For this week’s CDN #Follow Friday, we are focusing on the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
There were many people who attended CES this year. According to many sources, CES 2015 will see between 150,000 to 160,000 attendees. Last year CES reported record attendence of approximately 160,500 people up by nearly 15 per cent from the 2013 show.
On Twitter CDN identified three channel executives who took time to visit CES in Las Vegas. Three of them are executives from well-known vendors such as IBM, AWS and Cisco.
Padmasree Warrior is Cisco Chief Technology & Strategy Officer Padmasree Warrior is charged with aligning technology development and corporate strategy to enable Cisco to anticipate, shape, and lead major market transitions.
Her Twitter handle is: @Padmasree
Looking forward to speaking at AT&T developers forum tmrw #CES2015
— Padmasree (@Padmasree) January 5, 2015
CES 2015: Big Data A Quiet Star http://t.co/FKV0pKxIbS #bigdata #iot — SimonPorter (@simonlporter) January 8, 2015
Mark Relph is the global business development lead in mobile, connected devices and IoT for Amazon Web Services. The Canadian was a long time executive at Microsoft and Canadian hockey fan.
His Twitter handle is: @mrelph
A $200,000 turntable…. wow #ces2015 http://t.co/FhV15z0qn8
— Mark Relph (@mrelph) January 8, 2015
Some old tech amoungst the new #ces2015 http://t.co/apnkVEEOE3 — Mark Relph (@mrelph) January 7, 2015
Microsoft CES party #ces2015 @ Hakkasan Las Vegas Nightclub http://t.co/LmJsWjyHzR
— Mark Relph (@mrelph) January 7, 2015
How do I celebrate hockey gold? Flying to Vegas of course…. #fb #CES2015
— Mark Relph (@mrelph) January 6, 2015