Not sure.....I should've gone to that conference this year though. Maybe next year, it is at MIT and they really discuss some interesting topics. Although some of the topics I could careless about and admission is kinda pricey.
I was really impressed by Jeff Ma, he seems like a really smart guy. Although I definitely disagree with him about only quants being able to beat sports betting. I feel like I can continually find value in sports betting when picking my spots and very little of what I do as has to do with analytics or advanced statistics. The stuff about a global exchange was interesting, not sure I'd really want to see it happen on that large of a scale because then most of the opportunity would probably be taken out. However, those guys rely on #s so much that eventually you might get some real messups by them
Example I can think of is 2010 NBA playoffs, the Magic were excellent in all the advanced stats categories and they were playing the Celts who basically took the reg season off. C's were +260 in that series (look it up, +260), made good $ off that.