Dates 
7-9 May 2003

Location
The Fairmont
San Jose
170 South Market St.
San Jose, CA 95113
United States

CONNECTIONS™ 2003 was another great event. Attendees had access to interactive panels, featured speakers, keynote speakers and a showcase area demonstrating the products and services of the networked home. 

Track A: Entertainment at Home
Track B: Wireless Connectivity
Track C: The Visionaries
Track D: Home and Hearth 
Track E: Distribution

Identifying CONNECTIONS™ 2003 Session Tracks

This track covers the realm of digital entertainment. Subjects to be discussed and debated include content provision and protection, the development of network-capable platforms (consumer electronics and PCs), the impact of innovative solutions developers (semiconductors, middleware, operating systems, and user interfaces), and the role of service providers (cable and satellite television provision, telcos, and ISPs).

This track focuses on the role of wireless networking solutions across networking applications and scenarios. Issues and topics for discussion and debate include the role of service providers in deploying wireless solutions at home, at the office, or in public locations; solutions for protecting the network; and the expansion of the wireless footprint to include short-range and multimedia applications. 

This track provides attendees with a glimpse of both short- and long-range opportunities for connectivity across applications and geographies, including mobile connectivity, new interfaces, innovations in personal communication, the burgeoning home health care aspect, and international markets such as Europe and China. Panel participants vary from hardware and solutions developers addressing today’s markets to industry visionaries whose efforts include innovative technology developments for both today and tomorrow’s needs. 

Home management applications are rapidly expanding to incorporate a host of applications that were unforeseen just a few years ago. These sessions give attendees a realistic view of the opportunities and challenges in the provision of such technology features that incorporate home control, security and safety, energy management, and personal care. 

Getting home networking products and services into the hands of the end user is a key piece to the digital value chain. This session brings together representatives across the distribution chain, including mass retail, service providers, installers, and home builders, to offer their unique perspectives on selling the concept of home connectivity to today’s and tomorrow’s end users.

As the markets for home networks and residential gateways begin to demonstrate the real potential that has been predicted for a number of years, the companies along the value chain – including content aggregators, service providers, middleware designers, chip manufacturers, and the developers of home management systems and platforms (particularly in the PC and consumer electronics industries) – require the latest insight and direction to these fast-moving markets.

Michael Greeson
Senior Analyst and Director of Broadband Research
Parks Associates

Yuanzhe (Michael) Cai
Analyst
Parks Associates

The CABA Standards Committee monitors activities of protocol/standards groups that affects the home and building automation industry, provides opportunities for exchanges of information and facilitates industry-wide interoperability.

A major focus of the Committee is to develop strategies to promote CABA members' products/services and to educate end-use stakeholders. This Committee is also designed to monitor and identify business practices and technologies that will enhance CABA's market position as the source of information for the home and building automation industries.

Louis J. Burns
Vice President, Intel Corporation
Co-General Manager, Desktop Platforms Group

Kevin Corbett
Director, Marketing and Strategic Planning
Desktop Platforms Group
Intel Corporation

Today, consumers are acquiring, viewing, and managing digital media on both CE and PC devices. What they want is to easily and conveniently enjoy this content - regardless of source - across different devices and locations in the home. This combination of simple, seamless interoperability of CE and PC devices creates tremendous opportunity for innovation and is already bringing new, exciting products and services to consumers.

During their keynote, Louis Burns and Kevin Corbett will discuss what Intel is doing to accelerate the convergence of CE and PC devices, and will elaborate on the work that is underway to provide this level of interoperability through industry collaboration on standards and products.

Sponsored by Best Buy

Kevin Eagan
General Manager
Windows eHome Division
Microsoft Corp.

Both PC and CE companies have made significant investments in digital media and home networking, yielding new products that connect PCs and devices for distributing digital content throughout the home. In his keynote address, Kevin Eagan will discuss Microsoft's “big bet” that advanced Media Center PCs and networked AV devices that integrate PC platform technologies — including Windows Media, Universal Plug and Play, and 802.11 wireless — will offer the best opportunities in the home.

Eagan will share insights from Microsoft's consumer research, engineering efforts, and business plans to help hardware manufacturers, software developers, and service providers predict which technologies and capabilities have the best chances for broad, long-term consumer adoption.

The Promise of Digital in the Whole Home

Home networks create new category benefits in applications ranging from communications to entertainment to premise management, and a variety of different entities will be instrumental in increasing their distribution.

In this session, hear key industry and government leaders' views on the emergence of the digital home, its importance to American consumers, and its dollar potential. From the chip to the government involvement, these leaders express their plans for the short- and mid-term future.

Moderator:
Tricia Parks, President, Parks Associates

Jens Jensen
Vice President, Marketing
Semiconductors
Consumer MultiMedia
Philips Semiconductors

Bruce Mehlman
Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy
U.S. Department of Commerce

Patrick Moorhead
Vice President
Customer Advocacy
AMD;
Chairman
Global Consumer Advisory Board

Join us for this panel discussion led by Global Inventures and Parks Associates with participants from the HomePlug® Powerline Alliance, the UPnP™ Implementers Corporation, and the OSGi™, WiMedia™, and ZigBee™ Alliances. Over the past five years, exciting new wired and wireless technologies and standards have emerged to offer an unprecedented number of connected solutions in the home. Hear this panel of leaders address the progress, the issues, and the outlooks for these solutions. This will be an interactive panel so come ready with questions.

Moderator:
Deepak Kamlani, Founder, President, and CEO, Global Inventures Inc.
Tricia Parks, President, Parks Associates

John Barr
Director, Standards Realization
Motorola, Inc.
representing the OSGi™ Alliance

Bob Heile
Chair
IEEE 802.15 Working Group on Wireless Personal Area Networks
representing the ZigBee™ Alliance

Peter Kempf
Vice President of Business Development
Conexant Systems
representing the HomePlug® Powerline Alliance

Jim Meyer
Vice President of Business Development
Time Domain Corporation
representing the WiMedia™ Alliance

Stephen Whalley
Manager of Technology Marketing with the Desktop Architecture Lab
Intel
representing the UPnP™ Implementers Corporation

The broadband and home networking markets have emerged and hit a new plateau. Many of the pieces of the home of the future exist today. So what does the future hold? John Marshall will discuss the need for an integrated service delivery platform.

This platform and its components are necessary for Internet service providers and content providers, in order to increase their revenues and maintain customer loyalty. In addition, a comprehensive solution is the key to providing consumers with the next generation of products and services they will soon seek.

John Marshall
Vice President of Marketing
2Wire Inc.

Concurrent Tracks
Track A: Entertainment at Home

Creating a Value Proposition for Connected Entertainment: The Role of Content

The lure and promise of connected entertainment in the home are palpable to consumers and the industry alike. "Entertainment anywhere, anytime, and anyplace" means more choice and convenience to end users, and it can deliver the "Holy Grail" of monthly recurring revenues to companies. But with this promise come many questions – the challenges of content provision, partnerships with service providers, and of course digital rights management issues. This panel of industry players and experts discusses and debates the provision of content to end users.

Moderator:
Allison Dollar, Co-President, ITA
Kurt Scherf, Vice President of Research, Parks Associates

Michael Collette
CEO
Ucentric Systems

Ed Forman
Senior Vice President, Marketing
ICTV

Lee Friedman
Chief Services Architect
BellSouth Internet Group

Chris Allen
Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning
MUSICMATCH

Ty Roberts
CTO
Gracenote

Steve Saunders
Project Manager for Home Networks
CableLabs

Gold Room

Wireless Networks: From Here to Ubiquity?

The benefits of untethered access have turned the promise of wireless connectivity into reality, a clear success story in the networking industry. Having made initial forays into the market, now a myriad of vendors and service providers have their sights set on expanding the wireless footprint from the home and office environments to mobile and public locations. What opportunities and challenges will exist to the players seeking to expand the wireless influence? Hear a panel of diverse players discuss such topics as the role of service providers, emerging security solutions, the market requirements for connectivity in corporate and "hot spot" environments, and other key subjects.

Moderator:
Yuanzhe (Michael) Cai, Analyst, Parks Associates

McGregor (Mac) Agan
Director of Wireless Industry Marketing
Wireless Networking Division
Intel Corporation

Sheung Li
Product Line Manager
Atheros

Vivek Pathela
Director of Product Marketing
NETGEAR, Inc.

Pat Romano
VP of Engineering
2Wire

Jim Zyren
Director of Marketing, Wireless Networking
Intersil Corp.

Club Regent

The Vision: The Strategy for Value-added Services

The profitability of legacy infrastructures continues to decline as traditional "cash cow" services become commodities differentiated primarily by price. This trend is extending into the broadband realm, where narrowing profit margins for raw transport and Internet access services exacerbate the "profit squeeze."

Service providers seek to combat this commoditization by leveraging their existing backbone network assets in new ways. By finding cost-effective ways to "add value to packets" (i.e., to deliver higher-margin IP services) – including data, voice, and video services – companies can attract and retain a lucrative customer base. This session looks at technologies that turn the promise of IP into reality, discusses the prime markets for such services, and provides a roadmap for future service provisioning.

Moderator:
Michael Greeson, Senior Analyst and Director of Broadband Research, Parks Associates

David Horoschak
Sr. Marketing & Business Development Manager
Motorola, Inc.

Marc Morin
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Sandvine Inc.

Craig Soderquist
President & CEO
Core Networks

Michael Stich
Director, Strategic Marketing
Texas Instruments

Ofer Vilenski
CEO
Jungo Software Technologies

Henry Juszkiewicz
Chairman and CEO
Gibson Labs

Mr. Juszkiewicz will talk about the new high-bandwidth, low-latency, digital transport technology and how it will revolutionize not just our electronic equipment, but our lives and our culture.

Just as engineers in the age of vacuum tubes couldn’t fully grasp how profoundly the world would be changed by the transistor, and transistor designers could never have imagined the cultural changes that have come as a result of the integrated circuit, we can predict only the most immediate innovations that new digital transport technology will bring, such as digital guitars, simplified-yet-more-sophisticated home audio systems and live concert sound systems, etc. The possibilities are literally beyond imagination.

Concurrent Tracks
Track A: Entertainment at Home

Moderator:
Yuanzhe (Michael) Cai, Analyst, Parks Associates

Michael Harris
Chief Technology Officer
Digital 5, Inc.

Jim Hollingsworth
President ReplayTV
Digital Networks North America

Mark Stiving
President
Destiny Networks

Glen Stone
Director Strategy, Standards & Architecture
Network & Systems Architecture Division, Network & Software Technology Center of America
Sony Electronics Inc.

Jeremy Toeman
Products & Services Vice President
Mediabolic, Inc.

Gold Room

Concurrent Tracks
Track B: Wireless Connectivity

Moderators:
Claudia Bacco, President, TeleChoice
Kurt Scherf, Vice President of Research, Parks Associates

Tom Flanagan
Worldwide Director of Broadband Strategy
Broadband Communications Group
Texas Instruments Inc.

Pierre Gandolfo
Board Member
WiMedia™ Alliance; Product Manager
XtremeSpectrum

Charles Gerlach
Communications Sector Lead
IBM Institute for Business Value

Stephen Saltzman
Director, Strategic Investments
Intel Capital

Club Regent

Concurrent Tracks
Track C: The Visionaries

The development of mobile data, telemetry, information, and entertainment services has paved the way for new and innovative companies to address applications beyond home networking. This panel brings together the innovators who are developing the markets for telehealth and automobile telematics, two market niches that are expected to grow rapidly in coming years.

Moderator:
Michael Greeson, Senior Analyst and Director of Broadband Research, Parks Associates

Rajiv Jaluria
President and CEO
Sensitron

Jeff Perry
Director of Research & Development
Philips Telemonitoring Services

Sugata Sanyal
Director, PRONTO++ Software & Systems
Philips Electronics

Tim Woods
Vice President of Ecosystem Development
Internet Home Alliance

When all is said and done, what matters most to leaders in home networking is the promise of renewed profits and a healthy bottom line. This closing plenary brings to stage some of the industry’s leading investors, who will present the promise and pitfalls of investing in today’s market. What are their measures for success, and where do they see real opportunity developing over the short and long term?

Moderators:
Tricia Parks, President, Parks Associates
Kurt Scherf, Vice President of Research, Parks Associates

Jeremy Levine
Principal
Bessemer Venture Partners

Stephen Saltzman
Director, Strategic Investments
Intel Capital

Today's homebuyers have changed in their work habits and technology expectations. The home they purchase needs to act as a highly connected remote office, audio-video entertainment experience, and self-managing electronic organism. The technology that enables this is not only available today, it's affordable too!

This presentation provides a clear overview and understanding of the rapidly growing market for network wiring infrastructure.  Click here for more information.

Friday 9 MAY 2003

The value a consumer places on content or services is proportional to its availability. However, there is not yet a good way available for most consumers to distribute content throughout their homes. Retail solutions should avoid professional installations or consumer adoption issues. Content and service providers demand content protection and quality delivery. Operators want to manage distribution to and within the home. Consumers want both privacy and easy access. Everyone requires adequate bandwidth for simultaneous, multiple applications and guaranteed quality consistent with premium pay services; a difficult task for wireless and existing wires solutions. In addition, so many product connections, including DVI, 1394, Ethernet, RCA jacks, coax, and S-Video, make accessing content a confusing and frustrating experience.

While daunting, these issues are being solved. This panel of experts including service operators, CE and set-top-box manufacturers, and technology providers, will answer the crucial questions - How and When?

Moderator:
Tricia Parks, President, Parks Associates
Bill Rose, President, WJR Consulting

Vincent Izzo
Director, Advanced Home Services over Broadband
Motorola, Broadband Communications Sector

Dave Kummer
Senior Vice President Of Engineering and Systems
EchoStar Technologies Corporation

Ladd Wardani
Vice President, Business Development
Entropic

Concurrent Tracks
Track A: Entertainment at Home

Today's consumers expect more from entertainment at home, including on-demand programming and flexibility in content delivery. Content providers and hardware manufacturers in home entertainment must anticipate and match the end users changing appetites for entertainment in the home.  This session includes leaders from both the PC and the consumer electronics industry, who will debate and discuss the role of platforms in integrating entertainment applications within the residential environment.

Moderator:
Andy Tarczon, Research Sales and Services, Parks Associates

Karen Nelson Howe
CEO/General Manager
Singingfish Inc.

Vincent Izzo
Director, Advanced Home Services over Broadband
Motorola, Broadband Communications Sector

Joe Keller
Product Manager
Hewlett-Packard

Rob Lilleness
President and COO
Universal Electronics

David Manner
Director, Product Marketing
Adaptec

Concurrent Tracks
Track C: The Visionaries

Moderator:
Michael Greeson, Senior Analyst and Director of Broadband Research, Parks Associates

Win Burleson
Ph.D. Candidate
MIT Media Lab (Context-Aware Computing Group)

Concurrent Tracks
Track D: Home and Hearth

Moderator:
Kurt Scherf, Vice President of Research, Parks Associates

Bob Deane
Project Coordinator
My Connected Home

Marlee Lauffer
Vice President, Marketing and Communications
Newhall Land

Concurrent Tracks
Track E: Distribution

Moderator:
William Ablondi, Director, ePanel Research, Parks Associates
Tricia Parks, President, Parks Associates

Nancy Rae Kielty
Director, Business Development
Best Buy

David McLean
Product Manager
Fluke Networks

Randy Stearns
Owner & President
Engineered Environments

Gold Room

Moderator:
David Dern, CABA

Sanjeev Thakkar
Director of Business Development
MyCasa Network

Frank Homann
Executive Vice President
Zensys

Chris Wildfoerster
Manager of Business Development
Crestron Electronics

Bob Wise
President and Chief Operating Officer
Home Director, Inc.

Club Regent

Moderator:
Yuanzhe (Michael) Cai, Analyst, Parks Associates
Kurt Scherf, Vice President of Research, Parks Associates

George Alexy
President and CEO
BRECIS Communications

Lixin Cheng
Director, Business Management
Ericsson Wireless Communications Inc.

Avner Matmor
President & CEO
ITRAN Communications

Graham Nicholls
CEO
Homeportal

Peter Strong
CTO
nSine

Putting Rubber to Road: Turning the CONNECTIONS Vision Into Reality

Join the Parks' analyst team as they wrap up CONNECTIONS with a closing discussion on the key highlights from this year's show and provide analysis and outlook for 2003 and 2004.

Michael Greeson
Senior Analyst and Director of Broadband Research
Parks Associates

Tricia Parks
President
Parks Associates

Kurt Scherf
Vice President of Research
Parks Associates

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