In my experience conferences are substantially networking events, a break from the office, perhaps an opportunity to travel, socialise — and eat richly. It might then be a way of drumming up business; the undercurrent is all about marketing. Whether very much is learned in terms of the nominal subject matter of the gathering is sometimes questionable.
At the same time, guests from international officialdom may offer a few words, maybe drop tidbits to reporters, and journalists will have all their paraphernalia at the ready in a strangely routine kind of artificial excitement………………………………………..Full Article: Source