Lets give attendees (primarily end users) what they’re looking for (in several dimensions). To do that, lets understand better what they want, by gathering some hard data. Then explicitly feed that back into the design, talk selection etc. This in contrast to designing it around what sponsors want, what chairs want, what the talk selectors want, etc, in the absence of the above data.
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I really like Quintons idea. It forces us to pay attention to and try to meet the needs of end users. If we don't do that something else could come along and steal our thunder.
