Web Summit, Not Microsoft, to Run Online CES 2022

CTA picked Web Summit, the annual tech conference in Lisbon, as “digital platform provider” for CES 2022's online component, said the association Tuesday. Web Summit’s event operating system, Summit Engine, “is a cloud-based platform, built to support events with both in-person and digital audiences,” it said. Web Summit, which opens Monday for its 2021 run, has been “quietly building” its Summit Engine software “for nearly a decade to augment our physical events, so moving them fully online during the pandemic was easy for us,” said CEO Paddy Cosgrave. Registration for CES 2022's online component opens in December, said CTA. Picking Web Summit cemented CTA’s decision not to return to Microsoft, which produced CES 2021's all-digital content.