I was torn between a session with David Ives and the Julia Jordan keynote address at the Dramatists Guild Conference in June 2011, and ended up picking the Jordan speech. It was a great speech and I wasn't sorry I picked it, but I wasn't happy to miss the Ives session. But while looking for Dramatists Guild videos I came across the video of the Ives session. Early in the video you can hear the Jordan audience make noise - Ives and the other guy make a joke about it. The Jordan speech was in the auditorium directly below the Ives session room.
Although since that session
I have developed somewhat mixed feelings about David Ives.