The modern marketer has a single-most, overarching and critical objective: to deliver the right message at the right time to the right audience, efficiently. This holy grail for most marketers isn't just a lofty goal, it's unobtanium--where the most we dare hope is to learn a few things during our quest for it. Or at least that's what we thought before we heard from 70 marketing executives...

Would you have sex with a robot? Would a robot have the right to say no to such a union? These were just a few of the questions being asked at the second Love and Sex with Robots conference hastily rearranged at Goldsmiths University in London after the government in Malaysia - the original location - banned it. It has proved controversial, not only to countries with conservative views. There were no representatives from the sex industry in attendance and no sex robots on display, leading some to question the point of the event.