MVP Global summit missed out

I was looking forward to attend my first MVP global summit but unfortunately will be missing out this year. The US embassy refused to provide visa and was under the conclusion that going to the MVP global summit was not a valid enough reason to visit USA.<Sigh>
On the bright side i will be here for the first ever Tech-Ed to be held in Srilanka. So if anyone do attend it, feel free to pop in and say hello at the dot net community stall. I would be very much interested to discuss anything under the sun especially topics related to dot net.