Our schedule at CES is as hectic, if not more than last year's. And we're certainly not the only ones!
As we are preparing our “tour of duty” at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, I’m hearing lots of reports about how the largest consumer technology event in the world will not be… well, so large after all.
GigaOM even reports about the “shrinking” of CES.
Maybe I’m smoking something but looking at our schedule for the show (see picture), it certainly does not look less busier than the previous years.
On the contrary, this year again, getting to the exhibition show floors will be quite an exploit!
Here are a few facts about the show that tells me that our week at CES is going to be a hell of a week:
- 1.7 million net square feet versus 1.8 million last year;
- Exhibit area down 6% or 7%;
- Attendee numbers will not hit last year’s 142 thousand people but still would be over 130 thousand this year as exhibitors are cutting down the number of personnel they are sending.
But as the saying goes, if it doesn’t kill you, it will make you stronger 
Jean-Baptiste Su
Mark Boslet
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