I’ve been meaning to ask you guys this very same question. The only suggestion I have is the Chaos Computer Club convention that is taking place from December 27th til the 30th. Here is the wiki
It’s basically a gathering of hackers, they have always had great speakers (Jacob Applebaum, Julian Assange etc) and as I understand it they have tremendous amount of clout among hackers. If there ever was a place for maidsafe to get a dedicated bunch of early adopters and devs it should be CCC
Here is Appelbaum on the last years convention, there are some neat videos on that channel as well.