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>> In 2019, we had the
honor of welcoming
Hans Vestberg to deliver the
keynote remarks here at CES.
Hans had just become
the CEO at Verizon
a few months before and his
main topic at that time was 5G.
In 2018, Verizon had launched
the first 5G network here
in the United States.
In 2019, both 5G and Hans'
leadership of Verizon,
were still pretty new.
Two years later,
a lot has changed.
Over the last year, especially
we have seen
digital networks and
connectivity become even more
important factors in our lives.
More and more of those
networks are 5G.
The emerging
technology that Hans
talked about in 2019 has become
an exciting reality in
more and more places across
the US and around the world.
Verizon's 5G nationwide
network is now available to
over 200 million people in
1,800 cities and towns,
and 5G Ultra Wideband is
now in over 50 metro areas.
Just to give you a sense
of what this means for all
of us in the consumer
technology community,
consider the potential for
a true Internet of Things.
Right now, 14.2 billion
connected things are in use,
and that number is expected
to grow to more than
55 billion by 2025.
Verizon's 5G Ultra Wideband is
a technology that
is suited to handle
exactly that kind of
radical growth and
connectivity and the
possibilities are endless.
Not just for our industry,
but for so much of our society,
from healthcare to green
energy conservation measures.
This is just one slice,
one layer of the
extraordinary promise of 5G.
Hans has come to join us to
tell us more about all that
this network could mean for the
lives of everyday consumers.
We're delighted
to have him with us.
Let me now welcome the CEO
of Verizon, Hans Vestberg.
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>> This year we learned a lot.
We learned that a city
can still think and
learn even when we stay at home.
The closing physical
doors opens new ones.
We learned that a class
can go to the moon and
back without even going
to the classroom.
That the show can go on
even without the crowd.
That when the stadium is empty,
we still get loud
and stay close,
and that no amount of
distance can keep us
from exploring
new worlds together.
We said 5G would
change everything,
then everything changed.
When this year arrived,
5G arrived with it.
The 5G future is here.
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>> Good morning, good afternoon
or good evening,
wherever you are.
It's great to be back
here with you at CES.
I had the honor of delivering
the keynote event back in 2019.
My primary message then was the
sheer technology power or 5G.
How different it would be than
previous mobile technologies?
How much faster it
would be than 4G.
How much more
data it can handle.
How it would power the new
4th industrial revolution,
but much has
happened since then.
Our world has changed
and it keeps changing.
There's a reason why we can't
be together this year for CES.
We have experienced a year
of many crises, a pandemic,
an economic crisis, and a
social and racial injustice.
It's been a year of unrest.
In 2020 one thing became
very obvious very
quickly as COVID-19 began
to spread around the world.
We lived from 5-7 years in
the digital revolution.
This mass shift sped up the
timeline for work from home,
distance learning,
and telemedicine.
We knew it was coming,
but it was closer
than we realized.
Now, instead of being our
future, it's our present.
The future productivity is now
the current reality of work.
The future of learning is now
the current reality of school.
The future mobile payment is now
the current reality of banking,
and the future of streaming is
now the current reality
of entertainment.
This shift is happening
right as the most powerful,
world-changing connectivity
technology ever developed
is becoming available in
more and more places.
That technology is 5G,
and it's so much more than just
another technology innovation.
It's an innovation platform that
makes other
innovations possible.
It makes things better.
The result is going to be a
lot of "remember when?" moments.
These moments when you
know you're seeing
change right before your eyes.
Such moments are super
exciting for me and with 5G,
we're going to
have a lot of them.
At Verizon, we're
leading the industry to
the 5G future as we
deploy 5G Ultra Wideband,
which delivery, speeds, and
throughput they are
simply unmatched.
Each innovation opens a
door to another innovation.
Each remember when
moment generates
possibilities no one
thought of before.
Each new answer
creates questions
that are even more exciting.
For example, how can augmented
reality transform the
way you enjoy sport,
the way you visit museums,
the way you interact with
the world around you,
and how can the sheer speed of
5G Ultra Wideband continue
to reveal new possibilities,
transforming everything
from the way you play
video games to the way
you receive deliveries?
How can something called
mobile edge compute
allow businesses to get things
done more quickly and easily?
To understand how 5G
Ultra Wideband makes
all of this and
much more possible,
let's start by looking
at what makes it
so different from anything
that came before.
In 2019, I introduced what I
call the currencies of 5G.
These are the
essential qualities of
our 5G Ultra Wideband network.
In 2021, I'm here to tell you
the currencies on our current.
First, 5G Ultra Wideband has
unparalleled upload
and download speeds,
unparalleled upload
and download speeds,enabling peak throughputs
that are at least 10 times
enabling peak throughputs
that are at least 10 times
faster than 4G and
more than four gigabytes
under ideal conditions,
the fastest in the world.
Second, it provides
enormous capacity and
ultra low lag for the time it
takes for a signal to
get from point A to B.
Finally enabling a future where
remote surgery will be possible.
Third, in the future,
5G could support more connected
devices than ever before,
up to one million per
square kilometer.
Fourth, would be able to
support mobile connection
up to 500 kilometers per hour or
approximately
310 miles per hour,
allowing you to maintain
a signal even aboard a
high-speed vehicles,
whenever on an aerial-drone,
high-speed commuter train,
or self driving car.
Fifth, 5G Ultra Wideband
will provide faster,
more responsive
service deployment and
a new standard for energy
efficiency and reliability.
It just gets better.
As we mentioned earlier,
the power of 5G extends
beyond a super fast network.
It's the platform for us
to build a future we want,
the businesses we want,
the consumer
application we desire,
and the society we believe in.
Two innovations built on
Verizon's 5G Ultra
Wideband network
were the foundation
to make that happen.
First, Mobile Edge
Compute, or MEC,
places unprecedented levels of
computing power right at the
edge of Verizon's 5G network.
Last year we announced
the private MEC solution with
Microsoft and we also deployed
public 5G MEC with AWS in 10
location in United States,
including Boston, San
Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas,
New York, Washington DC,
Miami, Las Vegas,
Denver, and Seattle.
We're just getting started.
What does this mean?
Taking processing out of
the expensive hardware,
putting it into
the Cloud exactly
where and when
it's needed the most.
It will give large enterprises
the ability to
operate in real-time.
But it will also make small
phones and laptops more
powerful than ever and give
small businesses, start-ups,
and consumers access to
the same technology
that until recently was
only available to
large companies
and major research institutions.
That's a major advance
for digital inclusivity,
which is an incredibly important
priority for us at Verizon.
Secondly, our 5G network
has the ability to create
separate slices for
a range of services
to meet different
customer needs.
5G network slicing allows all
kinds of different traffic,
such as causal grandma,
movie streaming, bank
transaction to travel along
network paths optimized
for that specific use.
All on a single
physical network.
Now let's see how 5G will change
your life for the better,
how it will inform you,
entertain you, and inspire
you to engage with
your word in ways that previous
generations could only imagine.
Let's get started.
A good place to begin is by
looking at something that
has provided millions of
people with entertainment and
connection when they needed
it most, and that's sports.
During this past year,
sports brought people together
even when we couldn't all
be together at the stadium.
Remember when watching a
sporting event together on
TV meant you had to be in the
same room as everybody else?
Are you?
Or if you were lucky enough
to be in a venue with
a bird's eye view of the
field and the jumbotron.
With 4G technology,
you can only watch games the way
someone else decide to show them
to you with no ability to
customize your
viewing experience.
Now with the 5G Ultra Wideband,
we can transform the
ways people watch
sport wherever they
are at the stadium or
arena or in the comfort of
their own home or in their
own 2go with a mobile device.
Thanks to the 5G currencies
like high-speed, low latency,
and the ability to connect huge
number of shared location,
this network is a
true game changer.
Verizon is proud to be a
technology partner of some of
the world's most
innovative sports leagues.
These partnership have given us
an extraordinary opportunity to
innovate and bring 5G
connectivity to sport
venues and to create
new ways to bring fans
closer to the action than they
ever thought was possible.
The National
Football League, NFL,
has long been a pioneer
in using technology to
expand it's audience and
take the game to new levels.
In the '50s, the NFL
was quick to see
the potential
television to create
a national mass market for
the league and its teams.
In a decade since,
the NFL has continued to
innovate with camera techniques,
analytics, and normal forms of
fan engagement like
gaming and fantasy sport.
This track record has made
the NFL an ideal teammate for
Verizon in developing new ways
to bring sports closer
to the audience.
I'm so glad to introduce
the person who is leading
that partnership for the NFL,
Commissioner Roger Goodell.
>> Hey Hans, it's
great to be with you.
>> Thank you for being here.
Commissioner,
it's great to see you.
I know how excited you are
about the possibilities
that 5G brings to the
NFL sports experience.
Tell us a bit about
what you see for fans.
>> Hans, we're
always exploring ways
to enhance the fan experience.
A 100 season in 2019 got
everyone thinking
what the league might
look like over the
next 100 years.
Certainly, a key part of
that is the fan experience.
>> Roger, we are
thrilled to collaborate
on transforming the
experience for fans.
We're introducing more
immersive ways to watch and
engage with a game than every
before at home
or in the stadium.
>> That's exactly what
we're looking for Hans
and I understand that
Raymond James stadium,
the home of Super Bowl 55,
just went live with
5G a few weeks ago.
>> You're right.
It's so exciting.
With the 5G Ultra Wideband,
a higher level of connectivity
at incredible speeds
will support large
number of fans
streaming their devices at once.
For the NFL teams,
5G Ultra Wideband has the
potential to change in-game
communication and provide
faster transmission
of key data and stats,
greater access to one
of the greatest games.
>> That's so important, Hans,
especially during this
unique time for sports.
We were able to play over
100 games in front of
over one million
fans this season
and keeping fans
connected to the players,
teams, and games that
they love was more
important than ever and Verizon
is helping make that happen.
>> Indeed, a perfect example is
the Verizon 5G SuperStadium
experience in the NFL app.
It delivers up to
seven different
live camera angles of action,
enhanced augmented reality
features, and more.
We're making next generation
fan engagement a reality.
Thanks so much Roger for
joining me here today,
I'm looking forward
to the post season.
>> Me too. Thanks, Hans.
>> Thank Roger. You heard
me talk about the power of
Verizon's 5G Ultra
Wideband and how do we
transform how we watch
and experience sport.
Let's see how. To help
bring this to life,
I'd like to welcome to the stage
someone who knows a thing
or two about sports,
NFL agent Deion Sanders,
who is the only
athlete that play in
both the Super Bowl
and awards areas.
He's now the head football coach
at Jackson State University.
Hey man. Deion,
how are you doing?
>> I'm doing wonderful my man.
You're looking great.
>> I'm trying to stay in shape
but you're looking good as well
so it's great to have you here.
>> But a lot has changed since
I played a long time ago.
>> That's right, Deion. The
game continues to evolve.
For example, with the 5G
SuperStadium in the NFL app,
fans can engage
with the select games
with up to seven
different camera angles,
bringing them
closer to the action.
An Augmented Reality let's fans
create virtual players
with a real-time stats.
We're talking immersive
next generation experience
not possible until now.
>> Absolutely. With all of
the different camera angles,
I felt like I was
right back in it and
the AI virtual players
layered with stat is
such a cool way to enhance
our viewing experience.
>> These 5G-powered
features give viewers
the ultimate fan experience
at home or on the go.
>> If you haven't already
downloaded the NFL app,
I don't know what you're
waiting for, I don't
know what's going on with you.
You need to check it out in
time for the Super Bowl.
>> Deion, that's very
exciting overview of
the new Verizon 5G
SuperStadium experience.
But as I'm sure you know by now,
with the 5G, it
just gets better.
We're thinking about how we are
re-imagining
sideline innovation.
We see a future
where 5G will provide
real-time analytics and
visualization for teams,
giving them a
whole new ability to
learn from the last play and
prepare for the next one.
Doing this all in real time will
only be possible because of 5G.
>> Imagine how Verizon 5G can
transform the rest of sports.
The possibilities are endless.
5G can change our
coaches, athletes,
and fans experience
the sports they love
and become even closer to the
game and that's what they want.
Now that's a tremendous
opportunity my man.
>> That's a tremendous
opportunity. You're right.
Thank you so much for being here
and good luck with the season.
>> Thank you my man.
>> Thank you. Together,
we're rolling out
5G Ultra Wideband in 28
NFL stadiums in 2021,
with expanded coverage
in selected stadiums.
Soon we'll be able to transform
5G-enabled NFL venues into
digital arenas that can host
mobile game
events with real-time
on-site multiplayer action.
While 5G is transforming
how we watch
sports and interact
with fellow fans,
that's just a small part of what
this technology can help us
to achieve as a society.
Remember when a school field
trip meant get me on the bus,
or when visiting a world-class
museum was usually impossible
unless you lived in the
same community, I do.
As this poster has shown,
digital connectivity
is vital for
educating students from all
backgrounds at all levels,
from primary school, all the
way to trade school or college.
As teachers, parents and
students have sought
new digital resources to make
up for lost classroom time,
we are changing the way
we look at education.
We know it all starts
with connectivity.
As we begin 2021,
we're empowering teachers
and students to follow
their curiosity wherever
a network can take them,
but the desire to bring students
inside an experience
to their laptop
or phone needs greater data
capacity and low lag times,
not possible with 4G.
They can see a museum,
but can't experience it.
They can watch a lecture,
but they can't interact
with the material.
Doing this and other things
requires new technology
and new thinking.
Through the power of 5G,
we can bridge
the digital divide for
students and
learners of all ages,
helping everyone
experience art and
culture in a completely new way.
Take the museum experience,
with 5G we can now expand that
experience like never before.
To see how, let's go to the
Smithsonian in Washington DC.
We are using
technology to unlock
the rich history of artifacts
housed across their museums.
When you can't get to
the exhibit in-person,
new high fidelity 3D scans of
objects and their
stories can come to you.
Thanks to AR made
possible by one of
the occurrences of 5G,
extremely high bandwidth.
Students and educators from
across the country can explore
objects like the Apollo 11
Command Module you see here.
It's exciting to
be able to place
this remarkable piece of history
in your living room and move
around it to see
every little detail
from the re-entry box to the
seats the crews sat there.
With Verizon's commitment to
digitize more
historical artifacts,
the Smithsonian can engage
more people in more places,
opening up a whole new
world for students, artist,
teachers and lifelong learners
no matter where you are located,
and with this knowledge comes
greater understanding
of our shared history.
To tell us more about how
the Smithsonian is making
use of this technology,
I'm excited to talk
to Lonnie Bunch,
Secretary of the Smithsonian.
Mr. Secretary.
>> Thanks, Hans. It is so
great to be here to talk about
the Smithsonian's race community
in our shared future initiative,
which explores how Americans
currently understand,
experience and confront race,
its impact on communities,
and how that impact is
shaping the nation's future,
and how Verizon support
will help bring it to life.
>> We're so happy to be
part of this initiative
because we know that
technology and 5G in
particular can really bring
education to life beyond
the classroom and help
all people explore
important subjects like
this that will help us reach
more inclusive future.
>> Exactly. Technology is
a huge enabler of that,
and over the next five years,
Verizon support will allow us to
accelerate the digitization and
scanning of our collections and
artifacts with the
most possible detail.
What's more, is how
this initiative will be
supporting the creation of
new digital experiences for
the Smithsonian across
our museum network,
including the use of
those 3D objects in
ways that bring our
shared history to life,
wherever the viewer is,
whether it's students, teachers,
parents, whomever
has come to learn.
>> Yeah, it's really exciting.
We have already
been an early user of
this Smithsonian's open
access platform to
bring some 3D artifacts
into augmented reality,
like the Apollo 11 Command
Module as you saw next to me.
>> That's right, and we're
actually adding a few
never before
released 3D artifacts,
including some of the
amazing objects from
two exhibitions at the National
Museum of American History.
Girlhood, It's
Complicated, which
commemorates women's suffrage
and how girls change history
across politics, education,
work, health, and fashion,
and Pleibol which shows how
Latino communities played,
celebrated, and changed
the game of baseball.
>> We're so excited for
how Verizon's 5G will put
the exhibits like this into
the hands of anyone
who wants to learn.
An honor to work alongside your
creators to make it happen.
Thank you so much
for being here with
us and we can't wait
to see what else we
can create together,
but that's not all.
I'd like to now go 200 miles
up the road to New York City,
where I'm really
excited to announce
an incredible immersive
art experience that
we have been working on with
our friends at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
With 5,000 years of art
and 1.5 million pieces,
it's a museum where people from
all around the
world travel to visit,
but this new experience
brings the museum to
you in a way you've
never seen it before.
Using our technology and
the involvement of the
latest mobile devices,
we are able to get you
closer to the art you love.
In fact, we can bring
it into your home
using augmented reality or AR.
This type of AR rendering is at
the fingertips of our nation
students in a real-time,
something that's just
not possible without 5G.
In collaboration with the Met,
we created four
thematic 3D spaces for
you to explore on Verizon
5G Ultra Wideband.
Each one house is unique
gallery displays,
exclusivity created
by the museum itself.
Every 3D rendering
is brought to you in
the highest fidelity available
and with painstaking detail,
but the experience
doesn't stop here.
We made the orbits
interactive with firm,
educational games that will put
your knowledge about
the art to the test.
If you're quick on your feet,
you would be able
to take some of
the most iconic artwork in
the word home or lawn in AR.
With 5G Ultra Wideband,
a few of those pieces will
come to life in front of
your eyes in ways that were
never possible with 4G.
At a time in history,
when access to one of
the world's greatest art
collection is limited,
we're making it
available to everyone.
We're thinking of it as a
masterpiece of
digital inclusivity.
We're calling this experience
the myth on frame,
and it's launching
tomorrow, January 12th.
I hope you all get a chance to
experience it, and
it just gets better.
At Verizon, we believe that
while philanthropy is good,
the private sector can play a
more strategic role in achieving
the 17 UN Sustainable
Development Goals by
including them in your
company score strategy.
As we think about 5D
future for all and
the universal need for
digital inclusion,
we believe it starts
with education.
To tell you more,
here is Rose Kirk,
Verizon's Chief
Responsibility Officer.
>> Thanks, Hans.
At Verizon,
we were first to
bring 5G to schools,
through Verizon
Innovative Learning.
A first of its kind,
digital inclusion
initiative created by
Verizon to provide free
technology, free connectivity,
and technology skills to
under-resourced
middle schools and
high schools across the nation,
allowing every single
student to thrive.
We built 5G enabled learning
laboratories in these schools
and provided 5G applications
that dimensionalize math,
science and the
humanities by using
augmented reality
and virtual reality,
only possible because of 5G.
For example, 5G apps are
enhancing science lessons
by allowing students to
jump inside cells or
visit the ends of
the solar system together
with other students.
That kind of access
radically expands
learning opportunities both
inside and outside
the classroom.
We're proud of
the fact that we're
providing these solutions
to under-resource schools,
who typically don't have the
access to the same technology
enabled education that more
affluent schools are using.
Through Verizon
Innovative Learning,
we've invested more
than $0.5 billion since
2012 to help students
with the skills they
need to put them on the path
to success and adding 5G to
our education
program is one more
investment we're proud to make.
That's why we've made
a commitment to equip
100 schools with 5G
in the coming years.
More broadly, as part of
Citizen Verizon a responsible
business plan to help bridge
the digital divide for 10
million youth by 2030,
we're building a technology
rich education platform
that will be
available to students,
teachers, and parents
around the globe.
In keeping with
the theme of today,
we're just getting started.
I'm so encouraged
by the students
we've worked with this far,
and even more excited about what
a 5G future will mean for them.
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>> Thank you, Rose. That's
certainly important
and inspiring,
and like you, I can't
wait to see what
the students will do
with the 5G technology.
While 5G is transforming
how we learn,
that's just a beginning of how
the public and private
sector can work
together to use technology as a
force for good for all citizens.
Do you remember when a connected
community meant
nothing more than
a copper phone wire and
a transit system? I do.
With 4G, you can get the traffic
map that illustrates traffic,
but you can't actually see
the traffic in real-time.
You car can't anticipate when
a light is going to change
or notify you when the car,
400 yards ahead of you,
slams into its brakes.
But now with the 5G, you have
a digital connection that create
all kinds of new possibilities.
One day, you will
literally be able to see
that from the road to
thousands of feet into there.
From delivery to transportation,
the impact of connected devices
is going to be far-reaching,
and this will only be
possible, thanks to 5G.
At Verizon, we want to be the
strategic partner to states,
cities, and towns across
the US and the world.
There's a great power in
private and public partnership,
and we see tremendous
opportunities for growth.
One great example
is in California.
The city of San Jose has been
an early smart city adopter.
It is home to Verizon's
5G Mobility and 5G Home,
as well as the
first area where we
launched our mobile
edge compute.
The city is on the
cutting edge of what
smart city technology can do to
reduce greenhouse emissions.
In fact, in 2019,
Verizon installed TDS or
traffic data services
that assists in
the optimization,
traffic patterns, and
reducing computing time.
Implementing created traffic
solution was a big reason why
the International Data
Corporation named
San Jose as a smart city
of the year winner.
San Jose is on the cutting edge
in what smart city solution of
Verizon 5G can do to help lower
our collective carbon footprint.
Where all fitting cities
like San Jose will
find the technology and
customized solution,
and we're not waiting for
the future to be better,
we're doing our part
by setting a goal for
Verizon to become
carbon neutral by 2035.
Again, it just gets better.
One of the other
ways we're building
solution to the challenge
of tomorrow is by
leveraging 5G and mobile edge
compute with use cases
across many sectors.
Today, we're
fortunate to hear from a
few of the people who
are at the center
of building these
next-generation
technologies and smarter cities,
all powered by the
new innovation made
possible by 5G.
Let's take a look.
>> 5G is going to change the way
we all interact with each other.
My name is Sanyogita Shamsunder,
and I'm the Vice President of
Technology and Product
Development at Verizon.
My team essentially works with
the innovators inside and
outside the company to create
technology-based
solutions and products
for our consumer as well
as enterprise customers,
taking advantage of all the
capabilities that 5G brings;
the large bandwidth,
the lower latency,
capabilities that incorporate
the new 5G architecture,
like the mobile edge compute,
to build applications and
services that impact
the entire population.
We're working with many
different robotics companies.
>> My name is Jiren Parikh.
I'm the President and
CEO of Ghost Robotics.
We believe we have an incredible
purpose here at Ghost.
We build robots to keep
humans out of harm's way.
Think about a firefighter,
a burning building,
robot goes in, can sense
the fire, the gases.
Now, that's pretty amazing.
Verizon's 5G network
is really critical
to the capability of our
robot as we move forward.
As these sensors are capturing
more and more
data and processing
is taking place in the Cloud,
we have to have a very high
bandwidth network that can
transmit enormous amounts of
information that are being
captured by these sensors.
A fast, efficient,
secure network is
absolutely critical to the
operation of these
mobile devices.
>> Smart cities of tomorrow are
definitely taking shape today,
and connectivity is important
when we talk about drones.
>> I'm Mariah Scott,
President of Skyward.
I love technology
and I love aviation,
and drones sit at the
intersection of those two areas.
Skyward invested in creating an
aviation development center.
You can think of it as
an outdoor testing facility for
next-generational capabilities.
5G Ultra Wideband will allow us
to manage drones
safely and securely,
and to integrate them
into our communities.
That technology is like what
broadband was for the Internet.
I'll be able to coordinate
fleets of drones
remotely to do deliveries,
to deliver packages.
5G makes that possible because
of the ultra-low latency,
the massive capacity
and bandwidth,
the security and reliability.
Those are all critical
components to achieving
that future vision and doing
it in a safe and reliable way.
>> 5G has really changed
the picture from us from
going through small
first-person view
screens to now we can
do virtual reality
in 4K in both eyes,
allowing you to see in stereo.
It's really a game changer,
it makes you feel like you're on
the aircraft, but
from the ground.
It really is incredible
technology.
>> Over the last year,
Skyward has been
working on proving
out the delivery
use case for drones.
We've been working closely with
UPS and their drone
delivery program to
actually test out and
demonstrate connected
flights for drone delivery.
>> UPS is working with a
variety of partners who are
coming together to create this
ecosystem of smart cities.
The firm is basically
an area in Louisville,
where we can test a
lot of these drones.
5G is the glue that
puts it all together.
That is what enables us to
control and
communicate with these
drones that are flying around.
Today, you may be ordering
a prescription on a
mail-order pharmacy,
which may take 3-4 days.
Tomorrow, you would order
it and within 30 minutes,
it's at your front door.
That is the future of
delivery we're talking about.
The advanced technology group
here at UPS is laying to get
those layers: autonomous
vehicles, robots, drones.
When we put these
building blocks together,
held together by the
glue of Verizon's 5G,
it is going to change the world.
>> Verizon's 5G
technology allows
businesses to be able
to rapidly transform.
5G is going to
make a great impact,
and we at Verizon believe that
it will touch everything.
>> The Rizal Skyward team has
been taking connectivity to
the sky and testing a network
for drones over the past year.
This is to support not only
connected cameras and sensors,
but also for applications that
will transform our daily lives,
like package
delivery, an initiative
that UPS has been working
on for a few years now.
But now with 5G,
you have a digital
connection that can
create all kinds of
new possibilities.
Again, it just gets better.
Here to tell us more is UPS CEO,
Carol Tomé, who has an
announcement to share. Carol?
>> That's right, Hans. At UPS,
we created UPS Flight Forward,
our drone delivery company,
certified by the FAA in 2019.
Since then, we've
operated more than
3,800 successful drone
delivery flights.
But what's more important is how
we're leveraging the technology.
We continue to test new
concepts that will make
this technology
more accessible and
effective for
specialized deliveries.
Today, our drone operations
help the health care industry
reduce time in transit for
things like lab specimens,
cancer transfusion kits, and
life-saving medications,
just to name a few.
>> Skyward and UPS have
been working together,
testing drones, and now we're
committed to exploring
new opportunities.
>> The global
pandemic has driven us
to accelerate the development of
new and creative
solutions to ensure
our customers get what they need
when and where they need it.
Autonomous
mobility, supported by
advanced technologies
like 5G and drones,
will be more
critical in the future,
and we will continue to
rely on partners like
Verizon and Skyward
to enable them.
As we develop our UPS
flight forward business,
we will need the
capabilities to manage and
support multiple drones
flying simultaneously,
dispatched from my
centralized location,
operating in a secure
and safe environment.
To do this at scale,
alongside Verizon and Skyward,
we will need the power of 5G.
For example, we are working
with Verizon on using
drones for delivery of retail
products at the
villages in Florida.
>> Drone delivery has
the potential to be more
on-demand in more
sustainable communities.
Managing these aerial
delivery vehicles over
the 5G network will allow us to
lift up from congested streets.
This partnership will also
demonstrate the potential for
5G Ultra Wideband and Skyward to
support nationwide
drone delivery network.
>> It's an exciting time.
Blue skies are ahead, Hans.
>> Building more sustainable
and connected communities.
Thank you, Carol.
We have spoken
a lot tonight about
the power of 5G as a platform.
It's ability to connect
people to their passion,
to bridge the digital divide,
and to fundamentally
alter the way
our businesses and
communities function.
As we close today,
I want to turn our focus
to the music experience.
Music has the power to bridge
distances and to heal.
Remember where you needed via
VIP to see a great act up
close with nothing
in your way? I do.
Over the past year,
music have brought moments of
comfort to the
millions of people
struggling with the loss of
loved ones or the effects
of the economic downturn.
Last spring as the COVID-19
was first spreading
across the United States,
we launched Pay It Forward Live,
a weekly streaming
concert to benefit
small businesses threatened
by the pandemic.
As a result, 80 million people
participated to support
small businesses.
We've featured such top
artists as Alicia Keys, Usher,
Billie Eilish, Dave Matthews,
Chance the Rapper, Luke
Bryan, and Janelle Monae.
We were to bring them into
your homes from their home.
It was special, but
it wasn't as good as
a real music experience you get
from an artist upon the stage.
At some point in the
not-so-distant future,
we will be able to
return to music venues
and to experience live
music shows again.
Now, thanks to
5G Ultra Wideband,
that experience is
available to everyone.
To help to explain more,
I want to welcome to the stage
four time Grammy-nominated
artist, the Black Pumas.
Welcome Eric and Adrian.
>> How's it going Hans?
>> Hey guys, nice to see you.
>> You as well.
>> I know in November,
we worked with you and
our good friends at Snap,
to bring tonight a unique
performance of your
heat song, Color,
by combining Snap's
advanced AR capabilities
with Horizons 5G Ultra Wideband,
to enable a longer and higher
fidelity AR experience.
Do you want to talk a little bit
about what that was
like for you guys?
>> Yeah. Absolutely, Hans.
For us, this collaboration
was really about
creating a more intimate
experience with the fans.
We wanted to give them a special
way to experience the music,
and we knew that
this collaboration
between Verizon 5G and
Snapchat AR would be just the
right way to bring it to life.
>> Absolutely. We are so glad
you were able to
make this happen
using the motion
capture tick from
Verizon's Media's Ryot Studio,
the first and only 5G production
studio in the country.
>> Yeah. Working with the Ryot
and Snap Teams was incredible.
Creating a digital twin
of myself to put into
a full length AR music
video was awesome.
I've never experienced anything
like motion capture before.
It was so clear how
5G was instrumental
in creating this
next level AR lens.
>> Cool, right.
Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband
was the key to creating
such a powerful long
form AR experience.
Because of the amount
of data involved,
the typical Snapchat AR lens
is four megabyte or so,
while the 5G Ultra Wideband
landmark lens was able to handle
50 megabyte of data without
degrading the
end-user experience.
This is nearly 10
times the data alone,
4G just can't handle
these kind of capacity.
It's simply not possible.
>> It's so impressive.
While we're up and
running post-COVID,
this technology is going
to help creators explore
more ways to engage with fans
in this new virtual arena.
Also giving fans more access to
unique experiences,
just like ours.
>> Yes, we want to make
sure everyone has access to
this type of immersive
game-changing
content in the future.
But that's not all we're doing.
Verizon has partnered with
the global industrial leader
Live Nation to transform
an enconic music venue,
the Wilton in Los Angeles,
into the first 5G Ultra
Wideband enabled music club,
outfitted with a live
multi-cam experience,
and a 360-degree
portal experience,
and a crowd
management solution to
help shows go
off without a hitch.
You guys got to be the first
to experience what
that was like, right?
>> Yeah. It was amazing.
It was such an
incredible experience,
having the multiple
camera angles during
the show makes the concert
experience all the
more immersive.
>> What its capacity and speed?
5G Ultra Wideband will let you
see the show from
multiple camera angles,
so fans can focus on their
favorite band members.
>> Yeah, for sure. I
mean, everywhere we look,
we were looking into the camera
and connecting
with the audience,
makes being a performer
all the more real.
It's the next best
thing nowadays
that's joining us on stage.
>> Eric, Adrian, it was
so good to have you here,
and I can't wait to create
more incredible music
experience together.
But don't go too far,
we're going to come
back to your soon.
>> Thanks, Hans.
>> Thanks, guys.
>> This partnership with Live
Nation will give our customers
a whole new way of experiencing
music and watching performances,
both live and onscreen.
But as you know, by now,
it just gets better,
Verizon 5G won't simply help
fans watch great
shows on screen,
we're also deploying 15
iconic Live Nation venues,
including Fillmore in Miami,
the Masonic Theater
in San Francisco,
and Irving Plaza in New York.
As live music comes back,
we will be ready to help
make it better than ever.
[MUSIC].
>> As we've seen, 5G opens up
all kind of new possibilities.
But in them, this network is
all about something timeless,
the human need to
connect, to reach out,
to share our stories,
and to hear the
stories of others.
That has been especially
important since
the beginning of the pandemic
when so many have lost so much.
5G is an incredible technology;
what I've just shared with you
barely scratches the surface of
what we're doing today and
all it can do in the future.
But the legacy of 5G depends,
100 percent, on the
people who use it.
My own hope and
my own aspiration
is more than often we
will use it for good,
for learning, for sharing,
for growing, for preserving and
protecting, for
community building,
and finding ways to reap
the greatest outcomes for
everyone in our society
and for connecting.
In the end, it's up to you.
Let us learn from the past year
and let us celebrate
a better one to come.
Now, speaking of something,
just getting better,
we're ending this event with
an exclusive performance by
a band you might recognize.
Thank you.
Now, once again,
the Black Pumas.
[MUSIC]
>> Thanks for that introduction,
Hans, and thank you to
Verizon for having us.
We're so excited to
be featured at CES.
Scan the QR code now to see
how with the power of 5G
Ultra Wideband you
can feel like you're
on stage right here
with the Black Pumas.