STORY: Huawei hosts forum in Istanbul, exploring opportunities of AI era
SHOOTING DATE: Oct. 30, 2024
DATELINE: Oct. 31, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:23
LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Türkiye
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the exhibition
2. various of the opening ceremony
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): LI PENG, Corporate senior vice president and president of ICT Sales & Service at Huawei
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ALI TAHA KOC, CEO of Turkcell

STORYLINE:

China's telecommunications giant Huawei hosted a forum on Wednesday in Istanbul, Türkiye, to explore new opportunities and address challenges in the digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI) era.

Hundreds of IT managers, business partners, and other sector insiders from around the world attend the two-day event.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the event, Li Peng, corporate senior vice president and president of ICT Sales & Service at Huawei, emphasized that AI soon will become a universal service, with the mobile industry playing a crucial role in managing the growing data demands.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): LI PENG, Corporate senior vice president and president of ICT Sales & Service at Huawei
"We need to reshape capabilities across four areas: services, infrastructure, operations and maintenance, and business models."

For his part, Ali Taha Koc, CEO of Turkcell, Türkiye's telecommunication giant, said that the industry needs to shift its mindset in the upcoming AI era.

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ALI TAHA KOC, CEO of Turkcell
"As mobile carters, we will no longer mainly oversee networks that serve human customers. Rather we will oversee vast ecosystems of interconnected intelligence."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Istanbul, Türkiye.
(XHTV)