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March 9-13, 2026
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA

Speakers

Alex ChenHead of Product, Compute & StorageAlibaba Cloud

Alex Chen is Head of Product for Storage and Compute at Alibaba Cloud, overseeing a portfolio of 70+ products—including Elastic Compute, Container Services, AI Infrastructure, and Block/Object/File Storage. His team drives product strategy, go-to-market, and solution architecture globally. Before joining Alibaba Cloud, Alex spent 19 years at IBM in leadership roles across storage and M&A, including leading the acquisition of Texas Memory Systems (2012) and the divestiture of System x to Lenovo (2014).

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