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CES draws marketers’ fire for all-male headliners
The Consumer Electronics Show in January often sets the tone for the year in the world of consumer technology, highlighting the trends that manufacturers see as having mass-market potential, but it is also receiving criticism for its lack of diversity. All six of the headline speakers currently named on its website are men, five of them white. That has led campaign group Gender Avengers to issue an ‘action alert’ demanding that