AIA Richmond Conference

So this week we all had to attend the conference in Richmond and go to at least two of the sessions the sessions were interesting but some werent related to anything that architecture students would benefit from. I went to alot of different venders as well and talked to come people from contracting firms and autdesk. They mentioned how thay usually hire people from all different fields not just architects/engineers. I thought the conference was ok but there were alot of people there that we couldnt benefit from because they were trying to sell there products to contractors or architects and were just students.