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CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Home Conference and
Showcase Hosts 950+ Executives, examining the business and market
opportunities for “Digital Living” Industries
Parks Associates and CEA® hosted more than 950 executives at
CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase on May 2-4 at
the Santa Clara Convention Center.
CONNECTIONS™ is the largest executive conference and showcase
dedicated to advanced digital lifestyle solutions for residential and
mobile environments. This year’s conference topics include digital
entertainment, mobile platforms & services, home networking &
infrastructure, home management & digital health, and broadband & IP
services.
“CONNECTIONS™ was emblematic in its participation, its speakers,
and its sponsors in the very real shift of this market beyond ‘digital
home’ to a holistic ‘digital lifestyle’ perspective,” said
Kurt
Scherf, vice president and principal analyst from Parks Associates.
“With advances encompassing access networks, content, advanced customer
premise equipment, and the estimated 700 million and more connected
devices expected by 2010, CONNECTIONS™ participants found great excitement
in the opportunities that await this industry.”
Over 110 key industry executives provided their insights into the
status and direction of the digital lifestyle domains, with speakers from
a variety of market, including home controls, entertainment, service
provision, consumer electronics, and venture capital.
Diamond
sponsors for CONNECTIONS™ are Accenture, Panasonic, Siemens Home
Entertainment, and the ZigBee™ Alliance.
Platinum
sponsors are iControl Networks, Intel Corp., Multimedia over Coax
Alliance (MoCA™), Philips Electronics, Pulse~LINK, Inc., Streamlined Home,
and Zensys.
Keynotes for the event were the following:
“IPTV – The
Future of Television,” by
Peter Barrett, Chief Technology Officer and General Manager of
Engineering, Microsoft TV Group
“Digital
Home Services: Framing the New Opportunities,” by
Allen Delattre, Global Managing Director, Electronics & High Tech
Industry Practice, Accenture
“Delivering the
Digital Lifestyle,” by
Michael Grasso, Assistant Vice President – Consumer Marketing, AT&T U-verseSM
“Linking the
Emerging Platforms in the Digital Home,” by
William O. Leszinske, Jr., General Manager, Networked Media Platform
Group, Intel Corporation
“Digital
Technology, Content & Consumers – Connecting the Dots,” by
Gary
Shapiro, President and CEO, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®)
CONNECTIONS™ 2007 will be held May 1-3, 2007, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center. For information on early sponsorship opportunities,
please visit
www.connectionsconference.com or e-mail
sales@parksassociates.com.
About CONNECTIONS™
CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference and
Showcase, hosted by leading research firm Parks Associates in
partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®), is
the premier executive event focused on the market developments
and growth factors for advanced digital lifestyle solutions.
CONNECTIONS™ sessions provide high-level
research, knowledge, and analysis to over 1,000 executives from
the converging industries developing products and services for
consumers. Topics include IPTV and “TV 2.0,” bundled services,
consumer storage, mobile applications and content, social and
digital media, and home and lifestyle management.
For twelve years, the following industries have
participated at CONNECTIONS™: new media, digital entertainment
and gaming, home networks, Internet and television services,
software and middleware, digital health, mobile applications and
services, consumer electronics, and home control systems and
security.
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.
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™, in
partnership with 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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