Show Report: New start in New York

After a postponement in 2020 and a brief sojourn to Florida in 2021, Manhattan’s Javits Center was once again the venue for Vision Expo East. Like virtually all trade fairs during the past two years of the coronavirus pandemic, Vision Expo has dealt with uncertainty over variants, venues being turned into emergency hospitals and government restrictions on public events.

With the emergence of the omicron variant in late 2021, trade shows in the first quarter of the year once again looked precarious. Opti Munich, scheduled for January 2022, was the first to reschedule to an unfamiliar May slot, while others like 100% Optical in January and Mido in February, also hastily rearranged their dates.