Consider exhibiting in one of more than 20 CES TechZones, highly trafficked areas that feature emerging technology for a variety of consumer technology markets. Below are TechZones slated for the 2008 International CES. If one matches your market, or if you'd like to learn about creating a new TechZone for this year's show for your must-have emerging technology, contact a business development representative today.

TechZone Name	Location	Sponsor
Advanced Display Technologies	LVCC South Hall 2	DisplaySearch
Blu-ray Disc™	LVCC South Hall 2	Blu-Ray Disk Association
Discover Wireless Mobility, brought to you by Qualcomm	LVCC South Hall 3	Qualcomm
DisplayPort	Sands Expo and Convention Center	Video Electronics Standards Association
HANA Alliance	LVCC North Hall Meeting Rooms
HD DVD	LVCC South Hall 1	HD DVD Promotion Group
HDMI	LVCC South Hall 2
HomePlug	LVCC South Hall 2	HomePlug Alliance
IP	Sands Expo and Convention Center
IPv6	Sands Expo and Convention Center	The IPv6 Forum
Mobile Internet & WiMAX	Sands Expo and Convention Center	Yankee Group
Location Based Services (LBS)	LVCC North Hall 4
NextGen Home Experience	LVCC Central Plaza 4
NFC Forum	Sands Expo and Convention Center	NFC Forum
Podcasting	Sands Expo and Convention Center
Robotics	Sands Expo and Convention Center	Robotics Trends
Sustainable Technologies	LVCC South Hall 1	Digital Freedom Initiative
TechHome	LVCC South Hall 2	CEA's TechHome Division
USB	LVCC South Hall 3-4	USB-IF
WiMedia	LVCC South Hall 3	WiMedia Alliance
Wireless Distribution	LVCC South Hall 4
ZigBee	LVCC South Hall 1	The ZigBee Alliance

Advanced Display Technologies
LVCC South Hall 2
Sponsor(s): DisplaySearch

If your company is changing the face of the display industry, we invite you to join DisplaySearch and other companies in the forefront of advancements in display technology to exhibit at the Advanced Display Technologies TechZone. Want details? Download the Advanced Display Technologies TechZone Sheet (PDF).

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Blu-ray Disc™
LVCC South Hall 2
Sponsor(s): Blu-Ray Disk Association

Blu-ray Disc is supported by more CE, PC, gaming and entertainment companies than any other HD format, offering consumers a broad range of hardware and content to choose from, as well as the ability to enjoy their Blu-ray discs (and existing DVDs) in more players, PC and gaming consoles. If your company is part of the wave in Blu-ray Disc technology, you need to exhibit in the Blu-ray TechZone.

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Discover Wireless Mobility, brought to you by Qualcomm
LVCC South Hall 3
Sponsor(s): Qualcomm

This TechZone hosts a special exhibition of state-of-the-art mobile devices and applications. Demonstrations include:

• Mobile Enterprise – Complete Mobile Payment Purchases; Connect with the office seamlessly, securely, and easily wherever business takes you.
• Social Networking – Manage media (photos, videos, blogs, music, etc.) from the mobile device, across the web and to other mobile devices.  Send instant messages to multiple users at one time.
• Gaming – Enable the ultimate in 3D Hardware accelerated high-speed gaming.
• Location/Public Safety – Navigate to your destination.  Locate friends and and family.
• Heath & Fitness – Measure and track your health & fitness profile.

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DisplayPort
Sands Expo and Convention Center
Sponsor(s): Video Electronics Standards Association

The DisplayPort TechZone features technology that enables a common interface approach across both internal and external display connections, and makes high-quality audio available to the display device over the same cable and the video signal. Delivering true plug-and-play capabilities, DisplayPort is expected to accelerate adoption of protected digital outputs on PCs to support viewing high definition and other types of protected content while enabling higher levels of display performance.

Who should exhibit here?

• Flat panel manufacturers
• Cable and connector manufactures
• Silicon manufacturers
• Graphic card manufacturers

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HANA Alliance
LVCC North Hall Meeting Rooms

Interested in exhibiting here? Tell us.

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HD DVD
LVCC South Hall 1
Sponsor(s): HD DVD Promotion Group

The high-definition wait is over. HD DVD is here, providing six times the resolution of standard DVD with full 1080p resolution and 7.1 surround sound, making images crisper and audio pitch-perfect. HD DVD is based on the original DVD format, taking the best features of DVD and adding a new layer of interactivity that allows for never-before-seen movie experiences.  With hundreds of titles available and with prices as low as $199 for hardware, HD DVD provides an easy, affordable transition to high definition.

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HDMI
LVCC South Hall 2

High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is the acknowledged world standard for connecting HD consumer electronics products and devices. The HDMI TechZone features a sampling of the hundreds of companies that have already adopted this evolutionary technology. Contact your business development representative today to learn more.

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HomePlug
LVCC South Hall 2
Sponsor(s): HomePlug Alliance

HomePlug is an industry Alliance comprised of industry leaders at each level of the value chain — from Technology to Services & Content. The Alliance members bring necessary capabilities and a financial commitment to the successful launch of the technology. Industries include:

• Service and Content - New services, content to pull demand for network devices, requirements for network to support services, usage models, provisioning, customer care.
• Retail - Channels for sales & support of networked devices, installation and support services, consumer education.
• Hardware - Connected devices to enable new classes of services via the internet or other networks – PC, CE, Networking.
• Software - Software services and applications to simplify setup and use of the network.
• Silicon - Cost effective silicon with a variety of feature sets to support a broad variety of products.
• Technology - Enabling technology that meets requirements for performance, cost, and is scalable to future generations.

The Alliance's mission is to enable and promote rapid availability, adoption and implementation of cost effective, interoperable and standards-based home powerline networks and products.

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IP
Sands Expo and Convention Center

Want to know about exhibiting options in this TechZone? Contact your business development representative today to learn more or download the IP TechZone Sheet (PDF). 

Would you like to see how we're positioning this and other TechZones to CES attendees? Go here.

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IPv6
Sands Expo and Convention Center
Sponsor(s): The IPv6 Forum

If you are part of a company with working IPv6 products, showcase your technology here at the IPv6 TechZone. Time is of the essence to carve out the space, so make your call as soon as possible:

Contact:
Kirk Smallwood, Dir. of Sales Operations, International CES
(703) 907-7606 or ksmallwood@ce.org 

Limor Schafman, IPv6 Forum (Israel Chapter)
(703) 907-4043 or limor@keystonetechgroup.com

Download a TechZone pod information sheet.


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Mobile Internet & WiMAX
Sands Expo and Convention Center
Sponsor(s): Yankee Group

The next-generation Mobile Internet will enable consumers and businesses to connect and access new types of applications and new forms of information wherever and whenever they want. Over the next five years, the Mobile Internet will be the fastest growing marketplace in the telecommunications industry. Join the Mobile Internet & WiMAX TechZone to showcase the entire Mobile Internet ecosystem.

Who should exhibit here?
All leading members of the Mobile Internet ecosystem including, service providers, device manufacturers, radio manufacturers, network equipment manufacturers, infrastructure providers (tower, base station and CPE manufacturers), chip manufacturers, systems integrators, media / content and applications providers, software and software development companies (middleware, database…etc), mobile broadband technology providers (Wi-Fi, Wimax, 3G, LTE, CDMA, EVDO…etc) and mesh network providers.

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Location Based Services (LBS)
LVCC North Hall 4

Who should exhibit here?        
The Location Based Services TechZone is for designers, manufacturers and service providers offering cutting-edge personalized location and navigation services.

Exhibitors can feature:

• Portable and in-car navigation devices and services
• GPS services
• Digital mapping for vehicular navigation
• Personalization of mobile services, based on location

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NextGen Home Experience
LVCC Central Plaza 4

The popular NextGen Home Experience is back for the 2008 CES! Two completely functional digital homes offer you exhibit space if you're in the digital entertainment and automation solutions markets.

Would you like to see how we're positioning this and other TechZones to CES attendees? Go here.

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NFC Forum
Sands Expo and Convention Center
Sponsor(s): NFC Forum

Near Field Communication (NFC) short-range wireless connectivity technology for secure two-way interactions among electronic devices. NFC allows consumers to buy goods and services, retrieve content, access transportation systems or exchange information between devices as easily and simply as making mobile phone calls.

The NFC Forum TechZone will highlight this new technology and the companies who are making it happen.

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Podcasting
Sands Expo and Convention Center

If your products enhance the value of audio and video podcasts for marketing, public relations, sales, B2B advertising, internal communications, entertainment or education, then this TechZone is for you.

 

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Robotics
Sands Expo and Convention Center
Sponsor(s): Robotics Trends

Who should exhibit here?
The Robotics TechZone is specifically for producers of personal, service and mobile robots and robotics technology seeking:

• Worldwide branding, marketing and sales leads
• A platform to launch intelligent robotic market as a whole
• Development, manufacturing and marketing alliances, OEM opportunities, as well as channel, distributor and reseller partnerships 

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Sustainable Technologies
LVCC South Hall 1
Sponsor(s): Digital Freedom Initiative

The Sustainable Technologies TechZone features environmentally and economically sustainable technologies which contribute to the social and cultural growth of the developing world. As the CE industry strives to comprehensively reduce its environmental footprint via eco-design and sustainable business practices, so too does the industry enhance growing economies’ capacity to produce environmentally-friendly electronics products. The Sustainable Technologies TechZone will display the innovations that make it possible for every one, everywhere to be empowered by technology and benefit from the growing advances of CE. Download the Sustainable Technologies TechZone Sheet (PDF).

 

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TechHome
LVCC South Hall 2
Sponsor(s): CEA's TechHome Division

If your products are at the core of the networked home, increase efficiency, conserve energy or make consumers' home lives easier, then exhibit at the TechHome TechZone, featuring the most cutting-edge innovations of tomorrow's smart home.

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USB
LVCC South Hall 3-4
Sponsor(s): USB-IF

Who should exhibit here?
Any manufacturer or supplier whose business involves USB products should exhibit in the USB TechZone. Participation as an exhibitor in a USB-IF sponsored TechZone is limited to companies that agree to promote only products based upon USB-IF specifications (USB 2.0) in each respective USB-IF TechZSone. The promotion of technologies that are not based upon USB-IF specifications is not permitted in any booth within a USB-IF sponsored TechZone.

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WiMedia
LVCC South Hall 3
Sponsor(s): WiMedia Alliance

The WiMedia TechZone promotes the rapid adoption, regulation, standardization and multi-vendor interoperability of ultra-wideband (UWB) worldwide.

WiMedia Alliance is a worldwide open industry association promoting ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless connectivity and interoperability for multiple industry-based protocols. The specifications are optimized for personal-area networks delivering high-speed, low-power, multimedia capabilities for mobile, PC, CE and automotive markets.

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Wireless Distribution
LVCC South Hall 4

Who should exhibit here: Distributors representing all major wireless carriers and manufacturers of handsets and accessories who provide the products, services and applications to positively impact business. Contact a business development representative today.

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ZigBee
LVCC South Hall 1
Sponsor(s): The ZigBee Alliance

The ZigBee Alliance is an association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost effective, low-power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. The ZigBee Alliance membership comprises technology providers and original equipment manufacturers worldwide. Membership is open to all. Additional information can be found at http://www.zigbee.org/.

Would you like to see how we're positioning this and other TechZones to CES attendees? Go here.

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