The CONNECTIONS™ agenda features industry leaders who are focused on advancing consumer lifestyles through technology services, applications, and devices. These speakers bring invaluable insight on the different sectors of this industry, as well as how each sector complements the others in creating the complete vision of the digital lifestyle.

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2008


 

Keynotes

Amy Banse
  President
  Comcast Interactive Media

Rebecca Jacoby
  Sr. Vice President & CIO
  Cisco Systems, Inc.

Paul Liao
Chief Technology Officer
Panasonic North America

Phil McKinney
Vice President & CTO
Personal Systems Group
Hewlett-Packard
Fred McIntyre
SVP, AOL Video
AOL

 

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

 

 

2007


 

Keynotes

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

Speakers

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

Jerry Maglio, Advisory Board, Peak8 Solutions

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

Pre-Show Workshop Speakers

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

 

 

2006


 

Keynotes

Peter Barrett, Chief Technology Officer and General Manager of Engineering, Microsoft TV Group

Allen Delattre, Global Managing Director, Electronics & High Tech Industry Practice, Accenture

Michael Grasso, Assistant Vice President – Consumer Marketing, AT&T U-verseSM

William O. Leszinske, Jr., General Manager, Networked Media Platform Group, Intel Corporation

Gary Shapiro, President and CEO, Consumer Electronics Association

Plenary Speakers

Will Beals, Director, Hardware Systems Architecture, EchoStar Technologies, Corp.

Jan-Luc Blakborn, Director of North America Digital Entertainment Category, Digital Entertainment Products, Hewlett-Packard Company

Charles Cerino, Vice President, New Services Technology, Comcast New Media Development

Joe Dada, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, SmartLabs Inc.

Peter Daley, Equity Research Analyst, Digital Media, Rutberg & Company, LLC

Christopher Dobrec, Director, Business Development, Consumer Markets, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Eddie C. Drake, CTO, Siemens Home Entertainment

Mark Francisco, Comcast Fellow, New Media Development, Comcast

Bob Greene, Senior Vice President, Advanced Services, Starz Entertainment Group

Bob Heile, Chairman, ZigBee Alliance

Amy Heller, Vice President, Business Planning & Development, International Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment

Rob Herb, Managing Director, BA Ventures

John Hildebrand, Vice President, Video Technology Engineering, Cox Communications

Peter Lee, Vice President, Business Development, The Walt Disney Company

Paul Liao, Vice President & CTO, Panasonic Corporation of North America

Alexander K. Marquez, Director, Strategic Investments, Media & Entertainment, Intel Capital, Intel Corporation

Joe Menard, Corporate Vice President, Consumer Business Segment, AMD

Sheau Ng, Vice President, Consumer and Broadcast Technology, Standards, and Policy, NBC Universal

Hyun Park, Vice President, Research Fellow, and Head of Ubiquitous Solution Team, LG Electronics, Inc.

Dick Sillman, Chief Technology Officer, Communications, Media and Entertainment, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Ladd Wardani, Vice President, Business Development, Entropic Communications; President, MoCA

Brian Whitton, Executive Director, Access Technologies, Verizon Communications

J.D. Zeeman, Director, Digital Media, Global Communications Sector Services, IBM Global Services

Oren Zeev, Partner, Apax Partners

Tony Zona, Vice President, Motorola Wireline Networks, Marketing and Product Management, Motorola, Inc.

Panel Speakers

Faraj Aalaei, CEO and Co-founder, Centillium Communications

Christopher Allen, Head of Product Strategy & Product Marketing, Yahoo! Music

David Arfin, CEO, GlooLabs, Inc.

Mike Barlow, CEO, PacketVideo Network Solutions, Inc.

Gunjan Bhow, Vice President, Marketing and Product Management, Actiontec Electronics, Inc.

Michael Brochu, President and CEO, Loudeye

Steve Brown, President & CEO, Health Hero Network

Maciek Brzeski, Vice President, Marketing, Toshiba Storage Device Division

Drew Buckley, Vice President, Business Development, Synacor

Jack Buser, Director, Consumer Electronics, Dolby Laboratories

Ron Cates, Vice President, North American Sales & Marketing, Metalink

Bill Correll, Director, Corporate Development, Communications, Media & Entertainment, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Steve Craddock, SVP New Media Development, Comcast

Tom Cullen, Co-founder & Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Sonos, Inc.

Matt Cuson, Vice President, Marketing, Minerva Networks, Inc.

Aaron Dagan, President and CEO, PsiNaptic Inc.

Bill Diamond, President, Xanboo, Inc.

Udo Eberlein, President, Nero Inc.

Mike Einstein, Vice President, Corporate Innovation, Intermatic, Inc.

Ken Fairbanks, Vice President, Sales and Business Development, SmartLabs, Inc.

Toby Farrand, Chief Technology Officer, Digeo, Inc.

Doug Glen, Chief Marketing Officer, Zetera

John Graham, Vice President, Marketing, Entropic Communications

Pete Griffin, Director, Corporate Technology, RadioShack Corp.

Manish Gupta, Vice President, Marketing and Alliances, Aperto Networks

John Hannan, Director, Business Development, Qualcomm

David Hanson, Co-Founder & Senior Vice President, Business Development, Promptu (formerly AgileTV)

Frank Hanzlik, Managing Director, Wi-Fi Alliance

Bill Holmes, Vice President, Consumer Electronics, DivX, Inc.

Nasser Iravani, Director, Americas, Forum Nokia

Greg Jones, General Manager, Worldwide Service Provider Strategic Marketing, Texas Instruments

Tasos Kaiafas, Games Strategist, Intel Corp.

David Kaiserman, President, Lennar Communications Ventures

Keith Laepple, Director, Consumer Electronics Partner Team, Windows eHome Division (Media Center), Microsoft Corp.

Ron Levin, Home Networking Marketing Manager, ECI Telecom Ltd.

Al Lizza, Director of Marketing, Residential Products, Honeywell Security and Custom Electronics

Bob Long, Vice President, Sales, Vantage Controls

Vincent Luciano, Vice President, Marketing, OpenPeak, Inc.

Ted Malone, Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Marketing, Digital Deck

Patrick Mannion, Editor, EE Times

Steve Martin, Vice President, Engineering, Ruckus Wireless, Inc.

Mick McManus, President and CEO, MAYA Design

Andy Melder, Senior Vice President, Sales, Marketing, and Business Development, Intellon

Ted Michaud, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Motorola Broadband Communications Sector, Motorola, Inc.

Philippe Mora, Director, Marketing and Business Development, PortalPlayer, Inc.

Malachy Moynihan, Vice President & General Manager, Home Networking, Linksys Division of Cisco Systems

Scott Nelson, Director, Business Development, Business Products and Services, RealNetworks, Inc.

Richard Nesin, Vice President, Marketing, CopperGate Communications

Jeff Oscodar, CEO, HandHeld Entertainment, Inc.

Peter Percosan, Executive Director of Broadband Strategy, Texas Instruments

Adam Powers, Chief Technical Officer, Coaxsys Inc.

Daniel Putterman, President and CEO, Mediabolic, Inc.

Reza Raji, CEO & President, iControl Networks

Greg Raleigh, President & Chief Executive Officer, Airgo Networks

Stephen Reeder, Executive Director, Product Strategy, ANT Software Limited

Bill Rehbock, Director of Developer Relations, NVIDIA Corporation

Stefan Roever, CEO, Navio Systems

David Sandford, Director, Product Marketing, Service Provider Division, TiVo Inc.

John Santhoff, CTO, Pulse~LINK, Inc.

Esteban Sardera, Vice President, IPTV Solutions, OpenTV

Jim Sekinger, Director, Business Development, Digital Systems, Philips Lighting Electronics

Matthew Shoemake, Founder, CEO, & President, WiQuest Communications

Dan Simpkins, Founder & CEO, Hillcrest Labs

Melissa Simpler, CEO, Affinegy

Eric Smith, CTO, Control4

Vern Smith, Director, Business Development, Monster Cable

Zachary Smith, Director, Software, BM Group

Young-Sae Song, Director, Corporate Marketing, Redback Networks

Michael Stelts, President, CEPCA

Sean Storin, President, TechConnectors

Jonathan Symonds, Vice President, Product and Distribution, TANDBERG Television

Steve Tranter, Director, Interactive and Broadband Delivery, NDS

John Traynor, Director, Business Segment Marketing, Microsoft Mobile and Embedded Devices, Microsoft

Steve Troyer, Vice President, Marketing, Zensys

Yoav Tzruya, COO, Exent

John Ulm, Fellow of Technical Staff, Connected Home Solutions, Technology Office, Motorola, Inc.

Jocelyn Vigreux, President, TomTom, Inc.

Ofer Vilenski, Co-Founder, President, and CEO, Jungo

Mark Walters, Chairman of the Developer Forum, Z-Wave Alliance; Director, Business Development, Leviton Integrated Networks

Stephen Whalley, Manager, Business Development, Consumer PC Platforms, Digital Home Group, Intel Corp.

Raoul Wijgergangs, Vice President, North American Business Development, Zensys

Workshop Speakers

Anne Marie Biernacki, CTO and Founder, Digiticians

Rich Caballero, Director, Digital Services Product Marketing, SupportSoft

John Fisher, CTO, Peak8 Solutions

Sherman Griffin, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Network Magic, Inc.

M. Fahim Siddiqui, CEO, Sereniti

 

 

2005


 

Keynotes

Steve Boom, Senior Vice President, Broadband Access & Bundled Services, Yahoo! Inc.

John Burke, Corporate Vice President & General Manager, Consumer Solutions Business, Connected Home Business, Motorola, Inc.

Kevin Corbett, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Digital Home Group, Intel Corporation

Charlie Giancarlo, Chief Technology Officer, Cisco Systems, Inc.; President, Cisco-Linksys, LLC

Tina Sharkey, Senior Vice President of Network & Community Programming, America Online, Inc.

plenary speakers

Joe Belfiore, General Manager, Windows eHome, Microsoft Corporation

Hyeon Lee, Vice President, Mobile Solutions and Home Networking, Samsung Electronics

Peter Lee, Vice President, The Walt Disney Co.

Lou Lenzi, Vice President, Product Management and Engineering, Thomson, Inc.

Paul Marino, Vice President and General Manager of Connectivity, Philips Semiconductors

Patrick Moorhead, Vice President, Global Marketing, Computation Products Group, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)

Greg Wilfahrt, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder, SMS.ac

Visionary speakers

Ken Couch, Director of Marketing for Broadband Access, Nortel Networks

Dan Gittleman, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, OpenPeak, Inc.

Bill Healy, Sr. Vice President, Product Strategy & Marketing, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

Steve Red, Principal & Chief Creative Officer, Red Tettemer, Inc.

Jim Williams, Vice President of Technology, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

Udi Yuhjtman, Vice President, Business Development, Jungo Software Technologies

Workshop Speakers, Special Luncheon Panel

Jeff Abramowitz, Senior Director of Marketing, WiFi, Broadcom Corp.

Eric Anderson, Chairman of the Board, 1394 Trade Association

Eric Broockman, Chief Executive Officer, Alereon

William J. McFarland, Chief Technical Officer, Atheros Communications

John Quigley, Vice President, Hardware Engineering, Airgo Networks, Inc.

panelists

Robert Acker, Vice President, Music Services, RealNetworks, Inc.

Eric Barker, Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Sales, Corinex Communications Corp.

Jim Behrens, Chief Executive Officer, ORB Networks, Inc.

Aaron Bernstein, Senior Product Manager, Gaming Group, QUALCOMM Internet Services, QUALCOMM, Inc.

Anne Marie Biernacki, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Digiticians, LLC

Andrew Bovingdon, Head of Marketing, ANT Software Limited

David Britts, Partner, ComVentures

John Canning, Technical Evangelist – Apps & Services, Windows eHome Division, Microsoft Corporation

Sanjay Castelino, Vice President, Industry Marketing, Motive, Inc.

Arnon Catalan, Chief Operating Officer, Gteko

Rajeev Chand, Director of Research, Rutberg & Company, LLC

Rob Chandhok, Vice President of Engineering, QUALCOMM MediaFLO, QUALCOMM, Inc.

David Cohen, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Broadcom Corporation

Brian Cooley, Editor-at-Large, CNET.com, CNET Networks

Joe Dada, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, SMARTHOME, Inc.

Eric Dewannain, Worldwide Director of Business Development, Broadband Communications Group, Texas Instruments, Inc.

Tim Dowling, Chief Executive Officer, Pure Networks

Mark Evensen, Vice President of Product Development, Entone Technologies

Alain Fernando-Santana, Chief Executive Officer, NetCentrex, Inc.

Bruce Gitlin, Interim co-CEO, ContentGuard, Inc.

Doug Glen, Chief Marketing Officer, Zetera Corporation

Josh Goldman, Chief Executive Officer, Akimbo Systems, Inc.

Chano Gomez, Director, Customer Support, Design of Systems on Silicon (DS2)

Gene Goodell, National Sales Manager, GE Security

Inder Gopal, Chairman, Chief Product Officer, Lemur Networks

Geoff Graber, General Manager, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Inc.

Jordan Greenhall, Chief Executive Officer and President, DivX, Inc.

Jon Hambidge, Head of Global Marketing, IPWireless, Inc.

Frank Hanzlik, Managing Director, Wi-Fi Alliance

Ronny Haraldsvik, Vice President, Global Communications & Marketing, Flarion Technologies, Inc.

Jeffrey N. Hardy, President, Big Horse

Mike Harris, President, Digital 5, Inc.

Christof Heidelberger, CTO & Founder, BridgeCo

Rob Hull, Vice President, Business Development, Technology & Innovation, BT Group CTO

Marc Itzkowitz, Director, Digital Service Products, SupportSoft, Inc.

Steve Iverson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Streamload, Inc.

Seth Kenvin, Vice President, Strategic Marketing & Corporate Development, BigBand Networks, Inc.

Gary Langille, Sr. Systems Engineer, Echostar Technologies Corporation

Jeremy Levine, Principal, Bessemer Venture Partners

Paul Liao, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Panasonic Corporation of North America; President, Panasonic R&D Company of America

Robert Lilleness, President and Chief Operating Officer, Universal Electronics

Richard Mandeberg, Executive Vice President of Business Development, Mirra, Inc.

Francesca Mari, Director, Planning & Analysis, FastWeb

Alexander K. Marquez, Strategic Investment Manager, Media & Entertainment, Intel Capital, Intel Corporation

Gary Matos, Market Development Manager, Digital Home Group, Intel Corporation

Adam Mayer, Director of Strategy, Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.

Matthew McRae, Director, Service Providers Broadband, Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems

Andreas Melder, Sr. Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development, Intellon Corporation

Ted Michaud, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Motorola Broadband Communications Sector, Motorola, Inc.

Per Nathanaelson, CEO, Zensys

Rich Nesin, Vice President of Marketing, CopperGate Communications

Jeff Paine, Vice President, Strategic Marketing, UTStarcom, Inc.

Vivek Pathela, Sr. Director of Product Management and Marketing, Home Products, NETGEAR

William E. Pence, Sr. Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Napster, LLC

Peter Percosan, Worldwide Director of Broadband Strategy, Broadband Communications Group, Texas Instruments, Inc.

Jim Poder, Senior Engineer, Advanced Technology Projects, Comcast New Media Development, Comcast Corporation

Tom R. Powledge, Director of Product Management, Digital Home, Symantec Corporation

Dan Putterman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mediabolic, Inc.

Reza Raji, President & Chief Executive Officer, iControl Networks

Keith W. Rowe, Digital Home Strategic Planner, Initiatives, Planning, and Advanced Development, Digital Home Group, Intel Corporation

Morikazu Sano, Vice President of Product Marketing and Public Relations, Buffalo Technology USA

Juan C. Santiago, Dir. Strategy, Wireless Broadband Group, Motorola, Inc.

Erik Scheelke, President & Chief Technology Officer, DigitalDeck

Scott Smyers, Chairman, Digital Living Network Alliance

Dan Steere, Vice President, Marketing, Matrix Semiconductor, Inc.

Ron Stein, Chief Executive Officer, SercoNet, Inc.

Andrew Steele, Vice President, Business Development, Terayon Communication Systems

Brian Sugar, Vice President, Marketing, 2Wire, Inc.

Jonathan Symonds, Vice President of Business Development and Marketing, ICTV, Inc.

Sutton Trout, Director of Digital Content, Consumer Products, IGN Entertainment, Inc.

Brian Tucker, Content Program Manager, Digital Home Group, Intel Corporation

Yoav Tzruya, Vice President, Products & Markets Strategy, Exent Technologies Ltd.

Bob Van Andel, President, Allegro Software Development Corporation

Michael Vergara, Director, RSA Security Inc.

Vivek Wandile, Group Head, Platform Solutions, Wipro Technologies

Ladd Wardani, Vice President, Business Development, Entropic Communications

Will West, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Control4

Evan Young, Senior Product Marketing Manager, TiVo Inc.

Oren Zeev, Senior Partner, Apax Partners

Gabe Zichermann, Vice President, Strategy & Communications, Trymedia Systems, Inc.

 

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CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase, hosted by leading research firm Parks Associates with support from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®), 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 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.

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