Surge Ahead

Recently Alibaba’s Chinese online commerce sites drove over US $5.7 billion dollars worth of sales in a single day. Learn what it takes to run these sites and how the Alibaba Group has impacted the Chinese economy.

This event is specifically geared towards engineers and IT professionals who are interested in learning about the growth of ecommerce and technology.
Join us for this FREE event as we share learning’s and surge ahead in 2014

Who Should Attend?

The target audience who may find this forum beneficial are -

• Engineers
• Seattle based
• In the technology & internet sector
• Have an interest in ecommerce and  technology in China

What will you learn?

• You will walk away with a new perspective
• Understand how ecommerce has grown so fast in China
• Learn about The Alibaba

3Key Statistics for 11.11.2013

• Over US $5.7 billion in sales
• 83% increase over previous year
• US $877 million generated via mobile sales
• More than 402 million unique visitors
• 152 million packages generated

ATF 2013 AGENDA

• 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
  Registration
• 6:30 PM - 6:40 PM
  Opening Remarks
• 6:40 PM - 7:10 PM
  Session 1:
  TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AT ALIBABA presented byJian Wang
  Jian Wang will provide an insider's look at how Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com reached a milestone of RMB 1 trillion worth of transactions in 2012 (up to November 30, 2012) and the impact they had on the Chinese economy. He will also offer insights into Alibaba's core technology and the plans for its future innovation.
• 7:10 PM - 7:40 PM
  Session 2:
  CLOUD-COMPUTING AT ALIBABA presented by Hong Tang
  Alibaba's cloud platform is called Apsara. Apsara is responsible for managing the physical resources of Linux clusters within a data center and controlling the parallel execution of distributed applications. It also hides low-level management chores such as failure recovery and data replication. Apsara consists of a suite of public services such as elastic computing, data storage and large-scale computation. It lowers the technical barriers to innovation of Internet services. Today, hundreds of thousands of companies have deployed applications, games and services on Apsara, serving billions of requests everyday. During the "Double 11" shopping festival in 2013, Apsara handles 75% of all transactions on that day. In this talk, Dr. Hong Tang will provide an in-depth introduction of the architecture design and technical innovations of Apsara.
• 7:40 PM - 8:40 PM
  Q&A session