding in the IoT World with Huawei – Ma Haixu, Huawei/president of core network product line, and Jaken Zhu Nanjing IoT Sensor Technology/chairman.
• Using Industry Convergence to Build an Open, Collaborative and Win-Win SDN Ecosystem – Zha Jun, Huawei/president of fixed network product line; and Larry Zhang, F5 Networks/director of field systems engineering, greater China.
• All-around Support for Developers via Integrated Technical and Marketing Resources – Evan Xiao, Huawei/president of P&S strategy and business development department.
• ELTE for Better Connected Industries – Ying Weimin, Huawei/president of research and development wireless network; and Lei Ting, Shanghai DS Communication Equipment/chief engineer.
• Together We Win – Enable Networks to Be More Agile for Services – Swift Liu, Huawei/president of switch and enterprise communications product line; and Yan Jun, BeiMing Software/CTO.
• Opening Telecom Capabilities and Cultivating Innovation – Patrick Zhang, Huawei/president of P&S marketing and solutions department; Zhou Tong, Fujian Telecom/GM of communication capability operations center; Qian Junbo, Zhejiang Mobile/director of Internet and customer response center; Wu Yuhao, Shanghai Unicom/GM of business platform operation center; James Gong, Acnielsen/senior director of telecom and technology vertical; Wang Ming 91160.co/co-founder and VP; and William Lin, ShineMo Technologies/founder.

For more information about telecom software, check out the “Software” channel on RCR Wireless News.  Additionally, check out RCRtv programs:

• Coders – hosted by Victor Agreda
• IoT Innovations – hosted by Chris Hare
• Wi-Fi NOW – hosted by Claus Hetting
• NFV SDN Reality Check – hosted by Dan Meyer
• HetNet Happenings – hosted by Sean Kinney
• Telecom Careers Insider – hosted by Jeff Mucci
• Cell Tower News – hosted by Joey Jackson with news updates from Jarad Matula
• Gigs, Digs and How it Works series