Ports to Get Big Role at Consumer Electronics Show

Port security, policies and technologies will get a full day of sessions at the massive Consumer Electronics Show Jan. 8-11 in Las Vegas, organizers announced. CES Government Conference portion of the show, Jan. 8-9 at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel, will include presentations by American Association of Port Authorities President Kurt Nagle, U.S. Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Va.), ranking member of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform, and Maria O'Connell, senior advisor to the Commissioner of CBP. Others will include Charlie Armstrong, assistant secretary for information management at the Department of Homeland Security, Christopher Lytle, executive director of the Port of Long Beach, and Virginia Secretary of Transportation Sean Connaughton. Topics will include management systems, tracking technologies, IT and physical security technologies, collection, storage and analytic tools for managing big data