Ecosystems are always changing, yet what determines whether a technology can become public infrastructure remains a set of familiar questions. We’ll return to the well-known experience of the Apache community to discuss how open processes and incrementally built trust continue to work within the Agentic AI ecosystem. Open models also raise new questions: models extend the scope of what is opened to weights, data, and evaluation — beyond the license, what else needs to be delivered?

Starting from the updated Agentic AI Landscape, this talk examines the changes across Agent Infra, Model Infra, large models, and reusable knowledge repositories (awesome*). It then places Apache back onto this technical map, exploring how its long-standing accumulation in data and distributed systems occupies a critical position within the new ecosystem. Meanwhile, Ant Group’s practice through inclusionAI offers another concrete sample: how models, infrastructure, and industry applications can come together to form an open technology stack that more people can participate in.

Speakers:

Xiaoya Xia: Open Source Analyst, Ant Group

Xiaoya Xia is a member of the Ant Group OSPO, where she focuses on catalyzing open source success through data-driven insights. Before joining Ant Group, Xiaoya was a PhD at East China Normal University (ECNU), where she concentrated on research into open source ecosystem sustainability.

Xu Wang: Ant Group Open Source and Container Infra

Xu Wang is the vice chair of the Ant Group Open Source Technology Committee and also the head of the Container Infrastructure team. Xu joined Ant Group in 2019, and currently he is responsible for the development of the container-based Cloud-Native infrastructure and the open-source related strategies of Ant Group. Before joining Ant Group, Xu was the CTO and co-founder of hyper.sh, a startup on secure container runtime technology, and co-launched Kata Containers project in 2017.