evil plan

In the wake of this year's php|tek conference, Marco Tabini has unveiled his secrets to the "master conference evil plan" that he and the php|architect crew have been putting in to action for their conferences:

For the past four years, I have put a lot of work into executing a strategic plan that is tangentially connected with our conferences.
You see, when we started organizing conferences I noticed that there was a small core group of people—normally speakers—that tended to stick together all the time.

They knew each other from the mailing lists, and conferences were a great opportunity to meet and catch up.
As a business person, this used to irk me considerably.