A typical answer to this would be to ask about your contributions to the issue. I don't mean to allege responsibility, but a strong investment would explain your frustration and choice of language much better.

[talk on concurrency] that was largely unattended because it was scheduled to run at the same time as an Aaron Patterson talk on literally making sausage

I literally laughed. Such is the live of compiler architects, I guess, they are far and few between.