PEOPLE: Honors Labapalooza Pays Tribute to Wholesale Labs By Staff Monday, October 20, 2014 12:01 AM LAS VEGAS—Labapalooza, a lab industry favorite gathering, took place here Sept. 18 in the Venetian Hotel. As in years past, the annual get together paid tribute to wholesale laboratories and highlights included Vision Monday’s signature Top Labs Report and LabTalk’s Website of the Year Awards. For the second year in a row, the party took place at the Rockhouse Las Vegas, featuring a Country & Western theme. Labapalooza was presented by Vision Monday and LabTalk, and the Optical Lab Division of the Vision Council. Title Sponsor, Schneider; Ultra Sponsor, X-Cel Optical; and Premium Sponsors, Coburn Technologies, Digital Vision, Essilor IDD, Santinelli International, Salem Vision Group, and Ultra Optics. 1/8 (L to R) Gunter Schneider and Kevin Cross, Schneider Optical and Poya Eghterafi and Alan Yuster, Egma, enjoy Labapalooza. Team Santinelli came to party. (L to R, back) Steve Swalgen, Matthew McKenna, Gerard Santinelli, Jaysun Barr, (front) Franco Aluigi, and Barbara Wagner. Enjoying Labapalooza are (l to r) Greg Chavez, The Vision Council, Marc Ferrara, Jobson, and Mike Daley, The Vision Council. (L to R) Jason White (l), Hoya and Ryan Markey, Rochester Optical find time to chat at Labapalooza. (L to R) Ronald Cooke, Leybold Optics, Scott Peterson and Greg Ruden, Expert Optics, Dominic Parisi and John Alofs, Eyewear by ROI. (L to R) Jordon Lothes and Bob Pommier, Expert Optics and John Sutherlin, Sutherlin Optical, take part in Labapalooza. Optical labs and vendors gathered for networking and fun at the annual Labapalooza event. LabTalk editor, Christie Walker (c) presented Top Ten Website of the Year awards to Bill Heffner, FEA Industries, Imtiaz Hasan, iCoat, and Matt and Neil Iovaldi, Midland Optical.