During the Huawei Asia Pacific ICT Talent Forum 2020, the Huawei Asia Pacific ICT Certification Program was launched for students and information and communications technology (ICT) practitioners who have joined or plan to join the Huawei Asia Pacific ICT Academy. The programme, which runs between 4 August and 30 November 2020, will award on a 'first come, first served basis to participants who pass the exams in the shortest time.

'We aim to globally develop 2 million ICT professionals over the next five years to match the high demand for skilled workers', noted Huawei Asia-Pacific, Chief Digital Officer and Executive Consultant, Michael Macdonald. Moreover, he said that they planned to build more than 200 Huawei ICT Academies and train 10 000 ICT professionals in the Asia Pacific region, in 2020.