don't trust words from Microsoft

On Interop Moscow 2008 were people from Microsoft that actively participated in discussions on the future of software. On the second day they said to the audience 'I invite you all to remix.ru conference. Steve Balmer is going to talk there. Maybe it'll help to clarify something to you.
The next day I went to remix.ru, and guess what, just as expected registration is only for people with promocodes. I called Microsoft on different days and times asking to connect me to a person who gave a presentation. After learning that I came from a conference, the answer was always the same - he's not in the office. Neither did anyone call back.
What I wanted to do at that conference? I wanted to see what sort of people are there.