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Forging an AI Cloud Foundation: Huawei Cloud Accelerates Intelligence with APAC Partners

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PHUKET, Thailand , May 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On May 9, Huawei Cloud successfully hosted its APAC Partner Summit 2025 in Thailand, centered around the theme “Go Together, Grow Together” and the transformative power of AI across industries. The conference brought together over 400 partners from more than 10 countries and regions to discuss ecosystem development in the AI era and collectively accelerate intelligence.

In her opening remarks, Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, underscored Huawei Cloud’s strong commitment to collaborating with partners to capitalize on strategic AI opportunities within the Asia Pacific region. Recognizing the growing demand for accelerated AI deployment across government, finance, carrier, and Internet sectors globally, Huawei Cloud is comprehensively enhancing the competitiveness of its AI cloud service products and solutions to empower partners in expanding their market reach. By working closely with partners to co-develop industry-specific solutions and explore high-value application scenarios, Huawei Cloud aims to drive new growth through precise alignment with customer needs. Furthermore, Huawei Cloud has established a dedicated competence center in Asia Pacific to systematically build a robust enablement framework for partners, encompassing technical training, delivery support, and collaborative market initiatives. This strategic investment is designed to enhance partners’ business monetization and ensure their sustainable development.

Increasing Local Presence, Activating Growth Momentum

As a pivotal engine of global economic expansion, the Asia Pacific region stands as a significant force driving technological innovation and intelligent upgrades. Within this dynamic landscape, characterized by massive digital economy opportunities, Huawei Cloud continues to prioritize localization and technological advancement. It has deployed five Regions and 18 availability zones across Asia Pacific, achieving an impressive 50 ms low-latency network coverage spanning the region. Leveraging its industry-specific expertise, global experience, and ongoing talent development initiatives, Huawei Cloud has become the preferred cloud service provider for leading enterprises. The company’s overall business scale in the region has grown thirtyfold in the past five years, positioning Huawei Cloud as the fastest-growing cloud service provider in Asia Pacific. Currently, Huawei Cloud collaborates with over 2,500 local partners in Asia Pacific. In 2024, partner revenue experienced a substantial 75% increase.

Sunny Shang, President of Huawei Cloud Asia Pacific, emphasized: “Huawei Cloud has always recognized the power of a strong ecosystem. Our partners are the core driving force behind our sustained growth.” To further empower partners in accelerating their market expansion within Asia Pacific, he unveiled the Partner Sales Acceleration Program 2.0, a comprehensive initiative providing support across three key pillars: technological innovation, capability enhancement, and resource sharing. This program includes the joint development of 50 industry solutions with partners, backed by millions of dollars in test coupons, the establishment of partner competence centers to strengthen joint go-to-market strategies, a threefold increase in the market development fund (MDF) investment, and an optimized opportunity-sharing mechanism. Through these efforts, Huawei Cloud is working hand-in-hand with its partners to unlock new avenues for growth.

To expedite the expansion of key industries within Asia Pacific, Huawei Cloud launched the Industry Deep-Dive Initiative, focusing on the Internet, finance, and carrier sectors. Huawei Cloud is committed to collaborating with partners to construct an open, collaborative, and sustainable digital ecosystem, deeply exploring industry value through scenario-specific innovation and achieving a comprehensive upgrade of customer service capabilities.

Forging an AI-Native Cloud to Embrace Intelligence

AI has firmly established itself as the most influential general-purpose technology across industries. Joy Huang, President of Huawei Cloud Strategy & Industry Development, affirmed Huawei Cloud’s dedication to building AI-native cloud services and spearheading intelligent upgrades through its “Cloud for AI” and “AI for Cloud” strategy. Huawei Cloud offers six fundamental capabilities to support both customers’ intelligent transformation and a thriving partner ecosystem: high-quality, secure, and stable cloud services; global cloud infrastructure KooVerse; cloud native technologies; AI powered by foundational technologies; data-AI convergence based on a knowledge lake; and seamless cloud-network-device synergy.

William Fang, Huawei Cloud Chief Product Officer, detailed how Huawei Cloud is reshaping cloud infrastructure through full-stack innovation with its AI-native cloud. To address the demands of massive computing power, Huawei Cloud provides AI-native infrastructure CloudMatrix, AI-native storage, and distributed cloud solutions for diverse scenarios. Furthermore, Huawei Cloud integrates Pangu models with specialized expertise and data across product R&D, data governance, security, and service O&M. These innovations are designed to enable enterprises to seamlessly incorporate AI technologies into their core business processes. Underpinned by new AI computing centers strategically located in Asia Pacific, Huawei Cloud is empowering Asia Pacific enterprises to develop and scale their AI services natively on the cloud.

At the conference, Huawei Cloud introduced the APAC AI Pioneer Plan to foster AI technology innovation and solution development in collaboration with ecosystem partners, in an effort to accelerate the widespread adoption of AI technologies throughout the Asia Pacific region.

Building a Thriving Ecosystem by All, for All

In the AI era, a vibrant ecosystem is paramount for maintaining competitive edge and ensuring sustainable development. Ken Kang, President of Huawei Cloud Global Ecosystem, emphasized that the AI ecosystem will be the defining force shaping the future of the intelligent world. Huawei Cloud’s long-term investments in core technologies and ecosystem building are focused on creating an open, full-stack ecosystem encompassing everything from model development to application implementation around AI cloud services. This strategy aims to empower partners with differentiated competitiveness, drive cross-industry AI applications, and unlock significant growth potential.

Yu Liang, Director of Huawei Cloud Overseas Cloud Ecosystem Development & Operation, articulated Huawei Cloud’s ecosystem philosophy centered on collaborative development, sales, and marketing for mutual success. Huawei Cloud is committed to working alongside partners to expedite the creation of AI-driven industry capabilities, with an emphasis on developing scenario-specific joint solutions. Through the PCE program, Huawei Cloud facilitates opportunity sharing, unlocks access to valuable markets, and ensures the collective success across the ecosystem. Moreover, Huawei Cloud will continue to refine its enablement framework, collaborating with leading local universities and enterprises to cultivate virtual human talent, thereby establishing a robust foundation for the ecosystem’s future.

Dale Chen, Director of Partner Development, Huawei Cloud Asia Pacific, outlined Huawei Cloud’s Asia Pacific partner strategy, which centers on two key priorities: diving into industries and creating more value. The first is to deepen joint innovation within key industries such as Internet, finance, and carriers, establish an Asia Pacific industry ecosystem alliance, and cultivate a robust industry developer ecosystem. The second priority is to enhance the partner sales acceleration program through four key initiatives: precision marketing, partner-centric GTM, TAM support, and healthy market, thereby systematically improving partners’ service delivery capabilities.

Jet Liu, Director of Huawei Public Cloud Operations, highlighted in his presentation that the rapid advancements in AI are empowering SMBs with equitable access to foundation model technologies. However, he noted that many enterprises encounter challenges related to data and service integration. To address these hurdles, Huawei Cloud has launched All-scenario LLM Solution for SMBs, leveraging Flexus, a tailored offering for SMBs, and Dify, a widely adopted open-source AI application development platform. The high-availability Dify mitigates open-source risks and performance limitations for enterprises. Furthermore, the RAG solution allows businesses to swiftly implement chat functionalities leveraging their internal knowledge libraries. Foundation model scenario innovation empowers enterprises to seamlessly integrate these models into practical business applications. Huawei Cloud’s vision is to enable SMBs to effortlessly utilize AI models on its platform, inviting more partners and customers to collaborate on AI model scenario innovation and achieve accelerated business growth on Huawei Cloud.

Guided by the principles of joint construction, open sharing, and shared success, Huawei Cloud is steadily cultivating a healthy and sustainable ecosystem. Currently, Huawei Cloud has more than 45,000 partners and more than 12,000 KooGallery offerings. At the conference, partners including AIS, Orange Business, SCash Global, MFEC, Silverlake, OnePro Cloud, Automated Systems, Promes, and Chulalongkorn University shared their successful collaborations with Huawei Cloud, highlighting joint innovation initiatives and business implementation progress, and showcasing the tangible achievements of Huawei Cloud’s ecosystem collaboration. Looking ahead, Huawei Cloud remains committed to working closely with its partners to ground technologies in local needs, build a thriving ecosystem, and accelerate the intelligent transformation of industries.

 

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New white paper on closing the AI fluency gap to support workforce retention published by the University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies

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New paper by Dr. Wayne L. McCoy examines how employers can turn AI skill development into a talent retention strategy.

PHOENIX, Ariz., June 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies has published a new white paper, “The Retention Mandate: Bridging the AI Fluency Gap to Secure the 2026 Workforce,” authored by Wayne L. McCoy, DM, MBA, and released through the Center for Educational and Instructional Technology Research (CEITR).

The paper examines a growing workplace challenge: employees are rapidly building artificial intelligence skills, while many organizations are still developing the policies, processes and career pathways needed to support AI-enabled work. Drawing on the 2026 Career Optimism Index® study and research on workplace psychology, technology readiness and organizational governance, McCoy argues that AI fluency is no longer only a productivity issue — it is a retention issue.

“Workers are not waiting for organizations to define the future of AI at work,” said McCoy. “Many are already learning, experimenting and building confidence with AI tools. The opportunity for employers is to create the structure around that energy with clear standards, practical training, manager support and career pathways that help employees see a future inside the organization.”

The white paper identifies what McCoy describes as an AI fluency gap: a disconnect between worker skill development and organizational readiness. It notes that employee-led AI learning can create mobility and confidence, but also uncertainty when job descriptions, policies, training systems and manager expectations do not keep pace.

What the white paper addresses

“The Retention Mandate” examines how organizations can better align people, processes, technology and data as AI becomes more embedded in the workplace. The paper highlights several factors shaping AI workforce retention:

Employee-led AI learning and “shadow learning”AI’s impact on productivity, skills development and professional identityPsychological safety and employee trust during AI adoptionGovernance structures for responsible organizational AI useManager capability as a driver of employee confidence and retention

The paper proposes a four-step roadmap for employers seeking to strengthen AI readiness and retain AI-fluent talent:

Define AI career pathways and standardsEstablish skills assessment systemsExpand training, tools and structured enablementBuild AI capability among managers

McCoy’s analysis positions AI adoption as a socio-technical transformation, not simply a technology rollout. The paper encourages organizations to pair AI implementation with clear governance, workforce development and leadership practices that support employee confidence, adaptability and long-term engagement.

About the author

Wayne L. McCoy, DM, MBA, serves as a dissertation chair and staff faculty member in University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies. He brings experience in business leadership, technology, entrepreneurship and higher education instruction. McCoy earned a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Master of Business Administration and Doctor of Management from University of Phoenix.

“The Retention Mandate: Bridging the AI Fluency Gap to Secure the 2026 Workforce” is available on the College of Doctoral Studies’ Research Hub.

About University of Phoenix
University of Phoenix is Built for Real Life. 50 Years Strong. The University innovates to help working adults enhance their careers and develop skills in a rapidly changing world through flexible online learning, relevant courses, academic AI pillars, and skills-mapped curriculum for associate, bachelor’s and master’s degree programs. Active students and alumni have access to Career Services for Life® resources including career guidance and tools. For more information, visit phoenix.edu.

About the College of Doctoral Studies
University of Phoenix’s College of Doctoral Studies focuses on today’s challenging business and organizational needs, from addressing critical social issues to developing solutions to accelerate community building and industry growth. The College’s research program is built around the Scholar, Practitioner, Leader Model which puts students in the center of the Doctoral Education Ecosystem® with experts, resources and tools to help prepare them to be a leader in their organization, industry and community. Through this program, students and researchers work with organizations to conduct research that can be applied in the workplace in real time.

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SmartEsq Wins LegalTechTalk 2026 LaunchPad Startup Pitch Competition, Recognized as a Leading AI Innovator Transforming Private Funds Law

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SmartEsq, an AI-powered legal technology platform built for private fund formation lawyers, has won the LegalTechTalk 2026 LaunchPad Startup Pitch Competition, beating out hundreds of applicants to be named the top legal technology innovator at one of the industry’s most prominent global events. The company’s platform targets some of the most time-intensive work in private funds law — LPA review, side letter analysis, and MFN management — replacing fragmented, email-driven workflows with AI-powered processes that the company says reduce manual effort by up to 80%. SmartEsq was founded by private equity attorneys and legal technologists with more than 105 years of combined experience in fund formation, artificial intelligence, and data science. The win comes as law firms and legal departments accelerate their move toward specialized AI tools capable of handling the precision and risk standards that complex legal work demands. As the 2026 LaunchPad winner, SmartEsq will return to the main stage at LegalTechTalk 2027 to present before a global audience of legal leaders, investors, and technology decision-makers.

NEW YORK, June 20, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — SmartEsq, the AI-powered legal technology platform transforming private funds formation workflows, today announced it has been named the winner of the prestigious LegalTechTalk 2026 LaunchPad Startup Pitch Competition, selected by a distinguished panel of legal, technology, and investment leaders as one of the companies shaping the future of legal services.

“Winning the LegalTechTalk LaunchPad validates what we’re building,” said Esther Chiang, CEO of SmartEsq. “Private funds lawyers face immense pressure to manage complex fund terms with absolute precision. We’re purpose-built to help them work faster and smarter without compromising trust.”

The LaunchPad Startup Pitch Competition is among LegalTechTalk’s most competitive programs, spotlighting the next generation of category-defining legal technology companies. From hundreds of global applicants, only 30 startups were selected to pitch live before an elite panel of judges. SmartEsq emerged as the winner based on its innovation, market opportunity, scalability, and compelling vision for applying AI to some of the legal industry’s most complex and high-value workflows.

“Winning the LegalTechTalk LaunchPad is a powerful validation of what we’re building,” said Esther Chiang, Co-Founder and CEO of SmartEsq. “Private funds lawyers are under tremendous pressure to manage increasingly complex fund terms, side letter obligations, and investor requirements while maintaining absolute precision. Generic AI tools weren’t built for this level of complexity. SmartEsq was. We are purpose-built to help legal professionals work faster, smarter, and with greater confidence without compromising accuracy or trust.”

The recognition reflects a broader shift in the legal industry as firms and legal departments move beyond AI experimentation toward specialized, enterprise-ready solutions built around the unique complexity, standards, and risk requirements of legal work. SmartEsq is leading this transformation by applying artificial intelligence to private fund formation—streamlining LPA review, side letter analysis, and MFN management—to reduce manual work by up to 80%, surface critical insights, and enable lawyers to focus on higher-value strategic counsel.

As the 2026 LaunchPad winner, SmartEsq will return to the main stage at LegalTechTalk 2027, providing an opportunity to showcase its continued innovation before a global audience of legal leaders, investors, and technology decision-makers.

About SmartEsq

SmartEsq is an AI-powered legal technology company purpose-built for private fund formation lawyers. Created by seasoned private equity attorneys and legal technologists with more than 105 years of combined expertise in fund formation, artificial intelligence, and data science, SmartEsq transforms the most complex and time-intensive aspects of fund formation, including LPA markups, side letter management, and MFN analysis. The platform replaces fragmented, email-driven workflows with intelligent, structured processes that improve collaboration between private equity firms and outside counsel, reduce manual effort by up to 80%, and allow lawyers to focus on strategic advice, negotiation, and client outcomes.

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5paisa Capital Launches AlgoSpace: Algo Trading for Everyone, Made Simple and Accessible

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MUMBAI, India, June 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — 5paisa Capital Ltd., one of India’s leading digital brokers, today announced the launch of AlgoSpace at its Algo Convention event at the Bombay Stock Exchange. AlgoSpace is a new algorithmic trading platform designed to make algo trading accessible to every retail trader. 

A product that is meant to make “Algo Trading for Everyone,” AlgoSpace enables users to browse, select, and deploy curated trading strategies – without the need for coding, technical infrastructure, or complex configurations. The platform brings together simplicity, speed, and intelligent automation to help traders participate in algo-driven trading with ease. 

Solving for Simplicity in Algo Trading 

While algorithmic trading has long been associated with institutions and technically advanced traders, retail participation has often been limited by complexity and high entry barriers. AlgoSpace by 5paisa bridges this gap by offering a curated selection of battle-tested strategies, allowing traders to focus on strategy selection rather than technical implementation. 

With instant deployment and seamless integration into the 5paisa trading ecosystem, AlgoSpace by 5paisa removes friction at every step – making algo trading intuitive, efficient, and accessible. 

Commenting on the launch, Gaurav Seth, MD & CEO, 5paisa Capital, said: 

“At 5paisa, our focus has always been on simplifying advanced trading tools for retail India. With AlgoSpace, we are making algo trading accessible to everyone. Traders can now access curated strategies and deploy them seamlessly at no extra cost.” 

Key Highlights of AlgoSpace 

Strategy Deployment: Browse a curated marketplace of trading strategies and deploy then seamlessly. Battle-Tested Algos: Pre-built strategies for Indian market conditions and diverse styles. No Coding Required: No programming, scripting, or technical setup – simply select and deploy. Zero Platform Fees: Trade using AlgoSpace with no additional platform charges or commissions. Seamless Execution: Fully integrated with the 5paisa ecosystem for real-time order execution and monitoring. Insights & Controls: Backtesting, performance analytics, and complete visibility into positions and capital usage. 

AlgoSpace by 5paisa represents a shift in how retail traders can engage with algorithmic strategies, moving away from complexity towards clarity, control, and intelligent automation. By combining curated strategies with instant execution and a no-code experience, 5paisa continues its mission to democratise advanced trading tools and make professional-grade capabilities available to every trader. 

About 5paisa Capital 

5paisa Capital Ltd. is one of India’s leading digital-first brokers, offering cost-effective and technology-driven financial services to retail investors. With a mission to democratise investing, 5paisa continues to innovate at the intersection of finance and technology, delivering seamless trading and investing solutions to millions across the country. 

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