General conference is a (generally) 2-day event with 5-6 two-hour sessions of talks by church leaders. The talks mostly have a range in topics that you'd expect of any Christian church, with a few more LDS-specific themes thrown in. You can find all of the past General Conference talks since 1971 on the church website: https://www.lds.org/general-conference/conferences?lang=eng, you can just browse through and check out the talk titles, for example. One thing worth noting in particular is that we view the church president as being a prophet and inspired/ordained of God, so we (should) take his talks and counsel particularly seriously.
And yeah, I tend to start these threads each time when I remember to do so.
