Hi All,
I was joining this year’s IFA in Berlin as one the 240.000 visitors. It was a great show, and was pleased to see so many (young) start-ups there.
In fact, IFA had 13% more exhibitors than 2015, and was the biggest IFA ever – at least from an “amount of exhibitors” point of view. 1823 companies generated a (potential) order volume of € 4,5 billion (for the digital natives: that’s the number when you have to flip your smartphone over to make the calculator except such a huge amount of digits ;)) – anyways, on average that’s € 2,5 million in revenues per exhibitor…theoretically…
What where the hottest topics:
- Virtual Reality – honestly…all over the place
- TVs …TVs…and more TVs…yes very smart ones of course
- Drones..in several flavors…and they performed great artistic air shows…
- Smart homes…and connected devices….
- …the rest where all niche products… -> but check out my next blogs on more of those niche vendors…
…and of course I will also do a review of latest VR and smart technologies, besides looking at some smaller start-ups’ technologies…
Stay tuned…
Cheers,
Sebastian Grodzietzki
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