Chapter 340 Are You Here for a Visit?

The Developer Conference is actually a new product.

In the past, they were basically science and technology innovation conferences, led by local science and information bureaus and participated by various technology companies, and often held as an awards ceremony for a technology industry competition.

However, as the importance of "technological innovation" and "the Internet" continues to increase, the presence of developer conferences focusing on programming, software development, and the release of technological products is also growing.

Currently, the more mainstream developer conferences are organized by several leading technology companies, which are basically equivalent to the launch conferences of their own products and technologies.

It is used to flex muscles, talk to CEOs about cooperation, and recruit some young talents and small companies with development potential.

Currently, the only developer conferences in China that are led by government departments are in Shangjing, Jiangnan, and Linjiang.

It’s just that the focus will be more on cooperation with the government.

June 6, Xin'an International Convention and Exhibition Center, Linjiang Province.

"Where is God Yan?" asked He Zixiang, who had just reported in and received his name badge.

On the other side, Lai Yining, who was yawning, looked at his phone and said, "What he is going to report in the main forum may not be the same as ours."

"What's wrong, Brother Ning? You look sleepy." Deng Yudi put on a hat to block the scorching sun.

"This guy said he couldn't sleep in the hotel last night and played games all night long." He Zixiang said with disgust.

"What game?" Chen Fan was still very interested in the game.

A few people chatted for a while, and after receiving their badges and wristbands, they walked in through the entrance of the big square.

It is still a long distance from the official venue.

"It's really impressive! Xin'an's development is amazing." Deng Yudi said, "I feel like if it continues to develop like this, it will surpass Xinbei."

"That's different. The foundation is there." He Zixiang smiled. He was from Shangjing, so it was normal for him to have such an understanding.

"The foundation is worthless in the face of future development." Lai Yining, who comes from the economically developed Jiangnan Province, has a very different idea. "Xinbei now only has some room in Xinqiao District. Other places are either too remote or saturated. Xin'an is a blank slate and can do whatever it wants. It is still positioned as a high-tech core city. It is only a matter of time before it takes off."

Chen Fan didn't say anything. He was more curious about how much they could access with their "full ticket".

The square in front of the convention center is huge, but there are two temporary passages with "stalls" that everyone needs to pick up along the way.

"I feel this meeting is quite relaxed, even though it is government-led," said He Zixiang.

"After all, it has a heavy commercial component and it's a cutting-edge conference," Deng Yudi said as several people walked to the first booth and received the visitor brochure. "Wow, look at these projects... there are too many, right?"

"Can you finish the journey?" Chen Fan asked.

Lai Yining has already started to pick out the ones he is interested in. "We have full tickets for the tour, and we can participate in all the projects here. We must go to the opening ceremony and the main forum at the beginning. These product experiences should be small sites open all day. Everyone can pick the ones they like to have a look at then."

"There is also a developer workshop, which should be a technical exchange. It will be held after the opening ceremony in the morning. I think I can go and take a look."

"Oh, there's a concert tonight. They should have invited some celebrity bands or something."

“I’m more concerned about what to eat…”

“Lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner. Afternoon tea and product experience go together.”

"It's a pity that we can't experience so many things in one day."

"When is the main forum?"

"From 9:30am to 12pm. We can have afternoon tea after the event." Chen Fan glanced at his phone. "Hey, where are you going? We all want to get the gift packs!"

The three people who were chatting and walking straight towards the venue immediately turned back.

The gift bag itself is a school bag, and the color combination of blue, white and yellow is pretty good. The four of them should be the ones who best suit it here.

Before entering the venue, they were studying what was in the gift bags.

"T-shirts, umbrellas, water cups, badges..." Lai Yining muttered, "Yudi, you people in Linjiang are quite wealthy!"

"People from Jiangnan shouldn't talk about this." Deng Yudi rolled his eyes at him.

"There's an ice bucket on the roadside!" He Zixiang was a little surprised. "It's so hot, they are really well prepared!"

He Zixiang had just walked to the entrance of the venue and regretted taking two gulps of ice water. The air conditioning in the venue was turned on too high, and the heat from both inside and outside dissipated in an instant.

"I thought we were entering the opening ceremony venue..." Lai Yining looked at the huge exhibition hall of the convention and exhibition center in front of him and felt a little confused.

"Let's go. There are five exhibition areas and six conference halls here, and there are plenty of places to visit. The opening ceremony and the main forum are both in Hall 1." Deng Yudi smiled and took the lead to lead the others forward.

The product experience booths have been arranged, and many people are taking advantage of the fact that the opening ceremony has not yet begun to have some fun here.

Along the way there were photos of guests of this conference. Their status was indeed impressive. Even Pony Ma from Penguin was there. However, these big shots would probably just go into the conference room as soon as they arrived. They would probably sit in the first row during the opening ceremony and the main forum.

"You think if Li Yan greets Xiao Ma Ge...will there be a response?" Chen Fan asked.

"I think Li Yan is better than Xiao Ma Ge." Lai Yining nodded seriously.

“……” It’s hard to respond to this.

"People of the same age group must be very handsome, but now... Ma is the CEO of Penguin after all, so the gap in status is a bit far, right?" Deng Yudi ended the topic rationally.

On the technical level, we have Academician Ni here, and everyone is looking forward to what opinions he will put forward at the forum.

"Do you think Academician Ni will ask questions to Yan Shen?" Lai Yining was a little excited.

"It's really possible. Academician Ni has always attached great importance to domestic systems and domestic chips. It's normal for him to be interested in our stuff." He Zixiang said.

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone fell silent.

That’s Academician Ni… a big shot who advocates that China should develop basic software represented by operating systems and establish China’s independent software industry system.

And to a certain extent, Academician Ni, who left twice because of different development concepts with his business owners, can also be regarded as a more technology-oriented idealist.

"The more I think about it... the more possible it seems." Deng Yudi said, "Isn't that what Li Yan came for?"

"That's the problem... Is our system finding fault with academicians?"

Everyone fell silent again.

Li Yan did not show everyone his final results because he said "it's impossible to send it by express delivery" and "I was still revising it last night."

"Let's wait for the developer conference to start. I have to leave."

This was the last sentence he said in the QQ group, and then he disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Hey, Mr. Huang is also a guest." Chen Fan was surprised.

"It's not an exaggeration to say that Mr. Huang is a pioneer of Chinese smartphones. Although W8 is now stuck in a quagmire, this cannot change the fact that it is currently the best domestic smartphone." Deng Yudi still highly praises Huang Zhan. "Among the CEOs who came here today, he is considered to be of a relatively high level. We can't think that he is ordinary just because we have seen him many times."

"We haven't met many times, right?" He Zixiang asked in a low voice.

"It's mainly because God Yan is here. Wow, if you say so, God Yan is really awesome." Lai Yining said.

“He was always exaggerated.”

Deng Yudi also highly praises Li Yan.

The full admission ticket is the third level of ticket in the entire venue. The first is the guest ticket, the second is the expert ticket, and the third is the admission ticket - including the full ticket and many castrated versions of the ticket.

Eighty percent of the seats were occupied by tickets, so if they wanted to get a good seat to watch the opening ceremony, they had to go and reserve seats in advance.

Although the experience areas I saw along the way were very interesting, I could only come back after reading the main forum.

"Hey!" Chen Fan called out to everyone again, "Is that guy over there... Director Wang?"

He was definitely not asking about the two outsiders who had only met Wang Peihua once. Deng Yudi squinted his eyes and looked at them. "Yes, the one with the gold-rimmed glasses."

"What is the Director of Education doing here?" Chen Fan was curious.

"To be honest, there is some connection." Lai Yining answered, "Of course, the biggest connection is definitely Yan Shen."

"He has a very good relationship with the director of the New Taipei City Science and Technology Bureau, the fat guy next to him." Deng Yudi kept observing, "But judging from their posture... the guy in the white shirt opposite them looks a bit arrogant."

"Isn't that it?" He Zixiang frowned and pointed at the promotional poster right next to everyone.

Director of the Science and Technology Department of Linjiang Province, Zuo Yuming.

He actually looks quite handsome, with tall, broad shoulders and regular features. With his looks and status, he should be a very good-looking man in his forties.

"No wonder the others gathered around him and talked." Deng Yudi nodded. "Isn't the guy next to him the one who saw us last time?"

"Director Shi from the Provincial Science and Technology Development Center?" Chen Fan asked.

"Do you know him?" He Zixiang was curious.

"My dad knew him."

As they were talking, the leaders walked into a meeting room with a smile.

"Maybe Xiao Ma is inside," Deng Yudi smiled, "Let's go, the venue is on the right."

The large conference hall in the convention center is like a theater and a cinema, especially the large projection screen that is as big as a stage, which is perfect for playing movies.

Several people took their seats following the guidance of etiquette.

"It's really quite relaxing here," Chen Fan smiled, "I thought it would be a serious meeting."

There was a lot of laughter and conversation, as noisy as a vegetable market. People were not dressed formally, wearing work badges and name tags, and were standing, sitting, walking around, and chatting intensely.

The teenagers' eyes were all focused on the first two rows of seats with water signs. The seats there looked much more upscale.

"Could it be a massage chair?" Lai Yining asked.

"Is this the point?" Deng Yudi complained.

"The point is!" Lai Yining stood up and looked around, "Where is Yan Shen?"

"If we're reporting, it should be the third row, right? Or are they not sitting in their seats and waiting to go on stage backstage?" Chen Fan asked.

"Waiting backstage to go on stage... Damn, I'm getting nervous." Lai Yining sat back in his seat, demonstrating what it means to be "trembling with fear."

"No, you're not nervous at all."

"I put myself in his shoes. Yan Shen was going to take the thing we made and show it to..." Lai Yining looked around the venue again. "There must be at least a thousand people watching. If it were me, I would be scared to death."

"There are also judgements from various bigwigs."

"You know that too, aren't you nervous?"

"It's not me, so of course I'm not nervous."

The two started arguing again.

Chen Fan was quickly sending messages to Li Yan on QQ, informing her of his location and asking where Li Yan was, but Li Yan did not reply.

"Is that Mr. Huang?" He Zixiang pointed at the thin man sitting in the first row.

"You can see it from such a distance, that's awesome..."

A few teenagers were chattering here, and two men in their thirties came over next door and kept looking at them with curious eyes.

"Hello." One of them who looked more outgoing and kind took the initiative to greet them.

"Hello." In this kind of situation, it was Chen Fan who responded.

His flamboyant nature in front of strangers is still of some use.

"You look like... students? Middle school students?"

"Yes," Chen Fan replied calmly, "I am a sophomore at New Taipei No. 1 High School. The three of them are from all over the country and are all sophomores in high school."

"You are so young, are you here for a visit?"

"Right." Chen Fan nodded, thinking that whoever sits here must be here for a visit. If he wants to go to the main venue to report, he must sit in the front.

"We are experts. We have booths for both the technical workshop and the product experience interaction." The visitor smiled and took out a business card with his QQ number written on it. "We are engaged in the development of the Robert system. I wonder if you have heard of it?"

Lai Yining turned around and whispered to He Zixiang, "Can we say that developing an open source system is research and development now?"

He Zixiang immediately gave him the popular science introduction of Robert system.

"We..." Chen Fan hesitated for a moment, but decided to pretend, "We are also engaged in system development."

"Oh?" The visitor showed a surprised expression, "Are you Win or Robert?"

“We are the River Map.”

what?
The two young men looked at each other, not understanding what the child opposite them was saying.

"You can attend the opening ceremony and the main forum. You should have unanimous tickets, right? How can a middle school student get unanimous tickets?"

"All three of them won gold medals in the Youth Information Olympics International Competition."

The young man stood in awe, "I see, what about you?"

"I almost did. I won first place in the junior high school category of the national competition."

"They are all talented people. The young are really formidable."

It feels great to show off. Chen Fan feels that he has inherited Li Yan's true art of showing off.

"Chen Fan, help me get the things."

It’s Li Yan’s voice!

While they were busy chatting, Li Yan appeared out of nowhere and threw the bag in her hand to Chen Fan - this was the small shoulder bag Li Yan carried when she went out every day.

When the young man saw another young man coming, he smiled and asked, "Are you here to visit too?"

Li Yan was stunned, just shook her head and walked towards the stage.

He came and left in a hurry, and the other three teammates didn't have time to say hello to him.

It seems that Li Yan is indeed very busy.

Several people watched Li Yan walk to the first row, greet the leaders who had just taken their seats, shake hands with them one by one, and then stand in front of Academician Ni to chat.

Then, at the leaders' signal, he walked to the edge of the first row and sat down.

Judging from their body language, the leader wanted Li Yan to sit in the middle, but Li Yan refused and sat on the side.

The reasons are all imaginable: "I still have to report."

"Fuck," the young man suddenly clapped his hands, "This is Li Yan, right?"

Chen Fan blinked. He just thought that he had inherited Li Yan's true method of pretending... but he was indeed too self-righteous.

(End of this chapter)