CES 2026: The Global Stage for Innovation Returns 6-9 January

CES 2025, the most powerful consumer technology event in the world, welcomed over 141,000 attendees from around the globe, more than 4,500 exhibitors, including 1,400 startups, and more than 6,000 media attendees. CES 2026 will return 6-9 January with the same sense of commitment to showcase the best in innovation, address global challenges, and shape the future. Inaugurating a renovated Las Vegas Convention Center, CES 2026 will also feel different.

Due to the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) being held in Austria in May 2026, the first High End Show that is scheduled to take place in Vienna in 2026 will be postponed by one week to June 4-7, 2026 (instead of the originally scheduled for May 28-31, 2026). According to the High End Society, the promoter of the audio show, the dates will be the only change, while the move will also cause the first day of the show (Thursday) to be a public holiday in Austria.

Everything Pro AV is at InfoComm 2025. A definition of "pro AV" is still up for discussion. But at least we know it's a show about the installation of audio and video systems, and control of all those, plus a lot more systems. InfoComm 2025 took place June 7-13 in Orlando, FL, and was a good show considering very few exhibiting manufacturers can predict how much their products are going to cost next week or next month. But their customers in the US need the gear, and they showed up.

High End Audio Meets the Future. From May 15-18, audioXpress attended the 42nd edition of the High End show. The 2025 edition of High End was vibrant, exciting and full of new interesting things to discover. And it was also the last one in Munich. This article details our impressions of a show that will be remembered very fondly by all participants and attendees, with every corner of the MOC Event Center Messe München sold out. Next year, the High End show is moving from Germany to Austria.

Preparations for IFA 2025 are in full swing, and booking levels for the Berlin trade show have already surpassed those of the previous year. After the successful IFA 2024, celebrating the show's 100th anniversary, the world's largest trade fair for consumer and home technologies continues to expand and improve. The 2025 edition now sees the IFA Global Markets B2B sourcing platform return to the same Messe Berlin complex and take over Hall 26.

The 42nd edition of the High End will mark a milestone in the long history of the international audio trade show. The High End will take place in Munich, Germany once again before moving from the MOC to the Austria Center Vienna next year. But before that will happen, it's time to say “Welcome to Munich” once again! With every corner of the MOC Event Center sold out, the 2025 High End promises to be another major moment for the audio industry.

Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2025 celebrated another milestone in the event’s history, with the highest number of exhibitors and a 15.5% increase in visitors from the previous year. The show was mostly about solutions, signal connectivity, networking, and control technologies. Fewer opportunities for product launches, and an attendance increasingly dominated by end users.

A Celebration of the Art of the Possible. CES 2025 was extremely successful. Even with the impression of fewer people because of the show being even more dispersed. In this first impressions report we discuss how Edge-AI (on-device) is transforming what is possible in audio processing. And of course there was MagSafe and Qi2. USB4. Bluetooth LE Audio. Auracast. Wireless Multichannel. And much more. This is necessarily a brief first impressions editorial to follow up on a very intense edition of CES, where the business-to-business aspects of the show have intensified as predicted.

The Finest Audio Show Vienna 2024 on November 23 and 24, was a resounding success for exhibitors, visitors and the organizer, and for the second staging in a row at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV), the location proved to be suitable for an audio show. Some 4,000 visitors, in an upbeat ambiance, experienced sound and audio equipment at its finest. The Austrian audio show is staged by the High End Society Service GmbH, which already announced that its Munich show will become High End Vienna in May 2026.

NAMM (The National Association of Music Merchants), the largest global not-for-profit music trade organization, has announced its initial lineup of events and exhibits for The 2025 NAMM Show, taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center January 21–25, with events beginning on Tuesday, January 21. Exhibits start January 23, creating nonstop energy through late Saturday evening, January 25, 2025. Major brands are back in full force to NAMM Show!