From January the 5th to the 8th, SprintProject team and its delegation of Supply Chain and Retail Executives flew to the CES in Las Vegas, the world's leading trade show dedicated to innovation.

And what a pleasure to return to the halls of this legendary exhibition and to seek out the latest innovations and news that will impact the Supply Chain professions tomorrow!

Fabien ESNOULT, President of SprintProject looks back at the trends and new features of the show which this year welcomed nearly 3,200 exhibitors, 170 countries and 4,500 media over the 250,000 m² of the CES. Enough to get lost in this abundance of information, innovations and trends...

DAY 1 – Thursday January 5

Zoom on Eureka Park:

First impressions:

• Strong presence of French start-ups;
• No breakthrough innovation, but rather the application of technologies to concrete cases;
• Diversity of subjects covered and innovations presented;
• No revolutionary ideas in the Supply Chain (to be confirmed after the LVCC visit tomorrow);
• Lots of immature solutions.

Trends :

• The most represented: Health, AI, Security, Computer-assisted vision;
• The big surprise: little presence of sustainability ;
• Disappearance of omnipresent subjects 3 years ago: exoskeleton, voice, blockchain.

DAY 2 – Friday January 6

A day at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC)

The CES: new automobile world?

• Strong presence of autonomous vehicles, with rather Supply Chain use cases

Trends:

• Interesting haptic technologies for robotics
• Value chains in all industries that are transforming

Thank you to our guests present for this end-of-day debriefing:

• Fedra Ribeiro, CEO, MOBILIZE – BEYOND AUTOMOTIVE, (Renault Group)
• Estelle Guillot-Tantay, VP Communications, MOBILIZE BEYOND AUTOMOTIVE, (Renault Group)
• Julien Morel, Global Commerce & CRM Director, RIMOWA (LVMH)
• Claire Lecoq, Open Innovation, LVMH
• Romain Pouget, International Innovation, DPDgroup

DAY 3 – Saturday January 7

A free day of visiting the exhibition – Eureka Park & LVCC to close the exhibition.

IN SHORT :

• Innovations Awards (the CES competition which rewards the design and engineering of consumer technology products): high proportion of awards on augmented reality;
• The trends seen the previous two days are confirmed (cf Flash CES #1 and #2);
• Always a lot of stuff on health, augmented reality (for applications other than gaming);
• Companies which have chosen to present their vision of the future (decarbonization, etc.) at the exhibit, rather than highlighting their solutions;
• Some “WOW” effects: TVs, holograms, generative AI like ChatGPT, water management technology.

You were unable to attend the 2023 edition of the show? SprintProject invites you to receive its full CES report and benefit from a presentation by our Experts. This final report details what to remember from this 2023 edition and analyzes the major trends and their applications in the Supply Chain sector. 

To find out more, contact Eymeric de Pelleport: e.depelleport@sprint-project.com

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