Bytecoin has slipped ahead of Monero on coinmarketcap.com again. 
Price only means something within the context of volume.
Has Bytecoin ever had higher volume than Monero? Even once?
BCN hasn't even had regular daily volume over 5 BTC since last summer.
It's dead Jim. No wonder they are launching CN 2.0!
2.0 was the version of the original white paper, and is still the version number on the (slightly different) copy of the original white paper on their web site right now: https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf
Nothing new here. Probably -- who knows what they will actually do -- they're somewhat clever scammers.
Showing up at a conference seems like part of the effort to keep hope (of a pump and exit) alive.