Huawei European

Research – University

Partnerships

Michael Hill-King

European Research Institute, Huawei

Huawei Technologies Co.

Next 20–30 Years: The World Will Become Intelligent

• The Intelligent World will be powered by data devices, pipes, and clouds:

All things sensing, all things connected, all things intelligent.

• Devices will be the sensing organs of the Intelligent World; networks will connect them together; clouds will be its digital brain.

Devices Pipe Cloud

Ubiquitous gateways to

the Intelligent World

Ubiquitous connections,

high bandwidth, low latency

Digital brains,

evolving in real time

All things

ConnectedAll things

Sensing

All things

Intelligent

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Next 10 Years: Connections Will Get Smarter,

Connectivity Will Become a Primary Resource

3G/4G/5G, FTTx, cloud, IoT

WWW, mobile Internet

Industry 4.0, big data, AI

Physical Digital Intelligent

• In 2025, the number of connections will top more than 2015.

• In 2025, of global will have access to

Source: Huawei GIV 2016

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Next 10 Years: Rise of Industry Clouds, Enterprises

as Main Players in Cloud

Business MindsetTechnology

Cloud 1.0: Born in CloudInternet companies led the first iteration

Cloud 2.0: Grow with CloudRise of industry clouds: enterprises will lead cloud

Intelligent

Manufacturing

Intelligent

Medicine

Intelligent

Transport

Intelligent

X

• In the last decade, "born-in-cloud" Internet

companies led network evolution. They

created Cloud 1.0: agile, innovative, low-

cost, experience-focused.

• In the next decade, industries and

companies will "grow with cloud" as they

adopt cloud technology. Cloud computing

will become a basic technology for every

industry. With the rise of industry clouds,

enterprises will be the main players in

Cloud 2.0.

• By 2025, all enterprise IT solutions will be

cloud-based, and 85% of enterprise

applications will be on the cloud.

Intelligent

Grid

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Next 10 Years: Rise of Industry Clouds, Enterprises as

Main Players in Cloud

Digital

World

Physical

World

Technology Humanity

AIHuman

Intelligence

Intelligent Devices

• By 2025, there will be 40 billion personal smart devices, 5.6x more than 2015.

• By 2025, 90% of smart device users will be using personal assistants on intelligent phones.

Digitization of the physical world: everything connected, more intelligence, natural interaction between humanity and machine

Robotics

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Next 10 Years: 5x as Many Connections, 5.6x as Many

Smart Devices, 100% Enterprises Connected to Clouds

By 2025:…enterprises

…broadband

…devices

…content

…consumption

…connectivity

The average data consumption per head will reach 4GB, 10x more than 2015.

Global annual data production will reach 180ZB, 20x more than 2015.

100% of companies in the cloud, 85% of applications in the cloud

The number of smart devices will reach 40 billion, 5.6x more than 2015.

The number of connections will reach 100 billion, 5x more than 2015.

75% of global homes will have access to broadband.

12% of homes will have smart robots, 90% of smart device users will use digital

personal assistants.…smart things

Sources: Huawei GIV 2016

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Huawei European Research Institute: Overview

18 local R&D-sites throughout 8 countries created 1800 jobs

Dublin & Cork

MunichMilan

Leuven

Paris

Nice

Gent

Nuremburg

Berlin

Gothenburg

Lund

Helsinki

Stockholm

Bristol

Cambridge

Darmstadt

Establishment in Stockholm2000

Dec 2007

Apr 2009

Mar 2009

Dec 2008

Total People in Sweden 50+

Establishment of Bonn CentreMar 2008

Jun 2008 Establishment of Milan Branch

Major Movement from Bonn to Munich

Establishment of Gothenburg Branch

Establishment of Belgium Branch

Jan 2012 Establishment of UK Branch

Sept 2011 Establishment of Nuremberg Branch

Dec 2012 Establishment of Finland and Ireland Branches

Mar 2015

Acquisition of CaliopaAug.2013

Establishment of France BranchOct.,2013

Aestethics research France

October 2015 Start quantum research Munich

Ipswich

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Huawei European Research Institute:

Research Overview

Telecom

IT

ITS / Mobility

E-/M-Health

Industries 4.0

Smart Grid

Smart City

Wireless Networks

Aiming for the future information and intelligent society, we cooperate with industrial and

academic partners, find solutions for future life and future work.

Key Technical InnovationIndustrial Solution Fundamental R&D

Cloud and Big Data

Optical System

Terminals and IoThings

+ +New Theories

New Materials

New Components

New Devices

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The need to cooperate

Fresh minds

Combinations of expertise

Co-working with external partners

Real world problems for academics

Efficiency

Input from though leaders

Strategic technological understanding

Opportunity for truly ‘open’ proposals

Insight

ResourcesAccess to expertise outside Huawei

Access to facilities outside Huawei

Immediacy of availability

Great technology to benefit customers

Top teams already exist

No need to recreate top facilities

Faster value add

HIRP offers stable engagement process

Imagination

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European Strategy : Cooperate with local resources

• Europe is a great place in the world for technology cooperation

• Huawei R&D from all countries cooperates with European partners

• Huawei European Research Institute is well placed

– Long established partners for communications technologies

– New partnerships with universities aligned to competency centres

– New opportunities for local cooperation

• Glocalisation

Major areas for R&D cooperation

• Materials

• Components

• Standards

• Software

• Security

• Services

• Design

• Testing

• IP

• Cloud

• More….

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Opportunity exploration and realisation

Cooperation & Engagement strategies

Focus on technologies that are not just good,

but also good for Huawei

Finding the right partner

• Relationship building with

small number of excellent

universities

• Targeted invitations

• HIRP

• Technology push

Partners

• Universities

• Spin outs

• Supply chain

• Technology firms

Instruments

• consultancy

• contract research

• development work

• leveraged projects

• TT / Licensing

• investing

• spin outs

• supply chain

• technology firms

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HIRP Structure

Support research that will significantly

impact technology areas that are of mutual

interest to academia and Huawei.

Large and multi-year contract-based awards.

Invitation-only basis, inviting leading-class

faculty members from top universities and

research institutes around the world.

Bring together internationally renowned

leading researchers for the purpose of

exploring cutting-edge topics.

Format: Workshop、Summit、Seminar etc.

Invitation-only basis

Support novel and early-stage research

ideas in the ICT areas that Huawei

publishes or even beyond.

1~2 year award with amount ranging from

30,000~70,000 USD.

Open call for proposals, usually 2 rounds

per year. Yet accept online submission

anytime for novel ideas.

Huawei Innovation Research Program (HIRP)

HIRP Exploratory HIRP OPEN HIRP FLAGSHIP

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Over 10 Years of History

2004 2010 2014 2016 Up to Now

“Huawei Science and

Technology Fund”.

Focus on China

mainland.

Focus on the

telecommunication area.

Upgrade to “Huawei

Innovation Research

Program（HIRP)”.

First extend to overseas

with focus on Europe.

Focus on ICT area.

Break HIRP into 2 sub-

programs : HIRP OPEN and

HIRP FLAGSHIP.

More global recognition,

received 360+ proposals.

1200+ HIRP projects were

funded globally, with more

than 300 universities

participating across 20+

countries.

Introduction of the “HIRP

Exploratory” sector into

HIRP.

Several Nobel Prize & Fields

Medal winners become

HIRP partners

ISPIM Grand Prize finalist

More than 300 Academic Partners Globally

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Collaborating in innovation with UK universities

Collaboration with the University

of Cambridge

£m has been invested in the Computer Lab

and Centre for Advanced Photonics and

Electronics since December 2012

£5m investment over 5 years in a specialised 5G

Innovation Centre to revolutionise mobile

and internet access

5G Research with the University of

Surrey

Cooperation with the University of

Manchester on applications of graphene

Research on how to apply breakthroughs in

graphene to consumer electronics and mobile

communications equipment

A data science innovation lab to develop

big data technologies

Cooperation with Imperial College

London on Big Data

Cooperation with the University of

Oxford

Collaboration on innovation assessment models,

and a strategy for software development and

internet science

Since 2013, Huawei has been working with

the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research

on audio technology.

Cooperation with the University

of Southampton on 3D audio

Signed June 2017, new Joint Laboratory

researching the design and operation of

distributed databases.

Cooperation with the University

of Edinburgh on distributed databases