I'm actually quite surprised at how little response there has been to this on the global fansites in the last 12 hours. Sure it's been night time over there for most of that, but there's about 10 replies on TFW, and none on Seibertron.

I'm starting to agree that it would probably be just an out-of-story quoting of names, rather than in the story itself, as it wouldn't be easy to include human names in any of their current Transformers comics (none are set on Earth), and it could be impractical to include a heap of "cameo" names (if they had 20-50 people attend, that's a lot of extra "characters". Or if they did, at the most, it could be like a background list of names on a screen or piece of paper.