Time to Eat Dirt

I was fortunate to be able to have attended a convention of the topmost minds in the company I am working in. It was really awesome that I could even meet these living giants. Imagine, shaking hands and talking to the father of a computer language or the architects who have built the whole framework that you have been working on for your development. It was simply a dream come true. No I am not trying to flatter anyone nor do I have any such intention.
Anyways, the convention had a lot of seminars and 2 very attractive and interesting events. One of the events was the demo of some innovative applications created in the outside office hours by some developers which was something out of this world. The demo not only was helpful to the business community but also had some great technology embedded in them. For example, imagine there is a hosted solution and a new customer comes in and you can sent up a client space for him in the hosted system in just a couple of minutes and that too with a customized look and feel and by just filling out a form online. Multi tenancy at its best.
The other event was a call for papers where in some interesting papers with both business and technical value were presented. There was a paper on decoupling the Java server using distributed servers or the option to have the different elements of the stack to run in seperate processes on the same system and acting as though they are on different servers thus giving the flexibility to fix one stack without affecting the other. Out of this world.
After attending this event of the intellectuals, a few of us were left feeling "what is that we have done? nothing" and it was as though that it was time to eat dirt. The feeling of accomplishment plumetted from around 3 all the way to 0 on a scale of 10. I am now back to the start. I hope that I can do something so that I can atleast face these giants of the company.