At Flink Forward Asia Shenzhen 2026, Vicki Liu (Alibaba Cloud), Junhua Wang (Alibaba Cloud), Xiwen Zhu (Anker Innovations), and Bojie Li (AI Researcher) shared a unified vision for the Agent era.

Agents are rewiring the relationship between data and AI, demanding an integrated infrastructure that unifies compute, data platforms, and real-time processing. This foundation enables AI to operate autonomously on independent tasks and powers a self-sustaining data flywheel where business decisions continuously generate new data to refine agent strategy.

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