Big Tech Names Withdraw From Las Vegas CES Conference
43123-Dec-2021
The conference of Consumer Electronic Show (CES) is going: to be organized in Las Vegas in upcoming January. And many big tech companies announced just before the time that they are not sending their team and members to this conference and the reason behind this was the event is going to be organized in Las Vegas.
Highlighted facts
- The CES conference will be held from the 5 January in 2022 and will go for the 4 days.
- Amazon, Facebook, Twitter will not send their employees to this conference.
- All the attendees will have to show their Covid vaccination certificate which should not be more than 24 hours old.
- The last conference was held in the physical mode in 2020.
Some other points
- All the withdrawn companies are not sending the employees and at the same time, the concerns about the covid-19 virus in the form of a new variant as omicron is increasing.
- When the big tech companies are not ready to attend it, the others are planning to attend it like Google and self-drive unit Waymo is ready to be there in Las Vegas.
- All the attendees are must show their covid vaccination card and the report of testing which should not be more than 24 hours and the conditions included the proper wearing of the mask during the conference.
- The previous conference attracted 180000 visitors in 2020. All the tech giant companies show their new gadgets and technology content. And last year conference was held in the online mode and the statement was also made by Consumer Technology Association that “This time it is not possible to make arrangements for the attendees”.
- Gary Shapiro, the organizer of the CES conference says in the interview with BBC news that the conference will see its return real gathering of visiters
- He also added “There’s a thirst for human contact. It may not be a handshake and hug right away. And hopefully, there will be other events before ours so we can see the best practices. But, we will be different at our time”. Said in the interview.
- The Web Summit another big technology went ahead in Lisbon in November but. The crowd was not much at the same time.
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