And the Welcome everybody to another episode of the Shift Podcast. I'm Pete Bigelow, your

host and reporter at the Automotive News.

Hey Pete, and hi everybody, this is Leslie Allen.

Welcome to the show.

Got a good one for you here today.

We'll be talking with Gary Shapiro, the president and CEO of the Consumer Technology

Association, which is best known for being the organization that runs CES. That's right, it is that time of year again. that

time of year again. We are in full CES preview mode. Gary is going to kick things off today on the

podcast detailing some of the health and safety efforts around the show and

some of the things we're going to see at the show itself. Leslie anything in

particular that you are looking forward to seeing in Vegas here in a few short weeks?

Well I know they have some displays this year that are going to be focused on space.

And as you know, I'm a bit of a space geek.

And this is a new module, if that's the correct word for it,

for CES, a focus on space technology, so space planes and things like that. I can't

wait to see what's on the floor. Before that. I don't know if they're going to be actually outside.

Sometimes the CES exhibits are outdoors.

And we would think that something like that might be outdoors.

So we'll see what's coming up I'm pretty excited. Yes the

space transportation vertical giving us a new dimension of mobility to talk about

on the podcast. On the ground this year, we have the Indie Autonomous Challenge

coming to Vegas.

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