A financial center like Tokyo or Hong Kong or London or Beijing would make more sense. Sounds like someone just wants to take a vacation.
I hate to say it.... but I agree.
Hong Kong would make a lot more sense.
Getting only 100 or so people to show up in New York is an embarrassing failure. You can get 100 people to show up for anything in New York City.
The quality of the crowd matters. Getting together 100 random people is irrelevant. Getting together 100 people who are working on doing something interesting in bitcoin is -- and was, last weekend -- very useful. Building Community 101.