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Parks Associates and CEA® to host 900+ Industry
Leaders at CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference & Showcase
Over 900 industry executives in the “digital living industries” will
convene May 1-3 at the Santa Clara Convention Center for
CONNECTIONS™: The Digital
Living Conference & Showcase.
Now in its eleventh year,
CONNECTIONS™, produced
by Parks Associates in partnership with the CEA, is the largest executive
conference and showcase dedicated to examining the markets, technologies,
and consumer trends for residential and mobile environments.
Keynote Speakers for the event include:
Patrick Barry, Vice President, Digital Home,
Yahoo! Inc.
Greg Jones, General Manager, DSP Systems Strategic
Marketing, Texas Instruments
John Orcutt, Vice President, Managed Home Business, HP
Daniel Scheinman, Senior Vice President and General Manager,
Cisco Media Solutions Group, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Ray
Sokola, Chief Technology Officer and
Corporate Vice President, Motorola,
Inc.
Shawn Strickland,
Vice President, Video Solutions, Verizon Communications
“The last year witnessed remarkable developments across key categories
of digital lifestyle products and services,” said
Kurt Scherf, vice president and
principal analyst, Parks Associates. “This year’s CONNECTIONS™ conference
reflects the ever-broadening scope of this space, with participation from
key companies and personnel across all aspects of the value chain, from
content and service providers to product and platform manufacturers.”
The event will feature interactive panel sessions throughout the
schedule and include more than 120 participants discussing the
opportunities, trends, and latest developments affecting businesses
focused on digital content, products, distribution, services, and more.
Conference Sessions at the event include:
- Applications & Content for the Digital Lifestyle
- Delighting the Consumer: Exceeding Expectations for Digital
Lifestyle Enhancements
- Carriers as "Experience Providers"
- Gaming Gets Connected
- Media Centralization and Distribution
- Triple-play Support: The View from the Home Network
- Next Steps for Video: The Consumer’s in Charge!
- Wireless Goes Multimedia
- Success Stories in the Connected Home
- Remote Home Monitoring
- Home Controls: The Next Generation of Systems
- Making High Definition Home Networks Easy, hosted by Pulse~LINK
- Social Video and User-generated Content
- Engaging Consumers: The Next Wave of Ad Technologies
- Broadband Access: Fast Forward
- Bringing Value to Video: Technology Enablers
- Enabling Connected Digital Lifestyles, hosted by the HomePlug
Powerline Alliance
- Nuts and Bolts
- Search: Who’s the Google for the Digital Home?
- Digital Health
- Social Media Goes Mobile
- Selling the Connected Home
- Service Providers and the Networked Entertainment Ecosystem, hosted
by MoCA
- Supporting the Digital Lifestyle Experience – The Service Provider’s
Perspective, hosted by Peak8 Solutions
- TV 2.0: IPTV and Advanced Entertainment Services
- Future Opportunities: The Next Big Thing, hosted by Texas
Instruments
- Investing in Connectivity's Future: VCs and New Opportunities
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