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- Alibaba Cloud brings its Apsara Conference to Amsterdam for the first time on October 29
Alibaba Cloud will hold an Apsara Conference event in Amsterdam for the first time on October 29, 2026, at the Beurs van Berlage, with industry perspectives, customer success stories and real-world AI applications for people who missed the main event in Hangzhou.
- Mynet's CTO says PolarDB Serverless scales its AI-driven analytics workloads without provisioning for peaks
Alibaba Cloud says Mynet Inc. CTO Yuki Horikoshi explained at Apsara Conference 2026 how PolarDB Serverless dynamically scales database capacity for AI-driven analytical workloads, so Mynet does not need to provision peak resources in advance.
- Alibaba Cloud's Jason Wu says AI training, inference and agents are reshaping infrastructure needs
At Apsara Conference 2026, Jason Wu, Alibaba Cloud's head of Elastic Compute Service, discussed how AI is changing what infrastructure must deliver, from model training and inference to running AI agents at scale.
- Alibaba Cloud: f4samurai uses WonderClip to rethink video production at Apsara Conference 2026
At Apsara Conference 2026, Alibaba Cloud featured f4samurai project manager Kawashima Hideki describing how WonderClip is changing the studio’s video production workflow.
- Alibaba Cloud: FUJI NEXTERA uses WonderClip for an AI-native drama workflow at Apsara 2026
At Apsara Conference 2026, Alibaba Cloud featured FUJI NEXTERA LABO AIGC producer Kishimoto Naoyuki on using WonderClip across creation, visual direction and workflow for an AI-native drama.
- Actual Inc. CEO says Qwen models bring more precision to architectural visualization at Apsara 2026
At Apsara Conference 2026, Tsuji Yuki, CEO of Actual Inc., said Qwen models are helping bring greater precision to architectural visualization, and discussed how AI could reconstruct experiences that traditional archives cannot fully preserve, Alibaba Cloud says.
- Apsara 2026 panel discusses moving open-source AI from benchmarks into enterprise production
At Apsara Conference 2026, industry leaders discussed how open-source AI is moving from frontier benchmarks into enterprise production, covering model capabilities, agent execution, end-to-end costs and open-source AI's role in enterprise adoption, Alibaba Cloud says.
- SAP's Irfan Khan discusses AI agents and SAP's Alibaba Cloud partnership at Apsara 2026
At Apsara Conference 2026, Irfan Khan, President and Chief Product Officer of SAP Data & Analytics, discussed connecting enterprise data and business context with AI agents to build more autonomous enterprises, and SAP's partnership with Alibaba Cloud to bring its enterprise solutions to the cloud.
- Mynet CTO says Qwen captures the structure and nuance of Japanese writing at Apsara 2026
At Apsara Conference 2026, Mynet CTO Horikoshi Yuki explained on a panel why Qwen stood out in the company's AI experiments, including its ability to capture the structure and nuance of Japanese writing, Alibaba Cloud says.
- Tsuburaya Fields executive shares lessons from making a feature-length film entirely with AI
At Apsara Conference 2026, Toyoshima Yusaku, Managing Corporate Officer at Tsuburaya Fields Holdings, discussed how AI is reshaping visual production, drawing on his experience making a feature-length film entirely with AI. He argued creative direction and storytelling will matter more as visual creation gets easier.
- TinyFish CPO says Qoder speed is changing its engineering workflow at Apsara 2026
At Apsara Conference 2026, TinyFish cofounder and CPO Shuhao Zhang said Qoder has become key to the team's engineering workflow because of its speed, per Alibaba Cloud.
- Yell International uses WonderClip to speed creative production, Alibaba Cloud says
At Apsara Conference 2026, Yell International's Peeradon Gabriel said WonderClip handles much of the production workflow so the team can focus on final creative and brand checks, per Alibaba Cloud.
- Making AI more flexible for the future of mobility.
Making AI more flexible for the future of mobility. At #ApsaraConference2026, Dr. Pascal Theissen, VP User Interaction and Business Line My Car, BMW R&D China, discussed BMW cooperation with Alibaba to develop AI capabilities for its vehicle experience in China and the https://t.co/O6tWs5FDMv
- AI’s next chapter is coming to Amsterdam.
AI’s next chapter is coming to Amsterdam. #ApsaraConference2026 is coming to Amsterdam on October 29, bringing AI leaders and industry experts together to explore Qwen foundation models, agent-native infrastructure and real-world AI applications. Keynotes, customer stories, https://t.co/GdlkBIWDi3
- The AI conversation is moving beyond the model.
The AI conversation is moving beyond the model. At #ApsaraConference2026, Yun Jin, VP of Engineering at Fireworks AI, highlighted why evaluating AI requires private data beyond public benchmark, with the agent harness, task execution and end-to-end cost also shaping performance https://t.co/yMfkUfxmTH