Contents 4 From the CEO CES Celebrates 50 Years 24 6 Editor's Note Plans for the New Year and CES 2017 Lithium Air: The Global Race for Next-Generation Battery Power Tech 8 INNOVATOR Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO Richard Yu INTERNATIONAL FOCUS India 16 A TECH TO WATCH 3D NAND Technology 18 C4 Cybersecurity: The threat continues 19 PIPELINE What happened at the Forum? Features 20 28 48 30 49 Driverless World Who pays when there is a crash? 34 TECH POLICY Looking at 2017 FACES OF INNOVATION Limitless CEO Tom Sanocki AARP Fostering Innovation How technology is reshaping the lives of seniors 50 38 GREEN POLICY Reducing the impact of packaging Agents of Change Big thinkers in branding make bold predictions Lithium-Air: The Global Race for Next-Generation Battery Power Breakthroughs in lithium-air battery technology have people talking JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 51 53 TRADE Trade priorities for 2017 54 INNOVATION IN ACTION The three winners of CTA's Innovation Entrepreneur Awards 55 TECH HUB Eureka Park at CES 2017 Business 94 THE ECONOMIST What to expect for 2017 96 ADVICE FOR ENTREPRENEURS A/B testing at CES 97 100 CT REPORTS Brett King talks Fintech at CES Scandanavian retailer HFK's premium pitch 105 C SPACE VR plunges into the storytelling mix MARKET BEAT The future of mobility 98 106 CTA FOUNDATION Expanding thought leadership STATS & FACTS A positive outlook for self-driving vehicles 57 SPECIAL: CES UNVEILED LAS VEGAS 78 CES TIMELINE Milestones in the technology industry CES UNVEILED LAS VEGAS JANUARY/FEBRUARY ON THE COVER Photo-illustration by: Gluekit; Photo of Watson by Friedrich Stark/Alamy; HTC Vive by David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/ Getty Images 2017 2017 24 TECH NEWS Innovation House Growing IoT GUEST BLOG Congressman Bill Shuster RETAIL STRATEGIES The retail connection at CES JANUARY/FEBRUARY AI: Thinking of What You Want Before You Do Digital brainpower expands industries 2 Policy The Smart Home: Are We There Yet? When will we actually live in smart homes? 52 VR ENABLES IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING INNOVATION AWARDS EUREKA PARK AT CES AI CHANGES EVERYTHING 81 SPECIAL: INNOVATIONS AWARDS SHOWCASE I T I S I N N O VAT I O N TOP: BERNARD MENIGAULT/GETTY IMAGES; EMANUELE FERRARI/ISTOCK 14 99http://www.CES.tech http://www.cta.tech