Parks Associates is supporting BIT's 2nd Annual International Congress of U-Homes-2012 (U-Home 2012).

For many years researchers have been working to create a smart home. Initially researchers have focused on developing a technical infrastructure and explored issues around user input. However, more recently people have begun exploring how technical augmentation of the home can improve the quality of people’s lives. In the home of the future, Home automation technology is becoming as synonymous with sustainability as it is with convenience. Incorporating smart home technology into a new or existing structure makes it easier to reduce energy consumption and the carbon footprint a home or business creates. People could enjoy save energy and green their home using home automation. The purpose of U-Homes-2012 is to provide a world-class meeting place for information exchanges and trade fair for promoting Smart home novel technologies.

Tom Kerber, Parks Associates will be participating on the panel, "The Connected Home" at 8:30 AM.

Parks Associates is supporting NTEC's Entrepreneurial Opportunities Breakfast, The Connected Home.

So what is the "connected home" and why should I care?  For many of us, our first exposure to the connected home was through a smart meter roll-out by our electric utility company.   Did you know that the smart meter is only one small part of the connected home story?  GE, Samsung, and LG are providing us with smart, connected appliances; ADT is integrating their security solutions (cameras and sensors) with the connected home; your audio, video, and TV are joining in on the fun. Add your thermostat, your electric vehicle, and even your blinds and ceiling fans and you begin to get an idea of what makes up the connected home.  Now imagine controlling all of these connected products from your mobile device or laptop, from anywhere in the world.  Join us for this fascinating discussion on the opportunities and challenges of building out, connecting to, using, and servicing the technologies behind the connected home.

Parks Associates is supporting mHealth World Congress.

Jennifer Kent, Research Analyst, Parks Associates will participating on the Keynote Panel Discussion "Consumer Trends – What Mobile Technologies will Prevail and Why?" on July 26 from 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM.

The 4th Annual mHealth World gathers national and international health care and technology executives discussing the latest applications and strategic initiatives being executed as mobile technologies transform the future delivery of health care. Over the course of two days you’ll have the opportunity to engage in keynote presentations, debates, summits, case studies and innovation trend forums to hear from healthcare providers, health plans, developers, employers manufacturers, and distributors on the opportunities and the sustainable business models being rapidly deployed that are changing access and delivery of care. mHealth World showcases the latest mobile technologies and features leading industry leaders who are the forefront of utilizing these applications.
 

Parks Associates is supporting CONVERGE 2012.

The healthcare industry is in the midst of a major structural transformation. Don’t miss your chance to connect with top executives from this new converged ecosystem to find out what matters and why. Attend CONVERGE: a one-day executive summit about innovation and convergence in healthcare. On July 10 in Philadelphia, you’ll meet with the most innovative hospital leaders and top decision makers from the medical device, pharma, health IT and investor communities. You’ll join in the debate and discussion of the leading trends driving this transformation, share best practices with those driving today’s healthcare innovations and be introduced to the most promising startups. Register today with code Parks25 to save 25%: http://medcitynews.ticketleap.com/converge/

Parks Associates is supporting the Mobile VAS Forum 2012.

The only event that brings together the whole VAS industry from all around South, Central America and the Caribbean
Mobile VAS Forum is the only event focused on VAS & Messaging experiences that brings together the key players of the mobile industry to discuss the most effective strategies to increase revenue for mobile operators. This summit combines educative content and real life experiences, assessing the state of the industry and identifying new areas of growth with an occasion for one to one interaction and networking. The high-level networking summit Mobile VAS Forum 2012 will discuss the critical steps to move forward industry. Its agenda is based on service deployment, mobile content, corporate applications, multimedia services, entertainment, games, mobile payments, mobile communities and marketing.
 

 Tom Kerber, Director, Research, Home Controls & Energy, Parks Associates will participate on the session, "The New Competitive Landscape: Telcos, Cable Companies and Beyond" on June 26 from 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM in Room 202.

Verizon, Comcast and other telecoms are invading the market, so what are security integration and monitoring companies to do? This seminar will highlight the strategies and motivations of the re-entrance of the cable companies and Telcos, including newer players to the industry. In this session, you'll get an insider's view into the motivations of these companies as they relate to the security industry and their bundled services strategies.

ESX is the only major, national trade event focused purely on the needs of installation, integration and monitoring companies. ESX offers business, product and market information and connections invaluable to these companies and focuses intensely on the growth and maintenance of their key asset -- Recurring Monthly Revenue or RMR.

Parks Associates is supporting Global Messaging World Congress 2012.

Although often highlighted as one of the traditional revenue streams of operators which is being eroded by OTT services, SMS and other messaging platforms account for a truly phenomenal global revenue figure, over and beyond the combined music and film industries.
Messaging is truly significant still and smart devices are driving A2P and M2M messaging revenues.

Preventing spam and „through the back-door? messaging is key to retaining the value and revenue generating capacity of messaging for operators. This will be the key theme of the event – how to ensure the value and revenue of messaging, preventing costs to the operator of third-party illicit messaging traffic and monetising innovative new messaging services.

The event will be focused on global operator case studies, including from important growth markets such as India and Africa (MTN etc).
 

Parks Associates is supporting SIMposium Global 2012.

For over a decade the SIMalliance has been supporting the creation, deployment and management of secure mobile services across the globe and it is proud to return again to Berlin to deliver the 6th Annual SIMposium Global, with Informa Telecoms & Media.

Now fully established across the wide mobile internet ecosystem as the meeting place for the broad ecosystem of application developers, global payment providers, manufacturers, end-user brands and of course, mobile network operators, the event tackles some of the biggest issues that are touching the mobile community in 2012. Keeping in line with the SIMalliance’s objectives and work, the streamed two day event addresses and offers solutions to the security, identity and mobility challenges of an increasingly converged internet.

With the NFC technology driving the mobile industry to the tipping point of contactless payment success, anticipated LTE roll out opening up new opportunities and challenges, as well as M2M communications advancing into consumer electronics, 2012 is going to see an even noisier and busier SIMposium Global.

Brett Sappington, Director of Research, is speaking on TV Everywhere at the CTAM Consortium: Advanced Cable Solutions Consortium Mid-Year Meeting from 9:30 AM - 12:50 PM.

TV Everywhere services have experienced amazing growth over the past two years, primarily in response to the rising alternatives to pay TV services. Today, over 86% of North American pay TV subscribers and over half of European pay TV subscribers are able to receive a TV Everywhere / multiscreen service from their current pay TV provider. While operators are expanding and enhancing their service offerings, many are looking beyond churn reduction to the business models that will allow TV Everywhere services to drive new revenues. This presentation will look at the market dynamics related to TV Everywhere, the growing threats and opportunities for operators, and the potential future for multiscreen services.

Jim O'Neill, Research Analyst, Parks Associates will be participating on the webinar, "Unified Communications - Opportunities and Obstacles" at 2:00 PM ET.

Ask five Enterprise or SMB chief executives what "Unified Communications" means, and you?re likely to get five different answers. Ask the same of their IT Department heads and it?s a little simpler: Headaches.

Universally, UC increasingly is being looked at by businesses as a way to contain costs, expand reach and simplify communications?both internally and externally. But there are stumbling blocks. Interoperability, proof of ROI and a lack of understanding all are contributing to what has been fitful progress for the technology. Add to that the increasing trend of employees to want to bring their own devices (BYOD) to the workplace, and there?s an entirely new range of headaches, security concerns and software issues.

Businesses, of course, want to know that the technology they purchase will be interoperable with the technology that they already have, that their ROI is going to be real, and they want to know what, exactly, is included in today?s UC ecosystem. Increasingly, service providers are suggesting cloud options as a way to minimize CapEx. But going to the cloud introduces issues of its own, and many businesses remain skeptical that it?s a viable option.

But, with the increase in mobility that the U.S. workforce is experiencing, as telecommuting and home offices become the norm, and as companies look to reduce travel costs and minimize time lost out of pocket for employees, the time is ripe for unified communications and videoconferencing vendors.

Join FierceEnterpriseCommunications and a panel of industry experts as they look at what unified communications means today and where it?s headed.

Parks Associates is supporting Digital Home World Summit (previously known as the Connected Home World Summit).

Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates is chairing the afternoon sessions on June 19 starting at 2:20 PM.

Arthur Baanders, EU Research Representative, Parks Associates will present during Breakfast Briefing, "IP SERVICES and THE CLOUD" on June 20 from 8:15 AM - 9:00 AM.  How are IP home services introduced in Europe? Do they follow the U.S. strategy? Zigbee versus Z-wave in the US and is that the same in Europe? Which SP’s did start with pilots and what is the status of these initiatives? Can SP’s deliver these services at the same pricing levels as the SP’s in the US (Verizon, etc). How important are the roles of the TV (with its remote control) and the cloud in these services?  

The Digital Home World Summit 2012 will look at TV and media services on multiple devices inside the home and how best to connect them to access same or different content for maximized customer experience. The position of home gateways will be explored – types of devices that will offer the best location to residential gateways to manage the future digital home and technologies that will enable fastest and easiest connectivity.

Parks Associates is supporting TMT Finance & Investment Africa 2012.

This prestigious event is designed to provide a premier platform for business leaders and financial and legal professionals active in the telecom media and technology sector in Africa markets.