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The Ravages of Time episode 6

After so long, it's finally here! This was a lot of work for something that maybe two and a half people will read, but I had a lot of fun with it and am ridiculously proud of everything I've learned working on this.

Episode 6

I say Lü Bu is not human

Lü Bu, courtesy name Fengxian, was a famous general of the late Eastern Han dynasty, a skilled horseback archer and a brave and experienced warrior.

Lü Bu was appointed a Registrar by the Bingzhou governor Ding Yuan [1], but later killed him and became Dong Zhuo’s sworn son [2], acting as the official in charge of the imperial palace security, then grew suspicious of Dong Zhuo, and killed him with the help of the Minister over the Masses Wang Yun [3]. He then tried to join Yuan Shu [4], but was refused, and instead turned to Yuan Shao [5], only to again be met with suspicion, and later joined Zhang Yang [6]. After that, Lü Bu and Cao Cao opposed each other for two years. Lü Bu was also occasionally allies, occasionally enemies with Liu Bei, creating the story of Lü Bu shooting the halberd [5].

On the third year of Liu Xie’s third reign (should be around 199 CE), after Lü Bu defeated Liu Bei and Xiahou Dun [6], Cao Cao personally went on a campaign against him. There was a rebellion in Lü Bu’s forces, and he was defeated and taken prisoner. Cao Cao had Lü Bu executed.

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Readmore here because there are so many notes...

[1] Ding Yuan – a warlord who was summoned to Luoyang alongside with Dong Zhuo to assist in the power struggle against the eunuchs, but arrived slightly later. According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, he was originally from a poor family and rose to power through his bravery and sense of responsibility. Just like Lü Bu, he was a skilled rider and archer.

[2] Sworn son – typically translated as “adopted son”. However, I wanted to dive a little deeper into the nature of their relationship – see this post on the matter.

[3] Wang Yun – a Han dynasty official and politician known mostly for his part in Dong Zhuo’s murder. That was the height (at the time he was the Minister over the Masses – one of the three highest posts in Han dynasty) and the end of his career – within a few months, he was assassinated by Dong Zhuo’s followers in Chang’an.

[4] Yuan Shu – a Han dynasty warlord with an admittedly long and curious biography that won’t all fit here – besides, he’ll be an active participant in the events I assume will make it into the donghua. For now, after Dong Zhuo fled Luoyang, Yuan Shu came into the possession of the Imperial Seal, given to him by his subordinate Sun Jian.

[5] Yuan Shao – another Han dynasty warlord and another active participant in the Late Han politics. He and Yuan Shu did not have a good relationship, partially due to the circumstances of Yuan Shao’s birth. Now this is where things get complicated. English Wikipedia will tell you that he was Yuan Shu’s half-brother, but that’s… not really known, and under the circumstances, I don’t think any certain claims can be made. Yuan Shao was the son of a servant, and later adopted by Yuan Shu’s uncle Yuan Cheng who had no heirs (he is referred as just Yuan Cheng’s “son”, and if you’ve read the “sworn sons” post, looks like it was one of those relationships that gave him the family name and the right to inherit). Either way, despite the shady circumstances of birth, his status was higher than that of Yuan Shu’s, which didn’t stop Yuan Shu from claiming Yuan Shao wasn’t a “true” Yuan when they had disputes. Family.

[6] Zhang Yang – this Han dynasty general didn’t die by Lü Bu’s hand, but he was murdered by a subordinate a few years later while trying to help Lü Bu in his struggle against Cao Cao. He was described as a brave warrior, but wasn’t as involved in court politics as Yuan Shu or Yuan Shao. From what I’ve read in his biography, it almost sounds like politics was happening to him and not the other way around – he was mostly kept out of real power by the people in charge, even when they recognized his talents and contributions.

[7] The story of Lü Bu shooting the halberd is a famous story from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Basically a feat of unmatched marksmanship, but more on that later.

In chapter 16 of the novel, Lü Bu gets caught between two opposing forces of Liu Bei and Ji Ling (Yuan Shu’s general). Ji Ling, who had helped Lü Bu previously, was threatening Liu Bei, and Liu Bei, despite the reservations of his allies, decided to turn to Lü Bu for help. Not wanting to directly oppose Ji Ling and yet also not wanting him to win and gain more strength, Lü Bu called the two of them to his camp to settle things. While Liu Bei was eager to reach a peaceful solution, Ji Ling was intent on fighting. Finally, Lü Bu asked for his halberd, had it set in the ground 150 paces away and made a deal with the two that if Lü Bu could shoot the small blade from a bow, they’d leave peacefully. Certain that the task was impossible, Ji Ling agreed, Lü Bu shot the halberd, and thus the matter was temporarily resolved.

Now, just to put things into perspective, 150 paces is… a lot. To the best of my knowledge, during Han dynasty that would have been around 200 meters (650 feet) (even more if we assume the early Ming dynasty measurements of the time of the writing, that would be about 240 meters (790 feet)). Just… that’s an insane distance for archery. In modern Olympic archery (with the fancy bows and equipment), the largest distance for a recurve bow is 70 meters (230 feet). In traditional archery competitions, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything over 40 meters (130 feet), and the typical distance is 20 meters (65 feet).

I don’t have a conclusion for this, really. Although Lü Bu is typically depicted with a halberd, there’s a reason one of his main defining characteristics is that he was an excellent archer. Of course, this is a fictional tale, but it certainly goes to show how Lü Bu was perceived.

[8] Xiahou Dun – one of Cao Cao’s trusted generals, nicknamed “one-eyed Xiahou” after he lost his eye to a stray arrow some time in the late 190’s. In historical records he is described just as a loyal and humble warrior as well as thoughtful administrator who kept the needs of the common folk in mind. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms really leaned into the whole one-eyed general thing though, describing him yanking the arrow (shot by Lü Bu in this version) out and eating his eyeball.

And now onto episode spoilers!

The song Xiao Meng sings before Dong Zhuo is unfortunately a song written for the show, since Xu Lin is a fictional character, and isn’t an actual old poem. Not sure if Guanshan Road there refers to a specific road, I haven’t been able to find a name for anything period-appropriate, so it could have just been a generic reference to a path through a mountain pass.

The official subtitles are a bit unclear in the part of Dong Zhuo’s speech where the dragon appears, because the translation… doesn’t feature a dragon? It goes something like, “A ruler will be revered by thousands of people wherever he goes. The real ruler is in our hands right now!” The actual words are more like, “Wherever he goes, he will be a dragon revered by thousands of people. This true dragon is now in our hands.”

(Additionally, having finally got around to reading at least the very beginning of the manhua, I actually get why sleeping with Dong Zhuo is absolutely not an option for Xiao Meng. It’s completely omitted in the donghua, but in the manhua Xiao Meng is in fact a eunuch.)

Pretty sure the instructor of the Imperial Guards Yuan Tai is a fictional character.

I had the funniest reaction after reaching the scene of Xiao Meng refusing Dong Zhuo, because that was the first time I fully realized the fake name is Diao Chan. The legendary beauty Diao Chan. And then I went back and rewatched episode 2. And indeed, Xiao Meng is sent to Wang Yun, Minister over the Masses, and I completely missed it then, too busy agonizing over Lü Bu’s halberd and the timelines.

It hasn’t really come up in previous notes, because it’s a fictional story used in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but there, part of the reason for the disagreements between Lü Bu and Dong Zhuo is a woman named Diao Chan (often stylized as Diaochan), Wang Yun’s daughter.

Actually, Diao Chan as Lü Bu’s wife appeared in previous stories, too, the depictions ranging from a woman completely unaware of the surrounding conspiracies to a femme fatale. But I think it was the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that established her connection to Wang Yun and sets Diao Chan as Dong Zhuo’s concubine that Lü Bu falls in love with.

Obviously that’s not what happens in The Ravages of Time, but that story was still clearly a source of inspiration. Though now I have to wonder, with Xiao Meng exposed, will Wang Yun’s involvement in the story change, or will they gloss over that part completely?..

[avelera]

Hey i love the prisoners dilemma and i was just wondering what your writing process is ( as someone who stuggles to get words on the page)

*falls in a heap* right now anon I’m so behind on TPD that I don’t even know what my process is but first of all, thank you for your kind words. 

OK! But I actually love questions like this so I’m gonna give it a shot (I’m actually very excited, thank you for sending this!)

1) Get an idea. Think the idea is going to be short. It’s not short. I am roundly mocked for my hubris. 

ex 1. the seed idea for “The Only Way Out is Down” was that I wanted to combine Newt’s recovery with Dante’s Inferno (got it literally in the parking lot after seeing Uprising and to this day I don’t know what was up with my brain that day). I figured that would be done in 20k. I wasn’t even through the third circle of Hell (out of 9) in 20k.

ex 2.the seed idea for “How to Accidentally Become a Jaeger Pilot in 10 Easy Steps” was a thought I had while jogging of how funny it would be if Newt and Hermann actually had to do the stick sparring and accidentally became an incredibly effective Jaeger pilot duo, to Hermann’s euphoria and Newt’s everlasting shame.

ex 3. the idea for “Prisoners’ Dilemma” was basically “what if Newt wasn’t alone for the 10 years of his possession? What if Hermann was there, both as our audience surrogate to observe the situation but also as a potential source of salvation? what if it was really messed up but also really cute and domestic?” 

2) Each fic has a different process but generally, ideally, I write the first draft as quickly as I can all the way to the end, occasionally having alpha readers to offer encouragement if it’s a very long piece to get me through the slog and self doubt (I had SO MUCH self doubt about towoid, damn, I was convinced the story was self indulgent garbage pretty much the whole time). TPD that kinda broke down so it’s been slower going overall as I release chapters as they come. One reason I like to finish a story to the end before posting though is a) it gives more time to let the early chapters sit so I can edit them with fresh eyes and b) it allows me to “seed” things and set up foreshadowing for stuff I don’t get an idea for until I’ve written to the end. For example, the circle “Wrath” in TOWOID was re-written after I finished the first draft because I realized it needed tweaking to be brought in line with the overarching mystery of the story so the reader could actually *solve* it. 

3) I get beta readers. I also read the chapters about 100 more times myself, before and after it’s posted. I’m still editing months even years later. I basically re-read a section every time someone comments on it, because their comment allows me to see the story with new eyes. 

When it comes to defeating writers block, generally what I find is it’s a product of being too hard on oneself. Another reason to write the whole draft before posting is it allows me to not worry about the audience or let them in on the process until I’m certain myself about what I have to say, without fear of judgement or alteration for “fanservice”. Trying to change things to please fans is one of my biggest sources of writer’s block. There’s generally a reason I don’t do things a certain way. I also really need there to be conflict in a story or I get stalled out. If it’s just two people having a cup of tea agreeing on everything the other says, I don’t know how to direct the scene forward. Even just now while working on the next TPD chapter I realized I had stalled out because the characters agreed on something too early in the conversation and they needed to be in conflict for the conversation to progress to where it needed to go. 

Tip: One thing that’s helpful for breaking writers block is doing 15 minute short prompt fics. Just having something rough but DONE is a good way to remember that one is a writer and one CAN complete things. It also helps make writing feel less momentous, like every word needs to be perfect, which is in my experience the source of almost all writers block.

I also try to incorporate lessons from the writing workshops I’ve begun attending. Lately I’ve been working on:

- Make sure everything has a cause and effect. Even just thoughts the characters are having need to be prompted by something external, they can’t just realize things out of the blue, something needs to prompt the thought, otherwise the audience can’t follow or predict the action and it makes them frustrated. I still agonize over what are probably invisible plot holes in TOWOID where I feel like I didn’t adequately set up certain aspects of the story. For example, I still feel as if I never properly came up with the cause of the dive into Newt’s memories taking the form of Dante’s Inferno, at least not to my satisfaction, because the true Doylist answer was, “Because the author felt like it.”

- For TPD I’ve been throwing myself into making sure information isn’t known to different characters before they actually share it. An astute reader may notice that by ch. 6 of TPD, Hermann *still* doesn’t know that Alice is the brain in the jar. Why would he know that? It’s a bonkers thought that would never occur to Hermann, Newt is too embarrassed to tell him and the Precursors never would. So at this point, though the audience has outside knowledge of who “Alice” is, Hermann still believes she’s a human accomplice, perhaps someone at Shao. Similarly, the Precursors and Newt have a copy of Hermann in their minds, but it’s a copy from the day of the Drift, so they don’t know Hermann’s thoughts for the past year or two, they don’t have an echo of the Hermann who has been in love with and cohabited with Newt for that time. So, their map of Hermann is incomplete thus they can’t always predict his actions and that drives them nuts. I could go on but that would be spoilers. Suffice to say, I’m doing my damndest to give each character distinct knowledge and a distinct mental map of how they operate, which can be a bit migraine inducing for the author at times lol. 

- Describing facial expressions with specifics. This is a critique I got at my last workshop, that I was falling into the fanfic trap of describing things like, “Something indescribable happened to his face.” It’s not indescribable, damnit, describe it! You’re the author! We can only see the world as you show it because it’s all squiggles on a page! When you use that turn of phrase, you’re making the reader do your job of showing how things look AND you’re missing an opportunity to give your characters strong, unique visual details. 

Anyway, I hoped this answered your questions somewhere in this mess!

[elaphaenotes]

Anthro Notes 10/3

Park Ch. 6 (2nd 1/3 p.134-150)

General Notes:

Stone tools! So many ways of making stone tools! ALSO ENDURANCE RUNNING, I KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT ENDURANCE RUNNING AND PURSUIT PREDATION IN HUMANS BECAUSE OF MY LIMITS OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE CLASS AAAAA I LOVE IT. SO EXCITED. But basically this is a section on evolution and TOOLS. LOTSA TOOLS.

Vocabulary:

Bulb of Percussion-> a convex surface on a flake caused by the force used to split the flake off. Rarely found in a natural break.

Pressure flake-> taking a flake off a core by pushing a wood, bone, or antler tool against the stone.

Acheulian-> a toolmaking tradition associated with Homo erectus in Africa and Europe. Includes hand axes, cleavers, and flake tools.

Hand axe-> a bifacial all-purpose stone tool, shaoed somewhat like an axe head.

Bifacial-> a stone tool that has been worked on both sides.

Pleistocene-> the geological time period, from 1.6 mya to 10,000 ya, characterized by a series of glacial advances and retreats.

Lavellois-> a tool technology in which uniform flakes are struck from a prepared core.

Mousterian-> a toolmaking technology, associated with the European Neandertals, in which flakes were carefully retouched to produce diverse tool types.

Haft-> to attach a wooden handle or shaft to a stone or bone point.

Microliths-> small stone flakes, usually used as part of a larger tool such as a sickle.

General Notes:

Lotsa cool toolmaking methods

As much as nobody can agree on anything about early hominins, they agree EVEN LESS on the past 2 million years.

2 extreme models, we're either 2 mil yo as a species or 200,000 y. It's those crazy splitters and lumpers again, back at it disagreeing.

We have protrudy chins. V vertical heads.

Our LEGS ARE SO COOL. THEY DO WEIRD THINGS LIKE LET US RUN REALLY FAR FOR A LONG TIME JUST FAST ENOUGH TO BE FRUSTRATING TO KEEP PACE WITH FOR QUADRUPEDS. A HUMAN WILL BEAT A HORSE IN A MARATHON BECAUSE OF THIS. TRYING TO KEEP PACE WITH A HUMAN FOR EXTENDEE PERIODS OF TIME CAUSES HEAT STROKE IN MOST QUADRUPEDS. COOL AS HECK.

Tools are a v important part of the expansion of the human race.

Africa->East/Europe->Asia->The Rest Of The World

Homo erectus credited usually with FIRE USEAGE.

Archaic Homo sapiens is kind of a middle ground with erectus and modern sapiens.

Neandertals beginnings are really shakey bc of a lack of evidence. Might be archaic Homo sapiens. Maybe.

CONTROVERSY. SO MUCH CONTROVERSY.

300,000 ya is about when super modern human-y fossils started showing up.

Even MORE TOOLS. ADVANCING TOOLS. BETTER TOOLS. BEST TOOLS.

[ebizupdate]

SWITCH gears up for a bigger and better 2017

Featuring a line-up with six new partner events, the platform will see engaging conversations and innovations around tech and humanity under the theme, "Founding a New World"

SINGAPORE, Sept. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --­­­­­­ SWITCH (Singapore Week of Innovation & TeCHnology) is back for the second year with a line-up that promises to be bigger and better than the last. Held over three days from 18 to 20 September at Sands Expo & Convention Centre, SWITCH 2017 will feature eight conferences, over 300 exhibits and seven satellite partner events. The event will also kick off with an opening address by Minister for Finance, Heng Swee Keat, followed by a panel discussion on "Imagining a New World with Technology" featuring Mike Descheneaux, President, Silicon Valley Bank; William Bao Bean, General Partner, SOSV; and Taizo Son, CEO, Mistletoe.  

Highly regarded as one of the leading "plug and play" platforms in Asia, more than 6,000 are expected to attend SWITCH 2017. It sees an increase in both international and local partner events this year, including the very first edition of Campus Party in Singapore, Convergence, Impact Hub Singapore, Ecosystem Day: Nature SciCafe Asia & Singapore QuickFire Challenge, Slingshot@SWITCH, Slush Singapore, SWITCH ON@LaunchPad, TechInnovation, VentureCon (e27) and Women in Tech Conference (Asia). More details on the partner events are in Annex A.

Following the theme "Founding a New World", the platform brings together the best minds to create interactions and exchanges that will shape our way of life. Innovators and influencers around the world are expected to come together at SWITCH to discuss current and future technologies including the reprogramming of bodies with biotech, artificial intelligence's impact on creativity, developments in space technology, autonomous vehicles, clean energy, and robotics.

Key speakers at SWITCH 2017 include:

18 September

SWITCH Opening Ceremony Opening Speech

- Minister for Finance, Heng Swee Keat

Panel Discussion - Steve Leonard, Founding CEO, SGInnovate - Taizo Son, CEO and Founder, Mistletoe - Mike Descheneaux, President, Silicon Valley Bank - William Bao Bean, General Partner- SOSV, Managing Director –Chinaccelerator, Managing Director – MOX

      Convergence

- Robert Scoble, Futurist, Author, "Fourth Transformation", AR, AI, VR, Silicon Valley - Adrian Kaehler, ex VP Magic Leap, AI, Robotics, Silicon Valley - Lawrence Crumpton, HoloLens & Mixed Reality, Asia Lead, Microsoft, USA / Australia - Olof Schybergson, CEO, FJORD / Accenture Interactive, New York - Claire Davidson, Creative Shop - APAC (Oculus VR), Facebook - Sami Kizilbash, Developer Relations, (Daydream VR & Tango AR) Google

      Ecosystem Day: Nature SciCafe Asia 2017 & Singapore QuickFire Challenge - Metabolic Disease Innovation

- Juan Carlos Lopez, Founder, Haystack Science and former Chef Editor of Nature Medicine - Melinda Richter, Global Head of Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS - Professor Salvatore, President, Eureka Institute of Translational Medicine - Philip Lim, CEO, Exploit Technologies (ETPL) - Dong Wu, Head of Asia Pacific Innovation Center, Johnson & Johnson Innovation - Andrew Marshall, Chief Editor of Nature Biotechnology

      Impact Hub Singapore

- Grace Sai, CEO and Co-Founder, Impact Hub Singapore and Hub Ventures Fund - NMP Kuik Shiao-Yin, Founder, The Thought-Collective - Oyvind Roti, International Head, Machine Learning Solutions, Google Cloud - Rosaline Chow Koo, Founder and CEO, CXA Group - Piyush Gupta, CEO and Director, DBS Group - Scott Hartley, Venture Capitalist and Author of 'The Fuzzy and The Techie' - Peng T. Ong, Managing Partner, Monk's Hill Ventures - Jason Portnoy, Managing Partner, Oakhouse Partners

19 September

Slush Singapore

- Taizo Sun, Founder & CEO, Mistletoe Inc. - Taavi Roivas, Former Prime Minister of Estonia, Vice President of the Estonian Parliament - Taavet Hinrikus, Co-Founder and Chairman, Transferwise - Pocket Sun, Founding Partner, SoGal Ventures - Julian Hosp, Co-Founder, TenX - JP Lee, Partner and Managing Director, SoftBank Korea - Shao-Ning Huang, Partner & Co-Founder, AngelCentral - Gina Heng, CEO, Marvelstone and Co-Founder, Lattice80 - Praveen Velu, Co-Founder, Evie.ai - Abhishek Gupta, Co-Founder, Circles.Life

TechInnovation (19 & 20 September)

- Sean Carney, Chief Design Officer, Royal Philips - Phyllis Ong, Deputy CEO, Armstrong Industrial Corporation  - Guangyi Yu, Senior Director of Global Resource Integration, Haier Open Innovation Centre - Stefan Dobrev, Global Head of Innovation, Portfolio Management Nestle S.A. - Carl Clayton, Outside Innovation Strategist, Head of Open Innovation & Global Technology Sourcing, Reckitt Benckiser (RB)

  20 September

Women in Tech Conference (Asia)

- Annabelle Kwok, Mathematician/AI Practitioner and CEO & Founder, SmartCow - Teo Lay Lim, ASEAN MD, Accenture - Bidushi Bhattacharya, ex-NASA Rocket Scientist and CEO/Founder, Astropreneurs HUB – SEA's 1st space technology incubator - Sunita Kaur, MD Asia, Spotify - Mei Lin Neo, Marine Biologist/Scientist and TEDx Fellow - Sidney Yee, Chemist & Research scholar, CEO, Diagnostics Development Hub and Executive VP, ETPL - Reshmi Rajendran, Nuclear Scientist and Director of Health and Life Sciences, Budding Innovations, Intellectual Ventures

VentureCon

- Vishal Harnal, Venture Partner, 500 Startups - Nobuaki Kitagawa, CEO, CyberAgent Ventures Beijing - Michael Lints, Venture Partner, Golden Gate Ventures - Paul Santos, Managing Partner, Wavemaker Partners

    Campus Party Stay tuned for the full list of speakers at Campus Party.

      Steve Leonard, founding CEO of SGInnovate, says: "The inaugural SWITCH event last year brought together a tremendous number of talented people from Singapore and many other countries.  We are building on that momentum.  We will switch up a gear this year by focusing more on how technology can positively impact lives.  We want SWITCH 2017 to help people learn, discuss and understand how technology can play a positive role in building societies and economies."

To highlight Singapore's vibrant entrepreneurial and technology innovation ecosystem, SWITCH will also feature exhibitions, conferences, workshops, and activities revolving around topics such as technology and humanity, open innovation, technology transfer, technopreneurship, venture funding, and diversity in talent.

SWITCH is presented by SGInnovate, and supported by the National Research Foundation Singapore.

Visit switchsg.org for more information on attending or exhibiting at SWITCH 2017.

About SWITCH

SWITCH (Singapore Week of Innovation & TeCHnology) is a leading "plug and play" platform in Asia that showcases the best ideas, technology and innovation from around the world. Through a series of complementing technology and innovation events held between 18 - 20 September 2017, SWITCH brings together the best minds to create exchanges that will shape our world. At SWITCH, interactions are the catalyst for change; at the end of the day, technology does not shape our future – we do. SWITCH brings together partners from around the world in the technology, innovation and enterprise ecosystem, featuring exhibitions, conferences, workshops and activities revolving around topics such as open innovation, technology transfer, tech entrepreneurship, venture funding and talent development. SWITCH is presented by SGInnovate, and supported by the National Research Foundation Singapore. SWITCH Partners include Campus Party, Convergence, Impact Hub Singapore, Nature SciCafé, Singapore Quickfire Challenge, Slingshot@SWITCH, Slush Singapore, SWITCH ON@LaunchPad, TechInnovation, VentureCon (e27) and Women in Tech Conference (Asia). For more information, please visit www.switchsg.org

Press Contacts 

Grace Chiang, SGInnovate grace@sginnovate.com Melody Uy, Ogilvy Public Relations +65 6213 6997, melody.uy@ogilvy.com

Annex A

1.  Convergence

Convergence is a unique blend of conference learning, trade show research and cross-industry networking. It boasts strong B2B and B2C components, attracting an executive audience from Singapore, Australia and across the ASEAN region. This year, the conference will throw the spotlight on the consumer revolution driven by the latest emerging technologies like VR, machine learning, robotics and 3D printing. It will feature top Silicon Valley personalities Robert Scoble and Dr Adrian Kaehler, as well as a host of speakers from companies such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, SAP, DBS Bank and Scoot Airlines.

For more information, visit http://ift.tt/2eBaKT8

2. Ecosystem Day: Nature SciCafe Asia 2017 & Singapore QuickFire Challenge - Metabolic Disease Innovation

Nature SciCafe Asia 2017 partners up with the Singapore QuickFire Challenge managed by Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS, ETPL and SMART to present Ecosystem Day, touching on the theme of 'Creation of Ecosystems in Biosciences'. Join us as we explore facets of the ecosystem – hearing views from a local, regional, and global perspective, and on how to build bridges across and within it. The conference is supported and organised by specialists in the fields of Bioscience, Research and Academic: ETPL, SMART, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, SingHealth, Duke-NUS Medical School, Eureka Institute and Nature Biotechnology.

For more information, visit http://ift.tt/2gBtpPq

3. Meta Conversations: Tech and Humanity

Meta Conversations: Tech and Humanity takes the lead in inaugurating reflective and thought-provoking conversations around technology and humanity, sparking off dialogue in the landscape of transformative deep-tech, innovation, and human responsibility. It is part of a series of thought-provoking conferences by Impact Hub Singapore. Featuring an exciting lineup with speakers and panelists from regional thought-leaders to successful startup founders and representatives from venture funds, this year's conference will bring together ideas that generate interesting discussions to advance humanity. Some themes that will be explored – 'Does Technology Enrich or Challenge Us?', 'Transformative Deep Tech, Human Tech and Its Impact on Us' and 'The Responsibility of Money and Venture Capital'. Be part of the conversation.

For more information, visit http://ift.tt/2eysLS7

4. Slush Singapore

Though it's known as the little red dot, Singapore is the exact opposite of little. It has quickly become Asia's hit-list destination for tech-heads. This year, Slush Singapore returns bigger, better and bolder – for its second edition!Some 3,000 attendees, 200 investors, 300 startups and 100 members of the media will take the city by storm to hear about the most ground-breaking ideas and mega trends in tech – sustainability, ethics, impact investing, corporate innovation, future technologies and entrepreneurial stories. Are you ready for the heatwave?

For more information, visit http://ift.tt/29SH0OO

5. TechInnovation

TechInnovation is a premier industry-technology matching event that brings together international technology providers and enterprises to explore technology commercialisation and initiate business collaboration through open innovation. Organised by IPI Singapore, it is a leading conference and exhibition in Singapore that focuses on the matching of industry's needs to enabling technologies in info-communications & electronics, manufacturing, materials & chemicals, health & personal care, medtech, energy and environment from global sources.

For more information, visit http://ift.tt/1C370hJ .

6. VentureCon

VentureCon, organised by e27, is Asia's premier conference & networking platform for investors & key stakeholders in the region's tech startup funding ecosystem to exchange insights, foster connections, facilitate deal flow and pursue fundraising opportunities. VentureCon @ SWITCH 2017 is an invite-only one day conference that aims to give investors from across Asia Pacific the opportunity to connect and also serve as an engaging platform to spark conversations about the ecosystem's current challenges and future of deals and co-investment.

For more information, email contact@e27.co

7. Women in Tech Conference (Asia)

Born from a ground up and volunteer movement inside South-East Asia's tech scene, Women in Tech Conference has evolved into a positive and energised annual gathering of founders, managers, tech and science practitioners, senior leadership and the inclusivity and diversity movement in Asia's tech industry. Join the brightest minds and top tech leaders as we showcase the contributions and celebrate women making exceptional, world-changing accomplishments in tech. Event offers professional development, mentorship and networking activities - including workshops in hottest technologies. Join us now! 

Get inspired… by top visionary leaders from MNCs, startups and policy makers.

Learn… and engage in deep conversations & hands-on workshops. Build… tools and get tangible, actionable learnings to steer to achieve your professional goals.

For more information, visit http://womenintech.sg/

8. Campus Party

Learn, Innovate and Play with Campus Party at CP Day; the inaugural lead up series to the main festival.

Complete your SWITCH experience with a taste of Campus Party, the largest global technology festival that brings together diverse groups to learn, play and create together. Meet and mingle with fellow tech enthusiasts and innovators at this first lead up event. Dive into innovative session formats and interactive presentations that will inspire you to create. Join the global movement now and get ready to shape a bolder, brighter future!

For more information, visit http://ift.tt/2eB5ajS

Annex B

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