Rant: Musings of a conference survivor

Here's the question -- disclosure: I lifted it from a someone who was also at the CIX conference with me -- he asked, "Why - at conferences filled with smart people hearing excellent presentations - does anyone fail to pose questions? I can't figure it out: is it the venue, is it a Canadian thing, an ego thing?"

I say it's a combination of the venue and the Canadian thing but mostly, in my opinion, it's because they are all thinking about porn ;-)

I was very interesting how an entire room full of very intelligent (and rich) individuals who are used to grilling companies failed to do so during many of the presentations.

My feeling is this. The venue was big enough to be a 'bit too big' (it held about 400 people at round tables). With only one young runner - mic in hand sprinting back and forth across the room - led to a delay from 'hand up' to asking question that was awkwardly long. More mics peppered about the room would help this. Also, maybe more Americans to show us how it's really done.