During MWC Barcelona 2025, Chinese technology conglomerate, Huawei, redefined the future of industrial digitalization and intelligent transformation. At the Industrial Digital and Intelligent Transformation Summit, the tech giant unveiled 83 groundbreaking initiatives for 71 key scenarios, showcasing its commitment to driving global innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions.
In his keynote, Leo Chen, Huawei’s Corporate Senior Vice President and President of Enterprise Sales, outlined four critical pathways to accelerate industrial intelligence. Chen highlighted the significance of integrating advanced technologies into industry scenarios and building a target ICT architecture for industrial intelligence based on industry requirements, pain points, and development stages.
He emphasized the need to establish advanced artificial intelligence (AI)-oriented ICT infrastructure to drive AI workload growth and develop high-performance AI products that integrate with open-source models, enhance AI development toolchains, and collaborate with industry partners. Targeted ICT talent training also remains pivotal to Huawei’s key pathways to accelerate industry-specific innovations in the intelligent era.
To promote inclusive AI adoption, Huawei introduced AI inference appliances that support over 50 mainstream large models. These appliances streamline access to AI applications, enabling the seamless deployment of advanced technologies.
Recognizing the critical role of skilled professionals in the journey to the intelligent future, Huawei launched two major initiatives to support ICT talent development: the Industry Elites in the ICT Classroom Program for enterprise customers and the Leading ICT Talent Cultivation Program for universities. These strategic programs aim to equip ICT professionals with the expertise to integrate advanced technologies.
Delivering Industrial Intelligence Solutions
During the summit, Huawei launched 10 major innovations in collaboration with its customers and partners. Based on Huawei’s industrial intelligence reference architecture, these solutions aim to accelerate intelligent transformation and address specific challenges across various industries, including public utilities, government, education, finance, electric power, transportation, oil and gas, chemicals, and retail.
Huawei’s Inclusive Connectivity – Digital Village Solution provides last-mile network access for remote areas. Adapting to complex rural environments, the solution integrates six scenario-specific technologies, including internet protocol (IP), passive optical LAN (POL), RuralStar, and microwave systems. By leveraging this solution, Huawei reduced deployment time to 30 days per village while slashing costs by 30%.
Built on a unified government cloud architecture with integrated service, data, and AI platforms, the Public Services Digitalization Solution streamlines access to multiple service access points with a single log in. Offering 23 types of AI-enabled courses across nine ICT disciplines, the Digital Training Solution aims to cultivate global ICT talent by providing a one-stop platform for skill development. By integrating modern technologies, such as 5G, AI, big data, and advanced networks into its curriculum, Huawei is equipping ICT talents with the skills needed to advance in the digital landscape.
Huawei also unveiled the Financial Data Center Resilience Solution based on its RAAS (reliability, availability, autonomy, and security) architecture, which supports cross-domain collaboration between storage, compute, network, and cloud systems to achieve zero data loss and reduce threat-blocking response times. The innovation features zero-trust security and operations, enabling seamless services while ensuring robust security measures. In the electrical power sector, the tech giant’s IDS Solution 2.0 boosts communication reliability from 95% to 99.9%, reducing alarm reporting times from one hour to 3 minutes.
The transportation sector is set to benefit from two major innovations. The Smart Railway Yard and Station Solution’s Trouble of Moving Freight Car Detection System (TFDS) enhances wagon fault recognition rates to 99.99% and boosts rolling stock inspection efficiency by 30%. The innovation halves manual workloads for train maintenance tasks and ensures near-zero missed alarms through intelligent perimeter detection systems. Meanwhile, the Intelligent Multi-Level Port Operations Management Solution significantly reduces report statistics time from weeks to minutes and transforms port operations by enabling an hourly-based benefit indicator analysis. This solution improves operation and management (O&M) efficiency, turning the group data center into a ‘smart brain’.
For the oil and gas industry, Huawei’s Intelligent Central Processing Facilities Solution utilizes edge computing and AI for closed-loop operations from sensing to post-evaluation phases. This innovative solution reduces energy consumption by 30% while boosting management efficiency by 50%. Similarly, the Intelligent Chemicals Solution leverages AI for predictive device maintenance and large-model-based optimization processes. This solution is poised to revolutionize the chemical sector, achieving over 90% automation rates and improving operational efficiency by 20%.
Designed to optimize store networking and improve operational efficiency by up to 30%, Huawei’s Smart Retail Solution 2.0 combines Wi-Fi 7 technology with Internet of Things (IoT)-based electronic shelf labels (ESLs). Through remote radio unit deployments, this solution ensures accurate price adjustments while substantially reducing management costs.
Driving Global Collaboration
Global leaders from various sectors also highlighted the transformative potential of collaboration. Emphasizing Huawei’s role, Ciyong Zou, Deputy to the Director General and the Managing Director of the Directorate of Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Industrial Development at UNIDO, emphasized that the “UNIDO-Huawei collaboration is a testament to the power of multi-stakeholder cooperation. Huawei has been instrumental in AIM Global, playing a key role in accelerating the sustainable adoption of cutting-edge technologies. These partnerships reinforce our shared belief that technology must serve humanity—not the other way around.” Moreover, Zou outlined three guiding principles for driving innovation: equity, sustainability, and collaboration.
Mahmoud Bin Ahmed, CCO of Integrated Dawiyat, emphasized how Huawei’s solutions are bolstering Saudi Arabia’s digital strategies. “As a subsidiary of the SEC, Dawiyat is a fully integrated digital infrastructure provider, taking fibers as strategic assets to support SEC for highly reliable digital power services and Saudi Arabia’s 10 Gbps society strategy. One fiber for multi-services can empower more than power.”
Ahmed further underscored Dawiyat’s commitment to providing smart grid communication alongside premium user experience and leveraging cutting-edge neutral infrastructure to advance the Kingdom’s digital economy.
For Gil Brasileiro Fernandes, ICT Services Manager at Petrobas, digital innovation is not just a choice; it is a path to a more efficient, safer, and sustainable future. Fernandes believes that investing in robust and scalable infrastructure to support digital operations, prioritizing solutions that enhance operational efficiency and safety, deploying intelligent devices to promote mobility and collaboration, and leveraging connectivity are paramount to achieve digitalization and maintain a competitive advantage.
Meanwhile, Miguel López-Valverde, Minister for Digitalization of the Community of Madrid, accentuated the government’s digital transformation approach, stating, “Comunidad de Madrid, through the Digitalization Strategy 2023–2026, has reformulated its vision, mission, and values, with a clear orientation towards citizens and businesses, making them the true protagonists. Comunidad de Madrid will be the leading digitalization region in Europe.”
Guillaume Portier, EVP at VusionGroup, highlighted the significance of digitizing physical stores to establish a more sustainable future. Underscoring VusionGroup’s collaboration with Huawei, Portier stated, “By partnering with Huawei, we design innovations that serve this purpose, driving a greater impact for business and society.”
Pioneering the Integration of Digital and Intelligent Technologies
Huawei’s 1200 m2 enterprise business exhibition space at MWC Barcelona 2025 featured three thematic areas, which include Accelerating Industrial Intelligence, Innovative ICT Infrastructure, and Partner Collaboration for Mutual Success.
The Accelerating Industrial Intelligence space exhibited scenario-based solutions tailored to industries such as public utilities, government, education, healthcare, finance, transportation, electrical power, oil and gas, mining, internet service providers (ISPs) and the internet, manufacturing, and retail.
Meanwhile, the Intelligent Campus and Intelligent Data Center scenarios were featured in the Innovative ICT Infrastructure space, presenting Huawei’s latest innovations in data communication, all-optical network, data storage, and Huawei Cloud.
Through interactive demos, Huawei’s Partner Collaboration for Mutual Success area showcased various offerings such as partner policies for the commercial market and distribution business, partner toolkits, and marketable and star solutions.
Huawei’s suite of latest solutions reflects its commitment to accelerating industrial intelligence through industry-tailored innovations. By addressing industry-specific challenges, Huawei continues to remain at the forefront of building intelligent and future-ready industries.
