Cant tell you anything new, but just as my 2cents (canadian) I stopped attending them, after getting ripped of a couple of times by hungover guest speakers. After sharing a couple of inside jokes about the parties the nite before, they just said we are open to questions ? It was rather dissapointing after paying extra to attend. It must be drilled into the guest head, that they should have a written agenda to be followed and not to deviate from, and the moderators have to keep everyone on topic, and not let one speaker dominate.
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