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 The conference had an excellent live-coding demonstration of LSP by Torstein
 Krause Johansen in his presentation titled "How Emacs became my awesome Java
 editing environment".
 The conference had an excellent live-coding demonstration of LSP by Torstein
 Krause Johansen in his presentation titled "How Emacs became my awesome Java
 editing environment".

+
+## Diversity
+
+The conference seemed to have a good racial mix of speakers. There was a blind
+speaker too. I am happy to see some representation from non-programmers among
+the speakers. The conference can do better in terms of gender diversity.
+
+## Conclusion
+
+The conference was totally worth losing a night's sleep over. I had to stay up
+till 5 am due to timezone differences. I am now more motivated to write some
+Elisp myself and customize Emacs to my specific needs.