The 2021 Shopper Electronics Present (CES), which runs Jan. 11-14, can be fascinating this 12 months each as a showcase for the way large-scale tech conferences are completed and for the content material centered on the brand new work-from-home regular. A number of the periods subsequent week may very well be helpful for these both constructing merchandise for this pandemic current or working to finish their shift to to it. 

Listed here are just a few of the periods that I’m trying to attend. 

The way forward for work in 2021: Work remodeled

This session is prone to showcase what’s already modified and is working and what classes have been discovered. It ought to spotlight the gaps in present choices to assist firms plan for an prolonged WFH world. This method is especially well timed as firms come to imagine that distant work is much less transitory and extra everlasting. 

The intersection of HR and tech

The businesses I work with who’ve been doing the most effective throughout COVID-19 outbreak are rethinking HR and see it as much less about compliance and extra of what it as soon as was — an worker advocate and engagement service. Issues are surrounding work/life steadiness, despair, considerations about development and job safety, and managers who simply weren’t skilled or prepared for managing between houses. This session will characteristic Jacki Black of the Shopper Expertise Affiliation and Marc Goldberg from the Society for Human Useful resource Administration. 

The quickly altering cyberterrain of an interconnected world

Safety has turn out to be an enormous downside, with hostile and even pleasant states creating and deploying malware and centered assaults on newly susceptible executives and staff working from dwelling. This session has Hank Thomas from Strategic Ventures and Steve Grobman from McAfee. Granted, you might stay awake extra soundly after this session, however you’ll know extra about what’s maintaining you awake.  

From faculty to work

I’m to see if anybody exhibits up, given David Alexander and Catherine Cross are presenting it out of the Division of Homeland Safety. However the subject is vital as a result of it should handle how communities can higher mitigate dangers related to pure and human disasters just like the pandemic.  On the very least, it ought to present perception into how the US authorities is considering the associated issues.