I've only ever been to one conference in my lifetime. I'd like to go to more because I had a fairly positive experience. My primary motivation is that I want to meet new, interesting, people and learn new things in a social environment. So, what conferences are HNers going to this year and why are you going to them? That information would be great fodder for me (and anyone else) who'd like to create a conference schedule for 2011.
I'm in information security, so my tech conferences might be a little different than some others.<p>I couldn't make time in my schedule for ShmooCon, so I will unfortunately be missing that one this year.<p>I will hopefully be able to make it to SOURCE Boston.<p>I will be attending Black Hat and DEFCON in Las Vegas this summer.<p>And I will try to make it to ToorCon San Diego again late in the year, as I spoke there this year and enjoyed the experience quite a bit.<p>I generally only go to one conference per quarter, but they are always a great time both for networking and learning.