Congratulations to NamesCon conference Founder Richard Lau and his show co-producers Jodi Chamberlain and Jothan Frakes for delivering a crowd-pleasing inaugural conference that ended Wednesday night (Jan. 15, 2014) at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. The show organzers, sponsors and attendees also did the industry proud by coming through for the Water School by raising over $111,000 for the charity in the show's signature event, Water Night, where Jothan joined Yancy Naughton and Joe Alagna in the barber's chair to help raise that record-breaking total.

We're staying over in Las Vegas where I will spend most of the day going through a couple of thousand photos from Tuesday and Wednesday so I can put together a final Photos & Highlights column for you that will be posted here Friday.