Breakthrough technology and these are great but its just the american way. You have the ability of anyone to come up with an idea and expose it. That is why we have this event. The Big Companies respect that we have the Small Companies there and that is how we run this organization. Host where do you see growth in Consumer Electronics in the next couple of years . Guest there are growth in several categories. Sometimes categories go through a lull and the rise. We had the video area that went through a lull but its getting back with connected to be in very thin tv so thats exciting. Other areas of standing wireless. The fcc changed chairman made a huge announcement. Thats only for wifi but all sorts of products that you can envision and the firstgrade product they came from unlicensed spectrum garage door opener and accord cordless phone and baby monitor. These were things no one anticipated. Its getting pretty crowded here especially at airports and its tough to see your wifi so thats great. Biometric sensing clearly we are shifting forward in robotics and technologies and we have seen at spike. A 25 increase in health care electronics. Health and wellbeing, remote monitoring. The health care and a big way so theres a lot of areas of growth. Obviously the Automobile Industry is becoming huge. We have eight Car Companies here but theres so much there with access to the internet and information and using devices but also safety. Driverless cars is is where we are going but along the way we are getting the Collision Avoidance systems and where also doing things to focus on you as a driver and make sure you are paying attention and wake you up if youre falling asleep. Host gary shapiro what are some of the policy issues at the Consumer ElectronicsAssociation Concerns itself with . Guest well we have been in a big way being in the cuttingedge and facial recognition for example. Thats an area which is the privacy of someone. That is very big and biometric monitoring and things like that. Also some issues which have come to the forefront strategic integration as we would call it getting the best from the right is here. We have a guy here who started from stanford and he started a company from monitoring hearts in kids basically with problems. He has been kicked out of the country but we dont want to do that. The guy has created a company and hes a stanford graduate. We will be fighting big and visibly on strategic immigration and also we wonder Companies Think urged to a invested in are not abroad so repatriating money that his tax back to the United States allowing us to create jobs here and maybe could be tied into creating an Infrastructure Bank or Something Like that the point is we need fundamental changes. Believe it or not we care more than anything else about the health of the u. S. Economy because that determines our future. We support the simpson it hurts everyone and its painfully been for us but we need the stability and our finances as a country and every responsible business should stand up and say that. Both sides republicans and democrats are recognizing the pain has to be spread around so those are big issues for us and their things that affect innovation. Basically people dont produce anything but lawyers is not a good way to get a society and from the smallest to start up to the Biggest Company we need more certainty. And ginobli are violating patents and we shouldnt be putting people out of work and actively run companies if they dont even think there are breaking someones patent. Host do a lot of members of congress fcc and other Public Officials attend here and what do you want them to leave with . Guest we try to get as many officials as possible. We have every commission from the fcc and a lot of the staff with the federal trade commission and certainly many members of congress and Congressional Staff and people from the Highway Safety administration in Consumer Products administration. We want people to come here to see the real world. You cant learn in washington when only people with a or paid lobbyists give you information. She said we have to come here. Obviously this is las vegas but let me tell you the rules now are so tough that there are 24 hours they take red eyes from. There are 3000 company showing exhibits and showing products and many more companies in different ways in every major tech company. We are 35,000 people from outside the United States coming here including senior government officials from outside the country. They want to know whats going on with innovation. We are the host and we are phenomenally dynamic growing important industry making a difference in the future. When youre talking about raising revenue or raising taxes or cutting spending innovation is the answer. Innovation is growth and we have to make sure our government does not hurt them. We were talking here about hipaa and sopa about the law of rushing through congress because the lobbyists is so strong that would allow anyone in the world to shut down any internet web site by claiming Copyright Infringement and thank god that was. Was stopped because it started here with members of congress holding a press conference saying this must be stopped. Innovation is too important in consumer access to the internet is to import and we have to do some ring about. We will never have legislation like that again in congress. Its like name your kid adolf. No one will ever do it again. Host gary shapiro do you have an opinion on who you would like to replace Julius Genachowski at the fcc . Guest i call them the spectrum chairman yesterday. He is in a phenomenal job in defining his job as looking towards the future of america in the next five or 10 years in our spectrum is and he is pushed it forward. Im eager to not see him leave. The commissioner there are has galvanized and of course we disagree in some things but not necessarily by Political Party more. He has united the commission. I think they are doing a great job so im thrilled he is there. Host gary shapiro has a black belt in tae kwon do and from that experience i think the title of this newest book. Ninja innovation the 10 killer strategies of the worlds most successful businesses. Gary shapiro explain this title. Guest ive been using the phrase ninja for 20 years and that is the approach i took with my employees. If you see a while you figure out how to get over over it are rounded and become invisible and come up with a way, berland erpa dunkel back to your boss and say ive had a brick wall. You have to be clever and you will have to be able to use the tools around you. Getting the black velvet and karate at the disciplined and focused and know where you are going. Tae kwon do is actually korean. Ninja is actually japanese. Ninjas were hundreds of years ago and they were always outmanned but they were clever. They thought outside the box. My 30 years in this great industry i have met so many ceos around the world with Big Companies and Small Companies. There is something common with many of them and that is they are ninjas. They think outside the box. They asked why not . They recognize failure is a good thing and you can learn from it and sometimes you have to reward yourself. As i read today if you have never been criticized you have never done your job. You have never pushed the boundaries. American their nation is about risktaking i think that is what we have to do with companies. My first book the comeback is about what washington should do and we did well with that over two years. This book is about what companies and individuals in government should do. I talked about the difference between virginia with his probusiness strategy in california with its antibusiness strategy and how that works. I talk about countries and i talk about france where innovative people government not so much. You have to have a certain amount of content. Its very sterile and so im talking about strategies and techniques with companies and people and use. Host is this written for businessmen . What i learned when i wrote my first book for washington and was a bestseller, this book is written for someone starting out as well as someone a business. I am pretty pumped up. I think its a good read and im getting great feedback and also based on the ive done it seems to be doing well around the world. Host gary shapiro why the name change from from the Consumer Electronics show to ces international . We used to be called the winter electronics show. We need to the changes. We had put the international and private. I think it improved but thats International People felt comfortable coming. International people are very important u. S. Events because the u. S. Economy is growing slower than many other economies and not all the money is here any more. We want those International People to come here plus they spend money while they are here which is good for us. Plus why should our companies have to go abroad to sell their products when so its a winwin here. The commerce has done a terrific job working with us as have the las vegas officials. The ces the Consumer Electronics is much more than consumerelectronics. We are getting the cios and top marketing and technologtechnolog y people from universities have ever Major Company in the United States and certainly the world. Its not only wall street coming to the Financial Community is the marketing people. Is the Car Companies percolated the 10 largest Car Companies. We are virtually getting everyone from around the world involved in innovation and technology and that is really important for our show and for industry and good for a country. Is this largest trade show in the world . Guest by many measures it definitely is in terms of innovation and in terms i think of the number of visitors and we have over 5000 press here. At the attendance is a little difficult. The europeans count the aisles and we only count the spaces we sell. We are definitely the biggest innovation show in the world. There is a Construction Show with heavy equipment that puts a lot of things outside with every peers. We are the biggest annual event. Host host gary shapiro ye been estimates of how many foreign visitors walk the floors here and its a huge contingent of foreign visitors. Absolutely and its growing. We are over 35,000 although in the next couple months cohost good Gary Shapiros the presidency you know of consumerelectronics association which produces the annual ces International Show in las vegas. This is the communicators. The communicators caught up with fcc commissioner ajit pai at the International Ces in las vegas. Commission or what have you seen here at the show this year that intrigues you . Guest i have seen innovation action. Obviously there are cuttingedge Community Communication devices but to me some of the most interesting applications earners were traditionally wouldnt think of as the communication innovation happening. For example is a 3d printer that was able to print out at the booth that i saw small figurines which was interesting enough but then the owner of the company told me the same application is being used by the mayo clinic to print out kidneys that are now being used to transplant into patients whose kidneys have failed. Thats an incredible application and one that didnt exist several years ago. Similarly some of the devices we have seen installed in automotive vehicles and other types of vehicles, its really amazing some of the advanced technology they have that will allow people to sense where their car czar and cents with a relative speed limit on the part of the road is so that the car can adjust to move slower or faster. Is really amazing so all across a spectrum you see a lot of exciting innovation in action. Host when you see all these products and these thousands of booths here, are they within the round of the sec regulation world or should they be and speak to cars especially with all the new technology coming in. Guest some of these devices that are in some of them are not so something uses the public airwaves spectrum it does fall within the fccs jurisdiction. For example the fcc might need to take a look at a particular device to make sure that the radio frequency radiofrequency emissions that the device puts out are consistent with our rules. It might have to allocate certain spectrum to be used by other Device Manufacturers of there are a couple of areas where we do have limited jurisdiction but by and large whether its gaming are some of the other applications are ruled here is just to sit back and watch american capitalism in action. Its a wonderful thing. Host ajit pai when you visit booth and talk to people within your revelatory world, what did they want to talk to you about . A lot of Bigger Picture items are unusual. Getting more spectrum into the commercial marketplace updating commissions rules to make sure that those rules reflect Current Technology and not the Legacy Technology of yesteryear. Making sure the commission ask more quickly because things are changing very quickly even from when consumerelectronics shows to the nextel are regulations have to be updated as well. I am hopeful that the fcc in the months and years to come ken dispatch some of the innovators here. Host what is your current thinking unlicensed spectrum . Guest im very optimistic about an unlicensed and excited as the chairman announcing this afternoon he would proceed to establish more wifi spectrum in the five gigahertz band and not to go wonky on you but the spectrum in particular is wellsuited for wifi because you can have huge channels 200 megahertz and those channels allow more as compared to lowering the band where you have more congestion and encumber uses incumbent users. They users are favorable to wifi part because it hire a been abandoned the wavelength travels further so you dont get interference i could go in loan the band so you think about let consumers license his home applications where the wave is not to travel and they dont want to lose a lot of power and that is what five gigahertz promises so im excited and looking forward to working with the chairman and commissioners and commerce and the American Public to make sure we get as much spectrum out there is we can in the five gigahertz band. Host what did you talk about on the panel . Guest whole variety of topics and spectrum was front and center. We occupy their a lot of time in the coming year with proceedings ongoing in the process of getting comments on what the rule should rules should be in when we should hold a auction. Infrastructures and a big one. Ive talked about the transition to what what we call an an in all ipr entered that protocol world. In short its a lengthy topic but in short as we move from an area where you have writers applying Voice Service over copper wires through the situation where we have all sorts of Companies Providing the same services over internet protocolbased infrastructure what is the role that the fcc . The chairman late last year established an Internet Task force internet Protocol Task force to essentially examine these questions and figure out what are the regulations that need to be updated, what policy prater should we embrace as we move to the all i. T. World and world and then the bush we do about a . What should we take off the books and what should we keep on the books . Im looking for to be an active participant in the discussion so spectrum infrastructure the two biggest ones. Host here at ces does washington understand this world . Guest i would like to think we do and certainly just being here interacting with a lot of the people make these devices and provide the services as a part of that and enables us to better understand the effects of our positions are going to be. When we talk about spectrum in washington is often in the abstract and you hear about the spectrum crunch. Theres not enough spectrum. When you come here and you see whats possible with the qualcomm booth for example we were able to see wifi enabled band that can allow you to have three and a plus megabits per second of data throughput. Ensure that would allow you to watch hdtv on a wireless device very easily but they cant do that unless we make the decision that we need to make a freeing up some of the spectrum and allocating it. So its important for us to understand their practical consequences to the regulatory decisions made in washington. Host fcc commissioner ajit pai thank you. Guest thanks so much for having me. Host we are here at the wall, exhibit and anita anita hix is the director of marketing for qualcomm. We interviewed as cc commissioner ajit pai and he was praising some brandnew qualcomm technology. What is that technology . Guest is what they are doing with a zero to 11 which is a new wifi standard and that is exciting for both routers and other types of devices. Its up to 1. 3 gigabytes so really fast powerful wifi connectivity and smartphones and tablet is up to 350 megabits per second so really when you think about downloading video and surfing the web youll be able to do so much more so much f