May 27, 2009

Digital Living Conference features executives from controls, networking, entertainment, and CE companies

CONNECTIONS™ speakers address challenges and opportunities that come with converging products and services

Parks Associates has announced the speakers for CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference & Showcase, including keynotes from Austin Energy, AT&T, Sony Pictures, and Verizon.

The 13th annual CONNECTIONS™, June 2-4 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, features interactive panels with over 80 speakers and consumer and industry research presented by Parks Associates’ expert analysts. This event attracts senior executives from industries associated with the digital home, new media and content distribution, and mobile applications and services.

CONNECTIONS™ speakers offer an array of expertise covering CE, digital media, content and access services, home controls, and energy management,” said Kurt Scherf, vice president, principal analyst, Parks Associates. “The number of broadband households worldwide will reach 650 million by 2013. These connections will have a ripple effect throughout multiple industries, impacting communications, entertainment, and home management. CONNECTIONS™ features an excellent lineup of speakers covering both the visionary and practical challenges in forging new business models for this changing consumer culture.”

Parks Associates reports the number of mobile TV subscribers worldwide exceeded 30 million in 2008, while more than 26 million U.S. consumers use the Internet at least monthly to catch up on TV programming. Both findings show the growing appeal of place- and time-shifting features and are early indicators of the future directions of the mobile and video markets.

Joseph Ambeault, Director, Product Development and Management, Video Services, Verizon

Andres E. Carvallo, Chief Information Officer, Austin Energy

Glenn Lurie, President of Emerging Devices and Resale, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets

Mitch Singer, CTO, Executive Vice President of New Media and Technology, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.; President, Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE)

 

Sanket Amberkar, Marketing Manager, Network Systems Solutions, Cisco

Bruce Anderson, General Manager, Global Electronics Industry, IBM

Sean Besser, VP, Business Development, Macrovision

Stephen Blum, President, Tellus Venture Associates

Jeff Bonin, Vice President & GM, Alticast

Brandon Brown, CEO, Zodiac Interactive

Torey Bruno, Director of Business Development, Via Licensing Corporation

Geoff Burke, Senior Director, Corporate Marketing, Calix

Jon Burr, VP, Customer Experience and Operations, CrossLoop, Inc.

Duane Carvalho, Sales Director,  North America, Jungo

Steve Cashman, Chief Strategy Officer, Exceptional Innovation

Chenyi Chiu, Strategic Program Manager, HD-PLC Alliance

Paul Dawes, CEO, iControl Networks

Rolf De Vegt, Director, Technical Standards Qualcomm

Jim Denney, VP, Product Marketing, TiVo Inc.

Vijay Desai, Founder, CEO, Aceurity, Inc.

Christopher Deutschen, Senior Manager, Product & Business Development, Direct Energy

Chris Dobrec, Sr. Director Strategy & Business Development, Cisco Systems

Brian Donnelly, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Icron

Ajay Dugar, Executive Director, Paramount Digital Entertainment

Mike Ehlenberger, Vice President of Channel Sales, Actiontec Electronics, Inc.

Jaime Fink, Vice President of Technology and Strategy, 2Wire

Meir Friedlander, CEO, Eyecon Technologies, Inc.

Jonathan Gaines, Senior Vice President - Sales, Xeriton Corporation/BluePhone

Jackson Gates, Director of Business Development, Pandora

Ben Geller, Senior Director of Marketing, Motive Product Group, Alcatel-Lucent

Noam Geri, Co-founder, Vice President Marketing & Business Development, AMIMON

Andrea Goldsmith, Co-Founder and CTO, Quantenna Communications

Mike Harris, CEO, AnySource

David Henry, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Home Products, NETGEAR

Chris Hock, Senior VP, Product Management, BlackArrow

Jim Hunter, CTO and Chief Architect, 4Home

Brent Hurley, Strategic Partner Development Manager, YouTube

Richard Irving, Managing Partner, Pond Venture Partners

Vipin Jain, President and CEO, Retrevo

Braxton Jarratt, CEO, Clearleap

Brian Johnson, Senior Vice President, Americas and Asia Pacific, mBlox, Inc.

Jim Johnson, President & CEO, uControl

Scott Kelliher, Category Director, Telecommunications & Technology, Platform A/AOL

Fred King, VP, Sales & Marketing, PlumChoice, Inc.

Kazuhiro Kitagawa, Vice-Chairman, PUCC

Steve Koepp, Senior Manager, Business Development, Microsoft Corporation

Art Lancaster, CTO, Affinegy

Michael Lantz, CEO, Accedo Broadband

Craig Lee, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Ortiva Wireless

Michelle Leyden Li, General Manager, Home Control Business Unit, Zilog

Sheung Li, Director of Product Development & Marketing, SiBEAM

Alex Limberis, COO, Syabas Technology, Inc.

Ken Lowe, Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Sigma Designs

Robert Malnati, Director, Business Development, Broadband Solutions Group, Home and Networks Mobility, Motorola, Inc.

Wilfred Martis, Director of Platform Strategy and Planning, Digital Home Group, Intel

Theodore May, VP, Content & Value-added Services, Synacor

Steve McKay, CEO, Entone Inc.

Travis Misterek, Technical Analyst, Best Buy

Seale Moorer, CEO, Exceptional Innovation

Mike Noonen, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, NXP Semiconductors

Bogdan Odulinski, Director - Product Management, Enterprise Services Group, SupportSoft, Inc.

Frank Ploumen, Director, Home Applications, Alcatel-Lucent

Edward Rashba, Director, IEEE-SA New Business Ventures

Mostafa Reza, Product Line Manager, IP Video Solutions Group, Motorola

Micha Risling, VP of Marketing, Valens Semiconductor

Anthony Rodio, Chief Operating Officer, support.com

Avner Ronen, CEO & Co-Founder, Boxee

Vibha Rustagi, CEO & President, itaas, Inc.

Sachin Sathaye, Manager, Market Management, SP Video & Connected Home Solution, Cisco Systems

Russ Schafer, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Connected TV, Yahoo!

Rick Schwartz, Product Manager, TwonkyMedia Manager, PacketVideo

Loren Shade, VP Marketing, Allegro Software Development Corporation

Parag Sheth, Vice President of Corporate Marketing, Hillcrest Labs

Eric Smith, CTO, Control4

Jason Spero, VP & Managing Director NA, AdMob

Kevin Spier, Director of Business Development, Bunchball

Singu Srinivas, VP, Sales and Marketing, Radialpoint

Bill Stanley, Director, Operations Solutions, Telcordia

Jan Steenkamp, Founder Member, Head Market Development America, Irdeto

Rob Tobias, Director, Market Development, Silicon Image

Steve Tranter, VP Interactive and Broadband, NDS

Edgar Villalpando, SVP, Marketing, ActiveVideo Networks

Dr. Kenneth Wacks, Member, GridWise Architecture Council, U.S. Department of Energy

Ian Walsh, VP Business Development, ProVision Communications

Fred Wang, General Partner, Trinity Ventures

Lior Weiss, VP Marketing, Celeno

Stephen White, Director, Business Development, VIZIO

Ken Wirt, Vice President Consumer Marketing, Cisco Systems

Daniel Wong, Director of Product Management, D-Link

Steve Yum, Sr. Director of Marketing, Synerchip

Scot Zarkiewicz, CEO, SingleClick Systems

Eric Zimits, Managing Director, Granite Ventures

 

Bill Ablondi, Director, Home Systems Research, Parks Associates

Jayant Dasari, Research Analyst, Parks Associates

Kurt Scherf, Vice President & Principal Analyst, Parks Associates

Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates

Harry Wang, Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates

 

 

For more information on CONNECTIONS™, visit http://www.connectionsconference.com or contact sales@parksassociates.com, 972-490-1113.

CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase, hosted by leading research firm Parks Associates with support from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®), is the premier executive event focused on the market developments and growth factors for advanced digital lifestyle solutions.

This unique research-driven executive conference and showcase delivers insight and recommendations for new business models and opportunities in digital media/content, connected consumer electronics, broadband and value-added services, and home systems.

For information about CONNECTIONS™, contact sales@parksassociates.com or call 972-490-1113.

For information on speaking, sponsoring, or attending, please visit www.connectionsconference.com.

 

 
 




 

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