It’s fair to ask why tech still needs conferences at all. We can livestream anything now, replay talks at double speed, join global meetings without leaving a chair. Remote work proved that a lot of what once required travel actually doesn’t. And yet, conferences keep multiplying. New ones appear every year, niche, regional, oddly specific, sometimes overlapping in ways that make no sense on paper. That persistence isn’t nostalgia or inertia, it’s a quiet admission that some parts of how technology actually moves forward still resist being flattened into pixels.

Congressman John Garamendi (CA-08), a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee and Ranking Member of the Readiness Subcommittee, issued a scathing statement following President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s unprecedented gathering of the military’s top commanders. Garamendi described the event as “wasteful, pointless, and blatantly partisan,” stressing that in all his years of public service, he had never witnessed such an unnecessary display. He underscored that meetings of this scale, bringing together the nation’s most senior military leaders from across the globe, are almost unheard of and typically only convened under extraordinary circumstances tied to national security.

President Erdogan is ranting and raving again. He is a danger to the Middle East. The world, and especially NATO members, must strongly condemn his outrageous threats against Israel and force him to end his support for Hamas. We won’t accept threats from a wannabe dictator. — יאיר לפיד - Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) July 28, 2024 Maybe I missed the strong US Administration response to this threat by a NATO member to invade Israel.

Madness seems to permeate our world in a myriad of ways, manifesting in the relentless chaos of daily life. The rapid technological advancements, which were once hailed as the harbingers of progress, now feel like double-edged swords. They offer unprecedented convenience and connectivity but simultaneously contribute to a sense of overwhelming information overload and digital dependence. The internet, a platform for free expression and knowledge sharing, has also become a breeding ground for misinformation, cyberbullying, and digital echo chambers that amplify divisive ideologies.

Hezbollah had 18 years to withdraw north of the Litani River. The LAF and UNIFIL had 18 years and billions of US taxpayer dollars to make it happen. Stop living in Amos Hochstein’s appeasement-based fantasy land, and start living in the reality of 12 dead kids on a soccer field. — Richard Goldberg (@rich_goldberg) July 29, 2024

The Biden-Harris Administration has enriched the Iranian Ayatollah, and Israel is paying the price. pic.twitter.com/EKROVIAuim — Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) July 28, 2024

The flood of goods to Russia via third countries is a global problem. South Korean exports to Kyrgyzstan are up 1600% vs pre-invasion. These exports are bad in 2 ways: (i) they keep Putin's war economy going; and (ii) other bad actors with invasion plans look at this and laugh... pic.twitter.com/cOBsqEVK2c — Robin Brooks (@robin_j_brooks) July 28, 2024

"They deliberately hurt me" Former hostage Maya Regev shared the abuse she endured for 50 days while held captive in Gaza after being shot in the leg and kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7. Maya says that while she was treated for a gunshot wound to her leg,… pic.twitter.com/zBDgk5Ux6b — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) July 28, 2024