Unfortunately the quality of many tech conferences has gone down to the point of them not being useful. At one point tech conferences focused on speakers that a

Unfortunately the quality of many tech conferences has gone down to the point of them not being useful. At one point tech conferences focused on speakers that actually had tech chops and talked about tech. Now many have become pajama parties with un-qualified speakers (little to no tech experience) talking about non-tech or tech lite topics. I've seen this even affect some of the really large prestigious events.