And I also think that part of the reason it is harder for a Gartner (and the like) to throw a good conference is because the audience is almost too broad – so many competing interests to represent that it is hard to get to the practical aspects. I understand that it is hard to change something that appears to be working (from a financial point of view, for the conference organizers), we’ve all witnessed rather dramatic conference failures where a dominant conference quite simply goes away over the course of a year or two…