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Speakers Announced for CONNECTIONS™: The Digital
Home Conference & Showcase
Parks Associates announced today the speakers for the tenth annual
CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase, which will
take place at the Santa Clara Convention Center, May 2-4, 2006.
Produced by Parks Associates in partnership with the Consumer
Electronics Association (CEA®),
CONNECTIONS™ 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.
“This year, CONNECTIONS™ features an agenda packed with top-notch
speakers, including leading service providers such as AT&T U-Verse, Cox,
and Comcast, among others,” said
Tricia Parks, CEO of
Parks Associates. “We look forward to hearing diverse views on how to
offer consumers even richer entertainment options.”
Keynotes for CONNECTIONS™
Peter Barrett, Chief
Technology Officer and General Manager of Engineering,
Microsoft TV Group
Allen Delattre, Global Managing Director, Electronics & High
Tech Industry Practice, Accenture
Michael
Grasso, Assistant Vice President – Consumer Marketing,
AT&T U-verseSM
William O. Leszinske, Jr.,
General Manager, Networked Media Platform Group, Intel
Corporation
Gary Shapiro, President and
CEO, Consumer Electronics Association
Plenary Speakers
Jan-Luc Blakborn, Director of North
America Digital Entertainment Category, Digital Entertainment
Products, Hewlett-Packard Company
Joe Dada,
Founder, Chairman, and CEO, SmartLabs Inc.
Peter Daley, Equity Research Analyst,
Digital Media, Rutberg & Company, LLC
Eddie C.
Drake, CTO, Siemens Home Entertainment
Bob Greene, Senior Vice President, Advanced
Services, Starz Entertainment Group
Bob Heile, Chairman, ZigBee Alliance
Amy Heller, Vice President, Business
Planning & Development, International Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment
Rob Herb, Managing Director, BA
Ventures
Peter Lee, Vice President, Business
Development, The Walt Disney Company
Paul Liao, CTO, Panasonic
Alexander K. Marquez, Director,
Strategic Investments, Media & Entertainment, Intel Capital,
Intel Corporation
Douglas Means, Corporate Vice
President and General Manager, Connected Home Solutions,
Motorola, Inc.
Joe Menard, Corporate Vice President,
Software Strategy, AMD
Hyun Park, Vice President, Research
Fellow, and Head of Ubiquitous Solution Team, LG Electronics,
Inc.
Ladd Wardani, Vice President, Business Development,
Entropic Communications; President, MoCA
J.D. Zeeman, Director, Digital Media,
Global Communications Sector Services, IBM Global Services
Oren Zeev, Partner, Apax Partners
Operator Q&A Round Table – Special Event hosted by
MoCA
Will Beals, Director, Hardware Systems
Architecture, EchoStar Technologies, Corp.
Charles Cerino, Vice President, New Services
Technology, Comcast New Media Development
John Hildebrand, Vice President, Multimedia
Technology, Cox Communications
Brian Whitton, Executive Director, Access
Technologies, Verizon Communications
Moderator:
Ladd Wardani, Vice President, Business Development,
Entropic Communications; President, MoCA
Special Lunch Session —
“Making the
Network Work” - Parks Associates Pre-Show Workshop
Anne Marie Biernacki, CTO and Founder,
Digiticians
Richard Caballero, Director, Product
Management, SupportSoft
Tim Dowling, President and CEO, Pure Networks
John Fisher, CTO, Peak8
M. Fahim Siddiqui, CEO, Sereniti
Panel Speakers
Faraj Aalaei, CEO and Co-founder, Centillium
Communications
David
Arfin, CEO, GlooLabs, Inc.
Mike Barlow, CEO, PacketVideo Network Solutions,
Inc.
Gunjan Bhow,
Vice President, Marketing and Product Management,
Actiontec Electronics, Inc.
Michael Brochu,
President and CEO,
Loudeye
Steve Brown, CEO,
Health Hero Networks
Maciek Brzeski, Vice President, Marketing,
Toshiba Storage Device Division
Jack Buser, Director, Consumer Electronics, Dolby Laboratory
Ron Cates, Vice President, North American Sales &
Marketing, Metalink
Tom Cullen, Co-founder & Vice President, Sales &
Marketing, Sonos, Inc.
Matt Cuson,
Vice President, Marketing, Minerva Networks, Inc.
Aaron Dagan,
President and CEO, PsiNaptic Inc.
David Davies,
Vice President of Strategy and Product Marketing, Subscriber
Networks, Scientific-Atlanta, A Cisco Company
Bill Diamond, President,
Xanboo, Inc.
Charles Dougherty,
Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Connected Home
Solutions, Motorola
Udo Eberlein,
President, Nero Inc.
Mike Einstein, Vice President,
Corporate Innovation,
Intermatic, Inc.
Ken Fairbanks,
Vice President, Sales and Business Development, SmartLabs,
Inc.
Robert Ferrari, Managing Director, Global Business,
Turbine Inc.
Mike Fidler, CEO, Digeo, Inc.
Kevin Foreman, General Manager, Mobile Business Unit,
RealNetworks, Inc.
Ron Frankel,
CEO and President, Synacor
Doug Glen, Chief Marketing Officer, Zetera
Manish Gupta, Vice
President, Marketing and Alliances, Aperto Networks
John Hannan, Director, Business Development,
Qualcomm
David Hanson,
Co-Founder & Senior Vice President, Business
Development, AgileTV
Frank Hanzlik, Managing Director, Wi-Fi Alliance
Bill Holmes,
Vice President, Consumer Electronics, DivX, Inc.
Nassir Iravani,
Director, Americas, Forum Nokia
Greg Jones, General Manager, Worldwide Service Provider Strategic
Marketing, Texas Instruments
David Kaiserman, President, Lennar Communications
Ventures
Keith Laepple, Director, Consumer Electronics Partner
Team, Windows eHome Division (Media Center), Microsoft
Corp.
Ron Levin, Home
Networking Marketing Manager, ECI Telecom Ltd. Al Lizza, Director
of Marketing, Honeywell
Selina Lo, CEO, Ruckus Wireless, Inc.
Ted Malone, Vice President, Corporate Strategy &
Marketing, Digital Deck
Ella Mar, Senior Vice President, Operations,
Espial
Mick McManus,
President and CEO, MAYA Design
Andy Melder,
Senior Vice President, Sales, Marketing, and Business Development, Intellon
Philippe Mora, Director, Marketing and Business
Development, PortalPlayer, Inc.
Malachy Moynihan, Vice President & General Manager,
Home Networking, Linksys Division of Cisco Systems
Richard Nesin,
Vice President, Marketing, CopperGate Communications
Jeff Oscodar,
CEO, HandHeld
Entertainment, Inc.
Steve Parkis, Vice President, Premium Products,
Disney Online
Peter Percosan,
Executive Director of Broadband Strategy,
Texas Instruments
Adam Powers, Chief Technical Officer, Coaxsys Inc.
Daniel Putterman,
President and CEO, Mediabolic, Inc.
Reza Raji, CEO &
President, iControl Networks
Greg Raleigh, President & CEO, Airgo Networks
Stephen Reeder,
Executive Director, Product Strategy, ANT Software Limited
Bill Rehbock, Director of Developer Relations, NVIDIA
Corporation
Stefan Roever, CEO, Navio Systems
John Santhoff, CTO, Pulse~LINK, Inc.
Esteban Sardera, Vice President, IPTV Solutions,
OpenTV
Matthew Shoemake,
Founder, CEO, & President, WiQuest Communications
Dan Simpkins, Founder & CEO, Hillcrest Labs
Melissa Simpler, CEO, Affinegy
Larry Smith, COO, Archos Technology
Young-Sae Song,
Director, Corporate Marketing, Redback Networks
Michael Stelts, President, CEPCA
Sean Storin, President, TechConnectors
Jonathan Symonds, Vice President, Product and
Distribution, GoldPocket Interactive
Steve Tranter, Director, Interactive and Broadband
Delivery, NDS
John Traynor, Director, Business Segment Marketing, Microsoft Mobile and Embedded Devices, Microsoft
Steve Troyer,
Vice President, Marketing, Zensys
Yoav Tzruya, COO,
Exent
Jocelyn
Vigreux, President, U.S. Operations, TomTom
Ofer Vilenski,
Co-Founder, President, and CEO, Jungo
Mark Walters, Chairman of the Developer Forum,
Z-wave Alliance; Director, Business Development,
Leviton Integrated Networks
Stephen Whalley, Manager, Business
Development, Consumer PC Platforms, Digital
Home Group, Intel Corp.
Moderators
Bill Ablondi, Director, Home Systems Research, Parks Associates
John Barrett, Director, Research, Parks Associates
Yuanzhe (Michael) Cai, Director, Broadband & Gaming, Parks Associates
Deepa Iyer,
Research Analyst, Parks Associates
Patrick Mannion, Editor, EE Times
Tricia Parks,
CEO, Parks Associates
Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates
Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates
Harry Wang,
Research Analyst, Parks Associates For more information, visit
http://www.connectionsconference.com, e-mail
sales@parksassociates.com,
or call 972-490-1113. |
