I see your point, but this is a design website, here you are only talking to designers! I think because you put IDSA in the title it skewed the discussion to actually talk about the IDSA.
Personally, the last time I went to an IDSA conference I thought there was not enough design content! Why do designers never want to have a critical discussion about design? They want to talk business and engineering, which are necessary to facilitate and collaborate with design, but they are not design.
And there is not other American design organization, most users being US on here… well, you see where it goes…
I would love to hear more about the APDF or the UK Design Council, DMI… never seem to hear much…