With the completion of a $600 million convention center renovation next month, Las Vegas should close in on a record year for conventions and trade shows.
Conventions
When it opens in January for CES, the Las Vegas Convention Center will be the second largest in the country behind Chicago’s McCormick Center by indoor exhibit space.
Las Vegas’ tourism arm approved spending over $7 million to go toward hosting WrestleMania next year and buying tickets to this year’s Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix.
If you’re riding in the Boring Co.’s Vegas Loop and notice your driver isn’t steering the vehicle, that’s because, in some cases, they aren’t.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is set to spend over $7 million related to hosting the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix and WWE’s WrestleMania.
Construction machinery company Caterpillar makes more than just giant, yellow machinery; some of its newest tech can fit inside workers’ pockets.
Women made up 9.9 percent of construction employees in 2018 compared to 9.7 a decade prior, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
When gunmakers and dealers gather this week in Las Vegas for the industry’s largest annual conference, they will be grappling with slumping sales and a shift in politics that many didn’t envision two years ago when gun-friendly Donald Trump and a GOP-controlled Congress took office.
About 1,600 people, including industry media, fired the latest handguns, shotguns and rifles by some of the biggest gun makers, making the normally quiet Mojave desert terrain sound like a war zone.
The four-day trade show is the industry’s business-to-business equivalent of Black Friday, as manufacturers and wholesalers pen multi-million dollar deals with retailers and law enforcement agencies for firearms, ammunition and accessories such as holsters and scopes.
Representatives of the nation’s concrete industry need only take a quick look around to see how their craft is changing the Las Vegas skyline.
From glasses that correct posture to a breast pump that quietly collects milk inside a nursing mom’s bra, advancements in health tech swept the show floors at CES 2019.
At Haier’s smart home exhibit at CES, the Chinese consumer electronics company displayed a variety of smart appliances that could make lives easier: a stove that can read a pan’s temperature. A smart washing machine that can read tags and determine the best wash settings. A mirror that can suggest an outfit.
Robots and more robots marked just one trend at CES. Now that the 2019 show has wrapped up until next year, a look at some of the other trends, products that grabbed attention this year.
While there was little doubt among attendees that 5G will revolutionize the world, when that revolution will actually dawn is disputed.