Over 50 Technology Companies and Organizations to Support CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase

Parks Associates and CEA have announced more than 50 Sponsors and Organizations that will be supporting CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase, to be held May 5-7, 2004, at the Wyndam Anatole in Dallas, TX. Many of these cutting-edge companies will be displaying on the event’s showcase floor, which will feature a variety of pioneering technologies for new wireless, multimedia, and networking applications, among others.

CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase, produced by Parks Associates in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association, is the largest international executive conference for digital home technologies.

Hosting over 550 attendees, CONNECTIONS™ provides a comprehensive review of all aspects of the digital home value chain. Industry and consumer perspectives are provided through presentation of Parks Associates and CEA research, keynote speakers, panel speakers, media and organization support, and a show floor displaying the latest technologies.

For more information on attending this event or participating as a sponsor, visit www.parksassociates.com. For information on participating as a sponsor, contact Candi Richardson at candi@parksassociates.com or call 972-490-1113.

PLATINUM SPONSORS

Bermai, Inc.
Nicole E. Martin, Manager, Marketing Communications; 650-331-8713; www.bermai.com

Founded in March 2001, Bermai is pioneering high performance, ultra-integrated chipsets for Wi-Fi applications from wireless LAN to wireless multimedia. Named one of the top 10 private wireless companies most likely to succeed by Technologic Partners, Bermai is the first company to demonstrate standards-based Wi-Fi connectivity with guaranteed QoS (Quality of Service) for high bandwidth, jitter intolerant multimedia applications such as streaming video. Unlike expensive, proprietary wireless multimedia chipsets, Bermai's cost-effective solution is based on the IEEE 802.11e draft standard and will interoperate with, not interfere with, existing 802.11/Wi-Fi networks. In addition, Bermai's innovative multi-transceiver (MIMO) technology provides for a robust link in the presence of multi-path interference, and the flexible architecture ensures final .11e standard compatibility along with Wi-Fi certification.

Global Inventures, Inc.
Deepak Kamlani, President and CEO; 925-275-6690; www.inventures.com

Global Inventures, Inc. provides customized and comprehensive management services to consortia, alliances and associations in the high-tech industry. Since 1993, Global Inventures has facilitated delivery of more than 20 specifications - including HAVi, HomePNA, HomePlug, OSGi and others related to communications infrastructure and web applications. Global Inventures, Inc. provides a full range of services from inception to market launch, and ongoing management & operations for high-technology initiatives: Organizational Infrastructure, Business Operations, Executive Management, Marketing and Events, and Web and IT.

Intel Corporation
Elaine Rainbolt, Marketing Manager; 408-765-8080; www.intel.com

For more than three decades, Intel Corporation has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. Founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world’s first microprocessor in 1971. Today, Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the “ingredients” of computers, servers, and networking and communications products. These products are used by industry members to create advanced computing and communications systems. Intel’s mission is to be the preeminent building block supplier to the Internet economy.

Zensys
Michael Dodge, Vice President of Marketing; 510-644-3590; www.zen-sys.com

Zensys is a leading provider of wireless networking technology for control and status reading applications. Our Z-Wave™ technology is an RF based, two-way; mesh network, communications protocol that enables everyday devices to be controlled and monitored wirelessly.

Zensys offers a family of low-cost, low-power, integrated MCU/Transceiver chips embedded with Z-Wave, as well as a suite of development tools and services making it easy for companies to develop wireless products for residential and light commercial applications including lighting and appliance control, energy management, access control, security, and building automation.

PLATINUM MEDIA SPONSOR

CNET
Abbey Flores, Director, Editorial Development; 415-344-2391; www.cnet.com

CNET is dedicated to helping people buy and use personal technology to enhance and enrich their lives. Providing expert and unbiased advice, CNET showcases the hottest products to hit the market and reviews thousands of products each year. Now, CNET also tells consumers the right time to buy and how products connect together into solutions, helping people use technology to get more out of life at work, at home, or on the road. Winner of countless awards, CNET aims to give people confidence in buying tech products, comfort in using them, and cachet in owning them.

Integrating an extensive directory of more than 200,000 technology products with editorial content, reviews, and price comparisons, CNET also gives consumers the most up-to-date and efficient shopping resource on the Web.

GOLD SPONSORS

Agere Systems Inc.
1-800-372-2447; www.agere.com

Agere Systems is a premier provider of advanced integrated circuit solutions for wireless data, high-density storage and multiservice networking applications. Agere’s wireless data portfolio enables seamless network access and Internet connectivity through its GPRS offering for data-capable cellular phones, as well as Wi-Fi/802.11 solutions for wireless LANs and computing applications. Agere is the market leader in providing integrated circuits for the hard disk drive market. Agere provides custom and standard multiservice networking solutions to move information across wired, wireless and enterprise networks. Agere’s customers include the leading PC manufacturers, wireless terminal providers, network equipment suppliers and hard-disk drive providers.

CompUSA Inc.
Sammy Saloum, Director Business Development; 972-528-3605; www.compusa.com

CompUSA Inc. is one of the nation's leading retailers and resellers of technology products and services. CompUSA now offers its customers a complete lifestyle solution with the recent addition of a digital entertainment department, blending its expertise in technology and home entertainment for a one-stop solution. CompUSA currently operates 225 CompUSA Superstores in over 90 major metropolitan markets across the United States and Puerto Rico that serve retail, small-to-medium businesses, corporate, government and education customers and includes technical service departments. Many of the stores include classroom-training facilities.

ITRAN Communications Ltd.
Mrs. Shani Dolov, Marketing Communications; 972-8-6235281; www.itrancomm.com

ITRAN Communications Ltd. is a leading provider of power line communications (PLC) modem integrated circuits. ITRAN designs, develops and markets high performance low cost modem chips, designed to provide reliable and robust communication over existing power grids and electrical wiring. The company's high performance products enable utilization of the power line medium for a wide variety of "No New Wires" narrowband and broadband applications, such as Command & Control, Remote Metering, Home and Industrial Automation, Internet Distribution in MDU.

Kenwood USA Corporation
1-800-KENWOOD; www.kenwoodusa.com

Kenwood USA is the largest sales subsidiary of Kenwood Corporation of Japan and it is responsible for the sales and marketing of Kenwood Home and Mobile Entertainment products in the USA, Canada and Mexico. For over forty years, Kenwood USA has designed audio and video products that are powerful, easy to use, and guaranteed to enhance your entertainment experience. Sit back, relax, and let Kenwood mobile and home entertainment systems give you the advantage of our award-winning expertise.

SILVER SPONSORS

Alereon
512-345-4200; www.alereon.com

Alereon is a fabless semiconductor company developing innovative Ultra Wideband chipsets. Our chipsets are designed to eliminate the need for cables around PCs and remove the tangle of wires in home entertainment systems. Alereon’s semiconductors will simplify wireless networking, making it effortless to connect portable electronics to one another, to PCs and to home entertainment systems.

Allegro Software Development Corporation
Edward Steinfeld, Market Consultant; 978-703-4719; www.allegrosoft.com

Allegro is a leading supplier of highly portable Internet Software Toolkits for embedded device manufacturers. As home-equipment manufacturers have adopted Internet protocols to implement the connected home, Allegro's processor and RTOS independent technology is being adopted as well. Software toolkits are available for UPnP technology (including Internet Gateway Device - IGD, Media Renderers, Servers, and Control Points). Additional low resource toolkits include Web servers and clients, email technology, SOAP/XML technology, and security technology.

AMD
Mike Field, Division Marketing Manager; 512-602-8381; www.amd.com

AMD designs and produces microprocessors, Flash memory devices and low-power processor solutions for the computer, communications and consumer electronics industries. AMD is dedicated to helping its customers deliver standards-based, customer-focused solutions for technology users, ranging from enterprises to government agencies and individual consumers. AMD is a Standard & Poor’s 500 company with global operations and manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan and Asia.

AMX Corporation
Kari Mickits, Public Relations Manager; 469-624-7605; www.amx.com

AMX Corporation engineers advanced control system technology targeting commercial and residential markets. The company delivers convenient, easy-to-use solutions that incorporate advanced programming and network applications to simplify the user’s life through technology. The AMX strategy is to work with leading dealers and distributors to integrate its products with other electronic devices while continuing to lead the industry in control technology.

Atheros Communications Inc.
Cheryl Patstone, Director, Corporate Marketing; 408-773-5344; www.atheros.com

Atheros Communications is a leading developer of semiconductor system solutions for wireless communications products. Atheros combines its wireless systems expertise with high-performance radio frequency, mixed signal and digital semiconductor design skills to provide highly integrated chipsets that are manufacturable on low-cost, standard complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes. Atheros technology is being used by a broad base of leading customers, including personal computer and networking equipment manufacturers.

AT&T CallVantage
Dana Motyl, Marketing Communications; 973-326-2744; www.att.com

For more than 125 years, AT&T has been known for unparalleled quality and reliability in communications. With the addition of AT&T’s CallVantage Service, AT&T offers consumers a broad range of communications services designed to meet almost every need. AT&T’s portfolio of offers includes everything from new and innovative services like broadband telephony to traditional bundled packages of classic local, long distance and Internet services.

Belden Electronics Division
Frank Koditek, Market Manager; 765-983-5200; www.belden.com

Belden Electronics Division, the leading manufacturer of specialty wire and cable products for a wide range of applications, offers HomeChoice® and Banana Peel® cables, the residential line of UL verified structured cabling products for Home Automation, Home Office, Home Theater, Communication Networking, and Security applications.

CABA
David Dern, Marketing Director; 888-798-CABA (2222); www.caba.org

CABA (Continental Automated Buildings Association) is the industry’s only association for companies involved in integrated systems and the automation of buildings and homes. A number of resources — the CABA Home & Building Automation QUARTERLY, Information Series reports (white papers, research documents), eBulletins, Event Reports (conference, trade show and workshop synopses), Councils and Committees and the CABA Web site — have positioned CABA as Your Information Source for Home & Building Automation.

CompTIA
Beth Kanarski, Marketing Coordinator; 630-678-8338; www.comptia.org

CompTIA is a global trade association representing the business interests of the information technology industry. For more than 22 years CompTIA has provided research, networking and partnering opportunities to its more than 19,000 members in 89 countries. The association is involved in developing standards and best practices, and influencing the political, economic and educational arenas that impact IT worldwide.

CopperGate Communications
Richard Nesin, VP Marketing; 610-395-1686; www.copper-gate.com

CopperGate develops markets and sells home networking chipsets. Coppergate products address the growing home multimedia networking market, fueled by the immense popularity of broadband access technologies and the growing need of Telcos and other operators to provide “triple-play” voice, data and video services over a whole-home network. The company's technology uses existing phone and coax wires to create a single powerful yet low cost home network backbone with data rates up to 128Mbps and guaranteed QoS that complements short distance UWB and 802.11 data networks.

Digital 5 Inc.
Jodie Hughes, President and CEO; 609-243-0015; www.digital5.com

Digital 5 is the award-winning provider of software for connected CE products from major OEMs and ODMs, that enable the consumer to stream digital music, movies, and pictures, from either their personal libraries or premium service providers. D5’s middleware and platform technology is used to enable new products for existing CE categories, including DVD players, televisions, and stereo systems.

DivXNetworks
Thomas Huntington, Corporate Communications Manager; 858-909-5358; www.divxnetworks.com

DivXNetworks creates and distributes the popular DivX® video technology. DivX, sometimes called the “MP3 of video,” is used by over 120 million users worldwide because of its unsurpassed visual quality and advanced features. DivXNetworks offers a full range of video solutions for the software, hardware, and gaming markets, including the DivX Certified™ Program, a rigorous hardware certification testing program that ensures a high-quality user experience on a range of consumer electronics devices.

EarthLink
David Blumenthal, Senior Manager, Corporate Communications; 404-748-7316; www.earthlink.net

Celebrating ten years as a leading national Internet service provider (ISP), Atlanta-based EarthLink has earned an award-winning reputation for outstanding customer service and its suite of online products and services. According to the J.D. Power and Associates 2003 Internet Service Provider Residential Customer Satisfaction Study (SM), EarthLink is ranked highest in customer satisfaction among high-speed Internet Service Providers. Serving more than five million subscribers, EarthLink offers what every user should expect from their Internet experience: high-quality connectivity, minimal drop-offs and ISP-generated intrusions, and customizable features. Whether it's dial-up, high-speed, Web hosting, or wireless Internet service, EarthLink provides the tools that best let individuals use and enjoy the Internet on their own terms.

Entropic Communications
Michael Librizzi, Vice President, Marketing; 858-625-3200;
www.entropic-communications.com

Entropic is a fabless semiconductor company that will fundamentally change the way video and other broadband multimedia are used in homes. Entropic’s chipset enables a multimedia in-home network and a backbone for wireless, distributing multiple and simultaneous high-definition and PVR video streams, gaming, audio, VoIP and data over the existing in-home coax environment.

GE Security
Daniel Markowitz; 651-773-4696; www.ge-security.com

GE Security (formerly GE Interlogix) is focused on communication and information technologies for security, safety, and lifestyle enhancements. GE Security has operations in more than 35 countries and is represented by some of the best-known brand names for intrusion and fire detection, access and building control, video surveillance, explosives and drug detection, structured wiring, and key control.

Home Director
David Hurley, VP Field Operations; 800-426-7144; www.homedirector.com

Home Director provides home networking solutions to homeowners through an integrated network of products, distribution, installation services and technology partnerships. Our Network Connection Center hardware infrastructure solution enables the distribution of services and digital content for home entertainment, communications, security and home automation control.

Winner of the 2001 Innovation Technology Award from the National Association of Home Builders and Popular Science Magazine, and the 2001 Mark of Excellence Award from the Home Automation and Networking Association, the company's home networking solutions have been purchased and installed in over 45,000 homes throughout the United States and Canada.

IceFyre Semiconductor Corporation
Tyler Burns, Product Marketing Manager; 613-599-3000; www.icefyre.com

IceFyre Semiconductor is the leading provider of innovative solutions that deliver on the promise of low-power, high-performance wireless LAN products. IceFyre’s innovative SureFyre™ 802.11a and TwinFyre™ 802.11a/b/g chipsets, delivering benchmark throughput, range and power efficiency, stand alone in addressing the requirements of next-generation WLAN-enabled multimedia products including flat panel HDTVs, Personal Video Recorders, and portable DVD players.

Internet Home Alliance
Mary Hill, Executive Director; 831-648-1001; www.internethomealliance.com

Internet Home Alliance is a cross-industry network of leading companies advancing the home technology market. Members of the Alliance, a non-profit organization, include Best Buy, Cisco, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Invensys, Microsoft, Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Corporation of America), SBC Communications, Sears Roebuck & Co., Sun Microsystems and Whirlpool Corporation.

IONA Systems Corp.
Jason T. Mackenzie, President; 1-866-4MY-IONA (469-4662); www.myiona.com

IONA Connected Home, Delivering the Digital Lifestyle to how you live, work, & play!
IONA is a Custom Electronics Professional (CEPro) Installer & Integrator. Our experience and customer-centric approach allows us to package the ‘right stuff’ together to accurately fit the unique needs of each customer; offering the right mix of features & benefits, functionality, and interfaces. IONA’s philosophy is to build the digital infrastructure first and then add the various components. Our solutions include digital home design, project management, structured wiring (and wireless), data networks, entertainment, automation and after-occupancy service and support.

Jungo Software Technologies
Udi Yuhjtman, Vice President, Business Development; 428-423-9540; www.jungo.com

Jungo Software Technologies is a leading supplier of residential/SOHO gateway software. Jungo’s widely-deployed OpenRG platform provides OEMs/ODMs with the software infrastructure needed to bring gateways, cable/DSL routers, wireless access points, integrated access devices and IP phones to market faster. Jungo has corporate offices in San Jose, California, sales and support offices in Taipei, Texas and London, and an R&D center in Israel. Jungo’s investors include Infineon Ventures, Intel Communications Fund, Partech International and TeleSoft Partners.

MeshNetworks
Pamela Benke, MarCom Manager; 407-659-5332; www.meshnetworks.com

MeshNetworks delivers innovative mobile broadband network solutions based on patented ad hoc peer-to-peer technology. The Company’s MeshNetworks Enabled Architecture (MEA™) technology provides wireless broadband connectivity to fixed, portable and mobile devices. Voice, video, data, telemetry and position-location are supported to specifically meet the needs of mission critical communications networks. MEA technology has been successfully deployed and is in use worldwide, most recently in Medford, Oregon, and Garland, Texas, the home of a 57-square-mile mobile mesh system. A live network in Maitland, Florida, has been in continuous operation for over three years. MeshNetworks offers these solutions through OEMs, systems integrators, and value-added resellers.

NETGEAR
Doug Hagan, Senior Manager, Corporate Marketing; 408-907-8000; www.netgear.com

NETGEAR designs technologically advanced, branded networking products that address the specific needs of small and medium business and home users. NETGEAR’s suite of approximately 100 products utilize phone line, power line and cable, via wireless technologies, to enable users to share Internet access, peripherals, files, digital multimedia content and applications among multiple personal computers and other Internet-enabled devices.

Pepper Computer, Inc.
Mary Ellen Heinen, President; 781-862-2500; www.pepper.com

Pepper Computer, Inc. has created a hardware, software and services platform specifically for the emerging class of wireless media pad devices, as well as wired and wireless PCs. The Pepper media pad and client software tightly integrate through a consistent user interface: viewing and sharing photos and videos, playing songs, swapping e mails and instant messages and accessing the Web. Pepper licenses its platform to consumer electronics OEMs and to broadband ISPs and other resellers.

Philips Semiconductors
408-434-3000; www.semiconductors.philips.com

Philips Semiconductors division will be demonstrating reference designs for wireless multimedia adapters, portable video media players, and Near Field Communications digital rights management technology. Wireless media products are available from Philips manufacturing and design partner Arcadyan. For more information on Arcadyan go to www.arcadyan.com.

Point Clark Networks
Joanne Ionita, Jr. Product Manager; 416-977-0574 ext 113; www.pointclark.net

Point Clark Networks develops solutions for delivering Internet web services to broadband gateways, server appliances and Internet-based devices. These subscription-based web services make it possible to deliver timely software updates, provision dynamic DNS, manage virtual private networks, update content filtering engines, and build custom web services. Today, the fast-growing company has extended its software to over 25,000 devices in more than 40 countries.

Renesas Technology America, Inc.
Tim Sridharan, Director, Business Development; 408-382-7494; www.renesas.com

Renesas Technology, ranked the #1 microcontroller supplier and #3 in semiconductor sales worldwide, offers home networking solutions for manufacturers of home networking equipment that not only encompass Renesas’ broad line of semiconductors, but also key support products such as security and protocols. Renesas’ solutions are developed using their extensive technical resources and cover Ethernet, IEEE-1394 and PLC wire-based networks, as well as wireless LANs that use Bluetooth, ZigBee, UWB and IrDA technology.

Sandvine
Amanda Weber, Director, Marketing Communications; 519-880-2600; www.sandvine.com

Sandvine’s award-winning network equipment helps service providers better manage the growing burden of peer-to-peer (P2P) activity while building more profitable relationships with their subscribers. To reduce network costs, Sandvine Peer-to-Peer Policy Management helps service providers take control of P2P traffic and achieve new operational efficiencies. To improve revenues, Sandvine’s Subscriber Services Cluster provides a platform for easy deployment of network-based anti-virus, firewall and content filtering services to residential Internet subscribers. Sandvine products are suitable for all broadband and narrowband networks, cable or DSL.

Texas Instruments
Ellen Zeidler, Program Manager; 214-480-4092; www.ti.com/cablemodem

Texas Instruments’ extensive selection of silicon and software spans multiple broadband and connectivity solutions, providing customers with all the pieces required to quickly deliver innovative products. Based on its pioneering DSP and analog technologies, TI’s system level designs seamlessly work together and ease the development of the newest consumer electronics, computing and portable devices. By leaving the silicon and software integration issues with TI, manufacturers can focus on the products consumers dream of having today.

Universal Electronics Inc.
Spencer Huang, Sr. Product Marketing Manager; 714-820-1139; www.mynevo.com

Universal Electronics Inc. (UEI) develops software, firmware and turnkey solutions that enable consumers to wirelessly connect, control and interact with an increasingly complex home environment. UEI's primary markets include OEMs in consumer electronics, personal computing, as well as MSOs in cable and satellite subscription broadcasting.

Zoran Corporation
408-523-6500; www.zoran.com

Zoran Corporation, based in Sunnyvale, California, is a leading provider of digital solutions-on-a-chip for applications in the growing consumer electronics markets. With two decades of expertise developing and delivering digital signal processing technologies, Zoran has pioneered high-performance digital audio, video, and imaging applications. Zoran-based DVD, digital camera, DTV, and imaging products have received recognition for excellence and are now in millions of homes and offices worldwide.

BREAKFAST SPONSORS

CompTIA
Beth Kanarski, Marketing Coordinator; 630-678-8338; www.comptia.org

CompTIA is a global trade association representing the business interests of the information technology industry. For more than 22 years CompTIA has provided research, networking and partnering opportunities to its more than 19,000 members in 89 countries. The association is involved in developing standards and best practices, and influencing the political, economic and educational arenas that impact IT worldwide.

Oregan Networks Ltd
Reed Hinkel, VP Business Development Americas; 512-246-0191; www.oregan.net

Oregan Networks is a leading provider of embedded end-to-end digital home entertainment middleware, comprising digital media streaming, home networking, TV Internet browsing and user interface technology. Oregan is a privately owned company, with headquarters in London (UK) and branch offices in USA, France, Japan and Taiwan. Since incorporation in 1997, the company has experienced steady growth and profitability, positioning itself to capitalize on the rapid expansion of the digital entertainment market. Oregan participates in the UPnP Forum and Digital Home Working Group, to ensure compliance with rigorous quality and consumer device interoperability standards.

LUNCH SPONSORS

Covad Communications Company
Robin Pieracci, Senior Manager, Market Planning & Research; 1-888-GO-COVAD; www.covad.com

Covad is a leading national broadband service provider of high-speed Internet and network access utilizing Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology. It offers DSL, T1, managed security, IP and dial-up services and bundled voice and data services directly to end users and to Internet Service Providers, value-added resellers, telecommunications carriers and affinity groups to small and medium-sized businesses and home users. Covad’s network currently serves 96 of the top Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and covers more than 40 million homes and businesses or approximately 45 percent of all U.S. homes and businesses.

PRIMEDIA
The Connected Guide to the Digital Home
Carol Campbell, Publisher; 323-782-2603; www.connectedguide.com

The Connected Guide to the Digital Home is the authority on the connected lifestyle, in which technological products and systems interconnect to provide maximum efficiency and enjoyment. The Connected Guide to the Digital Home will aid smart, successful, “tech-aggressive” consumers as they acquire and adapt scientific solutions to creating and maintaining extraordinary homes and lives. The magazine features convergent “whole house” technologies and their many lifestyle benefits. The Connected Guide to the Digital Home focuses on the ethos and attitudes of enthusiasts who use integrated technologies - including home theaters and other entertainment systems, security and navigation systems, information technology appliances and networks - to achieve mobile, yet connected lives.

NETWORKING BREAK SPONSORS

Gracenote
David Belove, Senior Account Executive; 510-547-9680; www.gracenote.com

Gracenote's technology offers a complete suite of information services designed to make digital entertainment easier to use in all devices, including home stereos, MP3 players, car stereos and even mobile phones and PVRs. Gracenote’s services are used by industry leading CE companies, including Alpine, Clarion, D&M Holdings, Fujitsu Ten, Gibson Audio, Kenwood, Molino Networks, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, RCA, Omnifi, Samsung, Sony, TDK and Yamaha; and media players including AOL’s Winamp, Apple's iTunes and RealNetworks’ RealOne Player.

High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)
Brett Gaines, President; 408-616-4199; www.hdmi.org

The High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is rapidly emerging as the standard for connecting HDTV. Developed by Hitachi, Matsushita (Panasonic), Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thomson and Toshiba, HDMI combines uncompressed, high-definition video and multi-channel audio in a single digital interface to provide crystal-clear digital quality over a single cable. Also supported by Hollywood studios and cable and satellite operators, HDMI dramatically simplifies home theater system installation and is backward compatible with the Digital Visual Interface (DVI).

RECEPTION SPONSOR

Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) HNIT Division
Chris Cook, Director, Home Networks and IT Division; 703-907-7055; www.ce.org/hnit

CEA’s Home Networks and Information Technology (HNIT) Division works to accelerate the adoption of networked consumer electronics products and their connection to the Internet. Goals include developing the channel for networking products and systems, advancing the TechHome Rating System and establishing more state sales tax holidays for technology purchases.

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS

Broadband Wireless World
Jason Baglin, Shorecliff Communications; 800.608.9641; www.shorecliffcommunications.com/bww04

Attend Broadband Wireless World, the largest education and networking event for advanced fixed wireless access technology utilizing licensed and unlicensed spectrum, including WiMAX, Wi-Fi, proprietary technology, for service providers, carriers and enterprise users.

Sponsored by Motorola Canopy™ Wireless Broadband, Alvarion and AERAS Networks, and other leading fixed wireless technology suppliers, Broadband Wireless World is the premier, objective, industry-wide networking event focusing on the business case for deploying fixed and portable wireless networks.

Broadband Wireless World provides an unparalleled opportunity to do business, exchange ideas and explore the new possibilities made possible by advanced broadband wireless solutions for network operators and their customers around the world.

Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
Chris Cook, Director, Home Networks and IT Division; 850-937-3200; www.ce.org

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the consumer technology industry through technology policy, events, research, promotion and the fostering of business and strategic relationships. CEA represents more than 1,500 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of audio, video, mobile electronics, wireless and landline communications, information technology, home networking, multimedia and accessory products, as well as related services that are sold through consumer channels.

Circle F Media
Rob Floyd, President; 512-608-9898; www.circlefmedia.com

Circle F Media specializes in helping technology companies reach consumers via mainstream media and public events. We are committed to helping technology companies sell product by creating benefits-focused advertorials for national magazines, through the creation of sponsored television segments for national and local broadcast, and by creating special events and web-based promotions. Circle F Media’s mission is to penetrate consumers' daily lives with technology’s message.

The Digital Lifestyles Resource Center
John Radewagen, Vice President, The Hoffman Agency; 408-975-3005;
www.digital-lifestyles.com

The Digital Lifestyles Resource Center is a dynamic work in progress that features timely news, relevant articles, white papers and perspectives related to emerging technology trends. The site examines the major players and industries, the viewpoints and positions, the products and services that are shaping today’s digital lifestyles.

HomePlug Powerline Alliance
Rob Ranck, Executive Director; 925-275-6630; www.homeplug.org

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance is an industry-led initiative to establish a forum for the creation of an open home power outlet specification for connecting products and services. HomePlug accelerates the demand for these products and services through market and end-user education programs. Since its inception in March 2000, HomePlug has rapidly grown from 13 original founding companies to more than 80 member companies spanning various technology business sectors including hardware, software, semiconductor design, consumer electronics, utility and retail. Managed by Global Inventures, Inc.

iHollywood Forum
Zahava Stroud, President; 310-815-3884; www.ihollywoodforum.com

iHollywood Forum is based in Los Angeles and produces ongoing educational seminars and business development opportunities for entertainment and music industry executives, content creators, technology developers, manufacturers, investors and entrepreneurs.
MobileTech Forum holds forums and executives summits addressing mobile and wireless content, commerce, technology and applications. Contact us for information on upcoming events and view the agenda at www.ihollywoodforum.com. Our summits include: Digital Media Summit, Impact 2004: Branded Entertainment, Marketing and Advertising; iWireless World; Mobile Entertainment Summit; Digital Games Summit.

Integrated Mar.com
800-465-2059; www.integratedmar.com

Integrated mar.com is a full-service marketing, publishing and events company focusing on developing and implementing go-to-market strategies and tools. mar.com was created to fill a huge void in the information technology and telecommunications (IT&T) industry. mar.com has worked with over 300 IT companies, developing strategic marketing communications and channel marketing programs including: hardware, software, peripheral products, components, telecommunications and Internet vendors; contract manufacturers; distributors; agents; resellers and retailers of all descriptions; and direct-to-end-user manufacturers.

LonMark International
Ken Toran; www.lonmark.org

Celebrating its tenth anniversary as an association, LonMark International is recognized worldwide as the leading developer and proponent of open systems for use in building, industrial, transportation and residential/utility automation. LonMark membership is extended to any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the development, distribution, or marketing of open, multi-vendor control systems utilizing ANSI/EIA 709 and related standards.

Products that have been verified to conform to the LonMark International guidelines are eligible to carry the LonMark logo, a mark of excellence and indicator that certified products can interoperate over a common network.

The Metroplex Technology Business Council
Jill Nelson, Marketing Manager - Special Events; 972-238-8998; www.metroplextbc.org

The Metroplex Technology Business Council in Richardson, Texas, is the premier high-tech association enabling, communicating and catalyzing progress through technology, people and advocacy in North Texas. MTBC provides its members with the critical mass, cutting edge technology information, professional network, social environment and operational forum to succeed in today’s challenging technology markets. With approximately 300 active members, the MTBC meets the needs of its members through over 80 programs annually with a combined annual attendance of over 7,000.

The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA)
Christian Jorgensen, Executive Director; 925-275-6630; www.mocalliance.org

The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA for short) is a new organization dedicated to enabling broadband multimedia networking over existing home coaxial cable systems. The MoCA technology will allow a new generation of digital multimedia devices to simultaneously serve high bandwidth video and broadband data in conjunction with the existing analog and digital cable and satellite services currently on the cable. The MoCA technology will allow consumers to share multimedia content anywhere in the home by simply connecting their TV, PVR, PC or other digital multimedia device to the standard coax outlet in their home - just like they've always done. Managed by Global Inventures, Inc.

The Wi-Fi Technology Forum (WFTF)
Tahar Ghaichem, Chief Editor and CEO; +44 1142471461; www.wi-fitechnology.com

The Wi-Fi Technology Forum (WFTF) is a whole community discussion package. A non-profit organization manned mostly by volunteers, its primary aim is for recognition as a powerful voice of member organizations and end users of the Wi-Fi and wireless community worldwide. We offer among various needs, news and reviews, information exchange as well as market research, forecasts and reports.

WiMedia Alliance
Paul Reinhardt, Executive Director; 925-275-6604; www.wimedia.org

The WiMedia Alliance is a not-for-profit open industry association formed to promote personal-area range wireless connectivity and interoperability among multimedia devices in a networked environment. The Alliance develops and adopts standards-based specifications for connecting wireless multimedia devices including, but not limited to, application, transport, and control profiles; test suites; and a certification program to accelerate wide-spread consumer adoption of “wire-free” imaging and multimedia solutions. Managed by Global Inventures, Inc.

World Digital Video Association
Roger Strukhoff, EVP/Chief Content Officer; 925-989-9107; www.wdva.org

The World Digital Video Association™ was founded in September 2002 to be the world’s leading association serving the technical, artistic, and business areas of the digital video industry. WDVA members worldwide receive exclusive discounts, full access to the association’s news service, and are eligible participate in the World DiVA awards program.

ZigBee Alliance
Bill Chase, Senior Account Manager; 925-275-6607; www.zigbee.org

The goal of the ZigBee Alliance is to provide the consumer with ultimate flexibility, mobility, and ease of use by building wireless intelligence and capabilities into every day devices. ZigBee technology will be embedded in a wide range of products and applications across consumer, commercial, industrial and government markets worldwide. For the first time, companies will have a standards-based wireless platform optimized for the unique needs of remote monitoring and control applications, including simplicity, reliability, low-cost and low-power. Managed by Global Inventures, Inc.

About CONNECTIONS™
CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase, produced by Parks Associates in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association, is the largest international executive conference for digital home technologies. CONNECTIONS™ provides a comprehensive review of all aspects of the digital home value chain. Industry and consumer perspectives are provided through presentation of Parks Associates and CEA research, keynote speakers, panel speakers, media and organization support, and a show floor displaying the latest technologies. www.connectionsconference.com.