I have a really good feeling that after Consensus 2017 the price will skyrocket

I though so too. But it might just dip a bit before doing so to give chance to those who wants to get a ticket to ride and then zoom straight ahead. This is a good chance to accumulate more.
It will skyrocket before the conference. It actually started now!
It looks like the Consensus effect doesn't work too much. Issue which works (at least today) is probably big rise of BTC and unbelievable rise of Ethereum, which drives all the other altcoins due south...
BTC took the 2k bar and went mainstream again because of that. News are all over the place. A lot of new people are investing into it.