Shapiro, in Facebook Exchange, Regrets CES 2022's Lack of Digital ‘Pivot’

CTA President Gary Shapiro thinks CES 2022 “will be awesome!!!” he said in a Facebook exchange with Robin Raskin, founder of the Life in Digital Times conference that CTA now owns. CES 2022 will have “a little less glitz, a few messy gaps but cool stuff from thousands of entrepreneurs,” said Shapiro. On Raskin’s “only little quibble” about CES 2022 -- the show’s inability to link conference panelists participating remotely with live in-person speakers in Las Vegas “for a truly hybrid event” -- Shapiro said: “In a perfect world we could do that -- but not with the platform we selected. Not a pivot we could make in two weeks over a holiday season.”