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Parks Associates Announces Speakers for CONNECTIONS Europe: Monetizing the Digital Home Conference

Parks Associates has announced the speakers for CONNECTIONS™ Europe: Monetizing the Digital Home, which features a keynote from Deutsche Telekom and research sessions on home automation, connected-home value-added services, OTT video, and personal cloud solutions.

The executive conference, produced by Parks Associates in association with ESNA on 13-14 November at the Crowne Plaza South in Amsterdam, explores new business opportunities in connected-home and entertainment services for service providers, energy utilities, retailers, and CE manufacturers.

"The broadband markets in Western Europe have matured," said Stuart Sikes, president, Parks Associates. "Over two-thirds of French and Spanish users go online daily, and even among the struggling countries Spain and Italy, penetration of fixed broadband is above 60%. Adding value-added services on top of communication services is an important area of economic growth, and CONNECTIONS™ Europe features high-level speakers addressing the next innovations in IP home services and CE usage."

CONNECTIONS™ Europe keynote: Thomas Knops, Head of Marketing & Sales, Deutsche Telekom - QIVICON

Confirmed speakers:

Gian Paolo Balboni, Head, Trends, Telecom Italia

Jerome Bidet, R&D Team Manager, Orange Labs

Paul Bristow, VP Strategy, Middleware & Consumer Experience, Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB)

Joe Buggy, SVP, Customer Lifecycle Management Services, Sutherland Global Services

Scott Burnett, Director, Europe & Global Consumer Electronics, IBM

Harry Crijns, Secretary, ESNA

Bo Danielsen, Project Manager, Smart Metering and Smart Grid, SEAS-NVE; Chairman, ESNA

Paul Dawes, EVP, General Manager, iControl Networks

Metodi Filipov, Managing Director, iMediaShare/Bianor

Stefan Jenzowsky, Head, Media, Siemens CMT

Michael Lantz, CEO, Accedo

Cees Links, CEO, GreenPeak Technologies

Andreas Martschitsch, Head, Digital Home, Swisscom

Alice Mascia, Director, Strategy, Sky Deutschland

Klaus Milczewsky, Senior Manager, Deutsche Telekom AG

Adam Nightingale, Head, Sales, Northern Europe, Irdeto

Telmo Perez Luaces, VP Business Growth, Convergence & Home Line of Business, Orange

Arent van der Feltz, VP Strategy & Legal, Ziggo

Martijn van Drunen, Manager Product Development, N.V. Nuon Energy, a Vattenfall company

Gene Wang, CEO, People Power Company

Ben Weinberger, CEO and Co-founder, Digitalsmiths

Ricco B. Winther, Director, European Sales, Z-Wave, Sigma Designs, Inc.

Teus de Zwart, Senior Director International Standards, Echelon

From the article, "Parks Associates Announces Speakers for CONNECTIONS Europe: Monetizing the Digital Home Conference."

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