Ask HM: Going to ad:tech/NY? Meetup Help with passes?

Folks, We're trucking down to NYC tomorrow evening from north of Boston to attend ad:tech [1] to network and look for work. Anyone else going? We'll be at Wednesday's sessions.

We decided to go after reading this NYT article: "Advertising Companies Fret Over a Digital Talent Gap" [2]. I'm UX/product dev, my pal is online marketing.

If you're going shoot me a note and we'll meet up before/during/after.

Also, if your company has ad:tech free passes that you can in good conscience give out we'd be grateful. As of now, we'll have (cheap) exhibition passes. Thanks

[1] http://www.ad-tech.com/ny/adtech_new_york_schedule.aspx [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3177715