CC040: Recapping CES 2020 with fellow Media Trailblazers Hayden Field (Entrepreneur) and Lindsay Bjerregaard (Aviation Week)

Interview begins: 4:02

This episode begins our coverage of CES 2020.

Lindsay Bjerregaard is a Digital Editorial Producer with Aviation Week and Hayden Field is an Associate Editor at Entrepreneur.

Lindsay and Hayden, along with us, were brought to CES through its Media Trailblazer Program, which aims to recruit journalists to the tech-inspired convention. It was the second year of CES for each of us, so together we discuss our thoughts on the different products showcased, the highlights of the show, and the future of the conference.

We discuss:

• AD: Finding experienced employees for your new business with Integrity Power Search (2:35)
• Prior expectations of CES and the articles they sought to write (4:28)
• Flying automobiles at CES and in the future (5:46)
• Overrepresented genres at CES: sleep tech, single use robots, flashy products, VR/AR (9:45)
• What makes an attention-grabbing booth (15:56)
• Underwhelming aspects of CES (19:32)
• Delta's parallel reality display (23:13)
• Big enterprises investing in startups (25:14)
• Media Trailblazers Program (27:32)
• CES advice for media journalists (30:01)
• Media badge privileges (32:55)
• Journalists' advice for press releases (36:58)
• CES in 5 years (39:15)
• CES 2020's highlights (45:34)

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