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From September 5 to 7,2019, the 19th Asia-Pacific Retail Conference was held in Chongqing. As one of the three largest retail events in the world, APRC is the largest and most influential retail event in the retail industry in the Asia-Pacific region. With the theme of "New Retail·New Consumption·New Power·Cooperation and Sharing," nearly 4500+ government leaders, global retail giants, industry experts and scholars and outstanding representatives of many retailers from the world and Asia-Pacific region attended the conference to discuss the development plan of retail industry and point out the direction for the development of retail industry in Asia-Pacific region and the world.

The new retail industry actively welcomes the upsurge of intelligent upgrading, enabling the retail industry to accelerate the transformation of the traditional retail industry through digital technology. Around the consumer demand, reconstruct people, goods and fields, and finally realize the creation of efficient enterprises centering on consumer experience and driving consumption upgrading. In the future, big data and artificial intelligence will become intelligent engines for business upgrades.

On the afternoon of the 6th, at the 19th Asia-Pacific Retailers Conference "AI Empowering New Retail Sub-Forum", Singularity Cloud founder and CEO Xing Zai brought a speech on the theme of "Looking at the Strategy of Enterprise Middle Taiwan from Alibaba's Big Data Road". From the evolution of Alibaba Big Data, focus on how to construct the technical architecture of Zhongtai in the new era, and discuss the application of Zhongtai in enterprise services with the actual cases of singularity cloud services. It explains how to use AI big data technology to empower the current economy in DT era.

Walking on the road of Alibaba Big Data

First of all, he introduced himself as an old technical person rooted in Ali for 12 years. He joined Ali as a "data warehouse expert" in 2004. He founded Singularity Cloud from Ali in 16 years. Everything he did was related to artificial intelligence and big data. During Ali's 12-year technical career, Xing Zai has experienced the whole process of Ali data warehouse building-data platform-data middle platform.

In the early days, there was no concept of data center, only the concept of number bin. In 2004, Xing was responsible for building Alibaba's first data warehouse. And made TCIF (Taobao Consumer Information Base), integrated all Ali consumer information, now TCIF is the entire Alibaba data application infrastructure, such as advertising, recommendation, personalization, these are based on TCIF. In 2015, he started his own business in Alibaba Cloud and was responsible for the externalization of the basic platform.

In summary of the evolution of Ali Big Data:

✨Time line：

2009: Data company, Alibaba Cloud established

12 years: Solve the problem of universal storage and establish the data platform department

14 years: President Ma proposed to build a more open, transparent and responsible new economy with DT

Cognition Line: From Cost to Resources

Data1.0 : BI dominated,"Look"

Data2.0 : Data-based operations,"with"

Data3.0 : Operational Data,"Enabling"

Line of business: 80% of machines for data, not business systems, from cost center to profit center

BI Business: Storage and Compute consumed the most by 2012

Advertising business: 2012 - 2015, big data support DMP, advertising monetization

Recommendation business: At the end of 2015, recommendation is the most important data business

Creating Singularity Cloud to Help Enterprises Transform Digitally

Participated in the complete life cycle of Alibaba data warehouse construction, witnessed the magnificent course of Alibaba Cloud from the start, rise, improvement and peak in the depth of soul, established Singularity Cloud with the feelings of old technical people, focused on helping offline enterprises to transform and upgrade digitally, and positioned in AI-driven data center platform. AI is an effective means to help offline data acquisition, helping customers solve data production and data use problems, only with data can intelligence begin.

90% of the data in the future will come from unstructured data of view sound (video, image, sound), which needs visual computing technology, image analysis engine + video analysis engine + audio analysis engine to convert into structured data. The vision algorithm of singularity cloud can automatically collect data through intelligent terminal, and convert these unstructured data into high-value structured data with view acoustic analysis engine, so as to make the data more comprehensive. So all AI companies in visual computing should be big data companies.

Under the background of accelerating digital transformation of Chinese enterprises, Chinese enterprises are facing the golden age of "digital transformation." Singularity Cloud thinks more about how to focus on how enterprises adapt to the technical architecture of the middle platform in the new era, so self-research has created "two clouds and one end." Looking at the problem from the business point of view, the practice data platform not only provides strong technical support capability, but also empowers all businesses, making "data resources" become "data assets" and more capable of commercial mastery.

In summary, the strategy of enterprise middle platform suggests three steps: first, strategic consensus, Jianzhong platform is the consensus that senior management should have. This must be a CEO project, not a CTO or CIO project; Second, organizational change, its organization must become a "large and medium-sized platform, small foreground" structure, which can support better innovation at the foreground end; Third, the technical architecture transformation of one end of the two clouds, through the technical support of the bottom layer, we must let the middle platform be built up, and let the foreground end do a good job of data return and data collection through intelligent hardware, so as to enrich the cloud and cloud enabling end. Because the middle station is not only a technology, but actually more of a business. If the middle station only talks about technology and not business, it is a big bluff.

Cool exhibition area displays rich AI big data application scenarios

On-site Singularity Cloud shows the products and services of intelligent terminal (Singularity Customer Identification, Singularity Magic Box) and data middle platform (retail brain, enterprise service brain, Singularity CDP, Singularity Insight). Its original "cloud (intelligence)+ end (perception)" solution has been successfully commercialized and played an important role in many application scenarios such as supermarket, transportation hub, hotel, school, office building, residential area, etc.

Attract leaders of retailers 'associations from all over the world to visit the site

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