Would You See a Presentation by the Future Physicist from Discovery Channel?

BTW thought I'd put info on pricing on it if you were curious:

http://esc-sv09.techinsightsevents.com/packages_pricing

Like I said though, I'm not passing names along, but you would probably need to know what it would cost to answer some of these:)

(you're allowed to boo, I won't take it personally ).

If you won't take it personally then I will withhold it for someone who will. (Why waste a good heckle?)

No,seriously, I don't watch television but I did just look up Michio Kaku and found him (odd) interesting. So ,yes I would attend (if someone else were paying for it and I had someone to care for my 3 children).

It does make a difference who is speaking. Some people would find it fun to see and listen to someone who could make us enjoy what was being transferred.Most tech speakers are "bland" and "dry" and would put most of us to sleep with long winded speeches where they are just trying to prove to us how much smarter they (think)they are as compared to us while Kaku seems to be a bit easier on the ears.

LOL thanks for the hold on the heckling... I think!

He's a total odd duck, but he is so cool and surprisingly engaging given his field. It was thanks to him that I was able to bust out "String Theory" (correctly!) as the question to a Jeopardy answer in the lunchroom here one day while walking by... our company is about half engineers & tech people, so it was kind of cool for one of the "sales chicks' to actually "know stuff".

Thanks for contributing, I appreciate it!

There could be any number of reasons why I would/would not attend a conference to hear a special speaker. If you wanted to set something up that would get my attention and insure my attendance at any cost, set up a "gab fest" in conjunction with the presentation where I would have the opportunity to personally interact with the lecturer (even at additional cost, this would be the one thing that could get me there). Maybe an "invitation only" cocktail party or breakfast discussion...

That's a good suggestion - I think that is planned but I don't want to speak for them as I am not 100% certain...

CW, invitation only sounds so eliteist, only if Im invited too.

Thx for being honest, salesmen suck, but I like to judge people on how they treat me, Globalspec has been good me.

I watch all the science channels/shows that I can, Michio is good but pretty far left, so no I would not go for him as the reason.

I've seen him spin too much cause it was politically expedient. Science is facts and he's not straight up.

spacecannon

That's interesting - I had not noticed that before but I will watch for it myself in the future. And, I'm glad to hear GS has been good to you!

My God, he might even be "gasp" a Liberal!

Science may be fact

Science channels/shows are entertainment.

Why do you say Michio is "pretty far left"?

I don't have an opinion, having never seen the man.

My decision of whether or not to go to a conference would be based on many factors, the entertainment value pretty far down the list. The amount the price of attending would be important, hopefully adding entertainment wouldn't raise the price significantly

Garth, I agree with both you and John about putting the conference quality and cost first and the reason I say he is far left is because of some of the opinions he's expressed on CO2, global warming, life in the universe, etc., he is entertaining.

Spacecannon

Like Garthh, I've never seen this bloke (or even heard of him!). I also look closely at the bottom line (of the bill) before attending any of these conference things.

It's also very important to me whether it's a conference or just a load of sales pitches (I trust you'll appreciate the difference ).