Case Study: Huawei engages and educates early talent with Agorize

Huawei Cloud Spark Hackathon

Huawei, a global tech giant, sought to engage and educate early talent on its cloud services while strengthening its employer brand. Their challenge was to crowdsource innovative solutions from students for real-world problems in health, banking, and sustainability, with a specific focus on fostering the use of their GaussDB database service. To achieve this, they partnered with the vendor Agorize.

Agorize provided an end-to-end innovation management solution, utilizing its platform and community to run the Huawei Cloud Spark Hackathon. The solution included a custom-built platform for promotion, crowdsourcing participants, assessing proposals, and facilitating webinars and mentoring. The program was a major success, engaging 450 participants from 190 teams. These students were trained and certified, and the top teams pitched solutions that addressed significant issues. Winners received over $40,000 in prizes and job opportunities, significantly boosting Huawei's engagement with early talent.

Huawei

Leo Jiang

Chief Digital Officer