So perhaps delegates here were expecting CEO Steve Hafner to give away some insight around Kayak's decision to IPO this morning.
A purdah exists around IPOs, although curiously he was still happy to talk freely about growth plans and an acquisition strategy in the future.
Instead, alongside the usual array of put-downs (on Hipmunk: "I find their bravado refreshing; their product unremarkable") and funnies (on what one thing he would love do: "I *really* can't tell you that"), Hafner offered a some detail about his opposition to the Google-ITA Software deal and a few nuggets of news.
Almost all of what Hafner said about the proposed acquisition most have heard before from various folk - perhaps without some of spiky language - but an update on the Kayak Connect product was very interesting.
First announced in December 2009, Kayak started handling "assisted bookings" on its mobile product in the first quarter of this year.
So it appears the idea has worked out pretty well.
So much so that the concept of "assisted bookings", Hafner says, will probably be brought into the web version of Kayak in the future.
The "friction points" between the search experience on a meta site and what the user sometimes has to deal with on the supplier site means that it makes sense to do so.
Clearly mobile and other devices are making Kayak think a lot about how users interact with it. In fact, Hafner says, search on its hotel product is "better on an iPad than on a PC".
Meanwhile, Kayak admits it wasn't quick enough to launch in Asia, but it looks like Europe is going to be a key battleground (apart from the Google-ITA fight, obviously).
Its recent acquisition in Germany, Swoodoo, is providing the management for its second attempt at creating a bigger footprint in Europe.
But, Hafner says, Swoodoo will actually be a bit like Sidestep - a sister brand, but with Kayak establishing (and least trying to) be the main brand.