{
  "version": "2026-08-02",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-02",
  "events": [
    {
      "id": "fintech-festival",
      "name": "Singapore FinTech Festival",
      "date": "2025-11",
      "venue": "Singapore EXPO",
      "district": "East · Expo",
      "chapter": "Look wider",
      "context": "Singapore · public financial technology event",
      "moment": "AI looks different when the room speaks finance.",
      "lesson": "Experience in banking shifts the question from whether a demo works to whether provenance, permissions, ownership, and difficult-day operations are clear.",
      "carriedInto": "Nexus Bank, a fictional banking demo",
      "href": "https://banking-demo-production.up.railway.app/",
      "image": "/assets/events/journey/singapore-fintech-festival.webp",
      "imageAlt": "Tanveer Riaz at Singapore FinTech Festival 2025",
      "world": {
        "routeOrder": 1,
        "position": [
          -42,
          18
        ],
        "venueType": "expo",
        "districtKey": "expo",
        "accent": "amber",
        "approachLabel": "Singapore EXPO"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ai-finance-raffles",
      "name": "AI and Finance Conversations",
      "date": "2025-11-13",
      "venue": "ByteDance · Raffles Quay",
      "district": "Marina · CBD",
      "chapter": "Listen closely",
      "context": "Singapore · public AI and finance event",
      "moment": "The useful idea often arrives between the slides.",
      "lesson": "A conversation can reveal the missing constraint faster than another hour of polishing.",
      "carriedInto": "What banking taught me about shipping AI",
      "href": "/blog/banking-shipping-ai",
      "image": "/assets/events/journey/ai-finance-conversation.webp",
      "imageAlt": "Tanveer Riaz in conversation at a public AI and finance event",
      "world": {
        "routeOrder": 2,
        "position": [
          -26,
          -5
        ],
        "venueType": "tower",
        "districtKey": "cbd",
        "accent": "coral",
        "approachLabel": "Raffles Quay"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "openclaw-aws",
      "name": "OpenClaw Singapore",
      "date": "2026",
      "venue": "AWS · IOI Central Boulevard Towers",
      "district": "Marina · CBD",
      "chapter": "Test the edges",
      "context": "Singapore · agent builder community",
      "moment": "Agents become real when permissions become real.",
      "lesson": "Autonomy is useful only when memory, tools, permissions, and hand-offs are visible.",
      "carriedInto": "The harness matters",
      "href": "/blog/harness-matters",
      "image": "/assets/events/journey/openclaw-singapore.webp",
      "imageAlt": "Collage from an OpenClaw Singapore community event, including Tanveer Riaz in the audience",
      "world": {
        "routeOrder": 3,
        "position": [
          -18,
          9.33
        ],
        "venueType": "tower",
        "districtKey": "cbd",
        "accent": "orange",
        "approachLabel": "AWS · IOI Central"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ai-engineer-capitol",
      "name": "AI Engineer Singapore",
      "date": "2026-05-16",
      "venue": "Capitol Theatre · 15 Stamford Road",
      "district": "Civic · City Hall",
      "chapter": "Keep showing up",
      "context": "Singapore · AI engineering conference",
      "moment": "I went to learn. The paper became part of the evidence.",
      "lesson": "The value was being in a room where practitioners were building, questioning, and learning in public.",
      "carriedInto": "A public journey connecting events, lessons, and builds",
      "href": "https://www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/press-statements-transcripts-and-photos/minister-for-foreign-affairs-dr-vivian-balakrishnan-s-speech-at-ai-engineer-singapore--16-may-2026/",
      "source": {
        "title": "Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan's Speech at AI Engineer Singapore, 16 May 2026",
        "publisher": "Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore",
        "url": "https://www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/press-statements-transcripts-and-photos/minister-for-foreign-affairs-dr-vivian-balakrishnan-s-speech-at-ai-engineer-singapore--16-may-2026/"
      },
      "image": "/assets/events/journey/ai-engineer-newspaper.webp",
      "imageAlt": "Physical Straits Times page about AI Engineer Singapore",
      "photoNote": "Tanveer Riaz is among the attendees in the group photograph. This does not imply a personal meeting with the minister.",
      "world": {
        "routeOrder": 4,
        "position": [
          4,
          -9
        ],
        "venueType": "theatre",
        "districtKey": "civic",
        "accent": "violet",
        "approachLabel": "Capitol Theatre"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "build-with-gemini",
      "name": "Build with Gemini Hackathon",
      "date": "2026-08",
      "venue": "Lorong AI · one-north",
      "district": "West · one-north",
      "chapter": "Build for someone",
      "context": "Singapore · public AI builder hackathon",
      "moment": "A six-hour room became a reason to ask who technology can help people become.",
      "lesson": "The strongest prototype was not the one with the most AI. It was the one where consent stayed visible and the AI stepped back once two people could talk.",
      "carriedInto": "87K Windows",
      "href": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7497166785465659392/",
      "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7497166785465659392/",
      "linkedinLabel": "View the 87K Windows build story",
      "image": "/assets/events/rooms/optimized/T8-640.webp",
      "imageAlt": "Lorong AI community event collage with presentation slides and Singapore AI builders",
      "world": {
        "routeOrder": 5,
        "position": [
          40,
          11
        ],
        "venueType": "campus",
        "districtKey": "one-north",
        "accent": "blue",
        "approachLabel": "Lorong AI"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "value-maxxing",
      "name": "65labs Unconference · Value-Maxxing",
      "date": "2026-08",
      "venue": "Carousell Campus",
      "district": "West · innovation corridor",
      "chapter": "Spend intelligence well",
      "context": "Singapore · public AI builder unconference",
      "moment": "The useful question moved from which model is smartest to which model is reliable enough for the job.",
      "lesson": "Use frontier intelligence to explore, capture what worked as a repeatable skill, then move repeatable work down the cost curve.",
      "carriedInto": "Model-routing and reusable skills practice",
      "href": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7496185885101658112/",
      "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7496185885101658112/",
      "linkedinLabel": "Read the Value-Maxxing notes",
      "image": "/assets/events/rooms/optimized/T16-640.webp",
      "imageAlt": "Singapore builder community collage with speakers, tables and a projected talk",
      "world": {
        "routeOrder": 6,
        "position": [
          52,
          -8
        ],
        "venueType": "campus",
        "districtKey": "one-north",
        "accent": "red",
        "approachLabel": "Carousell Campus"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "claude-grab",
      "name": "Code with Claude",
      "date": "2026",
      "venue": "Grab · one-north",
      "district": "West · one-north",
      "chapter": "Build together",
      "context": "Singapore · coding agent community",
      "moment": "A good workflow remembers what the team learns.",
      "lesson": "Reusable skills, clear intent, and inspectable review make useful discoveries survive the individual session.",
      "carriedInto": "The public Skillz library",
      "href": "https://github.com/tanveerriaz/Skillz",
      "image": "/assets/events/journey/claude-code-singapore.webp",
      "imageAlt": "Collage from Code with Claude 2026 in Singapore",
      "world": {
        "routeOrder": 7,
        "position": [
          62,
          10
        ],
        "venueType": "campus",
        "districtKey": "one-north",
        "accent": "sand",
        "approachLabel": "Grab · one-north"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "agent-forge-nus",
      "name": "Agent Forge Hackathon",
      "date": "2026",
      "venue": "National University of Singapore",
      "district": "West · NUS",
      "chapter": "Forge the workflow",
      "context": "Singapore · public agent-building hackathon",
      "moment": "A room full of agents made the hand-offs more interesting than any single prompt.",
      "lesson": "Agent systems become dependable when roles, evidence, review and failure states are designed as one workflow.",
      "carriedInto": "Agent workflow and orchestration experiments",
      "href": "/classic#projects",
      "image": "/assets/events/rooms/optimized/T12-640.webp",
      "imageAlt": "Agent Forge Hackathon lecture theatre with attendees beneath event signage",
      "world": {
        "routeOrder": 8,
        "position": [
          78,
          -9
        ],
        "venueType": "university",
        "districtKey": "nus",
        "accent": "green",
        "approachLabel": "NUS · Agent Forge"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "chatgpt-sites-hackathon",
      "name": "ChatGPT Sites Hackathon",
      "date": "2026-09",
      "venue": "Singapore",
      "district": "Singapore · build floor",
      "chapter": "Start with a conversation",
      "context": "Singapore · public site-building hackathon",
      "moment": "Benny and I started talking about how ordinary work breaks could help coworkers meet beyond their usual circles.",
      "lesson": "The idea became clearer as we talked, built it, explained it and brought it into the discussions around the room.",
      "carriedInto": "SideSpark",
      "href": "/blog/sidespark-started-with-a-conversation",
      "image": "/blog/sidespark-started-with-a-conversation/assets/hackathon-room.webp",
      "imageAlt": "ChatGPT Sites Hackathon participants gathered around tables and laptops in Singapore",
      "world": {
        "routeOrder": 9,
        "position": [
          70,
          -9
        ],
        "venueType": "campus",
        "districtKey": "one-north",
        "accent": "yellow",
        "approachLabel": "ChatGPT Sites"
      }
    }
  ]
}