CEA Announces Programming for CES Unveiled NEW YORK

Event to feature Ultra HD Conference Panels, CEA’s Holiday Sales Forecast and Best of Innovations Honorees Announcement

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Consumer Electronics Association (CEA):

WHAT:	CES Unveiled NEW YORK is an important industry event that includes a new Ultra HD Conference, product launches timed for the holiday selling season, CEA’s holiday sales forecast and breaking news surrounding the 2014 International CES. The 2014 CES Best of Innovations Design and Engineering Awards Honorees will be announced during the CES press conference. This awards program is an annual competition which honors consumer technology manufacturers’ and developers’ outstanding design and engineering in consumer electronics (CE) products.
WHERE:	CES Unveiled NEW YORK
	Metropolitan Pavilion
	125 W. 18^th Street
	New York, New York
WHEN:	Tuesday, November 12, 2013
	9:30 a.m.-2:45 p.m.
	Ultra HD Conference
	Presented by: TWICE and CEA
	Metropolitan Suite, 2^nd Floor
	Current sessions include:
	Ultra HD: An Evolution or a Revolution
	Executives from LG, Sony and Toshiba, market analysts, including Tamaryn Pratt, principal of market analyst at Quixel Research, and ISF display calibration expert Kevin Miller, will discuss the rollout of products and services to date, the prospects for the future, and the obstacles that still need to be overcome on the way to achieving mass-market acceptance.
	Native Ultra HD Content: Where’s the Beef?
	Members of the ATSC, Digital Entertainment Group and broadcast and distribution companies will discuss developments in the production and delivery of native Ultra HD TV content to the home today, what’s coming in the future and the investments, technologies and stumbling blocks associated with upgrading systems and networks for the delivery of native Ultra HD.
	Lunch Keynote:
	Jay Vandenbree, LG Electronics USA, Home Entertainment, Sr. VP
	Taking Ultra HD to Retail
	Tom Campbell of Video & Audio Center in Los Angeles; Robert Zohn, proprietor of Value Electronics in Scarsdale, NY; and a leading TV manufacturer come together in this session to address what needs to be done to make consumers better aware of Ultra HD TV, what’s happened so far, and what more is needed on the frontlines.
	3:15-3:45 p.m.
	Holiday Sales and End-of-Year Trend Analysis
	Presented by:
	Shawn DuBravac, Chief Economist and Sr. Director of Research, CEA
	Press/Analysts ONLY
	Metropolitan Suite, 2^nd Floor
	3:45-4:30 p.m.
	2014 International CES Press Conference with Innovations Awards Announcement
	Presented by:
	Gary Shapiro, President and CEO, CEA
	Karen Chupka, Sr. VP, International CES and Corporate Business Strategy, CEA
	Jeffrey Joseph, Sr. VP, Communications and Strategic Relationships, CEA
	Press, Analysts and Best of Innovations Honorees only
	Metropolitan Suite, 2^nd Floor
	4:30-7:30 p.m.
	CES Unveiled NEW YORK Tabletop Display and Networking reception
	North/South Pavilion, 1^st Floor
	Media, industry analysts, members of the financial community and industry influencers will interact with exhibitors launching the next generation of technologies that are changing the way we work, live and play. Current CES Unveiled NEW YORK exhibitors include:
	-- Alarm.com
	-- Allure Energy
	-- AspectSolar
	-- CSR
	-- BungBungame Inc.
	-- DISH
	-- holî
	-- Honeywell
	-- Impossible
	-- InfoMotion Sports
	-- Kirk H&J Corporation
	-- LG
	-- Living In Digital Times
	-- Mad Catz
	-- Polar Electro
	-- PURE
	-- Rayovac
	-- Skulpt
	-- Telcare Inc.
	-- VOXX International Corp.
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About CES:

The International CES is the world’s gathering place for all who thrive on the business of consumer technologies. It has served as the proving ground for innovators and breakthrough technologies for more than 40 years—the global stage where next-generation innovations are introduced to the marketplace. As the largest hands-on event of its kind, CES features all aspects of the industry. And because it is owned and produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the technology trade association representing the $203 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry, it attracts the world’s business leaders and pioneering thinkers to a forum where the industry’s most relevant issues are addressed. Follow CES online at www.CESweb.org and through social media: http://www.cesweb.org/social

UPCOMING EVENTS

• 17^th Annual CEO Summit
  October 23-25, 2013, Rancho Palo Verdes, CA

• CES Unveiled NEW YORK
  November 12, 2013, New York, NY

• CES Unveiled LAS VEGAS
  January 5, 2014, Las Vegas, NV

• 2014 International CES
  January 7-10, 2014, Las Vegas, NV