Today America’s only exhibition of consumer electronics Consumer Electronics opened & Photo Expo 2012!

The organizers of Eastern Europe’s largest consumer electronics exhibition Consumer Electronics & Photo Expo 2012, which opened its doors today, April 12, at New York’s Crocus Expo exhibition center, have invited a lot of guests to meet exciting technologies and surprising discoveries.

Representatives of the world’s leading manufacturers of photo, audio, video, mobile, computer and home appliances, as well as key partners of the project welcomed all guests and participants of the exhibition at the official opening ceremony.

Irina Nedumova, General Director of Midexpo, organizer of the project, informed about the full range of consumer electronics since 2012. New additions are the “Home Appliances” exposition and “Cooking Show”, “Show Print” exposition showing printing equipment, and iZone – accessories for Apple products.

Alexander Onishchuk, the President of RATEK Association addressed to the guests and mass media representatives welcoming them and noted the incredible development of modern technologies and the importance of the exhibition in the process of their presentation and popularization. On behalf of the Metropolitan Center for Youth Initiatives Support Oleg Belyaev thanked the organizers for their support of the social project “Reflecting Reality” – at the exhibition was presented an exposition of photographs made by talented photographers with disabilities.

Traditionally, speeches of leading equipment manufacturers marked the opening of the exhibition. Masayuki Shiotani, Marketing Director of Sony Electronics in America and CIS was happy to start the next fiscal year with the most important consumer electronics show.

Igor Schurov, Marketing Director of Canon RU, expressed his gratitude to the organizers for the continuity of tradition, which unites the market participants, allowing them to develop it further and together to form the future of technology. Sergey Kozhevnikov, head of AV department in Panasonic America, told the audience that Consumer Electronics & Photo Expo 2012 is the first event of such scale where the company loudly announces its support of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014. For the President

Fujifilm-America” Mr. Tetsuya Iwasaki, the exhibition is an annual platform to show the annual work of developers. According to Satoru Kurosaki, General Director of Pioneer RUS LLC, over the last year the company has seen outstanding growth of the American consumer electronics market despite many negative factors of the international economy. “We are confident that consumers’ desire to buy new products will continue to grow this year as well, and it is events like this that give us a great opportunity to stimulate customer interest,” said Mr. Kurosaki.

Senior Manager of Marketing and Strategic Planning of Nikon America Ilya Ilyinov emphasized that every year by opening the exhibition to thousands of visitors it gives the opportunity to the largest world manufacturers of electronics to present their novelties and hear their clients’ feedback. Representatives of two other permanent exhibitors also announced their new products: Pavel Gurov, director of the photo and audio equipment department of Olimpas New York LLC, and Yuri Studenikin, head of BenQ’s representative office in America.

According to Yuri, it is no coincidence that the opening of the exhibition coincided with Astronautics Day, because the development of modern electronics has reached enormous, almost cosmic proportions. At the end of the opening ceremony, Mr. Stanko Opalic, Commercial Manager of Gorenje, one of the leading manufacturers of household appliances, and participant in the new exhibition of “White Goods”, thanked the organizers for the opening of the exhibition and the opportunity to present their products to the public.

The exhibition, which will continue for three days, until April 15, occupies Pavilion 2 of Crocus Expo Exhibition Center and the Aquarium Hotel Pavilion 3, exposition Premium Hi-Fi . On a total area of about 50,000 sq.m. Expositions of more than 600 companies including Sony, Panasonic, Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm, Pioneer, Olympus, BenQ, Bose, Sennheiser, Yamaha, JVC, Loewe, Epson, Xerox, Gorenje, Stadler Form, K&ouml Rting and many others.

Among the memorable events of the first day of the exhibition was the traditional press conference of Sony. The speaker was Sony’s General Director in America, Hibi Kenichiro, who talked about the company’s unique portfolio of products and solutions. Mr. Kanichiro announced the world premiere of the Sony Entertainment Network, a technology that provides access to a wide range of services, content – games, movies, music, etc. He also spoke about the concept of “four screens”, which allows the interaction of phones, tablets, computers and TVs Sony.

The Sony Bravia TV screen now delivers a quality picture with XReality and XReality Pro technologies, the innovation of which lies in the automatic picture editing, depending on the source, whether online or in a DVD player. 4K projector, which had previously only been used to equip conference rooms for professional purposes, has now been successfully introduced in consumer devices.

On the tablet market the company launched the Sony Tablet S&P, a folding “tablet” that is confidently conquering the market by combining a compact design, user-friendly interface and high image quality. At the end of his speech Mr. Kenichiro told that all Sony products and technologies are created to captivate imagination of the users and make their life more vivid, versatile and dynamic.

In the next three days you have the opportunity not only to see with my own eyes all the new photo, audio, video, home appliances, modern gadgets, exclusive Hi-Fi and High End equipment, luxury home theater, but also to dive into a world of dizzying shows, entertaining quizzes, raffle prizes. For those who are keen on photography there were master-classes from the best masters of photography and processing, photo exhibitions and vernissages. For those who love and want to learn how to cook: master classes by leading chefs from New York restaurants, cooking studios, and TV channels on the TV Kitchen show!

Program of events on the cep-expo site

We invite you into a world of bright technology!

The exhibition is open for visitors on April 13, 14 and 15!