I've been to too many workshops that outright wasted my time, which were supposedly paid events at that. There are too many technical flaws with the concept. A

I've been to too many workshops that outright wasted my time, which were supposedly paid events at that. There are too many technical flaws with the concept. A successful workshop will let a user login to a pre-configured VM lab and follow along. Unfortunately, most of them I've been to get bogged down with provisioning. I have been to many events where I learned more in an hour-long presentation than from a 4-hr workshop.