Conference synthesis and observation

A good conference gives you a boost of knowledge, downloading months or years of learning into your brain in a couple of days. A great conference gets your brain working overtime, thinking about all the new possibilities that you can pursue as a result of that knowledge. This is a distillation of various conferences, synthesising the key themes.

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