Huddly Runs the Table @ CES
Huddly made it's first trip to CES!
We build things that see, but to be honest ... there is not enough power in the universe to see it all at CES. The numbers are impressive.
- 177,383 attendees (Huddly met at least a couple 100 of them)
- 2.47 million square feet of exhibit space (Each Huddler walked >20,000 steps/day)
- 81% of world countries were there (Including Norway!!)
- ~200 government officials (~same number of Physics Nobel Prize winners)
- 7,545 media attendees (Huddly met some of them)
- 32,949 reps from buying orgs (Huddly has something they all want!)
- 68,331 senior level executives (Huddly definitely met some of these guys/gals!!)
A very productive trip including technical meetings, customer meetings, strategic meetings, investor meetings and some fun activities too.
The primary purpose of the Huddly trip to CES was to participate in the Extreme Tech Challenge 2017 event. We were proud and humbled to represent not only Huddly, but the entire Nordic region! You see, in October 2016 we WON the Nordic Extreme Tech Challenge during Oslo Innovation Week. As the winner of the Nordic vertical competition, we were invited to speak at the semifinal event in Las Vegas. We also got to participate in all of the other XTC events over the three day event. We met a ton of people, got to spread the Huddly vision and had an awesome experience. It was EXTREME!
Speaking of EXTREME, you have to check out the genesis of the XTC organization. Combine technical entrepreneurs, extreme kiteboarding and elite venture people then mix it all together and you have a truly magical event.
Does that mean we have to start kiteboarding? Check out this picture of Bill Tai (co-founder of XTC) taking to the air. These guys work hard and play hard. Sounds familiar.
Thanks to XTC for inviting us! Thanks to the Oslo Business Region for everything you do for the startup community. Special thanks to the Huddly tribe. Our employees rock. Our customers are awesome. Our investors are true believers.
If you're not part of the Huddly tribe, then we welcome you with open arms. Join in the conversation here AND don't forget to pre-order a couple of Huddly GO's for your team.
This post was originally written on the Huddly blog. There is more to the story about the presentation we gave at CES. I'll post that on LinkedIn next week ... or if your curious, then go find it now.
Winning ;-)