Huawei successfully hosted its Cloud Summit Northern Africa 2025 in Cairo, bringing together more than 600 leaders from governments, businesses, and tech ecosystems across over ten countries to envision a digitally empowered future for the region.
This year’s summit showcased Huawei Cloud Northern Africa’s remarkable growth since launching its Egypt Region in 2024, the first public cloud region in Northern Africa. In just one year, the region grew 140%, serving over 300 enterprise customers, partnering with 200 ecosystem players, and empowering 15,000 developers in AI-enabled transformation.
Highlights included the unveiling of Huawei’s “Five Inclusive” strategy, a forward-thinking framework designed to enable cloud-powered development across connectivity, governance, education, security, and energy, ensuring that AI and digital technologies become affordable and accessible to all sectors.
Speakers stressed practical innovation. Jacqueline Shi, President of Global Marketing & Sales Service for Huawei Cloud, emphasized Huawei’s commitment to reducing barriers to AI adoption and helping enable shared intelligence. Felix Feng, President of Huawei Cloud Northern Africa, outlined the region’s core plans: seamless cloud deployment, regionally tailored industry solutions, and competitive AI pipelines for local enterprises.
Huawei also previewed a new availability zone (AZ) scheduled for launch in 2026 in Cairo Region, aimed at boosting reliability and accelerating local cloud services. For enterprise users, Hu Hang announced Cloud Stack 8.5, a locally deployable hybrid cloud solution offering 120+ ready cloud services and AI tools tailored to government and business clients.
In line with its “Cloud for Good” mission, Huawei highlighted partnerships supporting regional startups and education. Notably, the Egyptian startup Intella, developer of an AI-powered Arabic speech-to-text engine covering 25 dialects was spotlighted as a success story. Huawei also launched the Egypt Developers Community Appointment program to integrate AI, cloud, 5G, and big data training into universities and vocational platforms, expanding career pathways in tech.
