Human Security for All (HS4A)
CES Innovation Awards®
Safeguarding the Human Experience Through Technology
The message is universal. With unprecedented global challenges, the Human Security for All (HS4A) campaign serves to cultivate collaboration and innovation across all industries, all countries, to improve the human experience. The Consumer Technology Association, producer of CES, is proud to be part of this first-of-its-kind partnership.
How Can This Partnership and Initiative Enhance Humankind?
Technology enables positive change that can reach all humanity. First introduced by the U.N. in 1994, the concept of human security recognizes the importance of personal wellbeing and identifies security pillars tied to an individual's experience in life. To promote these human security tenets, the show will highlight—as a CES first—the latest tech innovations and thought leaders dedicated to solving the most serious threats facing humankind.
Join us at CES® 2025 to explore how technology can play a critical role in solving the most pressing issues our industry is tackling. The world is waiting to hear your ideas, and your technology's potential dedicated to helping others in business breakthroughs!
Technology’s Critical Role in Human Security
Human security recognizes the experiences of personal wellbeing and inclusiveness across eight security pillars tied to an individual’s experience in life. Tech is becoming ever more essential as a tool in facilitating positive change and innovation across these eight pillars:
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Food Security
Technology aids in producing nutritious food more efficiently with less waste, water, and land, and is accessible to all people. From growing to distributing food, innovative tech can bring the necessary dietary needs to all communities.
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Access to Healthcare
Innovation that improves patient care and health outcomes.
Technologies include health products/services that empower individuals to have more control over their health as well as access to health care in remote settings.
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Economic Security
Innovation that creates a pipeline for new companies, ideas, and job opportunities. These technologies enable entrepreneurs to start a business, run a business and offer opportunities for meaningful work at a fair wage.
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Environmental Protection
Technology creates a path to a more sustainable future. Innovation helps to reduce our environmental footprint and better harness climate-friendly energy resources while introducing novel approaches to limiting waste.
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Personal Safety & Mobility
Focused on technologies that keeps individuals, their finances, data, and privacy safe. In addition, this includes solutions for individuals to move freely about. This includes innovation such as blockchain-enabled tech, technologies that limit risk for personal wellbeing and accessible modes of transportation.
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Community Security
Technology enables access to information, education and provides services that keep communities safe. These technologies provide better emergency services for citizens or deployment of wireless broadband in remote areas.
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Political Freedom
Innovation empowers governments and citizens to connect and share information freely and fairly. Constituencies equipped with tools that strengthen self-determination can prosper peacefully.
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Access to Technology
As one of the most powerful tools enhancing the human experience today, technology at its core helps us do more with less. Having access supports communities worldwide in the sharing of vital information related to combating disease, ensuring sustainable food practices, energy efficiency, access to clean water, and so much more.
HS4A at CES 2025
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Human Security as an Innovation Award Category
The CES Innovation Awards program is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products. The program recognizes honorees in a multitude of consumer technology product categories and distinguishes the highest rated in each and for the third year, includes HS4A as a category!
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Human Security Conference Programming
Join us for two important conversations that will be happening during the show — and are included with all CES badges!
Digital Health: The Next Frontier in Tech-Driven Wellness, presented by HS4A
Tuesday, January 7 | 9:00 AM - 9:40 AM | Venetian, Level 4, Marcello 4404
Learn MoreHow AI Can Close The $3 Trillion Education Gap, presented by HS4A
Wednesday, January 8 | 10:00 AM - 10:40 AM | LVCC, West Level 2, W219
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About the Campaign Partners
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The World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS)
Founded in 1960 by intellectuals including Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, Father of Manhattan Project, and many others, The Academy serves as a forum for reflective scientists, artists, and scholars dedicated to addressing the pressing challenges confronting humanity today independent of political boundaries or limits, whether spiritual or physical — a forum where these problems can be discussed objectively, scientifically, globally, and free from vested interests or regional attachments to arrive at solutions that affirm universal human rights and serve the common good of all humanity.
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Consumer Technology Association
It's about ideas, large and small, that keep us connected, that help us move, that spark even bigger ideas. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® convenes companies of every size and specialty in the technology industry to move us all forward.
CTA is the trade association representing the $505 billion U.S. consumer technology industry, which supports more than 18 million U.S. jobs.
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United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security (UNTFHS)
To realize the full potential of the human security approach, the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security (UNTFHS) finances activities carried out by the UN organizations in partnership with the private sector, governments, and other stakeholders to demonstrate the added value of the human security approach and extend its usage and awareness both within and outside the United Nations system.
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