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I always go to conferences, but usually not for the reasons most people go. Not only do I do some low level networking, but for me its more about the tools and techniques.

Every single conference I've gone to, I've found new tools and techniques people are using in enterprise environments as well as smaller start up environments that I can start to work with, or experiment with. There's been a lot of tools and techniques I've been able to integrate with my workflow which came directly from conferences.