Yes, it is going to be a rough week back at the office. Everyone on my team is going, even the person staying behind is going virtually. (I manage a team of HPC computational scientists). Hrm, opportunity for me to do some HPC!
Funny, the more I manage my team, the more I think I should not have moved into management, and want to go back to helping people use HPC as a computational scientist / sysadmin. Sure seems like it is really hard to get a job in HPC (as a manager wanting to go back to HPC, non-managemnt). Handed out so many resumes, so many interviews "so... tell us again why you want to go back to (this HPC job) and not be an HPC manager."
I hope all who go to Denver have a good time, and learn a lot.