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CONNECTIONS™ speakers to address TV and
bundled services, mobile technology and applications, social and digital
media, and home and lifestyle management
Dallas, Texas, June 16, 2008 —
Parks Associates and CEA® today announced the speakers for
CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference & Showcase. The
CONNECTIONS™ conference will take place June 24-26 at the Santa Clara
Convention Center and provides high-level research, knowledge, and
analysis to 800+ executives from the converging consumer technology and
service industries.
Parks Associates
research finds that there are over 300 million households worldwide with
residential broadband and over 150 million households with a data network.
“We are rapidly approaching an ignition point for converged services and
networked products,” said
Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with
Parks Associates. “What
is particularly exciting to see is how the market is connecting content
and applications to access networks and making them accessible on numerous
devices. We are looking forward to addressing all of these issues at this
year’s conference.”
The speakers for the twelfth-annual
CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference & Showcase:
Keynotes
Amy Banse, President,
Comcast Interactive Media
Rebecca Jacoby, Sr. VP & CIO,
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Paul Liao, CTO,
Panasonic North America
Fred McIntyre, Senior Vice President,
AOL Video, AOL
Phil McKinney, VP & CTO, Personal
Systems Group,
Hewlett-Packard
Parks Associates Workshop - Special Session
Robert Eisses, President & CEO,
Icron Technologies Corp.
John Gildred, President, SyncTV
Robert Rodenbucher, Director, Business
Development, AwoX
Rick Schwartz, Product Manager, Consumer
Software, PacketVideo (PV)
Loren Shade, VP, Marketing,
Allegro Software Development Corporation
Speakers
Timo Auer, VP, TV, Content & Digital Home,
TeliaSonera Group
Saul
Berman,
Media & Entertainment, Global & Americas
Strategy Leader, IBM Global Business
Services
Scott Birnbaum,
VP, Samsung LCD Business
Stephen Blum, President, Tellus
Venture Associates
Richard Brand, Co-chair, IPTV Interoperability
Forum, ATIS; Director, Video Solutions, Nortel
Lew
Brown, EVP, Marketing, Zensys
William Knox Carey, Director, Technology
Initiatives, Intertrust
John Cary, Sr. VP & GM of Products,
UIEvolution, Inc.
Brian Chamberlin, VP, Interactive,
NDS
Jim Chase, Director of Business Development,
Ubicom, Inc.
Rick
Cnossen, Technical Working Group
Chair, Continua Health Alliance;
Manager, Medical Device Interoperability
Standards, Digital Health Group, Intel
Corp.
Patrick Cosson, VP, Marketing, VUDU
Kelly Davis-Felner, Senior Manager,
Wi-Fi Alliance
Martin DeBono,
VP, Sales and Business Development, Pure
Networks
Ray DeRenzo, SVP, Product,
Programming and Marketing, MobiTV
Nick Desai, CEO, Juice Wireless
Christopher Dow, Director, Software
Development, Architecture, Macrovision
Solutions Corporation
Pat Dunbar, Director of Mediaroom &
Connected TV Advertising, Microsoft Corp.
Martin B. Dunsby, President & CEO,
Vollee Inc.
Mike Ehlenberger, VP, North America Channel Sales,
Actiontec
Thomas Ellsworth, CEO, GoTV
Networks
Milan Erbes,
Ambassador, HGI; Business Development
& Standardization Manager, DS2
Gil Eyal, CEO, Enure Networks
Thierry Fautier, Director, Telco Solutions, Harmonic
Inc.
Doug Fikse, President, On-Q/Legrand
Ed Forman, EVP, Products and
Services,
ActiveVideo Networks
Meredith Flynn-Ripley, CEO, Integra5
Rob Gelphman,
Chair, Marketing Work Group, MoCA
Chano Gomez, VP, Marketing, DS2
Takao
Gondo, Director, HD-PLC Alliance
Marc Goodman, Director,
Alcatel-Lucent
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Grallert, Managing Director, Fraunhofer Institute
for Telecommunications, HHI
David Haadsma,
President and CEO, Bsecure Technologies
Ken Haase, Sr.
Director, Product Line Management, Motorola
Barry Haaser, Senior Director,
LonWorks Infrastructure Business, Echelon
Corporation
Dalen Harrison, CEO,
Ensequence
Matt Harrison, General Manager,
Medical Business Unit, Texas Instruments
Brian Henrichs, VP, Business Development, Actiontec Electronics
David Henry,
Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Home
Products, NETGEAR
Todd Hinders, SVP Business
Development and Sales,
ExtendMedia
Chris Hock, SVP, Product Management,
BlackArrow Brad Hunt, President, Digital
Media Directions, LLC
Amit Jain, VP and GM of CDMA
Femtocell Business Unit, Airvana
Jim Johnson, President, uControl
Jim Jones,
Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners
Dave
Kamalsky, Program Manager, Virtual
Worlds Research, IBM Almaden Research
Center
Bradley A. Kayton, COO, 4HomeMedia
Samir Khazaka, Senior Director,
Technical Marketing, Qualcomm
Fred
King, VP, Sales and Marketing,
PlumChoice
Edwin
Lau, Group Product Director, TV
Business, Microsoft
John LeMoncheck, Co-Founder,
WirelessHD; President & CEO, SiBEAM,
Inc.
Lou Lenzi, SVP, AudioVox
Michael Liddle,
Chief Executive Officer, Home Director
Ellis Lindsay,
Director, Strategy, Americas,
Alcatel-Lucent
Amy Lipton,
Director, Global Marketing, Media & Entertainment, IBM
Brian Mahony,
Vice President, Marketing, ZeeVee
Tara Maitra,
General Manager and Vice President, Content
Services, TiVo, Inc.
Joy Marcus,
General Manager, US, Dailymotion
Keith McCurdy,
President and CEO, VIVATY
Kevin Meagher, CEO, Intamac
Systems
Eric Miller,
Executive in Residence, Mohr Davidow
Ventures
Steve Mitgang,
CEO, Veoh Networks
Tom Morgan, Chief Strategy
Officer, Move Networks
Henry Muyshondt, Senior Director,
Business Development, SMSC Automotive
Infotainment Systems
Patricia Nakache,
General Partner, Trinity Ventures
Tim Napoleon,
Chief Strategist, Media & Entertainment,
Akamai Technologies
Ashwin Navin,
President and Co-founder, BitTorrent,
Inc.
Hung Nguyen,
General Manager and VP, Wireless Products
Division, Sigma Designs
Cynthia Pacheco, General Manager,
Philips Telehealth Solutions, Philips
Home Healthcare Solutions
Frank Paniagua, Jr., CEO & Founder, Green Plug, Inc.
Buno Pati, Co-Founder and CEO,
Sezmi Corporation (formerly Building B, Inc.)
Petr Peterka,
Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff,
Advanced Technology, Home & Networks
Mobility, Motorola, Inc.
Michael Peveler, VP, Corporate
Development, AMX
Adam Powers,
Principal Engineer and Architect,
Macrovision
Sterling
Pratz, CEO,
Autonet Mobile
Len Rand,
Managing Director, Granite Ventures
Ron Renjilian, CEO, Peak8 Solutions
Anthony Rodio, EVP, Worldwide Operations,
support.com
Dan Salmonsen,
Director, Product Management, DivX, Inc.
Anil
Sawe, Sr.
Director, Marketing, Quartics
Tushar Saxena,
Director, Technology, Verizon
George Schweitzer, President, CBS Marketing
Group
Neerav Shah,
Vice President, Business
Development, Verimatrix
Dan
Simpkins, CEO,
Hillcrest Labs
Melissa Simpler,
CEO, Affinegy
Dorian Simpson,
Sr. Director, Product Management,
Macrovision
Greg Smith, VP, Marketing and
Business Development WW, Movea, Inc.
(Formerly Gyration, Inc.)
Jordan Socran, Senior Director,
Business Development, Radialpoint
Singu Srinivas, President, HiWired
Reuben Steiger, CEO, Millions of Us LLC
Brian Steel, CEO, VoloMedia
Dean Takahashi, Lead Writer, Digital Media, VentureBeat
Steven M. Taylor, President,
Corporate Systems Engineering / HomePlug
Alliance (HPCC)
Brian Thomas,
Senior Vice President of Client Services,
Acceller
Floyd Turner,
Director, Customer Care, Wild Blue
Communications
Ryan Tykwinski,
Director, Home Entertainment Experience,
Best Buy
Yoav Tzruya,
CMO, Exent Technologies
Hervé Utheza,
VP and General Manager, TV Properties,
ORB Networks
Oded Vardi,
COO, Superna
Mark
Vena, VP, PC Business, Synaptics
Tony Wan, Director, Marketing,
Cisco Systems
Bruce Watkins,
Co-Founder and President/COO, Pulse~LINK,
Inc.
Bryan Watts,
Business Development Manager, DSC
Lior Weiss, VP,
Marketing, Celeno Communications
Will West, CEO,
Control4
Stephen White, VP, Product and
Content Management, Gracenote
Rusty Williams, Senior Vice President
for Social Media Product Planning,
Prospero Technologies, LLC (acquired by
Mzinga)
Michael Wilson, CEO, Makena
Technologies
Daniel Wong,
Director, Product Management, D-Link
Simon Wynn, VP, Products,
Devicescape Software
Marc Yi,
Director, Intel Capital
Russell Zack,
VP, Product Management,
Anystream
Scot Zarkiewicz,
CEO, SingleClick Systems
Parks Associates
Bill Ablondi, Director, Home Systems
Research, Parks Associates
John Barrett, Director of Research, Parks Associates
Michael Cai, Director, Broadband &
Gaming, Parks Associates
Tricia Parks, CEO, Parks
Associates
Kurt Scherf, VP and Principal
Analyst, Parks Associates
Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates
Harry Wang, Senior Research Analyst,
Parks Associates
Visit
www.connectionsconference.com, contact
sales@parksassociates.com,
or call 972-490-1113 for registration information.
About CONNECTIONS™
CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase is
hosted by leading research firm Parks Associates with support
from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®) and is the
premier executive event focused on the market developments and
growth factors for advanced digital lifestyle solutions.
This unique research-driven executive conference
and showcase, hosting close to 1,000 attendees each year,
delivers insight and recommendations for new business models and
opportunities in digital media/content, connected consumer
electronics, broadband and value-added services, and home
systems.
For information about CONNECTIONS™,
contact
sales@parksassociates.com or call 972-490-1113. For information on speaking,
sponsoring, or attending, please visit
www.connectionsconference.com.
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