Elder, where do you come up with that?? That's not what he said at all. It says they simply rescheduled the meeting so the same speaker could make it on a different date. I don't like the delay either, but are you telling me, nobody ever ever has schedule conflicts? Maybe he's a CEO or in top management of some company and something really important with his company came up. Wouldn't you think his own company would take priority? What's so hard to believe about that?
Read this part again:
"Evidently, because the attendees represent significant members of the telco world, Rim Semi wanted to insure all the important players could attend. At the last minute, the keynote speaker developed a scheduling conflict. Rim Semi thought his presence important enough to warrant postponing the meeting. He will be a key participant at the mid-January meeting."