The Disconnect Between Innovation, Human Security and Manufacturing

Each year since 1967, manufacturers across multiple industries, their employees, contractors and vendors look to technologies’ promising innovations, showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

There, companies can catch a glimpse of the future to better assess spend, staff, and competitors. But this year’s conference theme, “How Technology Can Advance Human Security for All,” may have unwittingly presented an underlying impasse.

“Tech solves some of the world’s biggest problems,” said Jamie Kaplan, vice president of communications for CES-host Consumer Technology Association (CTA), during a Cision-supported webinar. Human security is a global concern, she said. CES 2023 is focused on products providing greater human security.

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