It's a little bit after the fact, but there's a lengthy and well-informed recap of one writer's experience at our 2008 WDB/BEA Writers Conference, from writer Rachel Olivier.

An excerpt:

I looked through the biographies and found one agent who looked promising to me, if not now, at least in the future. There were also a couple of others I was interested in. I sidled into line behind other writers who stood where my “dream” agent’s name appeared at the table nervously reviewing what I might say. The session was going to start at 3 pm sharp. Coordinators had stopwatches and bells at the ready after reiterating the instructions. But there was a glitch and a delay. The agent I was going to pitch to had not come to the conference after all, having taken sick on the plane before it took off. (Yes, she was on the plane, on the runway, when she got violently ill and had to be taken off the plane.) Therefore, we were going to be pitching to her assistant, who was running around making sure the rest of the agents in this, er, agency were settled.

Read the full version over at Mike's Writing Newsletter. (You have to scroll down for it.)