Four UAE winners head for Huawei Middle East ICT Competition final

The national winners in the UAE from this year’s Huawei Middle East ICT Competition, have now been announced, with one team – comprising three students and one professor – participating in the regional finals of this year’s event. The annual competition welcomes thousands of college and university students from the UAE and the wider Middle East, enhancing students’ future employment through knowledge sharing on the latest ICT developments.

Due to social distancing rules, this year’s Huawei Middle East ICT Competition saw students participate virtually in the annual competition. All registered students took part in a Preliminary Competition and Training Enablement, followed by a National Exam that was held online in the country.

The winners of this year’s competition were Amir Abdella Mohammed Salih and Yaphet Elias Weldegebriel from Khalifa University– Abu Dhabi and Aaesha Almansoori from UAE University. They received honors such as a Huawei certification and other awards. This year’s winning teams were chosen from a field of 23 finalists in the UAE, who competed following the preliminary round involving more than 215 competition entries from several universities in UAE. 

Congratulating the winners, Jiawei Liu, CEO of Huawei UAE, said: “Our congratulations go out to the winning national teams as well as everyone who participated in this year’s competition. Such robust participation has demonstrated the immense capacity for the UAE’s youth to combine innovation and creativity in using digital solutions. Building local ICT talent is an investment in the future of the country itself, and will ultimately equip the UAE to better pursue digital transformation, their national development plans, and ambitious visions. This year’s competition was well-received amongst the student community in the UAE, who adapted to the virtual edition with great ease, demonstrating their flexibility and innovative spirit.”

Huawei is committed to growing the global ICT talent ecosystem by investing in youth and providing development and training opportunities that will enable them to become leaders in the ICT field. Through this worldwide social responsibility initiative, Huawei seeks to enhance knowledge transfer, promote a greater understanding of and interest in the technology sector, and to encourage regional participation in the growth of the digital community and economy.

In 2020 specifically, virtual activities such as skills-development training and roadshows have been conducted in coordination with Huawei’s state-of-the-art labs and leveraging Huawei’s global experts worldwide. The addition of an Innovation Competition in 2020 has also helped raise the bar in promoting local innovation, supporting participants in using cutting-edge ICT platforms to create valuable and meaningful applications for society.​