Without any options to get the content of a session at a later time the choices one makes often have more to do with what an archivist believes they should be learning than what may sound interesting.
Electronic records are a case in point.
These are often dull sessions thematically akin to the American declaration of independence in that self-evident truths are declared. Yet as I work in government records and feel that professionally this is an area in which I should become more knowledgeable, I usually attend. The InterPares project, headquartered at UBC, involves many international researchers looking into long term questions about permanent, authentic records in electronic systems. One session I attended addressed some of the initial findings of that project as they were revealed through a number of case studies undertaken of different records systems. What I found particularly interesting was that a lot of attention was devoted to determining what these systems actually recorded in terms of record keeping.