I've conferred with one of the engineers who worked on that paper, and confirmed that we have it working correctly. Should this change, we'll be sure to update accordingly.
San Francisco is on the other side of the state, man. In addition I think that the flames will have died well before the conference starts... in 4 months.
I think this is effective if the ship jumper goes into a conference or workshop and approach recruiters or lead artists directly with a physical folio in hand (print, laptop).