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>>Berisl+(OP)
As a freelancer you go to a conference to meet customers and colleagues and remember them that you're still alive :-) and still working on the technologies the conference is about. The best way to signal that is to give speech.

As an employee:

If you are in the position to spend money, hire people, buy services, you also meet people you work with and it helps.

If you're junior in general or in some technology, it can be a way to be exposed to it and learn some unknown unknown.

Anything in between, maybe it's just a nice day off, paid by the company.

>>pmontr+Yq
Building on this: it's also a great way for everyone more broadly to see what direction the industry is taking.

Every conference this year will probably be touched by talks talking about AI. If there's a year to go, it's probably this one.