Just a hobby welder here. Does anyone have opinion on whether attending this kind of convention offers interesting takeaways for a guy who is not running a business and just interested in new ideas and techniques?

I've been a long time viewer of Jody's YouTube videos but for some reason never got around to this Forum...better late than ever. Was introduced to welding by a neighbor in the early 1990s who was a graduate of MIT (probably in the 1940s) and students then in addition to their engineering coursework...