Huawei Cloud COMPASS: Full-Stack Innovation Paves the Path for a New Digital Era in Latin America
May 20, 2025
[Dongguan, China, May 20, 2025] The Huawei Cloud COMPASS 2025 took place in Dongguan from May 20 to 21. With the theme "Ahead In Time", the event centered on Latin America, a critical region for Chinese overseas investment, and delved into the opportunities and challenges of digital advancement in the region. It also highlighted Huawei Cloud's exceptional technological and solution capabilities.
Five Technologies Fuel New Momentum for Digital Transformation in Latin America
Daniel Zhou, President of Huawei Latin America, opened the conference. He stated that AI and cloud computing have emerged as new drivers of global economic growth. In Latin America, Huawei Cloud embraces the philosophy of "globalized technology, localized dedication" and strives to be a strategic partner for businesses undergoing intelligent transformation. Huawei Cloud aids Latin American enterprises in achieving significant progress through three core strengths: cutting-edge technologies leveraging software-hardware integration, transferable global industry expertise, and localized dedication and sustained investment.
Daniel Zhou, President of Huawei Latin America
Mark Chen, President of Huawei Cloud Latin America, presented an overview of Huawei Cloud's global and regional business performance in 2024 and discussed five key technology trends: AI, big data upgrade, IDC to cloud, application modernization, and SAP on cloud. In his view, in the rapidly evolving AI landscape, enterprises will transition from managing multiple clouds to handling multiple AI models. To meet growing AI demands, Huawei Cloud has a comprehensive AI architecture and solutions, along with a global ecosystem featuring customers like DeepSeek, Speakly AI, and Kwai. Additionally, in response to the innovation and upgrade trends in these five areas, Huawei Cloud aims to be a preferred choice for enterprises' digital and intelligent transformation.
Mark Chen, President, Huawei Cloud Latin America
Huawei Cloud is dedicated to delivering superior cloud services by integrating the five technology trends, enhancing experiences across government, finance, telecommunications, retail, and media sectors, providing robust local support with 24/7 assistance at three levels, and fostering a stronger global ecosystem. Huawei Cloud invites partners and customers to seize industry opportunities and propel intelligent industrial advancements.
Alex Kang, President of Huawei Cloud Global Solutions Sales, stated that technology, applications, and ecosystems are the three key drivers shaping the global intelligent transformation of industries. Enterprises must identify their unique development paths for intelligent transformation by focusing on these drivers. With over 30 years of digital transformation experience, Huawei has served many industry customers worldwide, accumulating extensive service expertise. The company has successfully supported more than 900 government clouds, over 500 financial institutions, and 90% of China's leading internet companies in achieving intelligent upgrades. Huawei Cloud has collaborated with global partners to develop innovative solutions for sectors including government, finance, media and entertainment, retail, and e-commerce. Huawei Cloud aims to inject significant momentum into the development of various industries in Latin America through its industry architecture, expertise, and solutions, serving as a vital bridge between Latin America, China, and the world.
Alex Kang, President of Huawei Cloud Global Solutions Sales
During the conference, Rogério Mascarenhas, Secretary of Digital Government (MGI) of Brazil, Edward Chen, Founder and CEO of Speakly AI, Anjie Wang, CTO of Kwai, Ricardo Leite, Director of UOL CS Products and Business, and William Zhou, Vice President of iFLYTEK open platform and President of iFLYTEK Overseas Business shared valuable insights on enterprise digital transformation and highlighted the pivotal role of Huawei Cloud in this process.
In addition, Huawei Cloud, along with its customers and partners, launched the Huawei Cloud Latin America Industry Trailblazer Program. This program aims to encourage more partners to embrace technological advancements, collaborate with Huawei Cloud, and leverage AI technology to foster the growth and development of various industries in Latin America.
Launch of Huawei Cloud Latin America Industry Trailblazer Program
Full-Stack Innovation to Forge an AI-Native Huawei Cloud
Facing the global AI industry wave, William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing, delivered a keynote speech titled "Full-stack Innovation to Forge an AI-Native Huawei Cloud." He introduced Huawei Cloud's comprehensive AI innovation capabilities for Latin American customers, encompassing AI, applications, data, security, and infrastructure. The goal is to provide customers with end-to-end innovation services and assist them in implementing AI innovations. He stressed that implementing AI involves more than just deploying models; it requires a holistic approach to securing computing resources, selecting and optimizing models, preparing data, building and deploying applications, and ensuring operational security.
William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing
Huawei Cloud's AI Cloud Service ensures the continuity and stability of large-scale training tasks. This allows large model training to run uninterrupted for up to 40 days. The service has been fully adapted to more than 160 of the most popular AI models in the industry, serving more than 1,000 companies at the forefront of AI innovation. In the AI era, Huawei Cloud is committed to building a stable and reliable AI infrastructure, reshaping industries with Pangu-powered solutions, and promoting ecosystem prosperity to benefit both partners and customers.
Five Technological Innovations Help Enterprises Implement AI Innovation
In terms of AI innovation, Pangu Models 5.0 offer significant enhancements, including the full series of models of all sizes, improved multi-modal capabilities, and enhanced chain-of-thought reasoning. Huawei Cloud MetaStudio will officially introduce virtual avatar intelligent interaction, providing enterprises with professional industry assistants. Specifically for Latin America, Huawei Cloud will launch the Pangu Spanish and Portuguese models in Q3 to help preserve and promote Latin American history and culture.
In terms of application innovation, Huawei Cloud will continue to advance the modernization of applications toward greater intelligence. By leveraging AI, Huawei Cloud enhances software development and boosts the efficiency of code developers. Amid the rapid expansion of AI applications, Huawei Cloud ensures efficient application execution and reliable application O&M, enabling users to enjoy an enhanced AI application experience.
Regarding data innovation, Huawei Cloud's DataArts Studio, a data governance pipeline, accelerates data supply efficiency tenfold through three key advancements: multi-modal convergence that eliminates data silos, streamlined end-to-end governance that simplifies delivery, and robust security measures that support compliance.
Concerning security innovation, Huawei Cloud offers comprehensive protection for AI models, encompassing runtime, training and inference data, model integrity, and inference service security. The goal is to establish a strong and dependable security framework for customers, ensuring the stable operation of AI model services.
In the realm of infrastructure innovation, Huawei Cloud has unveiled five critical solutions: Landing Zone, aC8 ECS, SAP on Cloud, CCI, and CloudDC. These solutions are designed to assist customers in utilizing AI and cloud resources more effectively and efficiently.
During the conference, industry-specific roundtables focused on smart government, finance, retail and e-commerce, media and entertainment, and other sectors explored emerging trends and innovative applications. Additionally, dedicated sessions such as the Go-Global Roundtable and the China-LATAM Business Connect roundtable aimed to facilitate connections among global enterprises, aiding their market expansion, fostering international collaboration, and creating wider opportunities for development.