AIA 26th Summit Convention – Las Vegas
I flew from Los Angeles to Las Vegas was joined by my LiveStudios team to cover the massive convention for AIA Hong Kong. This was held at the famous Venetian Las Vegas.
The Palazzo is the Venetian’s brand new sister property and together with 700+ rooms, they are the largest hotel in room capacity. It’s situated right on the main strip (it’s the 2 buildings in the background, left yellow-lighted one is the Palazzo and the one on the right of it is the Venetian)
The rooms are all suites and are fabulous 
Our day trip was to the Grand Canyon and on they way, we passed by Hoover Dam, where a lot of movies have been filmed, including X-Men & Transformers.
Some took the helicopter rides for a breathtaking aerial view of the canyon.
While the bus ride there took about 3 hrs, the ride there was well worth it. The view is spectacular and most took out their cameras happily clicking away while others took some quiet time for some inspirations.
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A lof of people queued up for this spot. Some of the parents hearts nearly dropped when the kids just hopped out after taking the photo.
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Skies were beautifully blue and makes a great background for photography.
The 2nd day started with the convention honouring their best performers. The top 2 were carried into the ballroom in floats.
There were performances that dazzled the audience.
And speakers which inspired and kept motivating.
We had to take a few of these huge group photos. Logistically challenging but the organisers pulled it off well.
Few privileged achievers were treated to a special lucky draw where several air tickets were given away.
The theme for the gala dinner was hollywood. Everyone had fun dressing up and posing for the cameras.
Various teams took turns to entertain the audience with sketches as well. Of course, ‘Emmy’ awards were given to the performing teams as well.
There was a special treat when “Grasshoppers” came on the stage and had everyone going wild. They invited some lucky ones to come onto stage for their last item.
No gala dinner is complete without lucky draws. It happened that the top prize winners chosen were the senior members and both decided to return the prizes to be redrawn!
I think everyone had a blast of a time in Las Vegas. So did I.