Huawei, a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, will host this year’s SAMENA Council Leaders’ Summit for the seventh consecutive year. The 2020 event, which is organised by SAMENA Telecommunications Council, is set to take place on July 9, with leaders from multiple country clusters to participate virtually. The agenda of the Leaders’ Summit 2020 has been defined under the theme, ‘5G+X: Harnessing 5G across Industries for Investment Revival.’
The annual SAMENA Telecommunications Council Leaders’ Summit brings together ICT leaders and decision makers, including policy makers, heads of regulatory authorities and premier global ICT development bodies, CEOs of large telecom operator groups, top-level executives from telecommunications service providers, professionals, experts from vertical ICT segments and more, from South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, Europe and beyond. Discussions during the summit will focus on driving digital development throughout the region, learning from leading experiences across the world especially in the 5G and other advanced technologies such as AI, cloud and big data, to take stock of the rising complexities arising within the digital ecosystem in order to overcome challenges and seize new business opportunities in the ME region.