im sorry but adam back has publicly said he does not code for bitcoin, even his second in command has said adam back is not involved in bitcoin.
im sorry but hyperledger, IBM, etc, etc have nothing to do with bitcoin,

so why the hell is adam back attending and noted as the main guy... oh wait..
i forgot,
adam back wants to direct the direction bitcoin takes because he needs to commercialise it to make returns of near $100mill to his banker investors.

if anyone has not yet woken up to the obvious, then please keep one eye open in regards to what happens next

this round table is not going to be a open room for devs to discuss developing bitcoin based on its open permissionless ethos, but instead its a kiss ass exercise to tempt merchants and pools over to blockstreams plans.

all fully paid for by blockstream.

do not expect an unbiased open discussion coming out of it, just expect lots of fake applauds for cores efforts and lots of applauds for making onchain tx's become more bloated in the future as a plan to push people away from using onchain transactions for individual needs.

EG averaged 400bytes become well over 1kb once more blockstream features are added (confidential commitments, etc) which inevitably will push down the 'expectant' post segwit (and pre 2013) 7tx/s.... to drop back down to 3tx/s once again..

with all the banking (hyperledger) guys mentioned i see this all inclusive vacation to mainly talk about how bitcoin(thanks to their ignorance) cant scale and end up talking about tethering bitcoin to the bankers hyperledger as a sidechain.

say goodbye to permissionless peer to peer currency ethos and say hello to a 2018 'bank product' like side chains and coomercial LN hubs

rant over