The Macau Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM) and Alibaba Cloud held “The Retail Expert Public Talk” titled “The New Retail Era and the Next Level of E-Commerce: How to Use Cloud Technology to Develop a New Business Model of 3P Concept with “People, Products and Place” earlier this month, according to an IFTM statement on Friday.
The statement noted that the talk was conducted online and offline at IFTM’s iRetail Lab, attracting around 50 participants comprised tourism and retail business executives, scholars and students of higher education from the Greater Bay Area (GBA).
Lead Solutions Architect of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence International Macau Victor Mak (麥振勝) delivered the talk. The statement underlined that he has worked in the IT industry for over 10 years, “focusing on virtualisation, containerisation, and cloud computing”.
Mak explained how cloud computing can be integrated in the “People, Products and Place” business model that would result “in improved efficiency in managing retail stores, warehouses and business operations”. The statement added that Mak also shared his experiences and cases of cooperation between local businesses and Alibaba Cloud.
The public tertiary education institution and Alibaba Cloud launched the Alibaba Cloud Academic Empowerment Programme in November, initiating cooperation in different areas such as designing study programmes of cloud computing and big data and nurturing talents, the statement said.
The statement added that the program aims to “promote the integration of tourism education and information technology” and intends to develop the city as a world centre of tourism and leisure.
Through a series of the talks, IFTM attempts “to showcase the most recent trends in retail business to students and enterprises in Macau”, as well as putting forth the “modernisation of higher education”, the statement pointed out.
This photo provided by the Macau Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM) on Friday shows Lead Solutions Architect of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence International Macau Victor Mak (麥振勝) delivering a talk at IFTM’s iRetail Lab in Taipa.
