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CES 2025 took place with a record number of attendees. Photo Credit: CES
Computer Electronics Show (CES), one of the world’s largest trade shows, took place last week in Las Vegas, with a record number of attendees at the four-day event.
CES 2025, which took place from 7-10 January in Las Vegas, said it welcomed over 141,000 attendees from around the globe, of which 40% were international from over 150 countries, regions, and territories, alongside 4,500 exhibitors, including 1,400 startups and more than 6,000 global media, content creators, and industry analysts. These figures, which have yet to be audited, compare to the 135,000 attendees and 4,300 exhibitors from last year’s show.
The four-day event also saw record number of companies participating from Asia destinations, including Hong Kong and South Korea.
This year’s event, which offered more than 300 conference sessions featuring 1200 speakers, focused on themes including artificial intelligence, digital health, energy transition, mobility, quantum, sustainability and start-ups.
Gary Shapiro, CEO and vice chair of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), which owns and produces CES said: “CES is where innovation comes to life. From the largest companies to trailblazing startups, the entire tech ecosystem is at the show. CES is the stage for groundbreaking product launches, transformative partnerships, and serendipitous business moments that define the future of technology.”
Separately, a recent report from the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) showed that the US business-to-business (B2B) exhibition industry is picking up after a minor slowdown in the second quarter of 2024. The Q3 CEIR Total Index – a measure of overall exhibition performance, registered 11.2% below the same period in 2019, marking an improvement over the 14.6% shortfall in Q3 2023. The Index gained 3.4 percentage points compared to Q3 2023 and 1.1 points compared to Q2 2024.The cancellation rate for in-person events remained low at 0.3%, significantly lower than 1.6% in Q3 2023.
President of consultancy Tourism Economics Adam Sacks said: “The data shows a picture of continued rebuilding for the exhibition industry. These events remain vital to successful business operations and our forecasts for corporate performance support an outlook of further growth in 2025.”