Worldwide CXO Nexus Forum - Apsara 2026 @ Amsterdam

​There's a moment every enterprise hits when AI stops being AI has moved from interesting to necessary. Expect CEOs who put AI on the board agenda last quarter, CTOs accountable for delivery, and CIOs/CFOs who need it to show up in this year's numbers, not next year's deck.

​That's what this closed-door forum is about — as Apsara Conference makes its European debut.

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• ​13:30 - 14:00 Registration

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• ​14:00 - 14:10 Welcome & Opening Remarks

  • ​George Panayotopoulos, VP International Business, GM Europe North & Central, Alibaba Cloud

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• ​14:10 - 14:50 Panel 1: From Models to Agents: Building the Agentic Stack for Europe's AI-Native Builders

  • ​Ye Huang, Director of Solutions & Products, Alibaba Cloud Central Europe

  • ​Ben Burtenshaw, Developer Advocate, Hugging Face

  • ​Thomas Yang, Founder & CEO, Runmux.com

  • ​Nick Frolov, Chief Product Officer, Agent Systems, JetBrains

  • ​Mashrur Haider, Founding TPM, Nebius Token Factory

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• ​14:50 - 15:30 Panel 2: Multimodal at Scale: How AI Is Rewriting Creative & Content Industries

  • ​Alex Chen, VP International Business, GM North America, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence

  • ​Gianluca Guzzo, Co-Founder & CEO, MYmovies

  • ​Adrien Bodson, Co-Founder & VP of Production, AiStudios.ca

  • ​Victor Garrido Aguilar — CTO, Idea.ai (Creative Fabrica)

  • ​Qigen Lin, Founder & CEO, McLeuker AI

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• ​15:30 - 15:40 Drive Growth and Build a Competitive Edge in China with AI for Salesforce on Alibaba Cloud

  • ​Orlane Hazard, Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships, Salesforce

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• ​15:40 - 16:10 Panel 3: Reinventing Sport in the Agentic Era

  • ​Christian Eggers, VP International Business, GM EMEA Sports & Strategic Partnerships, Alibaba Cloud

  • ​Nacho Moros, CEO, Atos Major Event

  • ​Mystery Guest, To Be Revealed

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• ​17:00 - 19:00 Cocktail Networking