Dr Wang Jian

Founder at Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba

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Dr Wang Jian was the chief technology officer of Alibaba Group, and is the founder of Alibaba Cloud, which is a major public cloud provider globally and ranks as first in Asia. He was also the chief architect of Apsara, the computing foundation of Alibaba Cloud, and took the lead in proposing the industrial model of using computing as a public service.

In 2016, Dr Wang pioneered and led the nonprofit City Brain initiative to develop a new digital infrastructure for sustainable “smart” cities as his personal effort and was the architect of Hangzhou City Brain. He founded the Yunqi Academy of Engineering, a private nonprofit research institute with a focus on scientific research for City Brain, and the Yunqi Science and Technology Innovation Foundation, a philanthropic private foundation that operates the 2050 museum which is open to public for free. The foundation envisions the future through technology innovation and organizes the 2050 event every year in April, promoting the vision of science and technology bringing people together.

He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and lives in Hangzhou, China.