{"id":1958,"date":"2013-01-15T20:38:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T04:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:11:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:11:55","slug":"end-of-geek-week-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/end-of-geek-week-in-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Geek Week in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/end-of-geek-week-in-las-vegas\/&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=1&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fheathervale.com%2Fblog%2F2013%2F01%2F15%2Fend-of-geek-week-in-las-vegas%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><div id=\"attachment_2074\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/HeatherValeJohnLynn-crop2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2074\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2074\" alt=\"Heather and John Lynn\" src=\"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/HeatherValeJohnLynn-crop2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/HeatherValeJohnLynn-crop2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/HeatherValeJohnLynn-crop2-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather and @techguy John Lynn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This past week has been absolutely crazy in Las Vegas &#8212; and not the way you probably expect.<\/p>\n<p>I affectionately call it Geek Week (the cool, techy kind of geek, not the old-school nerdy kind of geek) because we just had three trade shows in a row: Blogworld (now New Media Expo), CES (Consumer Electronics Show), and Affiliate Summit, each one focusing on a different aspect of living, working or playing with technology.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle was a Demo Vegas event by InNEVation, spotlighting multiple tech start-ups, which is where my adventure began &#8212; I truly can&#8217;t believe it was only a week ago that it happened!<\/p>\n<p>I had no clue what a thriving tech industry was here in Las Vegas, but I&#8217;m very impressed and awestruck by some of what&#8217;s going on. Go #VegasTech \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Without even going to the trade shows &#8212; just parties and unconnected events that happened to take advantage of Geek Week as a whole &#8212; I was able to talk to executives from multiple start-up companies, see smartphone-powered robots in action, and meet a plethora of cool (yes, really, cool!) and interesting people.<\/p>\n<p>And then there was getting to better know a few folks that I had lost touch with while living in the backwoods of Oregon for five years.<\/p>\n<p>So I just want to say, viva la tech Las Vegas&#8230; and I can&#8217;t wait to see what&#8217;s next.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep Unwrapping Life!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Heather Vale Goss\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/images\/sigHVG_2.1_blue.gif\" width=\"205\" height=\"35\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week has been absolutely crazy in Las Vegas &#8212; and not the way you probably expect. 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