2000 American Technology companies. We produce the greatest, coolest, most amazing event in the world. That is the ces held each january in las vegas. We will get to that in a moment. For some of the Member Companies . Everybody would expect to see at your local best buy. Startups as well. The you take policy positions . We have very strong and clear policy positions. We are very strong in certain areas. We stay out of other areas. What is one policy position . We believe strongly in the concept that innovation is a good thing and we should foster innovation. It is something that is in our dna. We excel at it. We want to make sure that people can create something without having to get permission from government. We want to make sure that the United States is the leader in innovation. We try to push policies that favor innovations. What did you learn at ces this year . Wilbur ross was there with many other government officials. He spoke to our board and said, coming to this event gives
President and ceo of the Consumer Technology association and he is our guest this week on the communicators. What is the cta and who do you represent . Guest first, thanks for having me. Its great to be back. The Consumer Technology association is nonprofit trade association representing over 2000 American Technology companies. We produced the greatest, finest, coolest, most amazing event in the world and that is the ces health each january in las vegas. Host we will get to see us in the moment but who are some of the never companies . Guest everyone you would expect to see when you walk into your local best buy, but we also have sony and apple and you name it 80 are Small Businesses but 20 of the big ones with everyone from google to airbnb to lift, the disruptors as well as companies starting out with new Technology Startups as well. Host you take policy positions . Guest yes, we do. We are very strong and clear on what polly positions we take. We are strong at certain areas and we s
Continue on funding for u. S. Coronavirus response in house and Senate Negotiators are working on a total Funding Amount and the house is exciting to see a bill early this week with the Senate Taking it up after the house. Gary shapiros president and ceo of the Consumer Technology association and he is our guest this week on the communicators. Esther shapiro, what is the cpa and what do you represent . Guest is great to be back here. Thank you. The Consumer Technology association represents over 2000 American Technology companies and we produce the greatest, honest, coolest most amazing event in the world and that is the ces in las vegas. Host and will we will get to ces in a moment but who are some of the Member Companies . Guest everyone you check to see when you walk into your local best buy, walmart, but we also have sony and apple and you name it. 80 of our companies are Small Businesses but the 20 of the big ones we have everywhere from google to air b b to lift and the disruptor
, most amazing event in the world. That is the ces held each january in las vegas. We will get to that in a moment. For some of the Member Companies . Everybody would expect to see at your local best buy. Startups as well. The you take policy positions . We have very strong and clear policy positions. We are very strong in certain areas. We stay out of other areas. What is one policy decision . We believe strongly in the concept that innovation is a good thing and we should foster innovation. It is something that is in our dna. We excel at it. We want to make sure that people can create something without having to get permission from government. We want to make sure that the United States is the leader in innovation. We try to push policies that favor innovations. What did you learn at ces this year . Wilbur ross was there with many other government officials. Said,ke for board and coming to this event gives me faith in the future of our country. Its the optimism that innovation produc
Differently than that. Again, i was a military man for many years and i hear you say well, you know, people are coping with stress. And i got to say, please, oh please. Because lots of people experience stress. This is a stressful jobs. Theres lots of stressful jobs. Military members experience acute stress and would never protect nor sanction the behavior such as this. And i can give you many examples from young airmen to new lieutenants to senior colonels, in some cases generals who were caught dui on base and they were just gone. They were dismissed. And we knew that. And the military was better because we knew that was the rule. And we knew that we would be held accountable for that and the American People were better and our nation was better protected because we had a culture that we simply dont entertain this. And for someone to have done that and to have one of their peers or supervisors protect them is hard for me to imagine that that would happen. In our cases, we were dealin