Rewarded? You're funny. It's a place for over-promoted PHBs to schmooze and remind each other how important they are. You then come back with a few ignorant snippets of memory from the conference and say "Why don't we do this?" to your IT people, who ROTFL behind your back as soon as you leave.
You'll probably spend the whole time prepping for the golf tournament anyway.
No I don't play golf, too boring and expensive, plus I prefer to earn my promotions through knowledge and achievement not by brown nosing. So I came back yesterday, meaning of course you couldn't have been any more wrong.