Exploiting modern microarchitectures: Meltdown, Spectre, and other attacks

Masters certainly knows what he is talking about, but still the presentation was not a highlight.

Bringing 90 slides with too much fine print stuff on each of them (optically unreadable in half of the auditorium) is an insult to the audience. He told that we are not supposed to read them until maybe afterwards. So if we are not supposed to read them, then don't show them. Is a presentation without (useful) slides a good presentation? Sometimes, but probably not in the case of such comlicated technical details.

One good way for structuring keynote is to target 30% to an audience that has basically no previous knowledge and make them go home with the feeling they learned something. I don't belong to that group, but I have the feeling they turned to no reception mode quite soon.

The second 30% so that experienced listernes can follow, agree and get some deeper insights. That's were most of his presentation was. But too many details and too high speed for any tired conference attendee to follow after 5 - 10 presentations.

The remaining 30% for the experienced guys to keep their mouth wide open and understand that there is a lot they still don't understand. I don't think I saw that part, but maybe I was in no reception mode when that part (should have) started

(sorry for the iterations of this comment, should not type such long text on touch screen that does not do what you mean)