AI Ignites Digital Innovation: SUSE Summit China 2025 Opens in Beijing

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The AI landscape is transforming at an unprecedented pace, unveiling new advances daily. However, enterprise-level AI innovation remains challenged by its complexity, as organizations must navigate technology choices, evolving architectures, security demands, and the need for transparency.

BEIJING, June 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SUSE, a global leader in open source enterprise solutions, today hosted SUSE Summit China 2025 in Beijing. Themed "The Smart Choice: Open Source AI for Digital Innovation," the event convened industry leaders, technology experts, and key partners to explore how SUSE's open source approach – combined with cutting-edge features and technologies – empowers organizations to cut through barriers and accelerate AI-driven innovation with the rise of generative AI.       

In the age of new productive forces (新质生产力), SUSE continues to drive forward its growth strategy. To accelerate digital innovation for Chinese enterprises, the company is streamlining its service framework, with SUSE providing a robust, open source technological infrastructure foundation for both domestic and overseas expansion. With a strong customer-centric partner ecosystem covering major industries, including financial services, manufacturing, automotive, telecom, IT, technology, media, retail, healthcare, hospitality, and the internet, SUSE delivers comprehensive support – from design to deployment – helping customers overcome challenges and realize business value.

Research firm IDC also predicts^[1] that AI and GenAI investments in the APAC region, inclusive of China, are expected to reach $175 billion by 2028, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33.6% from 2023. As China's AI sector evolves, building a strong infrastructure to support the growth and adoption of new technologies will be critical to helping Chinese enterprises scale domestically and globally. Against this backdrop, SUSECON showcased the strategic significance of the SUSE technology value chain and the robust capabilities of SUSE AI, its enterprise-grade, cloud-native platform. This convergence of technology and real-world applications aims to fuel the digital transformation of Chinese enterprises through open source, and chart a path toward intelligent evolution.

SUSE Continues Empowering China with Open Source

With its 33-year open source legacy, SUSE,  headquartered in Europe, is dedicated to delivering interoperable digital services. Over 60% of Fortune 500 companies rely on SUSE for support. Since entering the Chinese market in 2004, SUSE has upheld a commitment to "In China, for China," establishing a robust R&D ecosystem and steadily increasing investment to fuel China's digital economy.

In his opening address, SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen reaffirmed the company's unwavering commitment to the Chinese market. Despite economic uncertainties and limitations on technical exchanges, SUSE will continue to invest in China, strengthening its local teams to support ongoing innovation and growth for Chinese businesses.

In his keynote, "Choice Happens," SUSE Greater China President Alan Chan said SUSE empowers users with freedom of choice through its enhanced services and innovative technology. He highlighted open source as a key driver of innovation, explaining how SUSE's commitment to open principles and continuous advancement supports "new productive forces" (新质生产力) for all industries in China.

SUSE offers a complete suite of cloud-native modules, including enterprise-grade Linux, the Rancher container management platform, SUSE Edge, and SUSE AI. Together, these solutions provide companies with a seamless path from the data center to the cloud to the edge. Over 100,000 customers worldwide – spanning diverse sectors like finance, healthcare, and manufacturing – rely on SUSE's products and solutions.

SUSE's Technology Value Chain: Turning Uncertainty to Clarity, to Drive Enterprise AI Innovation

Fear of the unknown remains one of the biggest obstacles to AI adoption. According to recent industry reports, as of January 2025, only 44% of AI proof-of-concept (PoC) projects had advanced to production, with 60% of initiatives expected to be abandoned by 2027. SUSE aims to empower enterprises to overcome this uncertainty and unlock AI's potential.

Vishal Ghariwala, CTO for SUSE Asia Pacific, explained how SUSE's modular open source architecture delivers enterprise-grade solutions with robust security, governance, and ease of use. Ghariwala emphasized the importance of Observability, stating, "Without a clear vision, organizations are akin to blind horses, afraid of running ahead." Ghariwala emphasized that observability must be embedded into core operations for proactive AI management, improving efficiency, resilience, security, and cost-effectiveness. SUSE Observability provides IT teams with comprehensive visibility into cloud-native environments, consolidating metrics, logs, and tracing for improved issue resolution, resource optimization, and informed decision-making across hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments.

Since its 2024 launch, SUSE AI has evolved into an enterprise-grade, open source, cloud-native AI platform. It combines security, trust, freedom of choice, and scalability, enabling users to deploy and run any Generative AI workload. Built on SUSE Rancher, SUSE AI delivers real-time observability and security at scale across clusters.

Security and trust are at the heart of SUSE AI. The platform features a zero-trust security framework, incorporating secure processing of sensitive data, end-to-end vulnerability scanning, and responsible AI guardrails. Integrated SUSE Observability provides a fully observable AI environment that ensures regulatory compliance. A visual dashboard gives users access to critical workload metrics, including token usage, GPU utilization, and more.

Embracing open source principles, SUSE AI offers a curated library of open source AI components and mainstream functional modules. Organizations can work with any large language model (LLM) and choose from multiple deployment options. For example, the library supports PyTorch, OpenWebUI Pipelines, Agent AI workflows, custom retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), throttle input calls, as well as components for image classification and natural language processing (NLP). This modular integration ensures exceptional scalability and provides a reliable technology foundation for enterprise-wide AI innovation.

SUSE AI: Accelerating Enterprise-Grade AI Innovation for Customers

• Haokang Health, a medical company, plans to adopt SUSE AI as their AI infrastructure for running medical image analysis and diagnostics. Jointly powered with Deepseek LLM, this new approach will support better patient experience in hospitals/clinics, while remaining compliant with China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) requirements. Overall, by adopting SUSE AI, Haokang Health aims to enhance diagnostic accuracy, reduce human error, and improve overall efficiency for patients and healthcare professionals.
• FIS Group is building a trusted AI solution for SAP workloads using SUSE AI. The platform provides complete visibility into token usage, model performance, and GPU utilization, accelerating the development of applications such as intelligent invoice processing and real-time recommendations. It also meets data privacy and compliance requirements in regulated industries. "SUSE AI significantly reduces the complexity of running AI workloads," said Manuel Sammeth, Head of FIS Group's AI Competence Team.
• TCS is building its generative AI platform on SUSE AI, consolidating multiple AI services into a unified interface for faster delivery of technical solutions. "SUSE AI's foundational feature set is well-aligned with our customers' needs, encompassing cloud-native scalability, compliance, and managed options," said Nidhi Srivastava, Global AI Cloud Product Head at TCS.
• Infosys has integrated its Guardrails ethical governance framework into SUSE AI. This enables joint customers to swiftly implement responsible AI without sacrificing security. "Collaborating with SUSE will enable numerous joint customers to explore the vast potential of AI," said D. R. Balakrishna, Executive Vice President at Infosys.

Empowering Chinese Enterprises Securely, on Their Cloud Native Journey with SUSE

Trina Solar Co., Ltd. adopted the SUSE container platform solution to comprehensively transform its technical architecture, achieving goals such as unified container architecture, "dual-location, triple-center" disaster recovery, container cluster security protection, more efficient development, and cloud-edge collaboration. This is significantly improving development, and enhancing operational efficiency. This solution has become one of the best practices for technological innovation among large and medium-sized enterprises in China. Yang Gang, Chief Infrastructure Engineer, stated, "In this era of rapid innovation, we must be prepared to address new market forces and technological changes. Container technology enhances our market responsiveness and flexibility. Enterprise-level suppliers like SUSE provide us with a robust and secure foundation for innovation."

China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation is embracing cloud-native architecture, using SUSE Rancher and Kubernetes to enhance container resource management, observability, and security – which are key to countering a range of complex security threats. These upgrades are powering the company's innovation and operational resilience. "Open source provides a strong methodology as we continue to build our technology architecture, to provide customers with reliable services and support. As China Export continues to innovate, partnerships with open source companies such as SUSE build our ability to digitalize, act more intelligently, and accelerate our modernization," said Zhang Tao, Senior Tech Expert at China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation.

At SUSE Summit 2025, Alan Chan highlighted that as the digital economy accelerates and new productive forces reshape industries, Chinese enterprises are evolving from cloud adoption to cloud-native architectures. The accelerated rise of AI is driving this transformation, with open source emerging as the central force behind this profound shift. He said SUSE is drawing on its technological innovation and cross-industry expertise to help Chinese enterprises cultivate new productive forces, and prepare for a new digital future.

About SUSE
SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable and secure enterprise open source solutions, including SUSE^® Linux Suite, SUSE^® Rancher Suite, SUSE^® Edge Suite, and SUSE^® AI Suite. More than 60% of the Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to power their mission-critical workloads, enabling them to innovate everywhere—from the data center to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. SUSE puts the "open" back in open source, collaborating with partners and communities to give customers the ability to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow. For more information, visit www.suse.com.

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