Government/Industry Meeting

Gary Shapiro is President and CEO of CTA, the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,200 consumer technology companies and that owns and produces CES. Shapiro directs a staff of more than 160 employees and thousands of industry volunteers, leading his organization's promotion of innovation as a national policy to spur the economy, create jobs, and cut the deficit. He sits on the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy, the USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore Board of Directors, and the American Enterprise Institute Global Internet Strategy Advisory Board. As chairman of the Home Recording Rights Coalition, Shapiro led the manufacturers' battle to preserve the legality of recording technology and consumer fair-use rights, and was an early opponent in the fight to defeat SOPA and PIPA in Congress. Shapiro authored CTA's best-sellers, "Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World's Most Successful Businesses" and "The Comeback: How Innovation will Restore the American Dream." Shapiro received a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with a double major in economics and psychology from Binghamton University.