John Honovich

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At a location he keeps secret, John Honovich was on his laptop, methodically scouring every link on a website for a conference half a world away.

Hikvision, the world's largest security camera manufacturer, was hosting the event, the 2018 AI Cloud World Summit, in its hometown of Hongzhou, a city of about 10 million people not far from Shanghai.

Honovich, the founder of a small trade publication that covered video surveillance technology, wanted to find out what the latest Hikvision gear could do.