I've been to a few developer conferences in the UK over the years with "famous names" on the bill. But I don't remember detecting any of the speakers having ove

I've been to a few developer conferences in the UK over the years with "famous names" on the bill. But I don't remember detecting any of the speakers having overly burgeoning egos. In fact I got to speak to a quite a few of these folks at lunch time (most, if not all, ate lunch with the attendees as well), breaks and post conference; and in these encounters so none of these folks made me feel "they were too important" to speak to me. Sure some of the folks have a certain "showmanship" on stage such as back in the day Don Box (and his bath full of SOAP) and these days Scott Hanselman at NDC or Build. But that's fine, they make what could be a dull presentation highly entertaining and you're learning some stuff as well. Maybe this is a US thing (seeing as the author seems to be based in the US) or certain types of conferences (WordPress conferences?)?