For me, yes, cards are still used. I work in transportation. Half the certified companies are small hands-on repair shops, so there’s probably a beige office with a real rollodex. Most traveling auditors are semi-retirees so cards are the default, but certainly not required. Most presenters at conferences are from the biggest ~5 companies, fighting each other for market space, so they like handing out cards with a big company logo and their latest job title. I hand them out because this is the first job that provided them to me, so it’s been exciting. Plus, people seem to actually like my company. And, with a box of 500, I’m likely to change job titles before I deplete them at this rate.

My industry is not trying to be on the bleeding edge or marketing and buzzwords. Product goes through years of tiered in-service testing before market release. It’s all about results, not techy contact scans