I have been watching that as well, very bullish, my guy still tells me lower prices though.
However I have been wrong before :/
I find it interesting that the market suddenly got very stable a week before the conference. Seeing as Coinbase just got 5M, there's likely to be some VC money floating around. I'd imagine 10-30% swings in the price would be counterproductive to people trying to legitimize/sell BTC as a whole. All of the big players in Bitcoin stand to benefit from a nice stable price and it wouldn't be all that hard to artificially stabilize things. A single person is propping up LTC, so it's not like it would take some kind of elaborate scheme.
Trying to sell your idea, sell your business, partner with non-Bitcoin businesses, having the market drop 10-20% would generate some skeptical questions. Any news about the exchanges brings up questions about MtGox which I’m sure everyone at the conference would love to avoid.
A quick scan through the speakers, probably 60-100M of fiat tied up in BTC, they’ll make sure it survives the weekend. Along with 50k of BTC bids between $100-$117, people expecting good news from the conference, probably a bad time to dump 60-80k coins on the market driving it sub $100.
Makes sense for all the big players to keep it stable and makes sense for any big sell offs to wait for a conference bump. I don’t see it going down, if anything a few mini rallies leading up and from any good news. Next week, probably gets a little bumpy.