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CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference &
Showcase announces Preliminary Speakers
Parks Associates and CEA® today announced the preliminary list of speakers for CONNECTIONS™: The
Digital Living Conference and Showcase, to be held May 1-3, 2007, at
the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
Now in its eleventh year, CONNECTIONS™: The
Digital Living Conference and Showcase, produced by Parks Associates
in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association, is the largest
executive conference and showcase dedicated to examining the markets,
technologies, and consumer trends for residential and mobile environments.
“We are very excited about this year’s event and have an outstanding
lineup of speakers,” said
Kurt Scherf, vice
president and principal analyst for Parks Associates. “Residential
subscriptions to broadband Internet services surged 20% in 2006 to exceed
50 million U.S. households, reflecting strong consumer demand for digital
lifestyle services and creating multiple opportunities for industries
focused on delivering products or services to the consumer.”
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
Faraj Aalaei, CEO, Centillium Communications
Andy Addis, Executive Vice President, Marketing,
Hillcrest Labs
Mary Coller Albert,
CMO, Movielink, LLC.
Mary Ashe, BPL Product Manager, Motorola
Will Beals, Director, Hardware Systems Architecture,
EchoStar Technologies Corp.
Duncan Bees, Deputy Chairman of the HGI Quality
of Service Working Group, PMC-Sierra, Inc.
Mark Bell, Director, Data Development and
Support, Cox Communications
Ilya Billig,
Vice President,
Business Development, Lagotek Corp.
John Bishop, Sr. Vice President, Business Development
and Strategy, Inlet Technologies
Mark Bowles, VP, Business Development and Corporate Marketing,
Staccato Communications
Joel Brand, Director, Product Management,
Ruckus Wireless
Brad Bridges, Assistant Vice President-Business
Development, AT&T
Chris Brown, CEO, Metabeam
Lew Brown, Executive
Vice President of Marketing, Z-Wave Alliance
Maciek Brzeski, Vice President, Marketing, Toshiba
Storage Device Division
Brian Burch, Director of
Marketing, Managed Home Global Business Unit, Hewlett-Packard
Company
Richard Bullwinkle, Senior Director, Embedded
Solutions, Macrovision Corp. Dr. Lars Buttler,
CEO, Trion World Network, Inc.
Lianne Caetano, Executive Director, WirelessHD,
Inc.
Martijn Lopes Cardozo,
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, TANDBERG
Television
Charles Cerino, Vice President, New Services
Technology, Comcast New Media Development, Comcast Corp.
Tom Cullen, Executive Vice President, Corporate
Development, EchoStar Satellite LLC.
Tim Cutting, CEO & Founder, NiveusMedia,
Inc.
Joe Dada, CEO, SmartLabs, Inc.
Brad Davis, Vice President, Advertising Sales, Disney
Online, Walt Disney Internet Group
Wayne Davis, Technical Advisory Board, Peak8
Solutions
David Debrecht,
Director of BWA, Nokia Siemens Networks North America
Jay Deen, Vice President of Technology, Casero, Inc.
Nick Desai, Chairman, Founder and CCO, Juice
Wireless, Inc.
Rodger Desai,
CEO & President, Rave Wireless, Inc.
Bill Diamond, President, Xanboo, Inc.
Chris Dobrec, Sr. Director of Strategy, Linksys, A
Division of Cisco Systems Inc.
Ken Fairbanks, VP Sales &
Business Development, SmartLabs, Inc.
Ted Feldman, President/Founder, Neosonik
Paul Ferris, General Partner, Azure Capital Partners
Mike
Fidler, CEO, Digeo, Inc.
Zephra Freeman, Home Networking Business Development Manager,
Digital Interface Business, Texas Instruments, Inc.
Noam Geri,
Co-Founder and Vice President, Marketing & Business Development,
Amimon Inc.
Jeremiah Golston,
CTO - Digital Entertainment Products, Texas Instruments, Inc.
Michael Gordon, Co-Founder
and Chief Strategy Officer, Limelight Networks
Roger Gregory,
Marketing Director, BCT Telco and Operator, Business Line
Set-Top Box and Home Media Devices, NXP
Barry Haaser, Senior Director, LONWORKS
Infrastructure Business, Echelon Corporation
Kai Hackbarth, Requirements
Chair, OSGi Alliance Karen Hanley,
Sr. Director, Marketing and Membership, Wi-Fi
Alliance
Patrick Harr, President, Streamload
Doug Hartman, VP Global Sales, Corinex Communications Corp.
Andrew Hartsfield, CEO, WiLife, Inc.
Christine Heckart, General Manager, Microsoft TV,
Microsoft Corp.
David Henry, Director of Product Marketing,
NETGEAR Keith Higgins, VP,
Marketing, Stoke, Inc.
John Hoctor, Vice President, Business
Development and Marketing, Navic Networks
Wes
Hoffman, VP and GM of Media, 2Wire, Inc.
Tim Hogan, Vice President, Digital Distribution Platforms, Sonic
Solutions
Bill Holmes, Vice President
of Business Development and Strategy, DivX, Inc.
Faraz Hoodbhoy, CEO, PixSense, Inc.
Rick Howe, Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing,
Zodiac Interactive
Dan Illowsky, CTO and Founder, DARTdevices,
Corp.
Doug Jones, Chief Architect
of Cable, BigBand Networks, Inc.
Jim Jones, Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners
John J. Kang, Sr. Director
of Business Development, Samsung Electronics Co. Sukhwant Khanuja,
CEO, CareMatix, Inc.
Keith Kocho, Founder, ExtendMedia, Inc.
Dr. Rajeev Krishnamoorthy,
Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Tzero
Technologies, Inc.
David Ladd, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund
Keith Laepple,
Director, CE Partner Team, eHome Division (Windows Media
Center), Microsoft Corp. Huan C.
Le, Vice President, Business Development, Break.com
Ed Lee,
Vice President of Business Development, Akimbo
Hestia Lei, Executive Director, U-verse Member
Marketing & Programmer Management, AT&T, Inc.
William O. Leszinske, Jr., General Manager, Intel
Consumer Electronics Group, Digital Home Group, Intel
Corp.
Steve Lidberg, CFA, Pacific Crest Securities
Ellis
Lindsay, Home Networking and Digital Lifestyle SME,
Alcatel-Lucent
Jonathan D.
Linkous, Executive Director, American Telemedicine
Association
Dan Littmann, Principal, Technology, Media &
Telecommunications (TMT) Practice, Deloitte Consulting
LLP
Oleg Logvinov, President and CEO, Arkados,
Inc.
Drew Mabry, Director of Platform Strategy, Nero
Tara Maitra, Vice President, General Manager of
Programming, TiVo, Inc.
Matthew Marnik, Director of Marketing for the
Multiplay Group, Juniper Networks, Inc.
Chris Mauzy, Director of
Business Development, Best Buy For Business
Clint McClellan,
Sr. Director of Strategic Marketing, QUALCOMM Fred McIntyre,
Senior Vice
President, AOL Video, AOL LLC
Bryan McLeod, VP - Harmony -
Remote Control Business Unit, Logitech
Kevin Meagher,
CEO, Intamac Systems Ltd Andreas Melder, SVP
Strategic Business Development, Intellon
Corporation
Joe Menard, Corporate Vice
President, Consumer Business, AMD, Inc.
Kirk Munroe, Director, Product
Management, Radialpoint
Paul Nadjarian, Senior Vice
President, OnForce
Richard Nesin, Vice President, Marketing,
Coppergate Communications Sheau Ng, Vice President,
Consumer and Broadcast Technology, NBC Universal
Romain Nouzareth, Founder and CEO,
Boonty
Stephen Palm, Technical Director, Broadband
Communication Group, Broadcom Corporation
Paul Pantera, Sr. Software Engineer, 4HomeMedia, Inc.
Tricia Parks, CEO and Founder, Parks Associates
Mark Pascarella, President, Gotuit Media,
Corp.
Duane Paulson, President, Sequel
Technologies, LLC
Peter Percosan,
Executive Director Broadband Strategy, Broadband
Communications Group, Texas Instruments, Inc.
Pragash Pillai,
Vice President, Strategic Engineering, Bresnan
Communications
Giles Prefontaine, Strategy
& Planning, Active Response Monitoring
Kumu Puri,
Global Managing Director, Consumer Electronics,
Accenture
Krishnan Rajagopalan, VP, Digital Media
Technologies, Motion Picture Association of
America, Inc.
Reza Raji,
Founder and CEO, iControl Networks, Inc.
Len Rand, Managing Director, Granite Ventures
Robert Rodenbucher, Business Development Director, AwoX
William (Bill) Rose, President, WJR Consulting Inc.
Avi Rosenthal, Vice President, Marketing,
Superna, Ltd.
Matt Sanchez, CEO & Co-founder, VideoEgg,
Inc.
John Santhoff,
Founder and CTO, Pulse~LINK, Inc.
Tushar Saxena, Director, Home Networking
Technologies, Verizon Communications
Garrick Schmitt, Vice President and National
Lead, User Experience, Avenue A | Razorfish
Mike Seamons, Vice President, Marketing, Exceptional
Innovation
Colin Sebastian, Senior Research Analyst, Internet and Interactive
Entertainment, Lazard Capital Markets
Bhupen Shah,
CTO and Co-founder, Sling Media
Tony Shakib, CEO, Zensys
Ashish Sharma, Senior Director, Business
Development, Corporate Strategy Group, Alvarion,
Inc.
Petro Shimonishi, Vice President of Marketing &
Product Planning, NetStreams
Julie Shumaker, Vice President, Worldwide
Sales, Double Fusion, Inc.
Dorian Simpson, Vice President, Product Management - New Products,
Gemstar - TV Guide International, Inc. Eric Smith,
Chief Technical Officer, Control4
Marty Stein, Senior Director of Marketing, Connected
Home Solutions, Motorola, Inc.
Michael Stich, Director, Service Provider
Strategic Marketing, Texas Instruments, Inc.
Matthew Theall, President, HomePlug Powerline
Alliance; Powerline Initiative Manager, Intel Corp.
Zaw Thet, CEO & Co-Founder, 4INFO
Yoav Tzruya, COO, Exent Technologies
John Ulm, Fellow of
the Technical Staff, Connected Home Solutions,
Motorola, Inc.
Ofer Vilenski, CEO, Jungo Software
Technologies
Aimee Viles, Director of Production, Ensequence
Scott Voegele, Director, Product Marketing,
Westell Bruce Watkins, Co-Founder,
President/COO, Pulse~LINK, Inc.
John Welch, CEO, PlayFirst, Inc.
Tom Willie, President and COO, Current Technologies, LLC
Michelle
Wu, CEO, MediaZone
Jeff Erwin, President & CEO,
Pure Networks Inc.
Elan Migdal,
CEO, Friendly Technologies
David Sayag, Founder & Vice President, Marketing,
Enure Networks
Singu Srinivas,
CEO, HiWired
Jeff Sunshine,
Vice President, Finance and Business Development, Affinegy
Bill Ablondi,
Director, Channel Research, Parks Associates
John Barrett, Director,
Research, Parks Associates
Yuanzhe (Michael)
Cai, Director, Broadband & Gaming, Parks Associates
Jerry Maglio, Advisory Board, Peak8
Solutions
Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst,
Parks Associates
Stuart Sikes, President, Parks
Associates
Harry Wang,
Senior Analyst, Parks Associates
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