CES 2016 in Las Vegas starts January 6th

CES 2016 will be rocking Las Vegas from Wednesday, January 6^th through Saturday, January 9^th . Let's look at some details of this important consumer electronics event.

Tuesday, January 5^th is a press only day, except for the pre-show keynote from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Tuesday night by Brian M. Krzanich, Intel CEO, in the Venetian’s Palazzo Ballroom. Early on opening day, Wednesday, you can hear Reed Hastings co-founder and CEO of Netflix from 8:30-10a.m. in the Venetian Palazzo Ballroom and then you will want to head over to the Westgate Theater to see and hear General Motors CEO Mary Barra deliver the CES 2016 Keynote at 1 p.m. (get there early) with the topic of Redefining Personal Mobility .

On Thursday at 9:10 a.m., Dr. WP Hong, CEO of Samsung Electronics, will give a keynote in the Venetian Palazzo Ballroom. Also on Thursday, Robert Kyncl, Chief Business Officer of YouTube, will speak from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Westgate Theater.

Exhibit hours

Wednesday, January 6^th : 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Thursday, January 7^th : 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Friday, January 8^th : 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday, January 9^th : 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Key Exhibitors

There will be 3,508 exhibitors, so I’m not sure you will be able to stop by each and every one during the show. Exhibitors of particular interest to EEs might include:

3M                                 ARM                               AMD                               ANT+

Atmel                             Audi                               Autodesk                        Band & Olufsen

Bosch                            Cambridge Audio             Chevrolet                       Chirp Microsystems

Cypress Semi                 Eaton Corporation            Ford                               Freescale

GainSpan                       Hamamatsu                   Harmonic Drive                Imagination Technologies

Infineon                         Inside Secure                 Intel                               Lattice Semi

LG Electronics                 MEMS Industry Group     Microsoft                        Murata

Nordic Semi                   NVIDIA                          NXP                                Qualcomm

QuickLogic                      Samsung                      SanDisk                          Silicon Labs

TDK                                Texas Instruments

Marketplaces

The 2016 CES will also have Marketplaces – exhibit areas that group new technology markets together – with these categories:

3D Printing                               Augmented Reality                   Cyber & Personal Security

eCommerce                              Education & Technology            Eureka Park

Family & Technology                 Fitness & Technology                Gaming & Virtual Reality

Global Technology                     HDMI                                      Health & Wellness

iProducts                                  Kids & Technology                    MHL video/audio

Robotics                                   Smart Home                            Smart Watches