Hosted by Alibaba Cloud & Doubleword

Join Alibaba Cloud and Doubleword for a builder-focused evening exploring how frontier open-source models are being deployed in real production systems - with food and drinks provided.

As AI agents and large-scale workloads drive unprecedented inference demand, teams are rethinking the balance between model capability, system design, and cost. Models like Qwen are quickly becoming a serious option for companies that want frontier-level intelligence without frontier-level spend.

This meetup brings together engineers, founders, and AI builders for practical conversations.

What We'll Cover

Deploying frontier open-source models in production
How leading teams approach model selection
Scaling agentic and asynchronous workloads
Why inference architecture is becoming a competitive advantage
How cost efficiency unlocks entirely new AI products

Agenda

5:00 - 6:00: Check-in, networking, food & drinks
6:00 - 6:30: Welcome + Talks
- Alibaba Cloud: Nishant Agrawal
- Doubleword: Meryem Arik
6:30 - 7:00: Q&A & Discussion
7:00 - 8:00: Closing & Open Networking

Speakers

Nishant Agrawal - Alibaba Cloud

Nishant works closely with the Qwen ecosystem and will discuss the rapid evolution of frontier open models, where they excel today, and what builders should understand when bringing them into production.

Meryem Arik - Doubleword

Meryem is the CEO of Doubleword, an AI inference company focused on delivering the cheapest intelligence per dollar for high-volume workloads. She works closely with teams deploying frontier models and will share insights on inference optimization, model strategy, and scaling modern AI systems.

Who Should Attend

Anyone building with AI!
- AI engineers
- Startup founders
- Agentic builders
- Infrastructure / platform engineers
- Developers deploying LLM workloads

If you're building - or planning to build - production AI systems, this event is for you.

👉 Space is limited - register early to avoid missing out!

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