Well they do have a bunch of developers, but this is literally just the most well known people and it’s not the conference for in depth developer discussions, this is for a far more general interest audience.

I have my own complaints about some of their choices and it often feels shitcoin tangential, but I don’t know what issue everyone has with just generically well known people. Also Snowden is a legend and Russell Brand is fantastic, listen to him all the time.