Parks Associates is supporting the TM Forum Management World Americas.

A new conference for a new world – TM Forum’s Management World Americas 2012. TM Forum’s Management World Americas 2012 is the only conference that brings together 1500+ professionals from communications and beyond to brainstorm, debate, share and learn everything you need to succeed in the digital world. This 4-day conference features re-imagined, highly interactive conference formats, unique pre-conference workshops, dedicated networking events, official TM Forum Training and Certification, and a central Hub featuring a bustling Expo, Catalyst demonstrations and all of the latest information from TM Forum.

Parks Associates is supporting Entertainment Apps Conference and Awards.

The Entertainment Apps Conference will bring together top digital distribution and marketing execs from the major studios and networks, CE and set-top box makers, technology and platform providers, developer and content creators for a day-long conference on the emerging world of app-based entertainment content and services. From social viewing and second-screen apps to content discovery to streaming and games, apps are becoming an integral piece of the content monetization puzzle. Variety’s Entertainment Apps Conference will focus on how content creators and distributors are using apps to enhance audience engagement, create new revenue opportunities, extend entertainment franchises and leverage power new social marketing and networking platforms. The app economy is large, active and thriving, with nearly half of the U.S. population using mobile apps. With hundreds of thousands of apps in the hands of consumers, we’re honored to present the Entertainment Apps Awards to recognize the best apps in the entertainment industry, selected by industry stakeholders, publishers, academics, tech journalists and more. The Entertainment Apps Awards categories and judging criteria are about industry recognition and rewarding excellence and innovation within the apps industry. More information about the Entertainment Apps Awards can be found here.

Parks Associates is supporting IP Cable World Summit.

The IP Cable World Summit will provide a unique forum for global cable operators and solution providers to come together to maximise the role of IP in monetizing enhanced multi screen customer experiences.

Building on the success of the IP&TV World Forum, the IP Cable World Summit is the only global event for cable operators to understand how to combine the bandwidth of cable with the flexibility of IP to deliver compelling multiscreen services.

Parks Associates is supporting Connected Entertainment 2012.

Connected Entertainment is Australia’s most important event focused on the connected TV and multi-screen digital entertainment opportunity.

Connected Entertainment is where:
• You can learn how to successfully monetise the opportunity presented by connected entertainment
• You are shown how to exploit the connected platform to deliver interactive experiences, multi-platform entertainment and social experiences 
• You can get access to the technologies and solutions that are enabling the connected entertainment world
• You can attend FREE educational seminars delivered by industry experts at the EXPO

Parks Associates is supporting Future of Television East.

Harry Wang, Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates will moderate the session, "Successful partnerships for content delivery in the vehicle."

Parks Associates is supporting Connected Cars 2012.

The Connected Car had its year in 2012 – it was the highlight of the 3 main telco trade shows CES, MWC and CTIA as the ‘convergence darling of the industry’. Connected Cars 2012 is a unique, one day event bringing the whole eco-system together for considered discussion of a number of essential themes, including: 

• Connected Cars – Basking in the Spotlight
• Connected Car Content – Music, video, infotainment
• Connected Car Services - Emergency services & tracking
• Connected Car Business Models, Pricing and Global Scaling
• Connected Cars Enablement – LTE, 4G, Satellite, Wifi, Wimax, M2M, Cloud, and Voice Activation, Electricity
• Connected Cars Safety and Privacy
• Connected Cars Customer Experience

This event is about content and business – addressing the above issues so you walk away from an intimate event with 1:1 contacts and a thorough knowledge about the state of play and best practice in connected cars. Get ready to meet Ford,Hyundai, Toyota, Panasonic, Nokia, AT&T, Sprint, Pioneer, Volvo, Rdio, Pandora and more all in one room. You will be involved as panel discussions with Q and A follow high level strategic keynotes.

Harry Wang, Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates is chairing the Innovative Service Delivery on Day 1, Wednesday, November 14th from 12:15 - 5:55 PM. Harry will be moderating the session, "Technologies of the Future: Which Innovations may become Commonplace?" from 2:35 – 3:25 PM. In addition, Harry will be moderating the session, "How Is Mobile Video Challenging the Network Architecture of LTE? Mitigating the Bandwidth-Hogger" from 4:55 – 5:25 PM.

Parks Associates is supporting LTE North America.

Now in its 5th year, LTE North America has firmly established itself as the ultimate ‘learning conference’ of the region, bringing together the leaders of the entire LTE ecosystem for unparalleled breadth and depth of discussion around the future of mobile broadband.

The event is a must-attend for regional carriers looking to search for potential new partners and learn from the market leaders about their deployment experiences. Hand-in-hand with a high quality programme and C-level speaker selection, the event offers opportunities for networking and learning opportunities though panel discussions, in-depth focus sessions, workshops, and a substantial exhibition floor showcasing the newest innovations and developments of the market.

Parks Associates is a diamond media partner for AfricApps.

AfricApps is a brand new and exciting addition to AfricaCom run for developers by developers. It is bringing together the growing community of Sub-Sahara’s mobile app developers to excahge ideas about how to create market leading apps and learn how they can bring to market the next Angry Birds.

Parks Associates is a diamond media partner for AfricaCast.

AfricaCast returns for a second year and continues to be the premier event in Sub Saharan Africa for broadcasters. This year we have the support of SABC, ABN, Endemol and Viacom; among many other major broadcasters who have provided CXO level speakers to discuss the future opportunities for African broadcasters. The event will provide a vital platform for all stakeholders to engage and debate how best to monetise the future of African broadcasting.

AfricaCast, an event organised jointly by Informa’s Com World Series and TV Connect Global Events returns again after attracting  228 high level conference delegates last year to address the challenges and opportunities in Africa’s broadcasting market. AfricaCast is part of Afircan' largest community event, AfricaCom which will attract 7,000+ exhibition visitors this year. This two day summit will bring decision makers from the entire value chain.

Parks Associates is supporting MVNOs Industry Summit USA 2012.

MVNOs Industry Summit USA looks forward to re-uniting senior executives from MVNOs, MNOs, MVNEs and device and retail companies to discuss how the second wave of MVNO business in North America is maximising device and services connectivity, global mobile data models, and roaming. 2012 promises to ramp up the action, with all eyes on carrier 4G strategy and the device sector move into connectivity and full ecosystem layer ownership.

This event is part of the MVNOs Industry Summit Series covering 5 major markets (Europe, Asia, Latam, Africa, USA). We were delighted to welcome Aspider, CDRator, Redknee, and Wyless as sponsors and exhibitors at the event in 2011 at the time of writing. 2012 continues our theme of supporting on site introductions, business wish lists, and industry catalyst for MVNO regional business development. The event is co-located with LTE North America and reaps the networking and business development benefits of this. 1,000 co-located attendees, 70 exhibitors, and 2 days and 6 streams of content.

Parks Associates is supporting the Mobile Roaming Cala Forum.

Informs Latin America is organizing the 4th edition of Mobile Roaming CALA That will draw together main regional operators to discuss the issues roaming in the region. Also this is the only event in the region just roaming dedicated to professionals and it has consolidated to an annual meeting to share Experiences Between operators and services providers.

Parks Associates is supporting Mobile Roaming World Summit 2012.

The global roaming market has dramatically evolved in the last few years, with major moves coming from Europe in terms of alliances, priced and services. Across the industry we are currently seeing forward thinking companies literally changing the face of roaming. With Vodafone?s announcement that it is effectively dropping roaming charges for „Passport? customers and Zain?s hugely innovative „One Network? initiative, the roaming market is becoming a whole new game.

This two-day event will provide a unique learning and networking opportunity for roaming professionals looking to improve roaming revenues through innovative strategies.

The EU regulation changes on roaming will have potentially gargantuan impacts on traditional operator and operator/MVNO relationships. This event-which enjoys its 20th anniversary year in 2012 – is THE discussion place for roaming business development, strategy and opportunity. We celebrate by adding further networking and social events to our usual thought-leadership sessions.