I would love to go to one of these kinds of events. I think there is a resurgence in this field, it was big in the late 90s but then sorta died back a lot until Satoshi, and then, after that, until the Blockchain Revolution started a couple of years ago and suddenly you were reading about it on main news sites and such.

Blockchain technology and the principles upon which is based provide a whole new way to organise economic activity, that eliminates privileged trusted third parties from their old position of being brokers and trusted archivists of property titles. This allows more people to get involved, lowers costs, and speeds up economic development.