Mr Hongbing Zhang visited Toast Lab and gave a seminar at the School of Information Science and Technology (SIST), ShanghaiTech University on 17 May. The seminar was titled Digital Infrastructure of New Productive Forces - Cloud-Native Technology. During the seminar, Mr Zhang shared how cloud native computing is able to accelerate the development of digital infrastructure as well as the latest achievements made in DaoCloud.

Mr Hongbing Zhang is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of DaoCloud, and is an industrial expert in cloud computing/open source and industrial IoT fields. He is the TSC (Technical Steering Committee) member of KubeEdge (Cloud Native Edge Computing) and board member of Open 3D Foundation. He is a pioneer and advocate of cloud native technology and led team to develop industry's first cloud native based operating system, also successfully promoted this product to 200+ customers covering finance/manufacture/goverment/engergy areas. He holds 10+ patents and a few IEEE papers, also an external mentor of several universities.