How to watch CES 2026 live: Keynotes, events, and streaming info
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CES 2026, the world's most important consumer tech show, kicks off in just a few days. If you're not in Las Vegas to see it live, don't worry: You can watch the key presentations on your phone or computer.
To make it easier for you, we've assembled an overview of the key events, livestreams, and presentations.
What/when is CES 2026?
CES, or Consumer Electronics Show, is an annual technology convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, one of the largest such events in the world. Numerous consumer tech manufacturers bring their new wares to the event; typically, this includes everything from TVs to gaming consoles, phones, chips, robots, cars, and a multitude of battery-powered gadgets of all shapes and sizes.
This year, CES starts on January 6 and ends on January 9. Do note that the program, including live-streamed sessions, actually begins one day earlier, on January 5.
There are also numerous pre-announcements and teasers that happens days or even weeks ahead of the event. Check out our coverage so far.
CES 2026 exhibitors
Basically ever tech company under the sun will be there, except for Apple which typically does its own events.
This includes Samsung, LG, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Alphabet, Meta, Sony, Hyundai, Hisense, Lenovo, TCL, and many others.
CES 2026 full schedule
The official schedule for CES is available here. Note that it doesn't say anything about embargoed events (only the media gets invites and info on those ahead of time).
Where can I tune in online?
Given that the physical CES event is for industry-affiliated folks and not the general public, most people will be following it online.
Your first resource should be the official CES video library, where you'll be able to see all of the video content, with videos of keynotes and sessions uploaded at the end of each day. The library also hosts a number of supporting video content such as countdowns and recaps.
The official CES YouTube channel is another must-have resource. It will host live keynotes, events, and interviews, as well as shorts and other official videos.
Finally, the major keynotes and events will be livestreamed through the companies' channels. We'll link some of the most interesting ones as we list them below.
What are the must-see keynotes at CES 2026?
Nvidia CES 2026 keynote
Ever since it became clear Nvidia is the company that powers the bulk of the AI revolution, everyone's been waiting (again and again) to see what the company CEO Jensen Huang has to say.
As is appropriate, Huang will deliver a keynote at 4PM ET on January 5.
There are currently no specific product announcements lined up, and Nvidia says its presence at CES will be about "cutting-edge AI, robotics, simulation, gaming and content creation." But make no mistake, his keynote is always an interesting watch, and the company says more than 20 demos will be shown at CES 2026.
You can watch the event live over at Nvidia's website. It will probably be available on YouTube as well, but we don't have the link for that yet.
LG CES 2026 keynote
LG is hosting its traditional CES 2026 keynote at 11 a.m. ET on January 5., under the tagline "Innovation in tune with you."
A lot of it will be about artificial intelligence, but given that LG is known for bringing its bleeding edge display solutions to CES, we expect the company to spend some time talking about its OLEDs and Micro RGB TVs.
You can watch the keynote on LG's website, on the company's YouTube channel, or on X.
Samsung CES 2026 keynote
Samsung's CES keynote has an interesting tagline: The First Look, indicating that the company will have new products to show. The keynote, hosted by TM Roh, CEO and Head of Samsung's Device eXperience (DX) Division, kicks off at 10p.m. ET on January 4.
Officially, Samsung will "unveil its vision for the DX (Device eXperience) Division in 2026, along with new AI-driven customer experiences."
You can watch the event live over at Samsung's Newsroom or at the company's YouTube channel. We've embedded the official trailer for the presentation above.
AMD CES 2026 keynote
As one of the most important chip makers out there, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will have a large presence at CES 2026. The company CEO Dr. Lisa Su will kick CES 2026 off on Monday, Jan. 5 with a keynote address.
According to the company, Su will "highlight (...) the AMD vision for delivering future AI solutions – from cloud to enterprise, edge and devices."
You can watch the keynote address on YouTube. It's scheduled to start at 9:30 p.m. ET on Monday, Jan. 5. We've also embedded the livestream above.
Lenovo CES 2026 keynote
China's Lenovo is a respected manufacturer of laptops, tablets, phones, and other devices. If you've seen a ThinkPad computer or a Moto Razr phone, those were made by Lenovo.
The company Chairman & CEO Yuanqing Yang will deliver a keynote at 19:45 p.m. ET on January 7. The company calls its CES event "Tech World," and it typically uses it to unveil new tech, products, and solutions.
The Lenovo keynote can be streamed on YouTube; we've also embedded the stream above.
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What is CES?
ReplyDeleteI don't know, I just know that Nvidia will be there and Lego too!
DeleteCES most commonly refers to the Consumer Electronics Show.
DeleteCES (Consumer Electronics Show)
It’s one of the world’s largest and most influential technology trade shows.
Held annually in Las Vegas, usually in January.
Organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).
Companies showcase new and upcoming technology, including:
Consumer electronics (phones, TVs, wearables)
AI and robotics
Automotive tech (electric vehicles, autonomous driving)
Smart home and IoT devices
Health tech
CES is where many major tech trends and product announcements are first revealed.
In short, what the bud above copied and pasted from ChatGPT is a tech fair for grown-ups.
DeleteAnd by (grown-ups) I mean people who have money, who deal with big issues.
Honestly - cannot get exited over any of these.
ReplyDeleteLooks like I can pay the bills without any FOMO this year.
I think this was the worst CES as far as I can recall.
Deleteno interesting/new devices. no new nvidia gpu. there isn't a single thing shown that I'd like to buy.
AI sucked all the innovation out of the tech economy last year...
DeleteTech in general doesn't make huge leaps like before. All of it is basically an incremental improvement over previous years model
DeleteYeah this is bad except clicks
DeleteThe AI slop photo frame is the must-have product of the year. Why surround yourself with anything of meaning when you can just randomize bullshit to look at, like a baby or a cat?
ReplyDeleteI cannot understand any reason a person would want that in their house. It also only gives you 100 unique AI images a year! Like what is the point? Even if you’re into AI, 100 is such a ludicrously small number of images to get for it. I could generate 100 unique AI images in the next 10 minutes and toss them onto an Aura frame and have the same experience.
DeleteOh, also it costs $400.
When the AI bubble pops or OpenAI starts charging for services that thing is going to sit in the back of a closet with an OUYA, a 3D TV, and a copy of Concord.
DeleteDon't say OUYA too loud bro.... Wouldn't surprise me if they tried to make a comeback at this point with the way RAM prices are...
DeleteFor $400, I'll give you 200 unique ai images a year. (I can spit out up to 1 per second on my 3080)
Deletelooks like AI garbage is, unfortunately, still on the menu
ReplyDeleteSubscription based AI garbage. It's even worse.
DeleteAI is like microplastics, it's in every item on the menu for the foreseeable future.
DeleteAnd 99.9999% of them use no AI at all
DeleteI think now many technology doesn’t seem like a necessity
ReplyDeleteWhat were the 100 percent made in Japan tech announced at CES 2026.
ReplyDeleteIt feels like corporate technology where being showcase
ReplyDeleteShit show. All I hear is AI AI AI AI....
ReplyDeleteCES feels like the opening belll of the new year. It needs to bring some confidence back to the AI market. But honestly, there weren’t many moments that truly surprised. Just not a lot of real wow.
ReplyDeleteThe most exciting thing at CES this year is niche:
ReplyDeleteProjectors, specifically UST Projectors.
The AI stuff is just WAAAAY overboard. AI is genuinely really awesome and useful, but 90% of the shit they're doing with it is totally useless nonsense.
WOLED and QD-OLEDs with RGB Stripe sub pixel layout. Finally OLED are gonna match IPS in terms of text clarity. Really excited to see affordable displays from the likes of Gigabyte or even Chinese manufacturers which eventually will get their hands on new panels from LG.
ReplyDeleteThe rest sucks. Nothing new, useless and gimmicky gadgets no one is ever going to see in their tech stores. And AI, of course, AI AI AI AI and AI.
Just watched Commonwealth Fusion Systems showing AI plans for a tokamak energy structure right after they demo'd a worker at a factory using meta glasses to keep the factory running
ReplyDeleteHonestly agree with most of the takes here.
ReplyDeleteThis CES felt more like marketing noise than real innovation — lots of “AI” labels slapped onto fairly normal products, incremental TV updates, and concepts that may never ship.
The Micro RGB vs Mini LED branding especially feels needlessly confusing for regular buyers.
I ended up writing a simple, no-hype summary just to make sense of what was actually announced, since the coverage felt scattered everywhere.
Posting here in case it’s useful to anyone:
https://newvero.com/everything-announced-at-ces-2026/
If anything, CES 2026 made it easy not to upgrade this year.
Mostly incremental upgrades — better TVs, refreshed PCs, lots of “AI” talk, smart home polish, and many concepts. Few real surprises, pretty normal CES year.
ReplyDeleteJust more “AI” junk and unnecessary schmoo. I’m starting to get tired of this bakwaas!
ReplyDeleteLiterally the only thing that might even be worth looking into is what LEGO came up with. The rest is mostly just AI-infused rubble.
Where are the cool cars? How is there no AI integrated car system inside a concept car yet?
ReplyDeleteAlso what happened to maglev spherical tires?
Tesla is using Grok.
Deletelots of AI companions fluffy labubu look alike this year again???
ReplyDeleteNot covered in the article is the next LEGO brick:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theverge.com/tech/854556/lego-announces-smart-brick-the-most-significant-evolution-in-50-years
This one could have way more impact than Mindstorms did.
It's in the article though...
DeleteRight after LG and right before L'Oreal.
Think I fell asleep before I got that far !
DeleteLol @ Amazon speeding up FireTV 20-30%. 30% faster than tar is still just tar. I was astonished to see the most expensive model still has basically the same CPU/GPU as the very cheapest.
ReplyDeleteAs for L'Oreal, it'll be hard to compete with a generic $15 therapy red light with their highly specialized product. They're gonna have no choice but to gaslight their potential customers.
The Clicks Communicator pricing is just hilarious for something advertised as a phone companion. How they think that's going to sell over a $20 bluetooth keyboard is beyond me.
Guh, what a strange year of "innovations". Has everyone lost the plot?
All L'Oreal has to do is make a halfway decent product and then price it at less than what Shark and Omnilux charges for theirs and they will probably turn a profit. If it has close to the same efficiency, people will choose to buy the $250 L'Oreal one instead of the $400 one. Especially since L'Oreal doesn't have to work hard for brand recognition in the beauty industry...
DeleteIt's just red light therapy. There's two well known wavelengths that can easily be achieved with inexpensive LEDs. Literally thousands of products are already on the market and all function more or less equally well.
DeleteFor real. Fire TV could be 500% faster, and it'd still be slower than my grams,...who's been dead for decades. It's wild that they won't just go Android already. Lol.
DeleteI've seen remote controls with more powerful CPUs.
DeleteClicks and Pebble are my winners.
ReplyDeleteI've seen and heard rumors that Nvidia is on a roll!
ReplyDeleteI was a little shocked AMD had nothing given that Dr.Lisa Su has the Keynote this year.
ReplyDeletebut all of this is stuff announced BEFORE CES opens., the Keynote is in 4 hours. and the floors open tomorrow.
Probably just going to talk about the AI 9 400 series. But a pretty poor improvement in TOPs 60 vs 50.
Deleteor the long rumored 24GB 9070XT that would probably cost double what a 9070XT does because of the memory
DeleteThe number of times I've seen a Laundry Robot announced, only to realize that it is just a concept, and then 10 years later it still hasn't hit the shelves...
ReplyDeleteHopefully if it is LG it is closer to reality than the last few, but I'm not holding my breath.
This is really the only invention that matters here.
"Another image shows it standing alongside a woman in the middle of a home workout, though it's not clear how the CLOiD is aiding with that task."
ReplyDeleteABSOLUTELY FABULOUS, DARLING!
ReplyDeleteLet's retire to the lounge and have some champers!
Micro RGB TVs - Like LED but with RGB LEDs
ReplyDeleteOther new TVs and OS updates - (Amazon TV, Amazon Fire TV update, Google TV Gemini crap)
New Samsung TVs, Soundbars, Monitors, Projectors, Samsung Fridge changes, Samsung AI laundry
LG CLOiD robot, LG sound suite
L'oeal LED eye mask, LED face mask, Lighhty Straight/Multi styler hair drier
Laptops
Blackberry like phone from Clicks, new phone from Punkt
AI bloated crap
The Micro RGB tech is exciting because in the medium term it should mean we can have large TVs with better than OLED image quality for much lower prices.
DeleteIn the short term, for the vast majority of people, it's utterly irrelevant.
I find TV tech really interesting and it's fascinating to see it evolve. As other commenters have said the naming is terrible.
Lmao "Samsung AI laundry" anyone who buys these products deserves whatever slop they get
DeleteSamsung makes pretty great laundry machines, and "Ai" is a theirs marketing term for an automatic wash program, which is basically a standard Mix from ages ago.
DeleteLG did the same thing. AI literally means sensor wash and dry lol
DeleteLet me get this straight. First with LED TVs they tried to brand them as not LCD TVs, then when Micro LED became a thing with real LED pixels they marketed "Mini LED" that was an LCD panel with a backlight array, and now there's "Micro RGB" further muddying the waters by being an RGB backlight version of Mini LED.
DeleteThis is so customer unfriendly ffs
Edit: I forgot QLED marketed to confuse with OLED
Display tech and marketing has always been a mess but its reach full snakeoil traveling salesmen levels. At this point i just buy whatever RTINGS tells me to because specs and standards are more scam than not
DeleteIt's a 30k tv, not something most of us have to worry about for a while
DeleteNot until next year, at least!
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DeleteOne is a panel tech. The rest are backlighting systems and super disingenuous when it comes to marketing.
DeletePlasma, LCD, OLED and Micro LED are panel technologies. The rest of whatever the industry wants to spin your way at this point are mostly improved lighting systems for the same (admittedly refined over the years) LCD panels they've been slinging for many years.
This, plus in many ways "LED monitors" are a step backward from older fluorescent-backlit LCD monitors.
DeleteReally? How so? I’m still rocking an 18 year old Sony tv with fluorescent backlight. I’ve been hoping it will die to justify buying something bigger, but admit I still love the image quality. I guess I assumed the newer led backlit panels were better. What advantage does fluorescent backlighting have?
DeleteThe short answer is that fluorescent backlights are actual backlights; they're behind the panel. Cheap LED monitors and TVs are usually edge-lit, and have worse color uniformity as a result.
DeleteThe AI slop photo frame is the must-have product of the year. Why surround yourself with anything of meaning when you can just randomize bullshit to look at, like a baby or a cat?
ReplyDeleteI cannot understand any reason a person would want that in their house. It also only gives you 100 unique AI images a year! Like what is the point? Even if you’re into AI, 100 is such a ludicrously small number of images to get for it. I could generate 100 unique AI images in the next 10 minutes and toss them onto an Aura frame and have the same experience.
DeleteOh, also it costs $400.
For $400, I'll give you 200 unique ai images a year. (I can spit out up to 1 per second on my 3080)
DeleteWhen the AI bubble pops or OpenAI starts charging for services that thing is going to sit in the back of a closet with an OUYA, a 3D TV, and a copy of Concord.
DeleteDon't say OUYA too loud bro.... Wouldn't surprise me if they tried to make a comeback at this point with the way RAM prices are...
DeleteI had forgotten about CES… wow.
ReplyDeleteBecause last years was utter garbage. It was just a bunch of very dumb "AI" products that all boiled down to adding chat features into the worst places for chat features.
DeleteThis has been any event over the last couple years, blackhat was all oh we have AI, ISC West, same thing, everyone peddling AI.
DeleteYeah nvidia didn’t even talk about gaming dept other than entry videos on keynote and possible refresh and intel and I wish they did chipsets and did both AMD and intel because when Chinese compatibility ones come over all three will be hurting
ReplyDeleteOh wow! Yes I agree it’s all downhill from here
DeleteIs there anything anyone has been interested in?
ReplyDeletelol the silence has been deafening
DeleteThe organization of the event this year definitely leaves a lot to be desired. Registration desk at central hall was totally clueless on basic information like where shuttle stops are located.
ReplyDeleteSuch a shame! I was so disappointed I felt like I couldn’t be the only one!
DeleteYep. And agreed with you on the sheer number of vaporware robots that were preprogrammed to do stupid dance moves. I’ll be going to Venetian Expo tomorrow as the startups there are always very cool to talk to and see. Another annoyance is the shuttle stop for Cosmo drops off towards the back of the hotel in the service area, and not in the typical shuttle area in the front foyer. Had to walk all the way around and back just to get to the main lobby. Even some of the exhibitors I spoke to remarked how bad the organization was this year. Such a shame.
DeleteNot even Epson on how they sell more ink.
ReplyDeleteRIP iRobot....
ReplyDeleteReaped what they sowed. Sat on their lead for more than a decade and didn't do anything with it. What a waste.
DeleteSad because I liked them
DeleteThe shift toward on-device AI feels underrated. Less flashy, but probably where most of the long-term value ends up.
ReplyDeleteAgree on the calmer tone this year. It feels like companies are finally optimizing for margins and deployment instead of demos.
ReplyDeleteI’m here now and most of the “Ai” on devices is still just a gimmick.
ReplyDelete