London (8 August 2023): An audit from CES 2023 recorded 117,000 attendees from crucial sectors around the world. Over 15,000 industry attendees came with a focus on AI, IoT sensors, and vehicle technology. Over 10,000 attendees were from the 5G, digital health, and wearables categories.

“CES is one of the world’s largest stages for prominent mass-IoT applications,” says Sridhar (Sri) Ramachandran SVP and CTO for Somos, Inc., a provider of telephone number and identity information services globally and the Vice Chairman of the IoT M2M Council (IMC), the largest trade group serving the IoT sector. “With 25,000 product makers, enterprise users and apps developers as members, the IMC is the exclusive IoT partner to CES and it organizes the IoT Infrastructure pavilion on the show floor as well as conference programming for the event.”

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“The Las Vegas Convention Center’s North Hall has already sold out for the January 2024 event and we’ll be using expansion space to accommodate the IoT pavilion,“ says Ramachandran, “The IMC has proposed a full conference program for 2024, and we’ll be doing networking events and producing content from the show floor. Anybody in the IoT sector should have CES on the calendar.”

About the IoT M2M Council

The IMC is the largest trade group dedicated to the global IoT sector – with over 28,000 rank-and-file Adopter Members around the world that qualify as buyers of IoT solutions in 30 vertical markets. Sustaining/board companies include A1 Digital, Aeris, Blues Wireless, Deutsche Telekom, Digi International, eSAT Global, filancore, Finite State, floLIVE, Giesecke+Devrient, Globalstar, Ground Control, Hologram, iBasis, IoT Launch, Keyfactor, KORE, KYOCERA AVX, MultiTech, Pelion, Quectel, Somos, Tata Communications, Telit Cinterion, Thales and Vodafone. Visit www.iotm2mcouncil.org