I didn't mean that the speeches were uninteresting - just that usually, if you know your business, you shouldn't be learning much. Conferences like this are useful to get a lot of basic information on a topic you don't know, but many conferences do not target that kind of public, and target a much more specialised public, which goes there more for the networking than the content (and who does the speech matters sometimes more thna what s/he talks about).

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes