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Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg will offer the kickoff keynote speech at CES 2021, the Consumer Technology Association stated Thursday. The keynote discussion will concentrate on 5G and how it will affect telemedicine and education, an appropriate subject offered this year’s unexpected shift to working and discovering in the house in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
The CTA currently revealed in late July that CES 2021 will be an all-digital occasion, rather of drawing in approximately 200,000 individuals to Las Vegas per normal.
“Verizon’s keynote for CES will demonstrate the vital role that mobility, broadband and cloud … has played in connecting the world this year and how the accelerated shift to 5G is transforming every industry,” Vestberg stated in a declaration. “This time in history is redefining the meaning of connectivity for consumers, industries and society.”
The CTA likewise stated Thursday that it’s pressing the conference back by a week. Instead of occurring the very first complete week of January, CES 2021 will range from Monday, Jan. 11, through Thursday, Jan. 14.
CES 2020, which happened in Vegas in early January, was among the last significant tech occasions to preserve a physical existence prior to the pandemic altered whatever. A month later on, organizers of Mobile World Congress canceled the Barcelona reveal due to the spread of the coronavirus. Many other tech and video gaming conferences, consisting of E3 and GDC, did the same.
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