Originally posted by monochrome The OP claims there was a Dealer Room and private viewing of the K-1 and lenses
I've never been to CES, never mind worked at it, but if it is anything like SEMA, it's only the large exhibitors who set up "meeting" rooms at the Convention Center and it is more for B2B customers who happen to show up on their own, not key accounts or prospects who are booked for presentations well in advance. For SEMA, all hotel rooms had to be booked and paid almost a year in advance (I haven't been for about 8 years so perhaps hotel rooms aren't as hard to come by as they used to be) so these were very much closed events, where controlling admission and the provision of food and beverages is easier to do without the distraction of competitors in the same facility.