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

At the beginning of this year, SprintProject was pleased to return to the halls of this mythical show and, to go in search of the latest innovations and new releases that will impact tomorrow’s Supply Chain business.

Fabien ESNOULT, President of SprintProject, looks back at the trends and novelties of the show, which this year welcomed nearly 3,200 exhibitors from 170 countries and 4,500 media outlets that criss-crossed the 250,000 m² of the CES. It was enough to get lost in this abundance of information, innovations, and trends…

DAY 1 – Thursday 5 January

Focus on Eureka Park:

First impressions :

Strong presence of French startups;

No disruptive innovation, but rather the application of technologies to concrete cases;

Diversity of topics and innovations presented;

No revolutionary ideas in the Supply Chain field (to be confirmed after the visit of the LVCC tomorrow);

Many solutions not very mature.

Trends:

Most represented: Health, AI, Security, Computer Vision ;

The big surprise: little presence of sustainability;

Disappearance of topics that were omnipresent 3 years ago: exoskeleton, voice, blockchain.

                                                Charging station – Autel Robotics

DAY 2 – Friday 6 January

A day at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC)

  CES: the new world of the automobile?

Strong presence of the autonomous vehicle, with Supply Chain use cases

  Trends :

Interesting haptic technologies for robotics

Value chains in all industries are being transformed

                                           Autonomous vehicle – Applied EV – Software Defined Machines™

Thank you to our guests for the debriefing at the end of the day:

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 7 January

A day of free visit of the show – Eureka Park & LVCC to close the show.

IN BRIEF:

Innovations Awards (the CES competition for design and engineering of consumer technology products): high proportion of awards for augmented reality;

The trends seen the previous two days are confirmed (refer to CES Flash #1 and #2);

Still a lot of things on health, augmented reality (for applications other than gaming);

Companies that chose to present their vision of the future (decarbonisation, etc…), rather than highlighting their solutions;

Some “WAHOU” effects: TVs, holograms, generative AI like ChatGPT, water management technology.

                                         Sailing boat – HD Hyundai

Couldn’t make it to the 2023 edition of the show? SprintProject offers the opportunity to receive its complete CES report and to benefit from a presentation by our Experts. This final report details the key points of this 2023 edition and analyses the main trends and their applications in the Supply Chain sector.

For more information, contact Eymeric de Pelleport: e.depelleport@sprint-project.com

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