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POWER
UP SUNDAY |
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| Sunday
8:20 AM - 10:00 AM
January 9, 20101 |
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2011
Opening
Keynote
Gary
Shapiro
President & CEO – CEA
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1919
South Eads St.
Arlington, VA 22202
703-907-7610
tel 703-907-7608
gshapiro@CE.org
Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics
Association (CEA)®, the U.S. trade association representing
some 2,000 consumer electronics companies and owning and
producing the continent's largest annual tradeshow, the
International CES̉.
Shapiro led the industry in its successful transition
to HDTV. He co-founded and chaired the HDTV Model Station
and served as a leader of the Advanced Television Test
Center (ATTC). He is a charter inductee to the Academy
of Digital Television Pioneers, and received its highest
award as the industry leader most influential in advancing
HDTV. He focused on the need for and led the effort to
obtain the 2009 cut-off date of analog broadcasting.
As chairman of the Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC),
Shapiro led the manufacturers' battle to preserve the
legality of recording technology and consumer fair use
rights. Shapiro has held many exhibition industry leadership
posts, and received the exhibition industry's highest
honor, the Pinnacle Award. He is a member of the Board
of Directors of the Northern Virginia Technology Council,
the State Department's Advisory Committee on International
Communications and Information Policy, and the Board of
Directors of the Washington Economic Club. He has served
as a member of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Commission
on Information Technology and on the Board of Visitors
of George Mason University. Shapiro also has been recognized
by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a "mastermind"
for his initiative in helping to create the Industry Cooperative
for Ozone Layer Protection (ICOLP).
Shapiro leads a staff of over 140 employees and thousands
of industry volunteers and has testified before Congress
on technology and business issues more than 20 times.
He has received annual recognition from The Hill since
2006 as a "top lobbyist" in Washington. Also, in both
2007 and in 2008, Washington Life magazine named him one
of the 100 most influential people in Washington. CEA
has won many awards as a family friendly employer and
one of the best places to work.
Shapiro has authored a book on innovation and the American
Dream to be published by Beaufort Books in January 2011.
Prior to joining the association, Shapiro was an associate
at the law firm of Squire Sanders. He also has worked
on Capitol Hill, as an assistant to a member of Congress.
He received his law degree from Georgetown University
Law Center and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with a double
major in economics and psychology from Binghamton University.
He is married to Dr. Susan Malinowski, a retina surgeon.
Their son, Mark Jerome Malinowski Shapiro, was born April
18, 2008. He has two other sons, Steven and Douglas, from
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