Huawei Launches Exclusive ICT Leaders Roundtable at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on March 1.

BARCELONA, Spain, March 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei partnered with Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com), the research division of Light Reading, to host an exclusive ICT Leaders Roundtable on March 1, 2015 at the Renaissance Barcelona Fira Hotel in Barcelona, in conjunction with Mobile World Congress. 

Designed for ICT leaders from communications service providers, IT companies and digital services companies, the roundtable, packed with over 50 CXOs, senior executives and specialists, discussed the core issues that are changing the business foundations for the communications industry. This includes ICT transformation as it relates to digital operations, internal IT transformation, and network/IT Infrastructure as well as how the transformation changes/impacts CT/IT landscape. In addition, Heavy Reading presented the results of a new worldwide survey of network operator professionals' views on ICT transformation strategies and challenges. 

Dr. Liang Hua, Senior Vice President of Huawei & President of Global Technical Services, gave an opening speech on the future of ICT industry. He was joined by consultants from Heavy Reading: Patrick Donegan, Chief Analyst; Caroline Chappell, Principal Analyst, Cloud & NFV; Gabriel Brown, Senior Analyst, Mobile, and Jim Hodges, Senior Analyst, Network Transformation.

Key issues discussed in the roundtable included:

• Information and communications technology (ICT) transformation, focusing on the business value of ICT transformation to service operators
• Business and technology strategies that operators are implementing to achieve ICT transformation
• The key challenges – and potential solutions – to creating and execting on ICT transformation

Heavy Reading gave an exclusive insight into the pre-event survey results by Chief Analyst Patrick Donegan.  Additionally, the key takeaways from the round table will be incorporated into the white paper that will be released during Mobile World Congress."

For more information about the ICT Leaders Roundtable contact Amy Averbook at [email protected]. 

About Heavy Reading

Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com), the research division of Light Reading, offers deep analysis of emerging telecom trends to network operators, technology suppliers, and investors. Its product portfolio includes in-depth reports that address critical next-generation technology and service issues, market trackers that focus on the telecom industry's most critical technology sectors, exclusive worldwide surveys of network operator decision-makers that identify future purchasing and deployment plans, and a rich array of custom and consulting services that give clients the market intelligence needed to compete successfully in the global telecom industry. 

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to build a better connected world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the information society, and collaborative contributor to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei's 170,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

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