Face to face discussions like this conference is mostly more of one person reading from a paper and people are allowed to ask questions and if they include a panel its more of micro manager platform where what is being said will be to a large extent be courteous as much as possible. The only advantage I see there is the opportunity to connect and get to hear from people in the industry who don't really speak much then pick some little things. The cards to be exchanged is just for conventional sake as mostly nothing comes out of it. Eventually, the gathering will happen the following year for the same set of activities all over gain.
I want to believe that after international forum the bitcoin go up in price!!!
You must have been living in another world entirely because I don't see the reason why the gathering of people who are not up to 10,000 and they are not even contributing money together could bring about push in the price of bitcoin or crypto currency in general.