Volvo IT sends Chinese talent to an IT mission at the Volvo Ocean Race stop in China


Volvo IT sends Chinese talent to an IT mission at the Volvo Ocean Race stop in
China

Volvo IT is expanding in China and a national competition among IT students
helped attract top-talent university students. Three of them will now join the
mission as Volvo IT crew members at the next Volvo Ocean race stop in Sanya,
China. They will soon show if they have what it takes to work with IT at the
extreme.

As the official IT supplier to the Volvo Ocean Race, Volvo IT is on a mission to
deliver a world-class IT platform for one of the world’s most extreme sporting
competitions. The three winning Chinese IT students, that come from different
parts of China, will get the opportunity to help implement , monitor, and
support the IT infrastructure for the Volvo Ocean Race in Sanya. This includes
helping to ensure live broadcast and the transmission of data when the sailing
boats will race in the harbor area of Sanya on February 18th, 2012.

“Volvo IT in China delivers IT solutions to the Volvo Group and is expanding at
a rapid speed in Asia. We have a big need to find and attract talented IT
experts. During 2011, the number of employees grew by more than 100%, and we
expect another 60% growth during 2012” says Anders Dalmén, Manager at Volvo IT
in China. “I believe there are many capable IT-students in China. We want to
find those that communicate in English and enjoy working in global teams.”

The competitors submitted a creative story through text, pictures, or video, by
using Weibo, a Chinese social media similar to Twitter or Facebook. The stories
were judged by a panel of experts based on creativity, passion, and related IT
experience. Ten candidates were invited for an interview and out of that the
three winners were selected.

The winning students were: Ma Li from Tianjin University, Wei Ni Jun from
Nanjing University of Technology and Liu Yuan Wei from Beijing University of
Posts and Telecommunications.

“The Volvo Ocean Race stop in China will be a cultural melting pot that I’m sure
the winning students will find very inspiring”, concludes Anders Dalmén.

2012-02-01

For media information on the Volvo IT, please contact:

Jan Strandhede – Media Relations Manager, phone +46 31 3233715

Jan.Strandhede@volvo.com

Images Volvo Ocean Race

High resolution images can be downloaded from http://images.volvooceanrace.com  

Tim Stonton, Picture Desk Manager (inSpain)

Tel +34 966 011 151 Mob +34 606 905 497

tim.stonton@volvooceanrace.com

Full press information can be read and downloaded from
http://press.volvooceanrace.com

Facts Volvo Ocean Race:

The Volvo Ocean Race is one of the world’s most demanding global sporting
competitions.  During the nine months of the race, the teams sail over 39,000
nautical miles of the world’s most treacherous seas. The sailing crews
experience life at the extreme: food onboard is freeze dried, temperatures vary
from -5 to +40 degrees Celsius and they only take one change of clothes. They
trust their lives to the boat and experience hunger and sleep deprivation.

The Volvo Ocean Race started in the Spanish port of Alicante in the autumn of
2011 and will finish in Galway, Ireland during the summer of 2012.

The course include stopovers in Cape Town (South Africa), Abu Dhabi (UAE), Sanya
(China), Auckland (New Zealand), Itajai (Brazil), Miami (USA), Lisbon (Portugal)
and Lorient (France).

For more information on the Volvo Ocean Race please visit www.volvooceanrace.com

Volvo Information Technology AB is a wholly owned subsidiary of AB Volvo. With
its roots in the automotive industry, the company today delivers IT solutions
and services for all types of companies and organisations. Its customers include
AB Volvo, Ford Motor Company, Volvo Car Corporation, SCA, Assa Abloy, the City
of Stockholm, the City of Göteborg and other large operations within industry
and the public sector. In 2009, Volvo IT's global operations generated a
turnover of SEK 7.5 billion and the company had more than 5,000 employees in
Europe, North America, South America and Asia.

 

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