Dive Equipment Manufactures Association - DEMA held every year alternating between Orlando and Las Vegas. In 2013 it was in Orlando. You have to be involved in the dive industry to have access to the show. For Dive professional you have to be a Divematers or hire. If you run a dive shop you can owner, employee etc you get the ideal.
This was my first time going to DEMA. Since I had never been and I am helping the dive shop get a handle on thier database to be utilize all the features and functions my job was to attend the database provides week long seminars. Since it is an SQL database and I have been working on setting up a different SQL database for my day job I figured this would be double duty.
Lot of stuff to learn on database side. Once that was complete each day hit the show floor to meet and greet. Had a get time., met lots of people. Back to the shop to apply what was learned.