My business partner Reza Sarmadi and I, took a quick flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas this past weekend for the Invent Bay conference at the Sands Convention Center.

After staying up late night on Wednesday night working on a few projects (www.onesunlight.com and www.liveinternetmarketing.com) I was ready to take a few days off, and soke in the vegas sun at the Palms hotel pool.

Reza and I boarded our flight for LAS airport at 8am on Friday, arrived in Vegas at 10am. I usually have very bad luck when I go out of town because a server goes down, a website stops working or the Internet service goes out in my office leaving my staff stranded on the internet superhighway with no gas. I guess the Internet likes to punish us when we want to get away.

Fast forward to Saturday, we hopped in cab and headed toward the convention center. Arriving, it seemed like we arrived at a ghost town, only thing missing a few tumbleweeds. We walked upstairs and entered the expo. We took a big gasp of the fresh vegas air and were prepared for what was ahead of us.

At the expo, we met and interacted with many inventors from around the country. Saturday seemed to be a light day with very few attendees. I could feel the restlessness of the exhibitors as some were attentive to our questions and others seemed to be discouraged at the lack of walk through traffic.

We met some great people and saw some interesting inventions which looked to be weekend garage projects that people were trying to showcase and possibly land an investor.

All in all, i felt the expo lacked substance as many of the booths had name badges but no people to fill them. It needed more people to give it life. It could be that the convention size was too big for the number of exhibitors. The people were great, and I hope invent bay did well so they can host the event again.

If you attended, send a reply and let me know your thoughts