Intelligent home assistant devices have reach 5% adoption among U.S. broadband households

Parks Associates announced today that David Isbitski, Chief Evangelist Alexa and Echo, Amazon, will be a featured keynote speaker at CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference, May 24-26 in San Francisco. The research firm is hosting the twentieth anniversary of this IoT conference at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, with other keynotes delivered by executives from Comcast Cable and Vivint Smart Home.

“We are pleased to welcome Amazon as a keynote speaker at CONNECTIONS™,” said Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates. “The company made significant inroads in the smart home category with the Echo and Alexa products, including dramatic announcements at CES® 2016 and memorable Super Bowl ads. Our latest consumer research at the end of 2015 shows this new category of intelligent home assistant devices has already reached 5% adoption among U.S. broadband households. We look forward to Mr. Isbitski’s insight.”

CONNECTIONS™ hosts over 650 senior executives in the connected entertainment, IoT, and smart home industries to focus on the successful use cases and emerging business models to engage consumers and grow revenues. Throughout CONNECTIONS™, the Parks Associates research team presents consumer adoption and forecasts of new products and services, evaluates new business strategies, and shares concrete recommendations about technology innovations, strategic partnerships, monetization opportunities, and value-added services.

“With smartphone adoption at nearly 90% of U.S. broadband households, the smartphone has been the default controller for many smart home and IoT connections,” said Harry Wang, Director, Health and Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates. “These users have also expanded their use of alternate interfaces, including voice control—almost 40% of smartphone users use the voice recognition function. These market conditions helped drive the successful launch and early sales of the Amazon Echo, which could soon challenge the smartphone as the primary controller for the connected home.”

David Isbitski has helped launch numerous technology platforms, frameworks, and programming languages across an array of devices at both Microsoft and Amazon. Other CONNECTIONS™ keynote speakers include Matt Eyring, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Vivint Smart Home, and Daniel Herscovici, SVP & GM, Xfinity Home, Comcast Cable.

CONNECTIONS™ has announced the following speakers for its twentieth anniversary:

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The CONNECTIONS™ sponsorship area will feature software, hardware, middleware, services, and corollary products and solutions in digital entertainment, home networking, home systems, broadband access, residential gateways, energy management, and mobile entertainment.

Early event sponsors include Reception Sponsors CEL and Zonoff; Session Sponsor Icontrol Networks; Silver Sponsors Alarm.com, Assurant, Asurion, ROC-Connect, Support.com, ULE Alliance, WiZR, ZigBee; Bronze Sponsors Ayla Networks, Flex, WeatherBug Home, and Z-Wave; Program Guide Sponsor Vivint; Breakfast Sponsors Greenwave Systems and Waxman CPG (leakSMART); and Break Sponsors Home8, Nortek and Tyco.

To schedule an interview with an analyst or request specific research, contact Holly Sprague at hsprague@gmail.com, 720.987.6614.

About CONNECTIONS™

Parks Associates' 29th annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference is hosted May 13-15 at Renaissance Dallas at Plano Legacy in Plano, Texas, and brings industry leaders together to provide insights and business forecasting about the adoption of technology including broadband, smart home, security, connected health, energy, and home automation.

CONNECTIONS™ provides ongoing insights throughout the year with virtual and in-person conference sessions. Parks Associates' analyst team leads the conference sessions, which are focused on technology innovations, consumer adoption and trends, product and service forecasts, and the evaluation of new business strategies, partnerships, monetization opportunities, and value-added service design.

CONNECTIONS™ is a pivotal platform for partnerships and exploring the future of technology adoption and its impact on consumers and businesses. www.connectionsus.com