No Las Vegas convention comeback could be complete without the largest technology gathering in the world. But as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) returns to the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) this week for the first time since January 2020, concerns about COVID’s rapidly spreading omicron variant has the world wondering once again what conventions here might look like going forward.
During the past few weeks, more than 40 CES exhibitors, including leading brands like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Intel have canceled their in-person plans. And even before that happened, Consumer Technology Association (CTA) officials projected CES attendance would be roughly half what it was in pre-pandemic 2020, when it drew a crowd of about 170,000.
