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Eastman Kodak, Disney, Nortel, AOL, and others to
provide insight at Parks Associates pre-show workshop The Digital Home
Highway
Parks Associates will host a workshop,
The
Digital Home Highway, on January 5, 2005, in Las Vegas, Nevada, prior
to 2005 International CES. This workshop will provide the latest consumer
data and analysis on topics ranging from digital rights management to
multimedia products and services.
In this workshop, Parks Associates’ analysts will present the latest
research on the digital-living markets, and industry executives will
discuss their specific efforts to build successful business models in this
domain. This event will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a special
leadership panel for the lunch session.
Parks Associates estimates that 26% of all Internet households now
download video every month and 60% use digital music.
“The
Digital Home Highway will be a great primer for your week at CES,”
said John
Barrett, director of research at Parks Associates. “It will provide
the market context needed to distinguish leading-edge products from
bleeding-edge products at the show. Moreover, attendees will have the
advantage of both expert analysis and ‘rubber meets the road’ experiences
from executives in this market space.”
The morning sessions, titled Opportunities, Pot Holes, and Speed
Bumps, will examine issues fundamental to the success of the digital
home, including broadband deployment, the state of on-demand services and
technologies, and digital rights management.
Participating industry executives:
Alain Fernando-Santana, CEO, NetCentrex
Mark Gray, CEO, Kasenna
Chris Parkerson, DRM Evangelist, RSA Security
Key executives from Eastman Kodak, Disney, Nortel, and AOL will
participate in the special luncheon session Paving the Highway: Leaders
in the Digital Home Market. Moderated by
Kurt Scherf,
vice resident and principal analyst at Parks Associates, this panel will
examine past successes, present accomplishments, and future challenges to
the digital home.
Luncheon speakers:
Mark Cook, Director, Imaging Systems Strategy, Eastman
Kodak
Peter Lee, Vice President, The Walt Disney Company
Walt Megura, General Manager, Broadband Networks, Nortel Networks
Neil Smith, General Manager, AOL Digital Media Services Group
The afternoon sessions, titled The Consumer and Multimedia Vehicles,
will focus on multimedia convergence and consumer issues.
Participating industry executives:
Colin L.M. Macnab, Vice President of Marketing & Business
Development, Atheros
Idan Kessel, Senior Vice President of Business Development, TMT
Coaxial Networks
The Digital Home Highway will take place January 5, 2005, 9 a.m. to 4
p.m., in the South Hall, rooms 106-107, in the Las Vegas Convention
Center. The workshop has three parts, and attendees can purchase either a
full- or half-day pass. The lunch session is included with both options.
To register for
The
Digital Home Highway, go to
www.cesweb.org. For
more information on this event, go to
www.parksassociates.com. 2005
International CES will run January 6-9, 2004, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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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