Huawei has announced six winners of ‘Seeds for the Future 2023’ at a gala event held at Huawei Bangladesh Academy. The winners will go to China for further exploration and trainings.
Huawei has arranged ‘Seeds for the Future’ in Bangladesh for the 10th time this year. This year 600+ applications were submitted and based on their profile top 20 students were selected for the final round.
Through several interviews &project presentation on how to empower society with ICT. Based on their interviews,concept and presentation merit, Huawei has selected these six students.
Mohammad Ajmain Fatin, University of Dhaka (EEE); ALL Mumtahina Arika, Islamic University of Technology (EEE); Farsia Kawsar Chowdhury, BUET (ME); Arpan Saha, University of Dhaka (EEE); Mayeesha Farjana, RUET (CSE); and Sajid Ahmed Chowdhury, IUT (CSE) are the winners of this year’s programme.
The gala event of this year’s program began with a speech by Pan Junfeng, President, Huawei South Asia Region & CEO, Huawei Bangladesh.
Song Yang, Counsellor, Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Bangladesh was the chief guest of the gala event. Prof. Dr. Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, Vice Chancellor, Islamic University of Technology (IUT) attended as the special guests.
Regarding the ‘Seeds for the Future’ initiative, Pan Junfeng, President of Huawei South Asia Region & CEO of Huawei Bangladesh, said, “Shaping the future to build a fully-connected digital world is of paramount importance to Huawei. Huawei is playing a forerunner role in this connection as the whole intention of our flagship program ‘Seeds for the Future’ is to facilitate and empower the youth of Bangladesh with the right skills so that they can take the helm of the future world and expedite the digital transformation journey of this country.”
Chief guest Song Yang, Counsellor, Embassy of China in Bangladesh said “I have full confidence that China-Bangladesh strategic partnership of cooperation will stay in future and Chinese companies operating in Bangladesh like Huawei will keep upholding this cooperation”.