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The Digital Millennium to Transform
Homes and Lifestyles
Mark your calendar! Parks
Associates' 12th annual conference —
Forum’99: Defining the Digital
Millennium — will be held October 25 - 27 at the Westin Mission Hills in Palm
Springs, CA. Forum’99 is the only conference providing a complete,
cross-category perspective about emerging and potential business opportunities for the
home electronics and service markets. Conference sessions will address current activities,
trends, and innovations, as well as future projections by industry leaders in the
following areas:
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Home Infrastructure: Networks and Gateways
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PCs and Peripherals: Continuing Evolution
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Entertainment: New Equipment, Opportunities, and Risks
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Home Control and Services: Surfing the Network Wave
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Security and Safety: Beyond the Burglar Alert
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Energy Management: Utility Competition and the Homeowner
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Information Appliances (Internet Anywhere): Extending the Information Revolution
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Communications: Seizing Opportunity from the Love/Hate Relationship of Consumers and
Their Phones
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Builders: A Niche Market with Goliath Impact
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Home Dwellers: What Do They Want and Why They Purchase
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Distribution: Changing Retail and Installer Business Models.
Among all of these areas, the role of the Internet is a constant theme and its impact
is truly cross-category. However, there remain fundamental industry evolution issues which
will be addressed at Forum’99. Most important to attendees, Forum will
offer sessions on the "state-of-the-consumer-mind," information critical
to those companies marketing to tomorrow’s digital consumer.
Forum also provides participants the ideal platform for showcasing innovations.
Co-located this year with the EIA/CEMA Fall Conference, Forum offers its
largest-ever opportunity to demonstrate new products and services to industry, government,
and financial leaders. Attend Forum to learn new ideas and facts from speakers and
your cross-industry peers in the cable, telecommunications, Internet, security, energy
utility, and home networking industries.
For more information about sponsoring the event or attending, please visit our Web site
at www.parksassociates.com, contact
Parks Associates at sales@parksassociates.com
or 972-490-1113.
About Parks Associates: Parks Associates is an
internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing
in emerging consumer technology products and services. Founded in 1986, Parks
Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to
small start-ups through market reports, primary studies, consumer research,
custom research, workshops, executive conferences, and annual service
subscriptions.
The company's expertise includes new media, digital
entertainment and gaming, home networks, Internet and television services,
digital health, mobile applications and services, consumer electronics, and home
control systems and security.
Each year, Parks Associates hosts executive thought
leadership conferences CONNECTIONS™, with support from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®), and CONNECTIONS™ Europe. In addition, Parks
Associates produces the online publication Industry Insights in
conjunction with the CONNECTIONS™ Conference series.
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