Navigating the CES event via the app has been simple, easy, and well organized (as expected). The real bonus this year was being able to get badged right inside the airport - 50 feet from my gate. Great idea and set up very customer friendly!!!!

So I thought the app would be smart considering the CES show hype, but to set up my pre-arranged meetings with venders, I found that it is not capable of. You can only schedule key-note types of events which doesn’t help me. There should be the ability to have the schedule linked to the maps so that you can easily plot out your days so that they are considering moving from one place to another to prevent wasting time hopping around. What a disappointment. And if this feature is available, why wouldn’t there be a tutorial to follow? Seems like a massively missed opportunity and a let down. Makes me wonder who the brains are behind this event. Also I heard many comments from others about the new innovation companies but how to distinguish those new companies from older companies? Start ups often have great new ideas I am interested to hear, but how to find them? There is no clear heading or searchable way… another disappointment..

Last year I and many others complained about the many gaps in this app, especially the crippled search feature that cannot search the most important exhibitor info in the “About” field. How does the CES Show ironically have such a primitive app?? For example, if you want to find companies dealing with electronic rings, companies whose description mentions rings a dozen times won’t shore up based on that description. If they use “ring” in their corporate name, Ok. But even then, you will get hundreds of bogus hits because it will find every company whose category includes “Manufacturing” because that word contains the for letters “ring”. Ridiculous. For someone trying to find new companies whose name you don’t yet know, abandon hope with this app and just wander up and down aisle after aisle hoping to bump into that needle in a haystack like our ancient caveman ancestors did.

There’s a hundred things I can point out, like - the fact that I couldn’t even submit feedback through the app, so I had to place a permanent rating on the App Store- The LinkedIn buttons are freaking useless. -.- I have no way of going through to the LinkedIn of the user, when you tap on it, it takes you to the sign in page of an in app browser and won’t let you open in the LinkedIn app or in an external browser. I can’t even just copy the url manually -.-- Did y’all have interns build this in a month without QA, because there’s so many ways it uses older mobile styles, apis and architecture- 3D map? For real guys, what was the point of making it 3D if everything has the same height? - Speakers can’t be messaged directly -,- You have to find them by name and then message that user profile, which is different from the speaker profile. So if a speaker has a common first and last name used by another participant, you have no clue which one belongs to the speaker - What exactly does the “fee $” next to certain events mean? I am pretty sure I didn’t miss it in the tutorial. Well I won’t know because there’s no way to access that walkthrough anymore.