After June Opening, LVCC's West Hall Set to House Automotive Tech, Drones at CES

Transportation and vehicle technology companies showing automotive, drones and self-driving technology will be among the exhibitors in the Las Vegas Convention Center’s newly opened West Hall at CES 2022, a CTA spokesperson emailed Wednesday. The Central and West halls “are filling up fast,” she said, after the announcement CES added space tech and food tech categories for the January show (see 2106300063). Space tech will have its own section in the North Hall, and food tech is slated to be part of the lifestyle section, she said. Some 1,000 companies have committed to exhibiting in Las Vegas, covering 1.56 million net square feet, she said. A June 8 ribbon-cutting ceremony for the West Hall was followed by the opening of World of Concrete, the first major show to return to Las Vegas post-pandemic. The Las Vegas Convention Center Loop, an underground tunnel developed by Elon Musk's The Boring Co. and designed to shuttle convention attendees throughout the 200-acre campus in electric Tesla vehicles, also became fully operational, said the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. An open-air atrium, with a 10,000-square-foot digital screen developed by Samsung, is said to be the largest digital experience in a U.S. convention center in the U.S.