The Huawei R&D Meetup, organised in partnership with the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK), Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality (GBB) and the Silk Road Development Agency (İKA), took place with Hasan Kalyoncu University (HKU) as host. The meetup, which attracted great interest, brought together academics, professionals and students focused on informatics, innovation, technology and R&D.
The opening speeches of the Huawei R&D Meetup programme were given by HKU Rector Prof. Dr. Türkay Dereli, Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Fatma Şahin, İKA Secretary General Dr. Burhan Akyılmaz, BTK Head of the Human Resources and Training Department Mustafa Ermiş, and Huawei Türkiye Cyber Security and Privacy Officer Ömer Faruk Şahin.
Rector Prof. Dr. Dereli said: “Today, technology is at the centre of life in every field and every sector. When used consciously and correctly, technology both makes life easier and provides incredible competitive advantages in the business world. Technology development and management are among today’s essentials. For this reason, we need to continuously push the boundaries of technology by encouraging innovation and supporting R&D work. As Hasan Kalyoncu University, we act with an innovative vision and always support the efforts of young talents who are trying to develop technology. We also attach great importance to research focused on artificial intelligence, sustainability and green technology, carried out to develop environmentally friendly products and increase energy efficiency, and to work in the field of information technologies. Huawei organises events in cooperation with the Information and Communication Technologies Authority to bring young talents into the Turkish IT ecosystem. With the ‘Huawei R&D Meetup’, one of the events held in this context, the aim is to ensure equal opportunity in IT education as well as to raise students’ coding skills. At these events, activities such as workshops, technology demos and interview simulations are held for students who will develop the technologies and software of the future to improve themselves. I hope the event benefits the technology ecosystem and creates added value, and I thank all our stakeholders and everyone who contributed.”
Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Fatma Şahin underlined that infrastructure-focused municipal work is long over, and said: “At a time when the boundaries of knowledge are disappearing, we have no choice but to be an information society. We must now manage information with reason, and we must catch up with and even surpass the age of information and technology. We must improve ourselves in Cyber Security and Cloud Computing. In this respect, the event held today is extremely important. As a municipality, we continuously support the R&D work of our young talents. By improving ourselves together, we must become individuals who can read developments in the world very well. Let us make this city ‘Gaziantep, the City of Science’ together.”
In their speeches at the opening of the event, İKA Secretary General Dr. Burhan Akyılmaz and BTK Head of the Human Resources and Training Department Mustafa Ermiş provided information about the support, training programmes and services their institutions offer, particularly in the fields of information technologies and entrepreneurship.
Huawei Türkiye Cyber Security and Privacy Officer Ömer Faruk Şahin, noting that every project should be seen as an important investment in young people and in the country, said: “I hope that the Huawei R&D Meetup, the ninth of which we are organising and which includes training and one-to-one interaction on many subjects from artificial intelligence to cloud computing and from telecommunications to cyber security, will be a guide for our young people in Gaziantep.”
As part of the Huawei R&D Meetup, students were given basic training in telecommunications, cyber security, cloud computing, Huawei mobile services and computer vision, as well as career sessions, interview simulations, hands-on training sessions in cloud computing and Web3.0 training. At the end of the event, 10 Huawei Watch Fit2 smart bands and surprise gifts were distributed to participating students by draw. Students also had the chance to experience the 5G AR/VR technologies developed by Huawei as part of the Huawei R&D Meetup.
