The value in conferences is only mildly related to the actual talks. Meeting people and the discussions and connections are the real value. Like, ClueCon, for VoIP devs. It's rather haphazardly managed, many of the talks are useless, some are even just pure ads. But if you spend time to meet people it can be totally worth going.
>> The value in conferences is only mildly related to the actual talks.
Agreed.
There's so much content on YouTube it can be hard to find something worth watching.