Events

Speaker · In person · Shanghai Book Fair, Jing'an venue

I turned nearly 300 episodes of my favourite literary podcast, Tiaodao FM, into “Tiaodao Atlas”, a map you can wander, and shared how I made it at “AI Reading Cube” at the 2026 Shanghai Book Fair.

Team lead · In person · Hangzhou

A hackathon for 800+ young people with the theme “Game Everything”. I led a team that built Scribby, an AI writing practice app, and won third prize in the Zeabur track.

Speaker · Online

Build a personal website from scratch: fork a template, make it your own, and publish with GitHub Pages.

Host · Livestream · Microsoft Reactor Shanghai

Microsoft MVP Chen Haiping on building multi-agent apps with the .NET open-source framework BotSharp, with me hosting. I was sending PRs to BotSharp that same month.

Speaker · Online

A talk on how generative AI tools like Bing Chat and GitHub Copilot can make browsing and coding more fun.

Host, co-speaker · Microsoft Reactor

A livestream class for C# beginners: what a method is, why you pull repeated code out, and how recursion works. With an “interview question” and three quiz questions.

Roundtable guest · In person · Microsoft Reactor Shanghai

An in-person event by the Power Platform Chinese community, where I joined a roundtable on “Power Platform with AI”.

Host · Livestream · Microsoft Reactor

A low-code hands-on livestream during the Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge. MVP Liu Yu presented and I hosted.

Guest · Livestream · Microsoft Reactor

A Chinese-language livestream during the Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge, where a few MVPs and student ambassadors chatted about the challenge.

Host, roundtable guest · In person · Microsoft Reactor Shanghai

An in-person Global Azure event run by MVPs. I helped on site, hosted, and joined a roundtable.

Speaker · Online

No formulas. First, what kinds of questions machine learning can answer; then a drag-and-drop diabetes prediction model in Azure Machine Learning.

Speaker · Online

An online talk for students at my university's computer science society: what directions computing offers, how to learn, and grad school, careers and mental health.

Co-host

A community-run After Party following Microsoft Build 2023, on developer tools for students.

Volunteer reporter · In person · Zhengzhou

I spent a few days in Zhengzhou as a volunteer reporter, following teams with a camera and interviewing them through to the final.

Organiser, speaker · Online

An intro to web development, then deploying your first site with Azure Static Web Apps.

Organiser, speaker · Online

The first event I ran: teaching classmates to use Git and GitHub for group assignments.

Changzhou student delegate · Online · Zoom

A week-long online meeting the city of Essen held for young people from its twin cities. I was one of three student delegates from Changzhou, and designed a game for Changzhou's afternoon: making a postcard with Chinese elements in Canva.