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Hi,

Hi everybody,

welcome to Shift,

and podcast. Hi everybody.

welcome to Shift Podcast about mobility.

I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter at the Automotive News.

Hi everybody is Leslie Allen, editor of Shift magazine.

And it's Alexis St John, reporting. is Leslie Allen, and editor of Shipp magazine.

And it's Alexa St. John, reporting on tech and suppliers.

Joining us today on the podcast is Gary Shapiro,

the president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, which is responsible for putting on

CES. Leslie, what do you think about this virtual version of our annual technology showcase.

This will be quite a test of the virtual format

for any conference.

I mean, CES is obviously not some minor event. This is the largest

technology show perhaps in the world. I mean somebody correct me if I'm wrong there

might be some larger ones in Asia or

something like that and to see it go virtual that will be quite a test to see how

well they'll be able to pull this off with the assistance of Microsoft from what I understand now.

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