How to surround yourself with successful people.

The conference I'm heading to is very expensive to attend. I'll be in a room with 300 CEOs of drug rehabilitation centers for the next three days. Because I'm a vendor I had to pay 5 times the amount that the regular CEOs had to pay to attend this event. I deliberated back and forth many times whether or not I should go on this trip. I remember what one of my mentors told me "a hack to get into a room of successful people is to buy your way into the room". Will God's help, I will be successful. All in.