Why is it that every conference has gone the full hog and decided that you must sell keynotes? When I tried to watch the Whitman Diffie keynote at BH EU, it was proceeded by a 30 minute Fortigate infomercial. RSA had like 5 paid-for keynotes for every one real keynote. Everyone who hasn't should watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7iM5CbBLBY to see why this is a terrible idea. Even if the paid-for talks (and they're not just keynotes!) were good, it should still be considered an unacceptable way to run a technical conference.
Here's my promise about INFILTRATE 2013 - there will be no paid talks.
None. We choose talks solely based on technical content, speaking skill,
and amount of Buffy quotes.
Example (assuming you are speaking about some part of the industry
perhaps?):
*Xander <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xander_Harris>*: Well, how
about this: we whip out the Ouija board, light a few candles, summon
some ancient unstoppable evil? Mayhem, mayhem, mayhem; we show up
and and kick its ass.
*Giles <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Giles>* /[pauses to
contemplate]/: A wee bit unethical.
-dave
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