> And then they pushed them out of the conference behind leadership's back? If I understand the story correctly, they downgraded the talk from a keynote to a r

> And then they pushed them out of the conference behind leadership's back? If I understand the story correctly, they downgraded the talk from a keynote to a regular talk. Which — if, like you say, was about purely technical thing that was pretty widely disliked conceptually — maybe shouldn't have been a keynote in the first place?