Amplifying diverse voices isn’t just the right thing to do — companies with diverse teams are more likely to boost profitability and innovation. By empowering underrepresented groups, we’re breaking down digital barriers, improving accessibility, and building an industry that works for everyone.

The Innovation For All program at CES brought together the thought leaders and allies who are making this possible.

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Video on Demand

Check out these sessions and more — now available on demand.

• Fostering the Future: Strengthening the STEM Pipeline for Success
• Accessibility & Inclusion: Expanding the Diversity Conversation
• Empowering Women in Venture: Funding Gaps and Investing Opportunities
• Inclusive Investing: Driving Detroit’s Entrepreneurial Growth

CTA Innovation For All Fund

Women and underrepresented entrepreneurs often receive less funding, which is why CTA invested $10 million — and announced an additional $5 million at CES 2025 — into venture funds and firms supporting diverse leadership and founders through our Innovation For All Fund. To unlock the next big idea, we must ensure everyone has an opportunity to innovate.

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Take a look at some of the emerging areas that made a splash at CES 2025.

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Rise of the Enterprise

Across North Hall, Eureka Park, and the rest of the CES show floor, we saw a rise in technologies to benefit tomorrow’s work from AI agents, to blockchain security, to media and advertising generation.

Smart Glasses

Smart glasses built on their momentum from last year and increasingly look to be a viable device platform for widespread consumer and enterprise adoption with EssilorLuxottica, Halladay and XREAL, showcasing advancements in display tech, AI assistant features, XR capabilities, and more.

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Energy Transition & Sustainability

The rise of power intensive technologies drove a larger presence of enterprise and industrial companies like 3M, Eaton, Eneos, Hitachi, SK and more focused on energy transition technologies to boost zero carbon energy generation, infrastructure, and beyond.

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Apollo Theater Education Presents

ARETHA!

As Part of the Live Wire Series

Tuesday, December 15 at 6:30 pm

WHAT: On Tuesday, December 15, The Apollo Theater Education Program’s Live Wire series continues to honor iconic artists who have impacted arts and culture, paying tribute to the Queen of Soul and Apollo Legend Aretha Franklin.

Writer and cultural critic Emily Lordi will lead a discussion celebrating Franklin and the understudied subject of her musicianship, along with nationally-renowned experts on the history, development, and cultural meaning of African American music. Panelists include Professor Fredara Hadley, DJ Lynnée Denise, and Professor Portia Maultsby.

As the initiator of a cultural revolution and one of the most charted women in music history, Aretha Franklin’s impact is truly immeasurable. From her gospel singing roots to GRAMMY Award wins, this panel explores the genius and beloved voice that captured America.

The program is part of the Apollo’s all-digital fall season. As a non-profit organization, the Apollo depends on the generous funding from donors, foundations, and the community at large. Please consider donating to the Apollo Theater in support of these free virtual programs. To do so, please visit https://www.apollotheater.org/donate.

WHERE: The Apollo Live Wire programs will stream live on the Apollo Digital Stage (https://www.apollotheater.org/digitalstage/) and the Apollo’s Facebook page. Following the livestream, recordings of the events will be accessible on the Apollo Digital Stage. To RSVP for this free program, visit
https://www.apollotheater.org/event/apollo-live-wire-aretha/

WHEN: Tuesday, December 15 at 6:30 pm ET

ABOUT THE APOLLO THEATER
The legendary Apollo Theater—the soul of American culture—plays a vital role in cultivating emerging artists and launching legends. Since its founding, the Apollo has served as a center of innovation and a creative catalyst for Harlem, the city of New York, and the world.

With music at its core, the Apollo’s programming extends to dance, theater, spoken word, and more. This includes the world premiere of the theatrical adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me and the New York premiere of the opera We Shall Not Be Moved; special programs such as the blockbuster concert Bruno Mars Live at the Apollo; 100: The Apollo Celebrates Ella; and the annual Africa Now! Festival. The non-profit Apollo Theater is a performing arts presenter, commissioner, and collaborator that also produces festivals, large-scale dance and musical works organized around a set of core initiatives that celebrate and extend the Apollo’s legacy through a contemporary lens, including the Women of the World (WOW) Festival as well as other multidisciplinary collaborations with partner organizations.

Since introducing the first Amateur Night contests in 1934, the Apollo Theater has served as a testing ground for new artists working across a variety of art forms and has ushered in the emergence of many new musical genres—including jazz, swing, bebop, R&B, gospel, blues, soul, and hip-hop. Among the countless legendary performers who launched their careers at the Apollo are Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, Luther Vandross, H.E.R., D’Angelo, Lauryn Hill, Machine Gun Kelly and Miri Ben Ari; and the Apollo’s forward-looking artistic vision continues to build on this legacy. For more information about the Apollo, visit www.ApolloTheater.org.

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