Do you feel responsible for extending your knowledge in your respective dispcipline? Great! There is this conference that helps you gaining further knowledge, gets you inspired and offers meeting cool, new people. The speakers look great (some of them you even heard of!) and the location rocks! Its that city that has the hip old city center with the bars and pubs. A quick thought experiment: You are kneeing before your boss in order to ask him or her to attent that secific conference. Does that make you feel good? Does it feel right? Need to convince your boss to attend a conference that helps you gain knowledge that probably influences your overall work. Working means constant learning. If your workplace supports you for trying to gain knowledge it is nurturing itself. Employees who are not eager to learn something new every now and then are Illustration by [Zoe Van Dijk](https://zoevandijk.com)