That conference seemed to me to be a classic case of Dracula lecturing on stock control at the blood bank.
Rather than a series of presentations by the individuals and organisations who had put in place, and maintained, the mechanisms which allowed loss of control to become the biggest killer, could they not have had some views as to how to stop it, from people who might know what they were talking about..?
Of course, the common denominator between AF447, TK1951, Spanair at Madrid, and others is that
the aircraft was defective before loss of control.
That should be a big part of the answer, but the convenience inherent in blaming the now-dead crew is just too great...