Apsara Conference 2026

Alibaba Cloud brings its Apsara Conference to the Beurs van Berlage for a day on the Qwen model family and agent-native cloud infrastructure. Welcome remarks at 09:30; Feifei Li, CTO of Alibaba Cloud and president of its international business, opens the keynote at 09:40. Xudong Guo of the Qwen research team covers real-world agents, Zhao Xu the Qwen AI platform, William Yao the Qoder coding agent, and Joaquin Cuenca Abela, CEO of Magnific, the multimodal work his company does with Alibaba. Two parallel forums follow - Foundation Model and Applications, and Agentic Cloud - alongside an exhibition where you can try the coding and e-commerce agents. Free to register.

Why go: the Qwen team answering questions in person is rare in Europe, and the agenda is engineering rather than sales. For AI engineers, platform teams and anyone evaluating open-weight models in production.