In this video, Editor-at-Large Alix Paultre reports from the floor at productronica 2021, a show held under the shadow of COVID-19, yet still managing to be a good event for the situation.
In this video, Editor-at-Large Alix Paultre reports from the floor at productronica 2021, held on the fairgrounds of Messe München from November 16-19. The show maintained strict hygienic rules, with exhibitors required to be recovered, vaccinated, or have a negative PCR test result. Visitors had to be either recovered or vaccinated.
A total of 894 exhibitors from 36 countries and about 20,000 visitors from nearly 70 countries attended this year. According to the organizers, about 60% of event visitors were international, despite the restrictions.
An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.
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