I read the conference Web site, and they failed to make this clear, but that's what this conference was about.
Software is a moving target.
New technical challenges for i18n come up daily, in the form of new libraries, languages, tools, desktop products, standards, etc., not to mention that software products in development are pushing an envelope in some way. There is more to i18n than what can be localized, by the way. Um, no it's not. Most of my work centers around making the product function for all locales. The l10n team has no work to do in this area.