Really sad to hear this. I attended one AEA a few months before the Pandemic and it was amazing - expensive, to be sure, but totally worth it. The one thing it

Really sad to hear this. I attended one AEA a few months before the Pandemic and it was amazing - expensive, to be sure, but totally worth it. The one thing it did really well was "breadth"; presenting on both design and technical topics and finding a way for them to fit together. I was hoping to go to another this year maybe. I think (?) they still do Smashing conf so maybe I'll try that.