Macro and growth policies in the wake of the crisis
A state-of-the-art conference on macroeconomics has been organized by Olivier Blanchard at the IMF. Although I could not attend it, I followed it on the website of the IMF. A lot of the most well-known economists attended: Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Solow, David Romer, George Akerlof, Maurice Obsfeld. As it was presented by academics, it's very research oriented, but definitely very informative even for the non-academics people. A summary of the results of this conference is given by Olivier Blanchard on VoxEU , a leading website for European economists. Here is the video: