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CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Home Conference and
Showcase Hosts 950+ Executives, examining the business and market
opportunities for “Digital Living” Industries
 Parks Associates and CEA® hosted more than 950 executives at
CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase on May 2-4 at
the Santa Clara Convention Center.
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.
“CONNECTIONS™ was emblematic in its participation, its speakers,
and its sponsors in the very real shift of this market beyond ‘digital
home’ to a holistic ‘digital lifestyle’ perspective,” said
Kurt Scherf, vice
president and principal analyst from Parks Associates. “With advances
encompassing access networks, content, advanced customer premise
equipment, and the estimated 700 million and more connected devices
expected by 2010, CONNECTIONS™ participants found great excitement in the
opportunities that await this industry.”
Over 110 key industry executives provided their insights into the
status and direction of the digital lifestyle domains, with speakers from
a variety of market, including home controls, entertainment, service
provision, consumer electronics, and venture capital.
Diamond sponsors for CONNECTIONS™
are Accenture, Panasonic, Siemens Home Entertainment, and the ZigBee™
Alliance. Platinum sponsors are
iControl Networks, Intel Corp., Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA™),
Philips Electronics, Pulse~LINK, Inc., Streamlined Home, and Zensys.
 Keynotes for the event were the following:
“IPTV – The
Future of Television”
Peter Barrett,
Chief Technology Officer and General Manager of Engineering, Microsoft TV
Group
“Digital Home
Services: Framing the New Opportunities”
Allen Delattre,
Global Managing Director, Electronics & High Tech Industry Practice,
Accenture
“Delivering the
Digital Lifestyle”
Michael Grasso, Assistant Vice President – Consumer Marketing, AT&T U-verseSM
“Linking the
Emerging Platforms in the Digital Home”
William O. Leszinske,
Jr., General Manager, Networked Media Platform Group, Intel
Corporation
“Digital Technology,
Content & Consumers – Connecting the Dots”
Gary Shapiro,
President and CEO, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®)
CONNECTIONS™ 2007 will be held May 1-3, 2007, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center. For information on early sponsorship opportunities,
please visit
www.connectionsconference.com or e-mail
sales@parksassociates.com.
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