Never been to one of these conferences, but I had a co-worker go to its cousin: the boondoggle conference. A boondoggle conference is one set up at a nice locat

Never been to one of these conferences, but I had a co-worker go to its cousin: the boondoggle conference. A boondoggle conference is one set up at a nice location so you can have your office pay for a vacation by claiming you had a paper/presentation selected. They were big 10-20 years ago, but not so much anymore as organizations caught on to the game. It was held in Orlando (first clue), by a European academic journal (second), held in early August (third). He showed up and was told he's been made the moderator for one of the afternoon session. There were only 5 people in the room other than the speakers.