Hmm, you might be right. I looked at the agenda and nothing jumped out at me as overt shitcoinery. It looked like there were some good topics for beginners. A lot of focus on energy. Some stuff I didn't recognize at all.
Pacific Bitcoin doesn't have an agenda up yet, so tough to compare.
I live in southern California so I'm biased towards the one that's closer.
Also I'm really sick of BM hyping the conference for 15 minutes at the beginning of every podcast.