Sunday, January 9, 2022

Celebrities at CES 2022: Tom Holland adds star power to Sony event


The CES 2022 tech conference in Las Vegas had far fewer attendees and exhibitors than the last in-person CES in 2020 because of the ongoing Covid pandemic. It also had fewer celebrities.
CES 2022, which officially ran Jan. 5-7, attracted “well over 40,000 attendees in person” in Las Vegas, organizers said. That compares with 171,000 in 2020. It featured more than 2,300 exhibiting companies, vs. 4,419 at CES 2020.
With attendance down roughly 75% and the number of exhibitors down almost 50%, you’d expect the number of celebrities at the show to fall also. And that’s what happened.
Actor Tom Holland was the highest wattage star in attendance physically at the show. He came on stage at the Sony media briefing. Holland was there to promote his upcoming Sony movie “Uncharted,” which is based on a series of popular Sony PlayStation video games.
Holland also took a victory lap of sorts for the huge success of Sony’s superhero movie “Spider-Man: No Way Home.”
Actress and comedian Sherri Shepherd appeared on stage during the Abbott Laboratories keynote presentation. She discussed Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre diabetes monitoring system.
Music artist Lexy Panterra made an appearance at the Liteboxer booth.
American rower and lead Hydrow athlete Dani Hansen shared her story on the TriNet stage at CES.
World Wresting Entertainment stars Bianca Belair and Montez Ford were interviewed on stage at the C Space section of CES 2022.
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt joined the Canon media event virtually via videoconferencing – like much of the media covering CES.
Usually at CES, companies like iHeartRadio, Spotify and Samsung’s Harman division hold big concerts for their customers. But they didn’t this year because of Covid.
However, rock band Weezer held a free concert at the DRL Vegas Championship Race presented by T-Mobile outside T-Mobile Arena. The DRL is the Drone Racing League, a professional drone racing sport.
NiftyAgenda, an NFT-focused event, held a launch party that included a jam session by some notable artists. The group included Pink Floyd sax player Scott Page and Jane’s Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins.
A notable no-show at CES 2022 was socialite and reality-TV star Paris Hilton. She was supposed to talk on a panel about non-fungible tokens or NFTs. No reason was given for her absence.

Photo: Actor Tom Holland at Sony media presentation at CES 2022 on Jan. 4, 2022. (CES)


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