Huawei Hosts Landmark Finance Summit 2026 in Addis Ababa

Advance AI-Powered Financial Services in Ethiopia

[Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 24, 2026] Huawei today hosted the Finance Summit 2026 & Huawei Ronghai Partners Program Tour · Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, bringing together senior executives from Ethiopia’s leading financial institutions, technology innovators, and global partners for a full-day conference dedicated to the future of intelligent finance.

The summit, themed “Advancing Fintelligence, Shaping Smarter Ethiopia Finance,” explored how Artificial Intelligence, cloud infrastructure, and data-driven ecosystems can reshape Ethiopia’s financial services sector — enhancing resilience, agility, and customer value across banks and financial institutions.

Huawei commits to advancing AI-powered finance in Ethiopia

In his welcome speech, Eric Yuan, CEO of Huawei Ethiopia PLC, said, “Ethiopia’s financial sector is at a pivotal moment of transformation. At Huawei, we are committed to equipping local institutions with world-class AI and cloud solutions that will unlock new opportunities, strengthen financial resilience, and build a smarter, more inclusive financial future for Ethiopia.”

Alvin Feng, President of International Digital Finance BU, Huawei, added that “Huawei is helping financial institutions unlock new growth opportunities by leveraging AI innovation, modernized core banking, intelligent data platform, resilient DC digital infrastructure, and inclusive digital financial services to accelerate their digital transformation journey.”

AI-Driven Financial Innovation

Sessions explored how AI is redefining banking operations. Through open-source models, open ecosystems, open architecture, and open computing power, Huawei is helping financial institutions unlock both general intelligence and domain intelligence, enabling agentic banking at scale across intelligent review and approval, precision marketing, customer service, smart branches, and SME business intelligence — accelerating end-to-end business innovation and productivity in the AI era.

Innovative, Intelligent and Resilient Infrastructure

Experts presented Huawei’s R-A-A-S 2.0 Framework and Cloud-Powered Finance architecture, as well as Xinghe Intelligent Network, addressing how financial institutions can build resilient, agile, and trustworthy digital operations. Discussions also covered intelligent building solutions, AI branch design, and next-generation green datacenter infrastructure.

Huawei Ronghai Partner Program

The summit showcased Huawei’s growing financial industry ecosystem through presentations from global partners including Temenos, Keyrus, Netis, and Farben. In accordance with the “Ronghai Partner Program”, Huawei is joining forces with over 170 leading solution partners to provide AI-driven scenario empowerment for Ethiopia. These collaborations are enabling Ethiopian financial institutions to leverage cutting-edge solutions and co-create new value in the digital and intelligent era.

Financial Talent & Local Service Development

Huawei reaffirmed its commitment to Ethiopia’s long-term financial ecosystem by announcing initiatives to deepen local services, expand the AI Contact Center (AICC) ecosystem, and cultivate financial technology talent to support Ethiopia’s growing digital economy.