CEA President and CEO Gary Shapiro has seen many achievements during his 30 years with CEA, most notably leading the industry in its successful HDTV transition. He is a charter inductee to the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers, and a member of the Boards of Directors of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and the Economic Club of Washington.  He sits on the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy, and he has on numerous...

With Congress back in session in Washington, the Consumer Electronics Association is tracking a host of issues that are vitally important to the future growth of our economy, as well as growth of the consumer electronics industry. At the 2013 International CES, we held a series of discussions to highlight and debate some of our most pressing policy issues: strategic immigration, copyright, e-waste, the impact of mobile technology on our economy and more. Watch those sessions now for...

For years, the International CES has drawn some of the top marketing minds from the world's biggest brands. In fact, at the 2012 CES, over 4,000 advertising and marketing executives came to the show to see the latest in technology and innovation. This year, CES launched Brand Matters, a new program designed to provide the marketing and advertising community with a customized CES experience. Ogilvy & Mather, one of the largest marketing communications companies in the world...

  Years ago, using the word “consumer” to describe a patient in the healthcare setting would have you labeled a healthcare heretic quite quickly. To refer to patients as consumers highlighted the commercial aspect of healthcare often avoided, until recently, in general discourse surrounding healthcare. After attending the Digital Health Summit at the 2013 International CES, it is clear that one of the big questions in healthcare is no longer “Are we...

President Ronald Reagan once called information “the oxygen of the modern age,” adding that “[i]t seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.” And Reagan never lived in a world with Twitter. Today, social media can build up or take down politicians in under 140 characters, while citizen journalism has the power to topple oppressive regimes in weeks. “The proliferation of smartphones and digital cameras today...