The world's most exciting technology show, CES, descends upon Las Vegas this week with more than 100,000 industry professionals to network with, hundreds of sessions to attend, and two million net square feet of expo space to explore. Walk through the home of the future. Have a robot mix you a cocktail. Party with Imagine Dragons, DJ Snoopadelic, Def Leppard, Tipper Gore and Paris Hilton. This guide will show you what's happening where.

Paul English, was one of the founders of Kayak, a travel services metasearch engine, that was sold to Priceline group in 2013. Paul English has just launched Lola, a novel approach at intelligent travel assistants, that incorporates machine learning but also uses a small team of human travel agents. The artificial intelligence component analyses Gmail headers on authentication, and derives information on airline, hotel and travel preferences. There is also a sign up profile that asks a series of questions from the user, aimed at personalisation of the service. All of this information is served to a cluster of human travel agents, who reply to the users in an asynchronous chat based interface.