After four exhibition days, 8.-11. January 2019, 52 closed in Las Vegas. consumer electronics fair CES 2019. CES is a worldwide gathering place for all those who develop innovations and do business in the segment of consumer technologies, and as such has served as a training ground for innovators and revolutionary technologies for more than 50 years. At the fair, 4,500 companies presented their innovations, including manufacturers, developers and suppliers of hardware for consumer technology, content, technology delivery systems. The program of the fair included 250 conference sessions with more than 180 thousand participants from 150 countries. The fact that the fair represents a “heavy” industry of 398 billion US dollars tells us how strong and important the event in question is!

Panasonic electric bike

The conference sessions were divided into 23 categories related to corporate business, e-sports, entertainment, marketing, smart cities, startups, …

The exhibition of new products and technologies was divided into 11 themes: 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT), advertising and entertainment, automotive technologies, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, health and beauty, home technologies, gaming and virtual reality, design and manufacturing, robotics and machine learning, sports and startups.

Some of the interesting exhibitors were 4realize, Airwolf 3D, General Processor Technologies, QuEST Global, Omron Healthcare, Procter and Gamble, Amazon HS3C, Noxtak Corp, …

Nissan IMx Kuro

Eureka Park, the home of startups at CES was the most exciting place as more than 1,200 startups from 50 countries around the world showed off their innovations trying to reach key investors. Among them was Orqa, a startup from Osijek that won last year’s Idea Knockout, a competition for new ideas organized by Bug in partnership with Hrvatski Telekom.

This year may not have introduced products that would change the way we use technology to a greater extent, but they are certainly very well promoted technologies. Predictions are that the biggest impact in 2019 would be humanity should have 5G technology, so a complete 5G ecosystem was demonstrated at CES, which includes transportation, virtual reality, sports technology and digital health.

More about the Fair itself www.ces.tech