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How will personal computing, consumer electronics, and portable content devices evolve to address media connectivity in and outside of the home? This expert panel examines the platform requirements for connected devices, including format support, rights management, licensing, and home networking.

PANELISTS
John Canning, Technical Evangelist – Apps & Services, Windows eHome Division, Microsoft Corporation
Mark Evensen, Vice President of Product Development, Entone Technologies
Josh Goldman, Chief Executive Officer, Akimbo Systems, Inc.
Jordan Greenhall, Chief Executive Officer and President, DivX, Inc.
Jim Poder, Senior Engineer, Advanced Technology Projects, Comcast New Media Development, Comcast Corporation

Moderator: Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates

The penetration of home networks among U.S. households nearly doubled in the past two years, but consumer research shows weak growth potential among non-networked households. What should the industry do in order to move home networking into the mainstream mass market?

PANELISTS
David Cohen, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Broadcom Corporation
Frank Hanzlik, Managing Director, Wi-Fi Alliance
Andreas Melder, Sr. Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development, Intellon Corporation
Rich Nesin, Vice President of Marketing, CopperGate Communications
Vivek Pathela, Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing, Home Products, NETGEAR
Ron Stein, Chief Executive Officer, SercoNet, Inc.

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

This track is designed for business development managers and technologists alike. It specifically focuses on usage models, related content, and key technologies for the Digital Home in 2005. The session will start with an explanation of how Digital Home usages map with content acquisition models - supported by recent research. Opportunities, barriers, and recommendations will be provided. Additionally, the latest developments and importance of content protection and remoted applications will be discussed. A video example on content protection and a demonstration of exciting new distribution applications will round out this hour long session.

PANELISTS
John Barrett, Director of Research, Parks Associates
Gary Matos, Market Development Manager, Digital Home Group, Intel Corporation
Keith W. Rowe, Digital Home Strategic Planner, Initiatives, Planning, and Advanced Development, Digital Home Group, Intel Corporation
Brian Tucker, Content Program Manager, Digital Home Group, Intel Corporation

In this keynote presentation, Mr. Burke will showcase the consumer as the center of the connected home, and explain why technology should seamlessly integrate into everyday life. By creating and enriching existing experiences through smart, adaptive technology, CE manufacturers and service providers can offer consumers new levels of simplicity and service. Throughout the presentation, John will highlight how the connected home plays an important role in making Motorola’s vision of “seamless mobility” a reality.

“Time-shifting” and “play-shifting” create challenges to traditional broadcasting and content delivery operators. This diverse panel examines how industries must evolve to meet user requirements and build realistic business cases in an age of digital content.

visionary
Steve Red, Principal & Chief Creative Officer, Red Tettemer, Inc.

PANELISTS
Brian Cooley, Editor-at-Large, CNET.com, CNET Networks
Jeffrey N. Hardy, President, Big Horse
Robert Lilleness, President and Chief Operating Officer, Universal Electronics
Adam Mayer, Director of Strategy, Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.

Moderator: Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates

What applications and services will drive value for broadband? This panel examines the real potential of the residential gateway to serve as arbitrator and delivery mechanism for an array of new services.

visionary
Udi Yuhjtman, Vice President of Business Development, Jungo Software Technologies

PANELISTS
Sanjay Castelino, Vice President, Industry Marketing, Motive, Inc.
Peter Percosan, Worldwide Director of Broadband Strategy, Broadband Communications Group, Texas Instruments, Inc.
Brian Sugar, Vice President of Marketing, 2Wire, Inc.
Vivek Wandile, Group Head, Platform Solutions, Wipro Technologies

Moderator: Stuart Sikes, Vice President, Business Development, Parks Associates

Few ISPs want to be a provider of commoditized Internet access. Yet few have been able to successfully bundle service with revenue-raising value-adds. This panel surveys efforts in raising revenues though value-added-services and considers the opportunities and challenges facing ISPs.

visionary
Ken Couch, Director of Marketing for Broadband Access, Nortel Networks

PANELISTS
Robert Acker, Vice President, Music Services, RealNetworks, Inc.
Inder Gopal, Chairman, Chief Product Officer, Sereniti Inc. (formerly Lemur Networks)
Seth Kenvin, Vice President, Strategic Marketing & Corporate Development, BigBand Networks, Inc.
Andrew Steele, Vice President, Business Development, Terayon Communication Systems

Moderator: John Barrett, Director of Research, Parks Associates

In stark contrast to the gaming console industry, annual sales of PC gaming have been shrinking. This panel discusses how new technologies and business models can improve the PC gaming market and how different players can benefit from digital distribution of electronic games.

PANELISTS
Aaron Bernstein, Senior Product Manager, Gaming Group, QUALCOMM Internet Services, QUALCOMM, Inc.
Geoff Graber, General Manager, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Inc.
Sutton Trout, Director of Digital Content, Consumer Products, IGN Entertainment, Inc.
Yoav Tzruya, Vice President, Products & Markets Strategy, Exent Technologies Ltd.
Gabe Zichermann, Vice President, Strategy & Communications, Trymedia Systems, Inc.

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

Get the views from operators, retail, manufacturers and technologists on the emerging digital home media ecosystem and rollout plans and issues. The founding members of MoCA cover the full value chain's perspectives.

PANELISTS
Gary Langille, Sr. Systems Engineer, Echostar Technologies Corporation
Matthew McRae, Director, Service Providers Broadband, Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems
Ted Michaud, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Motorola Broadband Communications Sector, Motorola, Inc.
Jim Poder, Senior Engineer, Advanced Technology Projects, Comcast New Media Development, Comcast Corporation
Ladd Wardani, Vice President, Business Development, Entropic Communications

Moderator: Paul Liao, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Panasonic Corporation of North America; President, Panasonic R&D Company of America

Greater portability is a chief benefit of digital content and a strong incentive for adoption. This panel assesses the current landscape for “content-to-go” applications and explores emerging models that drive content freedom and flexibility even further.

PANELISTS
Jim Behrens, Chief Executive Officer, Orb Networks, Inc.
William E. Pence, Sr. Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Napster, LLC
Dan Steere, Vice President, Marketing, Matrix Semiconductor, Inc.
Evan Young, Senior Product Marketing Manager, TiVo Inc.

Moderator: John Barrett, Director of Research, Parks Associates

Yahoo!'s Steve Boom will discuss the emerging digital home business as revealed through Yahoo!'s unique lens and will focus on the key issues that are helping shape the next generation of consumer products on the Internet. Boom will speak specifically about the ways in which the company aims to extend Yahoo! beyond the desktop and onto network devices throughout the home, leveraging the Internet's unique strengths in the areas of community, content, personalization and search.

Network convergence is moving beyond business to the home. The increased penetration of residential broadband is providing fertile ground for new consumer devices, services and applications. The emerging home network will need to support media such as photos, audio, voice and video in addition to data.  Mr. Giancarlo will discuss the trends and technologies fueling the Next Generation Home.

This diverse panel examines the current landscape in application development and business models for the digital home and offers insight into how the industry may coalesce around specific practices and models.

VISIONARY
Jim Williams, Vice President of Technology, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

PANELISTS
Bruce Gitlin, Interim co-CEO, ContentGuard, Inc.
Scott Smyers, Chairman, Digital Living Network Alliance
Michael Vergara, Director, RSA Security Inc.

Moderator: Harry Wang, Analyst, Parks Associates

As consumers accumulate more digital content, the need for robust storage and backup options will increase significantly. This panel discusses the opportunities and challenges of the fledging consumer networked storage market.

VISIONARY
Bill Healy, Sr. Vice President, Product Strategy & Marketing, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

PANELISTS
Doug Glen, Chief Marketing Officer, Zetera Corporation
Steve Iverson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Streamload, Inc.
Richard Mandeberg, Executive Vice President of Business Development, Mirra, Inc.
Morikazu Sano, Vice President of Product Marketing and Public Relations, Buffalo Technology USA

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

Next-generation services have already reached the mass market in select Asian and European market. What has driven growth, and what tactics can be applied to other markets? This panel considers the global perspective of technology adoption and usage with an eye towards identifying best practices.

PANELISTS
Chano Gomez, Director, Customer Support, Design of Systems on Silicon (DS2)
Rob Hull, Vice President, Business Development, Technology & Innovation, BT Group CTO
Hyeon Lee, Vice President, Mobile Solutions and Home Networking, Samsung Electronics
Francesca Mari, Director, Planning & Analysis, FastWeb

Moderator: John Barrett, Director of Research, Parks Associates

Is 2005 now the year in which consumer demand meets technical and market feasibility for home management? This panel of leading players discusses why now is the time for the industry to address such issues as peace-of-mind, independent living, and enhanced lifestyles.

VISIONARY
Dan Gittleman, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, OpenPeak, Inc.

PANELISTS
Joe Dada, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Smarthome, Inc.
Gene Goodell, National Sales Manager, GE Security
Per Nathanaelson, Chief Executive Officer, Zensys
Reza Raji, President & Chief Executive Officer, iControl Networks
Will West, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Control4

Moderator: Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates

What factors, beyond throughput and quality-of-service, will matter for home networking? This panel discusses an array of connectivity solutions that support more integrated content-to-platform models, improved coverage, and mobile platforms.

PANELISTS
Mike Harris, President, Digital 5, Inc.
Christof Heidelberger, CTO and Founder, BridgeCo
Dan Putterman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mediabolic, Inc.
Erik Scheelke, President & Chief Technology Officer, DigitalDeck
Bob Van Andel, President, Allegro Software Development Corporation

Moderator: Harry Wang, Analyst, Parks Associates

This panel addresses next-generation mobile broadband technologies, new revenue opportunities for service providers, the devices that could benefit from these new technologies, and the implications for consumers.

PANELISTS
Rob Chandhok, Vice President of Engineering, QUALCOMM MediaFLO, QUALCOMM, Inc.
Eric Dewannain, Worldwide Director of Business Development, Broadband Communications Group, Texas Instruments, Inc.
Jon Hambidge, Head of Global Marketing, IPWireless, Inc.
Ronny Haraldsvik, Vice President, Global Communications & Marketing, Flarion Technologies, Inc.
Juan C. Santiago, Dir. Strategy, Wireless Broadband Group, Motorola, Inc.

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

Traditional telephony players must offer video services to compete in today’s carrier market. This panel considers current ties with the satellite industry as well as alternative solutions in strengthening telcos in the provision of on-demand offerings.

PANELISTS
Eric Barker, Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Sales, Corinex Communications Corp.
Andrew Bovingdon, Head of Marketing, ANT Software Limited
Alain Fernando-Santana, Chief Executive Officer, NetCentrex, Inc.
Jeff Paine, Vice President, Strategic Marketing, UTStarcom, Inc.
Jonathan Symonds, Vice President of Business Development and Marketing, ICTV, Inc.

Moderator: John Barrett, Director of Research, Parks Associates

What happens when the technology stops working? This panel discusses the opportunities and challenges in servicing advanced solutions and the potential for remote management of home networks, virus protection, and other services to reduce churn and generate revenue.

PANELISTS
Anne Marie Biernacki, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Digiticians, LLC
Arnon Catalan, Chief Operating Officer, Gteko
Tim Dowling, Chief Executive Officer, Pure Networks
Marc Itzkowitz, Director, Digital Service Products, SupportSoft, Inc.
Tom R. Powledge, Director of Product Management, Digital Home, Symantec Corporation

Moderator: Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates