WorkingNation at CES

From the floor at CES: These are the tech trends shaping our jobs

Interviews on how tech is changing work in health care, aviation, and agriculture
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Earlier this month, WorkingNation headed to Las Vegas for the annual CES tech innovation show. Our team was among more than 150,000 people who crowded into the massive halls filled with the latest gadgets that are shaping our lives – the way we play and work.

We have so much to share with you about how AI and other tech is being integrated into industries such as manufacturing, aviation, health care, agriculture, and more.

Siemens: A New Plane on the Horizon

We stopped by the Siemens booth at CES and Barbara Humpton, CEO of Siemens USA, gave me a personal tour. At our first stop, Barbara shared details of its partnership with JetZero to engineer and design a new type of commercial jet that will be built in the United States, creating an estimated 10,000 manufacturing jobs.

Check out this futuristic-looking plane!

CES 2025 Reveals the Future of Aviation | Siemens + JetZero

Exclusive interview at CES 2025! Barbara Humpton, CEO of Siemens USA, reveals a groundbreaking partnership with JetZero. Siemens and JetZero are creating a revolutionary blended-wing aircraft that reduces emissions by 50% and is set to create 10,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs this year!

John Deere: Farming in the Palm of Your Hand

At the John Deere booth, we saw its huge new autonomous tractor. Yes, that’s right, the tractor is driverless. Jeff Runde, Deere’s engineering manager, explained how farmers are able to plan their crops, program their tractor, and start farming, all from their cell phone. Jeff explains how it works and what it means for the American farmer.

Check out the size of this tractor and what it can do!

CES 2025 Reveals the Future of Farming | John Deere

Exclusive interview at CES 2025! Jeff Runde, Engineering Director for John Deere, unveils their groundbreaking autonomous tractor, the 9RX 830. This massive machine, equipped with the Rev 2 autonomy system, is transforming agriculture by eliminating the need for a driver and boosting productivity for farmers worldwide.

AMA: Health Care Providers are Turning to Tech

Digital health was a hot topic at CES. There were hundreds of booths showing off the latest innovations in home health care products, from heart monitors to diabetes testing to workout equipment. While there was a big emphasis on how you can use these products at home, they are also being used in your doctor’s office. I caught up with Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, the immediate past president of the American Medical Association, who shared with me how tech is freeing up doctors, nurses, and other providers to spend more time one-on-one with their patients.

Check out how health care providers are using today’s tech, including AI!

CES 2025: New Technology Shaping Health Care

At CES 2025, the future of healthcare technology takes center stage. Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld reveals how cutting-edge innovations like AI and digital tools are shaking up health care as we know it. From transforming patient care to redefining what it means to work in medicine, these advancements are paving the way for a new era in the medical field.

Bookmark this page! We’ve got more interviews from CES coming.
In the meantime, click on the images below to check out some more videos our team shot at the show.

Support for WorkingNation Overheard at CES was provided, in part, by Walmart.

Dana Beth Ardi

Executive Committee

Dana Beth Ardi, PhD, Executive Committee, is a thought leader and expert in the fields of executive search, talent management, organizational design, assessment, leadership and coaching. As an innovator in the human capital movement, Ardi creates enhanced value in companies by matching the most sought after talent with the best opportunities. Ardi coaches boards and investors on the art and science of building high caliber management teams. She provides them with the necessary skills to seek out and attract top-level management, to design the ideal organizational architectures and to deploy people against strategy. Ardi unearths the way a business works and the most effective way for people to work in them.

Ardi is an experienced business executive and senior consultant who leverages business organizational transformation through talent strategies. She uses her knowledge and experience to develop talent strategies to enhance revenue and profit contributions. She has a deep expertise in change management and organizational effectiveness and has designed and built high performance cultures. Ardi has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPO’s and turnarounds.

Ardi is an expert on the multi-generational workforce. She understands the four intersecting generations of workers coming together in contemporary companies, each with their own mindsets, leadership and communications styles, values and motivations. Ardi is sought after to assist companies manage and thrive by bringing the generations together. Her book, Fall of the Alphas: How Beta Leaders Win Through Connection, Collaboration and Influence, will be published by St. Martin’s Press. The book reflects Ardi’s deep expertise in understanding organizations and our changing society. It focuses on building a winning culture, how companies must grow and evolve, and how talent influences and shapes communities of work. This is what she has coined “Corporate Anthropology.” It is a playbook on how modern companies must meet challenges – culturally, globally, digitally, across genders and generations.

Ardi is currently the Managing Director and Founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors, LLC, a consulting company that provides human capital advisory and innovative solutions to companies building value through people. Corporate Anthropology works with organizations, their cultures, the way they grow and develop, and the people who are responsible for forming their communities of work.

Prior to her position at Corporate Anthropology Advisors, Ardi served as a Partner/Managing Director at the private equity firms CCMP Capital and JPMorgan Partners. She was a partner at Flatiron Partners, a venture capital firm working with early state companies where she pioneered the human capital role within an investment portfolio.

Ardi holds a BS from the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as a Masters degree and PhD from Boston College. She started her career as professor at the Graduate Center at Fordham University in New York.