IFA Organizers Say They Won’t Have Time to Replace Foxconn CEO as Keynoter

With only two weeks to go before IFA opens to the trade and public, show organizers won’t have time to find a replacement keynoter for Foxconn CEO Terry Gou, who abruptly withdrew (see 1708160025), IFA spokeswoman Nicole von der Ropp said Thursday. “The IFA Keynote concept is to offer exceptional CEOs of the world's leading brands a stage and publicity.” As much as show organizers “regret” Gou’s postponement as a keynoter until next year’s IFA, “it is certainly not possible in this short term to present a corresponding CEO,” she said. “We have to ensure that companies are able to prepare themselves in high quality, which would no longer be the case with all professionalism.”