The annoying feeling could be triggered by the over-pompousness of a rich networking event that thinks of itself as "the new School of Athens". Some attendants seem to believe they are special human beings in and of themselves so they expect bringing exceptional people together should lead to exceptional, out of this world results.

It's a small scale version of what the guys at Davos have been doing for decades, only with tech toys instead of politicians - an expression of the power shift from politics to tech giants.