I can't imagine talking to the developer of swift is worth 1600, but I expect the entirety of the networking options with other devs, journalists, and people fr

I can't imagine talking to the developer of swift is worth 1600, but I expect the entirety of the networking options with other devs, journalists, and people from Apple is worth it. Having relationships with people inside apple is going to make it easier to get noticed, and if you do get some press or feature because of it then it's easily worthwhile. I'm not in any way saying everyone who goes will get featured. Obviously not true. Just suggesting that developing relationships is the reason to go, and it could possibly be worth it. You never know what doors will be opened.