Overview
The RunMux meetup, titled Lunch, Connect & Celebrate, takes place alongside the European debut of the Apsara Conference in Amsterdam. The Apsara Conference is Alibaba Cloud's flagship AI gathering, held since 2009. On Thursday, 29 October 2026, RunMux joins Alibaba Cloud for the day and turns it into a community meetup where the RunMux team and the people behind the Qwen model family meet attendees face to face. The event is presented by RunMux and listed with Alibaba Cloud and MotionMux as hosts.
RunMux describes itself as an AI acceleration gateway that provides unified, low-latency access to leading LLMs and video and image generation models for developers and creators. The Qwen model family is a core part of that lineup and runs on Alibaba Cloud's AI-native infrastructure. This is RunMux's first community gathering in Europe, and the organizers say they want to show what they have built on Qwen and listen to what Europe needs next.
Who it is for
- Founders who want to talk directly with the team behind Qwen and hear where the models are heading.
- Engineers who want to see how teams running agents at scale deploy them, including architecture, numbers, and trade-offs.
- Product and business development leads who want to see what is shipping, what it costs to run, and how it affects their roadmap.
- Creators who want hands-on time with the latest image and video models.
- Anyone curious about AI, with no job title required.
Agenda
- Morning keynotes, 09:30 to 12:10, including a keynote on Qwen's path to real-world agents.
- Networking lunch, 12:10 to 14:00.
- Parallel forums, 14:00 to 17:00:
- Foundation Model & Applications Forum: Qwen's latest in agentic coding, native multimodality, Qwen Audio and the open-source ecosystem, plus enterprise deployment patterns and customer cases.
- Agentic Cloud Forum: full-stack infrastructure for the agent era, including faster training and inference, building and operating agents at scale, and a data plane that gives agents the context they need.
- Worldwide CXO Nexus Forum (invitation only): "AI-Native: From Insight to Growth."
- Cocktail reception, from 17:00.
An exhibition zone is open all day with Qwen models, agent-native infrastructure, and live customer use cases.
Speakers
- Thomas, CEO of RunMux, speaks as a panel guest at the Worldwide CXO Nexus Forum.
- Joaquín Cuenca Abela, CEO and Co-Founder of Magnific, presents "Magnific × Alibaba Cloud: Building the Future of Multimodal AI Together." The page describes him as the founder behind Freepik, now Magnific, a European AI creative platform.
- William Yao, General Manager of Qoder International, presents "Qoder: Beyond Coding, Infinite Creation." Qoder is Alibaba's agentic coding platform.
- Alibaba Cloud researchers and product leaders are also onsite.
Format and logistics
The event runs Thursday, 29 October 2026, from 09:15 to 18:00 CET at the Beurs van Berlage, Damrak 243, 1012 ZJ Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The language is English, the dress code is business attire, and attendance is free. One registration covers the keynotes, both open forums, the exhibition zone, the networking lunch, the cocktail reception, and the RunMux meetup. The Worldwide CXO Nexus Forum is the only invitation-only element.
FAQ
Do I need to register? Yes. Registration is managed by RunMux via Luma, and the team reviews each RSVP and sends a confirmation.
How are CXO Nexus Forum seats allocated? Invitations are drawn from the registration pool. Organizers review every RSVP and extend a limited number of seats, so attendees should fill in their role and company when registering.
How is my data used? Registration details may be shared with Alibaba Cloud for event coordination, follow-up, and guest selection for the Worldwide CXO Nexus Forum.
