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Preliminary Topics Announced for CONNECTIONS™
The Digital Home Conference & Showcase will be held at the Santa
Clara Convention Center May 2-4, 2006
Parks Associates and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) today
announced the preliminary topics and
Call For Papers for the 2006
CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Home Conference & Showcase.
CONNECTIONS™, produced by Parks Associates in conjunction with
Consumer Electronics Association, will be held May 2-4, 2006, at the Santa
Clara Convention Center.
Now in its tenth year, CONNECTIONS™ is the largest executive
conference and showcase dedicated to advanced digital lifestyle solutions
for residential and mobile environments. Recent research from Parks
Associates, the leading market research firm in this area, points to
significant growth opportunities within these industries in the coming
years.
Specifically, Parks Associates’ analysts project the following:
- The number of broadband households with a residential gateway (RG)
will reach 47 million by 2010, driven in large part by carrier needs to
acquire and retain customers and build ARPU from new revenue-generating
services.
- Television manufacturers will see a surge in cumulative HDTV sales
over the next few years, which will boost the overall market value to
$65 billion by 2009.
- The number of U.S. households with a networked storage device will
grow from 300,000 at the end of 2004 to nearly 10 million by 2010.
- Cumulative shipments of portable multimedia players will top 13
million units by 2010.
- By the end of 2006, the worldwide digital music market (not counting
mobile) will account for 4.5% of all music sales. Digital music revenues
will grow at a 57% CAGR between 2005 and 2009.
- Revenues from premium VOD downloads will total $530 million at
year-end 2009.
- Home builders sold $11 billion worth of technology products in 2004
and expect sales to increase 10-12% in 2005.
“CONNECTIONS™ is the principal conference to discuss both the
opportunities and challenges in today’s key digital lifestyle categories,”
said Tricia Parks,
president of Parks Associates. “As the first and largest executive
conference and showcase focused on these industry topics, CONNECTIONS™
will continue to provide the best quality and content within our sessions,
relevant discussions between key executives, forward-thinking keynote
speakers, and great networking opportunities for marketing and strategy
executives.”
Executives can submit a proposal to speak at CONNECTIONS™
through the Call For Papers form at
www.connectionsconference.com. The deadline for submission is January
20, 2006. The tracks for CONNECTIONS™ in 2006 will focus on the following
topics:
- Digital Entertainment
- Business Challenges for Digital Home Technologies and Services
- Mobile Platforms and Services
- Broadband & IP Services
- Home Management and Digital Health
- Home Networking and Infrastructure
“We are pleased to bring together the industry’s thought leaders each
year and engage them in dynamic discussions and debates,” said Kurt
Scherf, vice president and principal analyst at Parks Associates. “The
opportunity for speakers, participants, and sponsors to learn from each
other and the Parks Associates team provides an excellent forum during
this period of dynamic growth for the industry.”
CONNECTIONS™ will also host six
interactive sessions at 2006 International CES on January 5-6 at the
Las Vegas Convention Center. Parks Associates’ analysts will moderate
these sessions, which will focus on the following topics: Portable
Entertainment Devices, Advertising in the Digital Age, TV on Consumers’
Terms, Whole-Home Entertainment, Making the Network Work, and Global Buyer
Preferences.
Session participants represent the following companies: Affinegy,
Akimbo, ANT plc, Atlas On Demand, BigBand Networks, Cauldron Solutions,
ComVentures, D-Link, DLNA, Eastman Kodak Company, HP, IGN Entertainment
Inc., Logitech, Mediabolic, Inc., Metalink, Microsoft Corporation, MobiTV,
NDS, Philips Semiconductors, RealNetworks, Inc., Royal Philips
Electronics, Semiconductor Division, Ruckus Wireless (formerly Video54),
Scientific-Atlanta, Sereniti Inc., Streamload, SupportSoft, TANDBERG
Television, and Wi-Fi Alliance.
Please visit www.cesweb.org to register. |
