The fast-rising sport gets its moment in the sun with its own convention in the convention capital of the world.
Conventions
Open to the general public and set to take place from July 11 to 17, the convention will be held at the newly renovated Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
The nearly 2-year renovation of 2.1 million square feet of convention space added new tropical designs and technology.
DesignerCon attracts more than 70,000 attendees each year and hundreds more artists and vendors.
The massive World Market Center complex next to Interstate-15 has been open since 2005 and brings thousands of visitors to Las Vegas each year.
Activists criticized the CES show in the past for not inviting enough women to headline events, but some are now criticizing the choice to invite presidential daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump to keynote the 2020 show.
Hyundai and Uber on Monday announced a partnership for the ride-hailing company’s Uber Air vision.
The Consumer Technology Association, which sponsors CES, has placed kiosks with facial recognition technology across some of the trade show’s 11 venues.
Samsung and Phillips have joined three others that are already partners in Filmmaker Mode, the company said Monday at a pre-CES press conference.
The first of two tunnels being built by the Boring Co. for the Las Vegas Convention Center is nearing the halfway point and is on track to be complete for CES 2021.
TCL Corp. announced its new 10 series — TCL 10Pro, TCL 10L, TCL 10 5G — that will come to the market this year during a Monday press conference at CES 2020.
The company provided updates during a Monday press conference at CES 2020.
Panasonic Corp. brought star power to its Monday press conference at CES in Las Vegas.
“Artificial intelligence” is one of the buzzwords of CES 2020 and South Korea-based LG Electronics is using it for manufacturing its televisions and appliances.
Bosch introduced a few of its projects Monday during a news conference ahead of CES.