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Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah, Hello, and welcome to this edition of the Tech Zone.
We're here live at CES twenty twenty five. It's Wednesday,
it's day three. We're having a lot of fun already.
We've seen a lot of great things. But one of
the coolest things that I really like to do here
at CES is talk to the experts, our friends at CTA.
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We have an amazing spokesperson that is going to join
us briefly, and I can't wait to have a conversation
with her to get her input on CES twenty twenty
five and some of her memorable things that she has
seen as well. So what have you noticed when it
comes to CES out there? Have you seen a lot
of cool things on the gram or on TikTok if
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you have, let me know. I know if I haven't
seen it yet, I want to be in on the
secret too, so please please let me know. So, without
any further delay, let's bring on our very special guests.
We have CS spokesperson Katie Oh. Grady was going on, Katy,
how are you.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Hi, Paul.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I'm happy to be here in the tech zone with you.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Hey, great to have you.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
You know, I always love speaking to my friends over
at CEES.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
So how's your CES?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Come on?
Speaker 6 (02:27):
I mean it's going great. This is my first ever CEES,
so it's a lot to take in. I mean, we've
got so many different venues, so many different exhibitors, everything
from large model AI, We've got trucks on the show floor.
We've got helicopter technology, anything from that to like a
toothbrush to to AI and bird houses. I mean, it's
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so cool. I'm seeing so much over here. I'm learning
so much just trying to take it all.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
In your first CES. So what did you expect?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I mean, I didn't know what to expect.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
I knew I got a little overwhelmed hearing about all
of the different all of the different halls that we
had to look through, and all the different exhibitors. I mean,
when they tell you it's two point five million square
feet of exhibitors space, they're not kidding. We're doing a
lot of moving around here. So I didn't really know
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what to expect. But I've been over at the Venetian
where Eureka Park is, seeing where all the startups are,
and that's been so cool because it's so so many
folks who are so inspiring and they just kind of
had an idea and they really did it. I think
it's really easy when we hear about these big, big
ideas like AI to just kind of get bogged down
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and all the info that you're getting, But when you
really see the real time use cases of it, it's
so cool. So I've just been totally wowed by everything.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
You know what, Katie, I go back in my head
about one of the coolest things I've seen here at
CEES and Eureka Park always pops up in my mind.
You have a lot of those startups out there who
don't have the war chest that a lot of these
big corporations have, but they're out there innovating different parts
of the world. Ukraine is in the house, Africa is
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in the house, Europe is in the house. There's a
lot of different companies that are representative out there, and
I think sometimes when we hear about tech, we kind
of look through a myopic lens and not the wide
view lens that tech is, and just some of the
startups out there is really really amazing.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's cool.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
I keep saying, it's just cool to see someone who
had an idea and had an issue and they actually
did the thing to solve that. You're seeing so many
strides and accessibility and sustainability across the show floor using AI.
I mean, one of the coolest things that I've heard
of is this digital twin tech. So they're taking your
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whole person and making a digital version of you down
to your organs, so they can diagnose diseases earlier, they
can treat diseases earlier. I mean, it's like you just
hear about this stuff and it's easy to forget that
this is really happening and this is really helping people.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
So it is so cool to see a twin Paul.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Yeah, everybody needs there, right, I know, I don't think
anyone wants a twin Katio Grady running around.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
That sounds like a mess, but.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
No, I love it.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Now, were you covering tech before you worked with CTA
or or or tech something kind of new to you
and you're kind of like looking at all these different
amazing things going on.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Yeah, I mean I've always thought that I was really
up on this stuff, but you come here and you
realize that you have no clue about so much that
they have out there.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I've been in the association world for a long.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Time, so I've been coming to conferences since since I
started my career, and this is definitely the the monster
of all conferences in a good way. In a good way,
but it is a beast, so it's hard to it's
hard to see everything, but it is really cool to
just see all the tech here and just kind of
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learn about new things. I mean, I'm still trying to
wrap my head around so much. I mean, I don't
think I don't think I'm even close to understanding quantum,
but I'm dry.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Yeah, quantum computing is that's something that that that makes
my head hurt when I was thinking about it. But
we also see with the advancement in in AI, quantum
computing is really going to be that that secret sauce
that really has AI explode with the amount of power,
the amount of processing that needs to happen to really
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make AI what it really intends to be. M h.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
And I mean we're seeing also with that is the
immense amount of energy need that AI and quantum come with.
And so you're seeing in I think it's North Hall
where AI and quantum and that kind of tech is,
you're also seeing the energy transition, so looking for new
sources to power the tech that we're bringing and trying
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to make it so that we're still keeping everything sustainable.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
And that's at the forefront.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And Katie, how many steps have you done so far?
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Oh my gosh, I mean day to day it depends.
I mean there are some days where I'm kind of
hunkered down in one place, but I'm really trying to
see everything. I'm clogging somewhere around like fourteen fifteen hundred
or fifteen thousand a day. So I'm doing a lot
of moving, doing a lot of good eating. The Las
Vegas is great, so I've been enjoying that and also
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drinking a ton of water. I mean, this place is dry,
but yeah, it's been cool. I've been I've been trying
to get it all in.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
You know what, Katie, the only advantage you have over
me is you get to walk those calories off. You know,
I'm rolling around and my wheelchair has drained power twice already.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Wow, So you do you count the miles on that or.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You know what, That's a good thing.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I look on my little computer as if I can,
because that would be pretty interesting, you know, to do that.
But you know, I'm finding out some innovative ideas about
wheelchairs and the system of technologies being here at CES.
So because all the show floor we have to traverse,
I'm like, it would be really cool if we had
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like kind of a hybrid style wheelchair where as you're
using your electrical power, it continues to renew itself.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Or if you need to.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Charge it up, you don't want to bring your charger
sit outside in the sun for a little while, Yeah,
and maybe charge up. So Katie, I tell you, we're
gonna try to find some innovators together.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
This will be our idea so that we can make
the Learney and we could be founders, you know what.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
And then we'll be here exhibiting next year, absolutely saying say,
y'all come see and bring me my monemay.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That's what we tell everybody.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
And Katie, what's been the your most memorable experience here
here as CEOs being a spokesperson and and just really,
you know, being immersed in this pretty amazing conference.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
I mean, I've gotten to see so many cool products
when I'm talking about them on these on these news hits.
I mean it's kind of it's kind of a trip
for me, honestly to get to be on TV.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
And folks are like, oh, I saw you and TV
talking about this product. So that's fun.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
But I will say my my favorite thing so far
was definitely the Delta Quino. I mean that was crazy.
We were in sphere just down the street and it
was just crazy. It was totally immersive. They're talking about
the future of travel. I've already had friends who say
that they saw it on TikTok, so the CES reach
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is definitely there, and then not to mention the incredible
any Cravats concert afterwards, I was like, I thought I
was at CES, not a rock concert, but I'm happy
to be here.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Wait a minute, you actually got into the keynote.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Oh yeah, I got into the keynote. I I got lucky.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
I was working with Kinsey Frizio, or our president, and
she had an extra ticket so I got to go
in there and help her out and meet some really
cool people. And uh yeah, it was just an incredible keynote.
I mean, aside from all the awesome visuals, they're talking
about some really cool things in the future of travel. Uh,
talking about just making it so much more streamlined, like
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skipping lines. They're talking about a little gosh, I'm totally
spacing on the on the name of it, but they're
talking about a little personal helicopter that they're rolling out
the next couple of years. I mean, Delta is really
they are. They're moving the needle on travel and making
it more accessible, more are streamlined and just easier to
get from point A to point B.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
That is amazing. My friend Kinsey Fabreezio had an extra
ticket and she took you instead of me. Kinsey, Kensey,
I know you listen to so Kensey, I'm about to
put your own blast.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Kensy.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Were supposed to be here, right, I mean we we
we cool, right? I mean you can get me a
wheelchair seat. I mean, I'm sure they had a wheelchairs seat.
But what that that's off?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You know?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
And then that shows how amazing Kinsey is. You know,
I remember Kensey when she first started here and to
see where she is now as as president, that that's
pretty amazing. She's an awesome person.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Yeah, she's awesome.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
I mean she and she's so good at what she does.
I mean, she like watching her to talk to folks.
It's like she knows so much. She Yeah, she's a boss.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
She rocks.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Yeah, literally she is the boss boss. Yes, So what
are some you mentioned that adult spirit and that that
just like blew everybody's mind? Anything else here at sees
that that that that ones are really talking about, or
anything else you want to share with the audience and
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the listeners and the viewers out there.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
I mean, I'll say this might this might sound basic,
but I really don't think it is.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I think some of this.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Uh, they've they've put AI tech in what looks like
stuff stuffed animals, Like you're seeing these little puppies, like
really cute little critters, and uh, they're actually equipped with
AI to to make them so that they're a pet
alternative for folks who maybe don't have the ability to
take care of a pet on their own, but still
want that companionship. I mean, these these guys, they look
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like stuffed animals, but they can respond to human emotion,
they can respond to commands, they can give it back,
they can they model animal behavior. I've seen a dog,
I've seen a panda. I mean, how many of us
are ever going to get to hold a panda? Not
very many. But you can hold this little AI guy
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and have kind of a simulated experience with a panda,
and it is it's just so cool. I mean, like
this stuff I would have never thought of and it's
just awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
That that is so true. That that is so true,
and that reminds me. I have a ninety year old mom,
and my ninety year old mom she has a five
year old Siberian husky.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh wow, and he is like wild.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
That's a handful.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yes, yes, so that pet alternative.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
I think I'm gonna get one from my mom because
that Rascal is something else. He has jumped over fences,
Oh my god, he has done a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
He's an amazing dog. But for a ninety year old,
I think that's a little bit much.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
I mean everyone deserves a companionship. Everyone wants that.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
I mean it's just awesome to see AI making that
more accessible to everyone.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That is so true.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
So before I let you go, Katie Oh, anything else
you'd like you bring out.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I gave your nicknames.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I'll be kat O.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, I gave your good names. You know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Yes, yes, yes, I mean just if you're here at CES,
try your best to see what you can. I mean,
it's pretty much impossible to see everything, but but really
try to make those connections. Stop by, talk to everyone,
make a new friend, even in the taxi lines.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I mean everything, and.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Love it. I love it.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
The amazing Katie Oh Grady kt oh was in the
house with us. Y'all, Hey, Katie, thank you so much,
And and continue to do what you do, spreading the
word about the yes, keeping us informed out there and
uh and continue to enjoy your first es if you're
like me.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I am, I'm tired after this world. This morning, I
am running on fumes, but you're probably more tired to
me because you get up at the crack of dawn
and do what you do.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
I'm I mean, I'm really I am buzzing off of
the energy at CS.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
That's that's what's keeping me going.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I hear you. That's the amazing Katie O Grady. Stay tuned.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
We'll have some more great innovation we're going to talk
about here at CES twenty twenty five.
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