Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)®, the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,000 consumer electronics companies and owning and producing the continent’s largest annual tradeshow, the International CES®.
Shapiro led the industry in its successful transition to HDTV. He co-founded and chaired the HDTV Model Station and served as a leader of the Advanced Television Test Center (ATTC). He is a charter inductee to the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers, and received its highest award as the industry leader most influential in advancing HDTV. He focused on the need for and led the effort to obtain the 2009 cut-off date of analog broadcasting.
As chairman of the Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC), Shapiro led the manufacturers’ battle to preserve the legality of recording technology and consumer fair use rights. Shapiro has held many exhibition industry leadership posts, and received the exhibition industry’s highest honor, the Pinnacle Award. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy, and the Board of Directors of the Washington Economic Club. He has served as a member of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Commission on Information Technology and on the Board of Visitors of George Mason University. Shapiro also has been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a “mastermind” for his initiative in helping to create the Industry Cooperative for Ozone Layer Protection (ICOLP).
Shapiro leads a staff of 140 employees and thousands of industry volunteers and has testified before Congress on technology and business issues more than 20 times. He has received annual recognition from The Hill since 2006 as a “top lobbyist” in Washington. Also, Washington Life magazine has named him one of the 100 most influential people in Washington, D.C. CEA has won many awards as a family friendly employer and one of the best places in Virginia to work.
Shapiro authored the 2011 bestselling book The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream (Beaufort).
Prior to joining the association, Shapiro was an associate at the law firm of Squire Sanders. He also has worked on Capitol Hill, as an assistant to a member of Congress. He received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with a double major in economics and psychology from Binghamton University. He is married to Dr. Susan Malinowski, a retina surgeon.
The following vendors were showcased on our World Liberty TV Technology Channel:
• Fashion Ware Tech Runway Presentation.
• Joyce Su for Intel, reviewing Intel based Tablets.
• Shaun O’ Connor for Microsoft, doing a review for the New XBOX 360.
• Rick Harwick of Motorola, doing a review for Motorola Atrix Smartphone.
• Anna Lingeris for Hershey’s Company, promoting The New Mini Reese’s.
• Afsha of SwitchEasy, doing reviews for Apple iPad & iPhone accessories.
• Joe Daileda for MEE Electronics, doing a review for HT21 New Headphones.
• Brad Alexander of Gecko Co. doing reviews for iPhone & iPad accessories from Australia.
• Tomonori Shibahara of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO).
• Andre from Vutec Corp reviewing a new 3D TV.
Kingston has grown to be the world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory products. With global headquarters in Fountain Valley, California,
Kingston employs more than 4,000 people worldwide. Regarded as one of the “Best Companies to Work for in America” by Fortune magazine, Kingston’s tenets of respect, loyalty, flexibility and integrity create an exemplary corporate culture. Kingston believes that investing in employees is essential and that each individual employee is a vital part of the company’s success.
Kingston serves an international network of distributors, resellers, retailers and OEM customers on six continents. The company also provides contract manufacturing and supply chain management services for semiconductor manufacturers and system OEMs.
Living in Digital Times Luncheon by Fitness Tech 2013, took place at The Las Vegas Convention Center, where different companies spoke and promoted their products and services for 2 minutes each, while people enjoyed their lunch.
Held at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, the event featured Broadway star Will Chase and numerous other actors playing out skits designed to illustrate new features of the Galaxy S4. It included a tap-dancing kid; supposed backpackers making their way through Brazil, Paris and China; and scads of lame jokes.
The event was bizarre and over-the-top and in sharp contrast to what we’ve seen from Apple, whose events are typically understated – if overhyped.
That’s true of Apple’s products as well. Each new iPhone has typically had one main feature that distinguishes it from its predecessors and its competition.
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The list of new features for the Galaxy S4, by contrast, is both impressive and overwhelming – and maybe more than consumers can get their heads around.
It has a 5-inch screen, which is even bigger than its predecessor’s and dwarfs that of the iPhone 5. The display also offers a greater pixel density than Apple’s vaunted Retina Display.
The new phone’s 13 megapixel rear and 2 megapixel front cameras are higher resolution than those on the iPhone. And unlike Apple’s phone, it includes
More about the phone:
A humidity and temperature sensor, though it’s not yet clear how that will be used.
World Liberty TV Tech Review team was on hand to see the Unpacked event at Radio Music City Hall, right here in New York, the Media Capital of the World.
The news that HBO was planning a 2011 documentary film chronicling the meteoric rise of Barack Obama came to no one as a surprise. Many had suggested that it would be difficult to cast someone to play the President, and this would be a difficult casting decision. I am blogging to celebrate the amazing selection HBO has made of comedian Kevin Michel to play the president.
At first one would think a comedian a radical (or maverick) choice, but Kevin has succeeded in capturing the essence of the superstar president. Having only recently begun work on the impression, Mr. Michel has made great strides in mimicking Obama and is notably very funny. Here he is doing a spoof of an Obama press conference.
World Liberty TV had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin L. Michel, Presidential Impersonator promoting the book, Fool Me Twice at The BEA 2012. See what he had to say about Michelle and Bo, The Dog.
The new book by photographers Robert Miller and Andrew Wakeford presents vignettes representing a cross-section of living war veterans who have made personal sacrifices and, in many cases, have undergone the horrors of combat. The authors approached this project with a desire to recognize these servicemen and women visually through portrait-quality photos combined with personal remembrances of their individual experiences and service to their country.
Miller and Wakeford spent over two years interviewing more than 150 vets from five different wars. Among the more than 70 veterans represented in Portraits of Service, some are famous and some are homeless, but they all have one very important thing in common: they put their lives on the line for freedom.
World Liberty TV Book Review team was on hand to interview Ms. Helen Patton, the Granddaughter of General Patton at the BEA 2012.
Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,000 consumer electronics companies and owning and producing the continent’s largest annual tradeshow, the International CES.
Shapiro led the industry in its successful transition to HDTV. He co-founded and chaired the HDTV Model Station and served as a leader of the Advanced Television Test Center (ATTC). He is a charter inductee to the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers, and received its highest award as the industry leader most influential in advancing HDTV. He focused on the need for and led the effort to obtain the 2009 cut-off date of analog broadcasting.
Shapiro authored the 2011 bestselling book The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream (Beaufort).
The American Booksellers Association presents educational sessions at Book Expo of America (BEA) that are designed for independent booksellers and are open to all BEA attendees. This year, in order to maximize members’ interactions with the industry as a whole, ABA Education is being developed jointly with the BEA, and sessions will be presented both on Wednesday, May 29, as well as at other times during the course of the Expo. What was known as the ABA Day of Education has evolved to become Bookselling Today & ABA Education.
The Bookselling and Author Awards Lunch was held during the BEA on Thursday, May 30 from 12:15 to 1:45 p.m. in the Special Events Hall of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. This year’s event featured the presentation of the 2013 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards.
