Platinum Supporting Organizations

AeA, the American Electronic Association

AeA, the American Electronic Association, is the largest high-tech trade association representing companies from all segments of the technology industry. Member benefits include updates on government affairs, access to capital, and a myriad of business services. In partnership with Stanford University, AeA oversees the AeA/Stanford Executive Institute, a renowned program for senior leaders in technology. www.aeanet.org

The American Telemedicine Association

The American Telemedicine Association is the leading resource and advocate promoting access to medical care for consumers and health professionals via telecommunications technology. ATA seeks to bring together diverse groups from traditional medicine, academic medical centers, technology and telecommunications companies, e-health, medical societies, government and others to overcome barriers to the advancement of telemedicine through the professional, ethical and equitable improvement in health care delivery.

Established in 1993 as a non-profit organization and headquartered in Washington, DC, membership in the Association is open to individuals, companies and other organizations with an interest in promoting the deployment of telemedicine throughout the world. www.americantelemed.org

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Network for Online Commerce (NOC)

NOC sits at the heart of Telemedia, the converging premium content distribution industry. We are the only trade association with membership across fixed line, mobile, internet and iTV environments providing critical industry intelligence, networking and representation. For more information please visit the website at www.noconline.org.

Wi-Fi Alliance

The Wi-Fi Alliance is a global, non-profit industry association of more than 300 member companies devoted to promoting the growth of wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). With the aim of enhancing the user experience for mobile wireless devices, the Wi-Fi Alliance’s testing and certification programs ensure the interoperability of WLAN products based on the IEEE 802.11 specification. Since the introduction of the Wi-Fi Alliance’s certification program in March 2000, more than 3,000 products have been designated as Wi-Fi CERTIFIED®, encouraging the expanded use of Wi-Fi products and services across the consumer and enterprise markets.

Wi-Fi®, Wi-Fi Alliance®, the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED logo, and the Wi-Fi logo are registered trademarks of the Wi-Fi Alliance; Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ and the Wi-Fi Alliance logo is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. www.wi-fi.org

Supporting Organizations

ADMIN Ltd.

ADMIN Ltd. is a St. Petersburg based consultancy focused on mobile content & Internet industry development, electronic commerce, high-tech investments, business consulting and international cooperation. ADMIN Ltd. is an organizer of annual Mobile VAS Conference (www.vasforum.ru), Mobile Monday St. Petersburg (www.mobilemonday.ru) and other IT events. The Russian Mobile Content Market Report is also available. www.admin.spb.ru

Broadband Services Forum

The Broadband Services Forum is an international industry resource that provides a forum for dialogue and development, along with the tools and information to address the fundamental business and technology issues vital to the growth and health of the broadband industry. The Broadband Services Forum fosters collaboration across the broadband value chain including content, service and technology providers. www.broadbandservicesforum.org

CABA

CABA is the only industry association to offer industry intelligence to stakeholders in all areas of home & building automation. CABA's resources cover areas such as HVAC, lighting, security, A/V, communications technologies, energy management and controls. A number of resources are available through the association including iHomes & Buildings magazine, research, CABA's forums, CABA's monthly eBulletin, Information Series reports, Event Reports and the CABA web site. Please visit www.caba.org for further information.

CEA SmartBrief

Join over 45,000 senior executives like yourself by subscribing to CEA SmartBrief, the official daily e-newsletter from the Consumer Electronics Association. Our industry experts summarize important headlines from hundreds of industry trades and business news sources to save you time and keep you informed. Available to you for FREE at www.smartbrief.com/cea. Advertisers receive free daily campaign reporting.

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Consumer Electronics Powerline Communication Alliance (CEPCA)

Consumer Electronics Powerline Communication Alliance (CEPCA) is a nonprofit corporation established to promote and continuously advance high speed PLC technology to utilize and implement a new generation of consumer electronics products through the rapid, broad and open industry adoption of CEPCA specifications. CEPCA aims to provide consumers with a comfortable and friendly user experience while achieving optimal performance. CEPCA implementations will become an essential function to the widespread usage of CE devices. www.cepca.org

The Consumer HealthTech Summit

The Consumer HealthTech Summit brings together the leading researchers and market experts from around the world into one location to present the latest data and analysis on consumers' interest, purchase and use of personal health and wellness solutions that utilize the latest information and communications technologies. Taking place September 25 - 26, 2007 at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco, the Consumer HealthTech Summit will educate and connect over 300 executives from the leading medical device and consumer electronics manufacturers, communications and healthcare service providers, home automation and wellness systems suppliers, investors and others interested in this emerging market. www.chtsummit.com

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Circle F Media

Circle F Media specializes in helping technology companies reach consumers via mainstream media and public events. We are committed to helping technology companies sell product by creating benefits-focused advertorials for national magazines, through the creation of sponsored television segments for national and local broadcast, and by creating special events and web-based promotions. Circle F Media's mission is to penetrate consumers' daily lives with technology's message. www.circlefmedia.com

The ECHONET Consortium

The ECHONET Consortium was established in 1997 and has since developed key software and hardware technologies for home network systems that conserve energy, improve home security and healthcare, enable remote monitoring and control of equipment, and so on. The ECHONET Specification is a universal transmission standard for various services in home network systems that combine home appliances of different manufacturers for either newly built or existing houses. ECHONET stands for Energy Conservation and Homecare NETwork. www.echonet.gr.jp

FinPro

Finpro is a consulting organization with focus on internationalization of Finnish companies. We offer services to clients to succeed on the global market and to manage the risks involved. Our offering consists of consulting, market access and go-to-market strategies, innovation programs, and information & networking services. We operate in Finland and in 50 locations worldwide, also by working closely with local companies on the international markets and the key players in the Finnish innovation environment. More information in www.finpro.fi.

hawkeye | Group

Winning in the digital home space requires sound strategy, the right entertainment alliances and relevant targeted communication. You need a good agent to do it right. That’s why many clients in the digital home space partner with us. www.hawkeyeww.com

The Home Gateway Initiative

The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) has been officially launched in March 2005 and with its worldwide key players in the Home Gateway and broadband home domain is driving the development of specifications of broadband residential gateways supporting the delivery of multi-play services. Release 1.0 specifications have been published on July 2006. www.homegateway.org

iHollywood Forum

iHollywood Forum is based in Los Angeles and produces ongoing educational seminars and business development opportunities for entertainment and music industry executives, content creators, technology developers, manufacturers, investors and entrepreneurs.

MobileTech Forum holds forums and executives summits addressing mobile and wireless content, commerce, technology and applications. Contact us for information on upcoming events and view the agenda at www.ihollywoodforum.com. Our summits include: Digital Media Summit, Impact 2004: Branded Entertainment, Marketing and Advertising; iWireless World; Mobile Entertainment Summit; Digital Games Summit. www.ihollywoodforum.com

ISCE 2007

The International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE 2007) will bring together top technical professionals from the consumer electronics industry and academia to Dallas during the week of June 20th 2007.

ISCE 2007 will provide a forum for researchers, system developers, and service providers to share ideas, designs, and experiences on the emerging technology. ISCE 2007 will be held in Dallas, Texas, USA hosted by the Dallas Chapter of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society. www.dallasces.org/isce2007

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ISMA

ISMA is a global alliance promoting standards-based solutions offering choice, flexibility, cost efficiency and a high quality of IPTV service. It brings together technical and marketing expertise to support open standards, develop technical specifications, and provide multi-vendor, multiplatform interoperability testing and a product conformance program supporting the IPTV market. www.isma.tv

JETRO

JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization) provides support and information to American companies looking for successful entry and expansion in the Japanese market. JETRO provides market intelligence, extensive business development support, and relevant business events, all designed to encourage new business between American companies and Japan. www.jetro.org

KeystoneTech Group

KeystoneTech Group, is a Marketplace Maker for high technology commercialization, serving companies from start-up to Fortune 50 - a nexus linking novel technologies to funding sources, commercial industry and government marketplaces. Target technology sectors include Digital Media, Voice and Data Communications [including IPv6, Mobile and Wireless], Internet, and Data Management. www.keystonetechgroup.com

KNX Association

KNX Association is the creator and owner of the KNX technology – worlds only open, royalty-free and platform independent STANDARD for all applications in Home and Building Control, ranging from lighting, shutter control to security, heating, ventilation, air conditioning as well as white goods, audio and lots more. KNX is approved as a European (CENELEC EN 50090 and CEN EN 13321) and a Worldwide standard (ISO/IEC 14543). This standard is established upon over 15 years of experience in the market by its predecessors EIB, EHS and BatiBUS. Over 100 member companies worldwide from different branches have almost 7.000 KNX certified different products in their catalogues. KNX Association has partnership agreements with more than 10.000 installer companies in almost 70 countries. www.konnex.org

LonMark International

Few organizations have such a dramatic impact on the development and acceptance of open, interoperable solutions than LonMark International. For over a decade, the members of the LonMark organization have been creating and publishing guidelines supporting the independent development of products that can be seamlessly connected together using the ANSI/CEA 709 networking standard. www.lonmark.org

OSGi Alliance

The OSGi Alliance is an independent non-profit corporation comprised of technology innovators and developers and focused on the interoperability of applications and services based on its component integration platform. The OSGi Alliance is a worldwide consortium of technology innovators that advances a proven and mature process to assure interoperability of applications and services based on its component integration platform. The OSGi Service Platform is delivered in many Fortune Global 100 company products and services and in diverse markets including enterprise, mobile, home, telematics and consumer. The OSGi Alliance was founded in March 1999. www.osgi.org

Strategic Research Institute (SRI)

The video, casual and online games industry gets serious at the 3rd Annual Video Game Investors’ Conference, May 9 & 10 in Redondo Beach, CA. Conference sessions will address online technology acceleration and convergence, changing distribution and revenue models, and opportunities in the burgeoning MMO worlds. The Entrepreneurs’ Showcase returns - where entrepreneurs and investors meet. www.srinstitute.com

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UHAPI Forum

UHAPI Forum is a non-profit trade organization launched by leading companies in the consumer electronics (CE) industry to promote the Universal Home API (UHAPI) specification, an open standard solution that will facilitate faster development of applications for CE devices. The UHAPI Forum provides the industry with support for implementing the UHAPI specification, leading to reduced time-to-market and development costs and increased interoperability of CE products, systems and software.

The aim of the UHAPI Forum is to standardize a set of open APIs for a variety of appliances such as analog and digital televisions, set-top boxes, DVD players and recorders, printers, personal video recorders, home servers and other consumer audio and video devices. The adoption of the UHAPI will help reduce the cost and complexity of porting application software to new processors and architectures, thereby accelerating application development overall. www.uhapi.org

The Wi-Fi Technology Forum (Wi-Fi-TF)

The Wi-Fi Technology Forum (Wi-Fi-TF) network is a non-profit worldwide organization based in the UK. Manned mostly by volunteers, aims to report and inform its audiences on all aspects of Wi-Fi and wireless technology. With its round the clock Wi-Fi Newswire© service, discussion forums, reviews and other resources, the Wi-Fi-TF operates on impartiality and non-profitability. The Wi-Fi-TF network owns and operates a string of Wireless and Wi-Fi Technology sites. www.wi-fitechnology.com

The WiMedia Alliance

The WiMedia Alliance is a not-for-profit open industry association dedicated to the rapid adoption, regulation, standardization and multi-vendor interoperability of ultra-wideband (UWB) worldwide. The basis for the industry's first UWB standards (published by Ecma International), WiMedia UWB is optimized for wireless personal-area networks delivering high-speed (480Mbps and beyond), low-power multimedia capabilities for the PC, CE, mobile and automotive markets. Emphasizing peaceful coexistence with other wireless services, the WiMedia UWB common radio platform can operate with application stacks developed by the Bluetooth-SIG, Certified Wireless USB Promoter Group and the1394 Trade Association. The WiMedia Alliance's membership board members includes over 200 international corporations and research institutions and Board members include Alereon, HP, Intel, Kodak, Microsoft, Nokia, Philips, Samsung Electronics, Sony, STMicroelectronics, Staccato Communications, Texas Instruments and Wisair. For more information, please visit www.wimedia.org.

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