25,000+ IT geeks have left the building -the San Diego Convention Center, specifically -now that Cisco Live U.S. wrapped last Friday. It was a huge success and we have the data to prove it, thanks to Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX). Some interesting and fun stats:

• You love beer.Happy Hour was, unsurprisingly, very popular, responsible for big spikes in attendance at the World of Solutions (WoS) at the end of each day.
• You like free swag (...and demos).Attendees, booth staffers aside, spent 2.5 hours on average in the WoS, and 1 hour 16 minutes on average at the Cisco booths in WoS. If you picked up lightsabers at the Cisco Mobility and Enterprise Networks booths, hopefully airport TSA didn't confiscate them from you!
• You bid adieu to John Chambers.The crowds came to see his final Cisco Live keynote as our CEO, illustrated by a massive spike with over 5,000 unique devices.
• You use more than one mobile device.There were 29,000+ unique visitors (devices) at CLUS, not including staffers, and specifically The Hub saw the most action.

For many more Cisco Live insights by my colleague Evyatar Ram, Product Manager on the CMX team, check out his blog here.

Cisco Mobility wasn't just gathering analytics in the background at Cisco Live, it was also front and center at the Innovation Talk: Future of the Network. Rob Soderbery, Cisco SVP of Enterprise Products & Solutions, shared how our Mobility solutions create new ways of digitizing business with applications in mind, beyond the wireless network. He showed a live demo of CMX location innovations such as hyperlocation -a Best of Interop Las Vegas and Tokyo winner - and live analytics. In addition, he demonstrated how easy it is for customers to deliver captured portals with pre-set templates that are easy to update and integrate in other data sources such as CRM, powered by Enterprise Mobility Services Platform (EMSP). The talk wrapped with a raffle drawing of two Apple iWatches. Were you one of the lucky winners?

As I left Cisco Live after the show wrapped up, Elvis walked by, sporting a spangly jumpsuit and slinging his guitar. Really, I can't make this stuff up. I suppose that's a sparkly reminder that I'll be seeing him, and you, in Vegas for Cisco Live U.S. next year.