Is there any particular reason why dash doesn’t have a speaker at consensus? It seems like a missed opportunity.
Consensus is organised by Coindesk, the speaker panels are also moderated by Coindesk.
Coindesk is not exactly pro-Dash and seems to focus more on startups, industry newcomers, ICO's and Bitcoin itself.
There are also not that many older altcoin cryptocurrencies represented in the form of a speaker,
Ethereum is boycotting this conference due to high cost per ticket and Coindesk accidentally promoting a scam project
(Coindesk used a wrong link in one of their articles) and other older altcoin cryptocurrencies are absent as speaker as well.
Hopefully with just the Dash booth over there enough important connections can be made and valueable networking can be done for Dash.
Edit 1 : this is just my personal opinion, there could be far more logical and/or financial reasons behind it.
Edit 2 : i just came across a datasheet that contains those altcoin projects that are scheduled to speak, there are more altcoin speakers either in panels or through presentation than i anticipated.
Coindesk does seem to mostly focus on the recentely hyped ones :
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/consensus-2018-3775772