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Intel Keynote at CONNECTIONS™ to address in-home
entertainment experience
CONNECTIONS™ announced
today that
William O. Leszinske, Jr., General Manager, Networked Media Platform
Group, Intel Corp., will provide the closing Keynote for the event’s
second day, May 3, 2006, at 3:45 p.m.
CONNECTIONS™: The Digital
Home Conference and Showcase will take place at the Santa Clara
Convention Center, May 2-4, 2006. In his keynote,
Linking the
Emerging Platforms in the Digital Home, Leszinske will look inside
the digital home and discuss the role of entertainment PCs, digital TVs,
and networked media products, including successful strategies for linking
these platforms to deliver a rich in-home entertainment experience.
CONNECTIONS™, produced
by Parks Associates in partnership with the Consumer Electronics
Association, 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.
Recent research from Parks Associates reveals that online entertainment
revenues will grow from $2.4 billion in 2006 to nearly $9 billion in 2010.
Critical to this growth is broadband usage and innovations in digital
entertainment platforms and content service.
“Intel has been a strong leader and advocate of the digital-living
vision for many years now, tackling the difficult task of combining
connectivity with consumer needs on multiple levels, from digital
entertainment to healthcare,” said
Stuart
Sikes, president of Parks Associates. “Intel’s insight will be a great
benefit to our audience this year as we see more and more devices and
environments added to the digital home.”
Bill Leszinske is the general manager of the Networked Media Platform
Group within Intel Corporation's Digital Home Group. He previously served
as the Intel® Viiv™ technology platform manager.
Leszinske joined Intel in 1989 and holds a BS in electrical
engineering from Texas A&M University.
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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