We've heard plenty of anecdotal evidence suggesting that tech companies are limiting travel to conferences as part of their cost-cutting measures, and as a result, conference registrations appear to be down. It seems to me that this is a false economy; training your people to be better at their jobs is probably the best approach to increasing productivity per capita in lean times, and the networking that takes place benefits everyone and puts your company in the marketplace of ideas. I say, you're either in or out of the boat, and if you're in, there's no point to having just one oar in the water, because that will make you spin in circles the harder you paddle. I used to teach sailing, so I am in fact an authority on these matters.
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Chris and I made quite a few new agile friends at a private consultants retreat we attended back in November at the Sylvia Beach Hotel in Newport, OR, and a lot of the same people will be attending 
We met Ainsley Nies for corned beef hash and crab cakes at 
Last night's meeting of the 
Proponents of agile, in my experience, can be quite passionate, and it can be argued that their infectious enthusiasm is what is making agile so "hot" these days. These agile evangelicals have spread practices, and an ethos, that have made a lot of developers' lives a lot happier, and bless them for it.