Panasonic Group showcases innovations under the theme “Well into the future” at CES 2025

Osaka, Japan, January 7, 2025 – The Panasonic Group will exhibit at CES 2025, held from January 7 to 10, 2025, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A., under the theme “Well into the future” *¹. The Panasonic Group has been a mainstay at CES, exhibiting continuously from the very first CES in 1967, presenting the company’s visions for solving social issues through technological innovation.

“Well into the future” embodies the idea that the Panasonic Group, in collaboration with an ever-growing array of strategic partners who share its values and aspirations, continues to pursue the realization of its founder’s vision of making today better than yesterday, tomorrow better than today.

At the Panasonic booth, following the opening keynote to kick off the show, delivered by Panasonic Holdings Corporation Co., Ltd. (Panasonic HD) Group CEO Yuki Kusumi on January 7, Panasonic HD introduced “Panasonic Go,” a global corporate growth initiative to promote the transition to AI-based business models, and other initiatives at the forefront of innovation, focusing on new technologies to improve social sustainability, people's health, comfort, and safety.

• Dates: Tuesday, January 7 - Friday, January 10, 2025
• Venue: Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), Central Hall Booth #16605
• Booth size: 1,412 square meters

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The Panasonic CES 2025 opening keynote (Tuesday, January 7, 2025, 8:30-10:00 PST) will be streamed online here (https://www.youtube.com/live/o5aL2IWeESg?si=1LSMXCZwu1KsPZuh)

Visionary music producer and DJ Steve Aoki will join Panasonic at CES in honor of Technic’s 60th anniversary, celebrating its commitment to relentlessly pursuing perfection. In addition to spinning on the Technics SL-1200M7B turntable for Panasonic’s opening keynote January 7 starting at 7:30am PT, Aoki will also be playing for visitors at the Panasonic booth (LVCC, Central Hall - #16605) from 4:00 - 5:00 pm PT. Technics will have its latest audio technology on display designed for those who never stop striving for perfection and share the brand’s obsessive focus on the details.

Since its foundation in 1918, the Panasonic Group has created a wide range of home appliances to contribute to the enrichment of people's lives. The products on display include: The “two-light cluster” two-way socket, a product from the time of the company's founding; the “Super Iron” manufactured in 1927, which boasted a high sales record due to mass production; speakers manufactured in 1955, the first Panasonic brand product; and the “Blu-ray Disc Recorder,” which in 2004 became the world's first single-sided dual layer 50GB recorder.

The Panasonic Group is committed to its mission of realizing an ideal society offering material and spiritual affluence in accordance with the 250-year business plan established by its founder, Konosuke Matsushita in 1932.

Panasonic HD is promoting Panasonic Go. This initiative is based on the concept of the 250-year plan, in which 25 years (10 years during the construction period, 10 years during the activity period, and 5 years during the contribution to society period) is considered as one “section” among 10 sections, as well as the concept of establishing a highly competitive business model by expanding the use of AI while making the most of the knowledge, technologies, and hardware Panasonic has cultivated for many years. Panasonic HD is currently enacting the fourth stage of the 250-year business plan, and Panasonic Go is a key component for upcoming fifth stage.

Blue Yonder is building out its AI-driven multi-enterprise, multi-tier supply chain platform. The Blue Yonder Platform leverages AI to make more than 20 billion demand forecasts and recommendations every day. Predictive AI, generative AI, and supply chain AI agents (which proactively identify opportunities and risks, as well as make recommendations) enable retailers, manufacturers, and logistics service providers to optimize and accelerate their supply chain from planning through fulfillment, delivery, and returns.
In a video at the booth, Blue Yonder demonstrates how its solutions help businesses to navigate modern supply chain complexity with more resilient, sustainable supply chains to enhance the customer experience, scale profitably, and run flawlessly.

Panasonic Well, a new venture and business incubator within the Panasonic Group committed to building new services and technologies that improve well-being for all people, introduced the latest consumer offering from the Panasonic Well portfolio with a sneak peek of Umi, available in the U.S. in 2025. The innovative digital wellness platform and personalized family wellness coach that integrates AI and a community of experts, Umi helps people build healthy habits and connect through wellness routines that work for everyone.
The booth experience includes a detailed look at the family insights that led to the product, a deeper look into the product experience, and an interactive kiosk that allowed attendees to interact with the virtual coach through the power of AI.
The booth experience also provided a showcase of Panasonic Well's Partner Collective, bringing together leading brands across technology, and research to leverage the strength of the Panasonic Well data and AI platform. The Partner Collective, launched at CES, includes partners such as Aaptiv, Precision Nutrition, SleepScore Labs, Addition Wealth, BlueApron, Calm and more. These brands will be working with Umi and future Panasonic Well businesses to enrich the experience for end users, allowing families to access premium content and services and enabling them to care for themselves and each other while improving their family’s wellness outcomes.
The Panasonic Well booth also showcased the winners of The Family Wellness Innovation Challenge. In collaboration with AARP's Age Tech Collaborative, this inaugural competition seeks to identify the next breakthrough in health and wellness tech. Panasonic Well is proud to feature the following winners in their exhibition: Hearth Display (Grand Prize), Mindless Play, Support Pay, Your Coach, and Guava Health.

Solutions and technologies that contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions, expanding the impact of carbon neutrality from the home to the city and society as a whole, will be exhibited, including:

• Updating
  Hussmann's refrigerated and frozen display cases: By using the natural refrigerant R290 refrigerant-grade propane, the environmental impact is greatly reduced compared to the CFC refrigerant alternatives currently in use.
•  Electrifying
  Panasonic HX, an energy solution utilizing hydrogen, uses an advanced energy management system to control the coordination of pure hydrogen fuel cells, solar cells, and storage batteries to efficiently supply renewable energy in response to changes in electricity demand and weather conditions. The system is designed to decarbonize the energy sector and increase resilience through a decentralized system.
  The Panasonic Group has also supplied a cumulative total of more than 15 billion automotive battery cells, equivalent to the supply needed for 3 million EVs, to support the global shift to EVs. To further accelerate the shift to EVs, the Panasonic 2170 cell with the world's highest energy density and the latest Panasonic 4680 cell will be exhibited, as well as the company’s activities to reduce its carbon footprint in collaboration with Redwood Materials, Inc. and Nouveau Monde Graphite, Inc. to achieve a sustainable society.
• Harnessing
  Anion exchange membrane water electrolysis for producing green hydrogen: This is an electrode device that enables highly efficient and low-cost hydrogen production using electricity derived from renewable energy sources. The device will be exhibited with an developed anion exchange membrane (AEM) electrode made of iron and nickel without using precious metals on display.
  Also on display will be the growth stimulant “Novitek®,” a technology that simultaneously achieves effective utilization of CO2 and increases food productivity with the power of cyanobacteria, a type of photosynthetic microorganism. By spraying the leaves of vegetables and fruits with Novitek®, it leads to an increase in yield.
  Perovskite solar cells will also be on display. These combine a unique material technology, ink-jet coating process and laser processing technology, creating glass-based perovskite solar cells (1 m x 1.8 m size) with enhanced size, transparency, and design flexibility.

The Panasonic Group is committed to the Circular Economy (CE) under the three principles of “Maximize, Minimize, and Partner.” Here, the group introduces efforts to efficiently use resources and reduce consumption of the earth's limited natural resources, among other initiatives.

• Maximizing - Maximize product value
  The Panasonic Group is committed to extending the useful life of its products as much as possible and to maintaining and enhancing the value of resources. To this end, we are transforming our product design and business model into a circular economy model, and expanding our services, while at the same time focusing on recycling activities.
  A video overview of “Design for CE,” a new manufacturing concept and design philosophy for repairing, reusing, and recycling, will be shown on a tablet device at the Panasonic CES booth, as well as through a video display and a mock-up. Additionally, the technology behind easy disassembly design, which forms the basis of this concept, will also be introduced.
• Minimizing - Reduce and minimize new resource use
  The Panasonic Group is working to minimize the use of materials and to increase the use of recycled and renewable materials. Here, we introduce the following products that use recycled and bioplastics:
  - Technics EAH-AZ80 fully wireless earphones - Approximately 45% of the plastic used in the earphones and charging case is DURABIO™, a bioengineering plastic derived from plants.
  - Ramdash Palm Inn ES-PV6A - Uses NAGORI®, an innovative composite material derived from minerals extracted from seawater, to reduce plastic use by approximately 40% (compared to Ramdash PRO 5-blade ES-LV9W released in 2023)
  Also on display will be a reference exhibit of lighting that utilizes lampshades made of kinari™, a sustainable material that is basically made of plant fibers but has the moldability of conventional petroleum-based resin.
• Partnering - Collaborate with customers and partners
  The Panasonic Group is working together with customers and partners to create a new style of recycling-oriented management, information sharing, and product use.
  Here we present “Tracephere,” an idea for traceability using blockchain technology for product recycling and recycled resource processes.

Home appliances that enrich people's lives will be exhibited.

• TECHNICS
  Technics is announcing the EAH-AZ100, its latest true wireless earbuds, adding to the family of award-winning audio products backed by more than 60 years of sound engineering and product development. The EAH-AZ100 has a newly developed, proprietary “Magnetic Fluid Driver” that creates clean, high-resolution, low-vibration and low-distortion sounds for the most authentic, balanced audio that’s true to the original source. Immersive yourself in a personal demo of the new earbuds and check out our selection of Technics Hi-Fi for the audiophile community.
• CONNECT WELL: TV
  The new 2025 Panasonic TV lineup shows the latest in viewing and sound technology.
  The SoundSlayer™ Wireless Wearable Gaming Speaker System SC-GNW10 will be highlighted in the gaming area of the booth – prepare for gameplay with this wireless lightweight neck speaker, featuring next-generation audio and voice controls for a full-body experience.
• EAT WELL: Kitchen Appliances
  The kitchen area will host live demonstrations of the new CV88QS, Panasonic’s latest oven that can microwave, air fry, broil and convection cook using a smart app for a new cooking experience. Visit to learn more and eat some great food.
• LUMIX
  LUMIX latest imaging innovation will be showcasing Full Frame and Micro Four Thirds, including a wide array of lenses, plus a photo booth experience.
• FEEL WELL: Personal Care
  Personal Care products on display include the ARC5 PALM-sized 5-Blade Electric Luxury Razor and the Panasonic MultiShape, the modular personal care system that is completely customizable to choose only the grooming tools you desire. Also on display will be Panasonic hair dryers that add moisture-rich nanoe™ particles that penetrate every shaft of hair, keeping each strand healthy and reducing everyday damage.

Notes:
*1: The theme “WELL into the Future” has been updated to “Well into the future.”
*2: This system uses the MaHAt system developed by Future House Alliance (based in Kasugai City, Aichi Prefecture).
*3: Regarding the central air conditioning system using a residential air conditioner, energy recovery ventilator, and transfer fans. As of January 7, 2025, according to Panasonic's research.
*4: It is a device that provides ventilation with minimum heat loss, while exchanging heat recovered from supply and exhaust air.
*5: The conventional air conditioning systems use a heat pump cooling system (14.2 SEER2) and gas furnace (80% AFUE) for houses with performance compliant with IECC 2015.
OASYS uses Panasonic's Mini Split AC and transfer fans for both cooling and heating functions for houses with performance compliant with OASYS-required specifications. (Estimated by converting gas energy consumption to electricity)
■Reference: Panasonic Corporation Air Quality & Air Conditioning Company Press Release
https://news.panasonic.com/global/press/en250108-15

Opening Keynote Summary https://news.panasonic.com/global/press/en250108-10
Panasonic Go https://news.panasonic.com/global/press/en250108-11