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CES 2026: Forecasting the winners on the show floor

CES is where the world announces its next technologies. At the Netherlands pavilion, we showed which of them will win: live, one field at a time, for four days straight.

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Dates
Jan 6–9, 2026
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Netherlands pavilion
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Jan 6–9, 2026
Netherlands pavilion
Las Vegas
Conference · Booth
Jard van Ingen | CEO · GetFocus stand
4 | days of live forecasts on the show floor 200M+ | patents behind every answer at the stand 0 | exceptions. The fastest improver has always won.
Book a live demo | /consultation See how the method works | /method
A live scout of every emerging technology in the field they named, with no filter applied first Each competing route ranked by how fast it is improving, measured from patent citation data Follow-up questions answered across the whole field, on the spot, by our forecasting agents
Jard van Ingen
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https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6a7b05f6b58967cd745b9493/6abac90a3bfa14f0f52e55cb_ces-2026-06-DSC01569.jpg | Live forecasts at the GetFocus stand https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6a7b05f6b58967cd745b9493/6abac90a4dc48e4eea92ffc3_ces-2026-07-DSC01673.jpg | One field at a time https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6a7b05f6b58967cd745b9493/6abac90adaeeb28d76d2030c_ces-2026-08-DSC01697.jpg | The Netherlands pavilion at CES 2026 https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6a7b05f6b58967cd745b9493/6abac90adaeeb28d76d20324_ces-2026-09-DSC01518.jpg | Four days of conversations at the stand https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6a7b05f6b58967cd745b9493/6abac90a1990e71effcc0ef9_ces-2026-10-DSC01820.jpg | Our forecasting agents, on screen all week

CES is the loudest week in technology. Every booth promises the future, and most of those promises won't survive the decade. We went to Las Vegas with the one instrument that tells them apart: the improvement rate, measured from patent citations, years before the market settles.

What visitors got at the stand

Why a forecasting company goes to CES

CES is where hype peaks. Filing counts, funding rounds and keynote stages all point in one direction, and that direction is often wrong. The signal that holds up is speed: how fast each technology is actually improving.

One field at a time

The format at the stand was simple. Name a technology field. Our forecasting agents scouted it, ranked every competing route by improvement rate, and let you interrogate the whole field in minutes. No slide deck, no pitch. The data did the talking.

Back in Las Vegas

We exhibited with the Netherlands pavilion, among the startups the Dutch delegation brings to CES every January. GetFocus has been on the CES floor every year since 2024, when the platform won a CES AI award. The method behind it is co-developed with MIT and has never met an exception: the fastest-improving technology always wins.

Speakers

Speaker
Martina Dinardo
Account Executive
Account Executive at GetFocus, working with R&D and strategy teams on their technology decisions.
Speaker
Jard van Ingen
CEO & Co-Founder
Co-founder and CEO of GetFocus, which forecasts which technologies will win from patent data, using a method developed with MIT.
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The fastest improving technology always wins. We have never found an exception to this in any field.

Jard van Ingen
CEO & Co-Founder, GetFocus

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