Professional Development budgets can be hard to spend. Spluring everything on a conference gets you some half-decent benefits - something to put on your self-assessment for your review cycle; a couple of days out-of-the-office; some half-decent food, snacks, and corporate gifts; and finally the chance to travel to an interesting new city on your company's money.
How you put going to a conference on your self assessment?
> Personal improvements this year
> Went to a conference, learned a bunch of stuff on company time
> Business value added this year
> Went to a conference and got better!
Or what?