New in Shanghai and a 3D DCC Conference

As Jiang and I shared an interest in 3D digital content creation, he notified me that there would be a conference in Shanghai on teaching and practices in DCC. I of course went, but because I was on a business trip for some of the time that the conference was on, I only got to go to the last day of the conference.

I arrived in Shanghai city for the first time late at night at the old South Station. At the time I spoke no Chinese and was new to everything about the layout of Shanghai so I was alarmed when the train stop was in the middle of seemingly nowhere. After a few moments I found someone with a pay phone (in China pay phones are often privately owned by small businesses on the side of the road) and called Jiang - however, he did not answer. I tried again and it continued not to work. Eventually I walked around and after a short while I ran into Jiang and Dr. Yao. They took me to dinner with some of their friends and we then went to Dr. Yao's home to spend the night.

The next morning we got up early to attend the conference. We started by visiting the head office of Compaq and HP in China and after a brief talk there we went to Autodesk Shanghai where they showed us some product road maps for their Discreet product lineup. They took us out to lunch after that and that was all that I saw at the conference.

That afternoon Jiang and I walked around Shanghai city and much later that evening Jiang had his camera stolen at People's Square station. This was quite a sad happening and we returned to Hangzhou the next day.