Huawei has partnered with Egypt’s The Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) to launch Huawei Spark program. The program aims to provide opportuntities for deep-tech startups to establish roots in new markets, widen their client reach and co-create with Huawei.
The stipulated coordination seeks to provide promising technology- driven startups in the areas of AI, Data Managemnt, Gaming, eCommerce with free accesss to Huawei’s unique ecosystem of Cloud resources . Additionally, selected start-ups will have the power to access Huawei’s training programs for technical support, including cloud and AI technology, such as AI development framework, database and OS to develop their own applications, services and appliances.
Highlighting the significance of this collaboration, Dr Hossam Othman, VP of ITIDA and Managing Director of TIEC, said: “We are ecstatic to cooperate with Huawei to support startups through their early stages of growth. Such program seeks to tremendously impact our entrepreneurship ecosystem in Egypt; unlocking the path of promising opportunities. It also meets our primary goals of boosting innovation in Egypt, as well as our mandate of building the capacities of young talent on the latest ICT technologies.”
MaBen, Board Member, Managing Director of Public Affairs and Communication Department at Huawei Egypt said, “As a company that continuously strives to empower the technology sector, we are delighted to collaborate with ITIDA to offer multi-tier support to startups and enable them to leverage Huawei technology stack to accelerate the start-up growing rate in Egypt. We, at Huawei, consider such a program as part of the company’s responsibility towards society development.”
He added: “Huawei considers Spark Program’s startups as business partners while providing them with access to Huawei’s wide-ranging, global enterprise client portfolio. Startups will be able to reach the services users through Huawei consumer ecosystem and Huawei App Gallery, and millions of enterprise users across the globe through Huawei’s Cloud marketplace.
