2017 Cloud Habitat Conference impressions

October 11-14th, the four-day 2017 Hangzhou Yun Habitat Conference will once again set sail in Hangzhou, as one of the world's most influential science and Technology exhibition, this conference not only has Ali group experts and various enterprises industry leaders of the wonderful speech, many black technology also collective appearance. This conference is more innovative to achieve online live and online viewing two forms, because four days of time three days are working days, so it is also convenient for a lot of people due to work reasons can not be in person, will also have a video of the collection, can be seen here. Although the past week, some of the details are not clear, but still record the overall feeling and thinking of the participants.

Due to the lack of time to participate in the first three days of the day, the main participation in the last day of the conference, there is a new business-related retail summit, but also interested in the open-source technology summit, it feels a harvest.

Theme

There was a lot of new news and new product launches throughout the Conference, and the most impressive thing was the founding of the Dharma House, where Mr. Ma talked about the idea of setting up a "Dharma House" and offered three hopes for the "Dharma House": to live longer than Alibaba, to serve at least 2 billion people around the world, to face the future, to solve future problems with It also echoes the theme of "Alibaba must become an engine of innovation in the country and the world". Our CTO formally announced the creation of the "Dharma House", a physical organization that hosts the NASA program, for basic science and Disruptive technology innovation research. In the next 3 years, Alibaba will invest more than 100 billion RMB in technology research and development, and also further express the group's determination for technological innovation. The "Dharma House" supported the development of the quantum technology field ushered in the first heavyweight release-Alibaba Cloud Joint Institute of Quantum Information and quantum science and Technology Innovation Research Institute (Shanghai) jointly announced the "Quantum computing Cloud Platform" on-line also let us see our research institute is not only to do the ivory Tower study but to do more practical value of innovation.

New Retail

The new retail summit of October 14, first opened by Professor Zeng Ming, strategically advantageous position the nature and future of the new retail and gave a clear panorama of the concept and application of the new retail. The following include the box Horse Fresh, yintai new shopping malls, Retail Tong's responsible for the business form and thinking of the exploration did a detailed description, although many are strategic and directional elaboration, but for the new retail scene provides a broad imagination space. IDST, chief scientist, after the introduction of the business scene from the technical point of view of artificial intelligence for the new retail to bring the imagination space, because the main machine vision, I remember the deepest sentence is "Now the human eye can recognize the machine has been recognized." Bain Global Partners introduced a new retail perspective under a role scenario with the theme "brand change under new retail". Finally, in the moderator's Questions in series of round-table, to everyone to bring more ideas of collision and horizontal comparison reference.

Box Hema Sheng

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As a new species of new retail, from the newborn box horse to the gene with the Internet, at the tipping point of the infrastructure perfect (mainly mobile internet), many user-centric ideas can be quickly prototype verification, rapid iteration. Through a reasonable warehouse distribution, to ensure that the goods like cache, to achieve the nearest optimal allocation, to ensure the effective control of inventory, the user reached the last three kilometers of reach. Many of the previously fragmented sourcing requirements can be obtained by bulk trading in the form of purchasing bargaining power for bulk transactions. The offline store is not only a retail store for merchandise, but also a consumer entertainment place, which enriches the store's application scene and imagination space. Without the stock of drag and new operational ideas, box that never stumbles run so fast.

New shopping Mall

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As an "Old Town makeover" project, Yintai is also facing a transformation from 1 to 0, the hardest part is whether to break through, from 1 to 0, further can continue to upgrade, or even become a new species. The traditional industry wants to achieve the new retail model, the point is to consider how to digitize their core business (for example, you do CRM, then your core business is the membership system, all the business is around the digital characteristics of the member expansion). Referring to Conway's law, how to make a positive loop is the effective direction by reconstructing the organization and finding the reconstruction of the business and technology. Shorten the supply chain link, improve the efficiency of the transfer, digital after the efficient matching of goods, these are the new shopping malls face the severe challenges.

Retail Pass

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As the largest store form, the customer of the retail pass is the traditional husband, this kind of user group demand is hoped that through the whole business solution to improve the small shop's ping effect better. Through Ali's technical means, in fact, will soon be able to spread the business model, but more difficult is the second step, how to allow the upgrade to continue. Regional population needs of precision marketing warehouse replenishment is an efficient model, through the POS machine to digital access to digital platform, can be powered through the platform, through the value of the output of the C2B platform, platform based on big data and AI to give small store owners more effective information to help shopkeepers decision-making. Through the overall solution, can realize the shop with the brand and dealer link, shop is no longer in the supply chain of the most downstream, can be traced back to the brand, to get more competitive goods. At the end of the speech, there was a warm short film, the Tmall future store as a demonstration shop showing us what it looks like to be a smarter and warmer community convenience store.

Computer Vision

This is the new retail summit on the unique focus on technology, mainly from the computer vision to introduce the application in the new retail scene, although not limited to computer vision, but the computer vision of the boundaries of the ability to depict the eyes of the NPC. Through the camera collection, many people's information can be digitized, due to technological breakthroughs, visual recognition of the accuracy and imagination have been greatly expanded. The idea that can only stay in the imagination is gradually becoming reality, the information of visual elements is huge, the training based on the large data volume more effective models can be trained to make decisions and predictions.

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In the new thinking wave of new retailing, understanding the business thinking and organizational upgrading of technology is even more important than the technology itself, the dual-core technology engine (AI, IOT) drives the new business model to provide a continuous source of power, if the technology engine is the productivity revolution, then the blockchain technology is the production relations revolution, The use of applicable technology in the right place can better serve the innovation and development of business models.

Area

In the exhibition area is mainly a quick stroll, see a lot of cool black technology, nonsense not much to say, directly on the map

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Open Source Technology

As a heavy recommendation is the introduction of the group's Java Development code, there is Alibaba Cloud launched the Openmessaging Standard project officially released and Apsaracache Live source officially open, unfortunately did not catch up with these heavy moments, But as a former Redis's heavy user special Gan Chang came to see the author's demeanor. The author also introduced the redis4.0 's characteristics through the acid-cool Italian English scene, because Apsaracache and Redis are cooperative relationships, and the author is the co-witness of the release of Open source.

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As a heavy user of once Hashicorp products, it is also not a taste to hear their preachers on-site to introduce their products in detail. Hashicorp is committed to the DevOps support of large-scale service-oriented software development and deployment, and the Group Summit announced a technical partnership with Hashicorp, the world-renowned code hosting platform, GitHub and the mainstream DevOps technology company. Alibaba cloud users can not only use the GitHub Enterprise version directly on Alibaba clouds, but also can connect GitHub Enterprise Edition with CI/CD link, but also through the Hashicorp open source infrastructure Orchestration software, complete the cloud on the devops process.

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Summarize

By attending the conference, we see a broader blueprint for our daily work and a better look at our values from a technical perspective. Personally understand, if last year's General Assembly is a phased strategy, then the conference is more like the schools of contention, in the "five new" strategic direction of the phased results report. As the technical means of hard core matures, the business landscape is being upgraded in a step-by-step way, thanks to the ability to contribute to a great company in this great era.

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