TV and Online Video Advertising Metrics: Managing the Data - Ballroom F

The advertising industry is trying to catch up with consumers as their viewing shifts to the Internet and emerging digital media platforms. While industry stakeholders have access to vast amounts of user data, cross-platform measurement and data analytics are complex and varied. This panel addresses the challenges and opportunities of single-source measurement – tracking viewers across media platforms in the pursuit to standardize the collection, evaluation, and measurement of digital media consumer behavior.

Speakers

Michael Kostainsek, Senior Partner, Account Director, MEC (WPP’s Group M)

Tony Perucca, Senior Director, comScore, Inc.
Terri Richardson, Business Integration Manager, Navic at Microsoft

Charley Shoemaker, Director, Product Management, Nielsen Online, The Nielsen Company

Howard Simons, Director of Sales Research, West Division, Comcast Spotlight

Jim Theberge, Product Management Director, Rovi Corporation

Moderator: Heather Way, Research Analyst, Parks Associates

Design Elements for Connected CE - Ballroom G

There are multiple components that have to function well in order to deliver a seamless experience to the end user. This session examines the demands on middleware and networking technologies to deliver a top-notch user experience and ways that these solutions can push innovation in the connected home.

Speakers

Andy Melder, Vice President Business Development, Gigle Networks

Rick Schwartz, Senior Product Manager, PacketVideo (PV)

Loren Shade, VP Marketing, Allegro Software Development Corporation

Gene Sheridan, CEO, BridgeCo, Inc.

Kurt Stammberger, Vice President Marketing, Mocana

Moderator: Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates

Mobile Internet and Cloud Services - Ballroom H

Consumer demand for anytime/anywhere entertainment and communications is driving the development of unified cloud services that can store all types of content and serve it to any screen in the connected home ecosystem. These services leverage connected and mobile CE for home and on-the-go use, and this panel looks at the tremendous growth opportunities available to hardware vendors and mobile and service providers.

Speakers

Scott Barkley, Vice President, Products, Jasper Wireless

Albert Chu, Vice President, Marketing and Alliances, ACCESS Systems Americas

Nash Parker, Director of Emerging Technology & Media, Alcatel-Lucent

Daren Tsui, CEO, mSpot, Inc.

Mark W. Young, Vice President, Strategy & BD, Mobile, Comcast Interactive Media

Moderator: Harry Wang, Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates

Energy Management as a Key Application for Home Controls - Ballroom F

The push for energy management opens opportunities for a host of other applications to find that elusive mass-market status. This session looks at ways other players in home systems can leverage the momentum to build a broader base for home controls, security, and remote monitoring.

Speakers

Mike Buckingham, Director of Marketing, SmartLabs, Inc.

Susan Cashen, Vice President Marketing, Control4

Dwight Gibson, VP & GM Connected Home Solutions, Ingersoll Rand

Kevin Meagher, CEO, Intamac Systems

Nate Williams, CMO, 4Home

Moderator: Bill Ablondi, Director, Home Systems Research, Parks Associates

Digital Home Technical Support Services - Ballroom G

Providing a smooth consumer experience includes assurances that all these digital home solutions will work together. At the same time, consumers have shown a willingness to pay for remote tech services, pushing revenues for this business into the hundreds of millions of dollars. This session looks at the business opportunities in the support market for CE, service providers, and third-party vendors, including the necessary steps to move from reactive to holistic support.

Speakers

Seth Bailey, CEO, iTOK

Cathy Bradley, Global Lead, Customer Contact Business Process Outsourcing Services,  Accenture

Matthew Choy, Marketing Director, Rsupport Inc.

Robert O'Dell, President/CEO, SecurityCoverage, Inc.

Anthony Rodio, COO, Support.com

Mark Studness, Director E-Commerce, Verizon

Moderator: Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates

DRM, Conditional Access, and Payment Models - Ballroom H

Content protection has to reconcile the conflicts among the needs of content producers, service providers, CE companies, and consumers in order to realize fully the vision of flexible content usage to multiple screens throughout the home. This panel discusses the evolution of content protection and DRM, specifically the challenges of moving content across devices, the role of standards, and the ways DRM and CA systems can monetize content in new ways.

Speakers

Gary Ellison, Chief Security Architect, Intertrust Technologies, representing Marlin

Kevin Morgan, CTO, Arxan Technologies, Inc.

Tom Pollard, Director of Product Management, Verimatrix Inc.

Drake Pruitt, SVP Business Development, Ascent Media Group

Moderator: Harry Wang, Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates

Trends in User Interfaces - Ballroom G

A fundamental aspect of fully monetizing content and services is ensuring consumers can find them. User interfaces guide consumers through the complexities of the connected lifestyle – and can generate revenue through advanced solutions such as advanced advertising, 3D features, and recommendation engines. This panel addresses the role of the user interface in the business model for the digital lifestyle.

Speakers

Joseph Ambeault, Director, Product Development and Management, Video Services, Verizon

Jeff Bonin, Vice President of Business Development, Alticast

Jim Denney, Vice President, General Manager, Product Marketing, TiVo Inc.

Steve Tranter, VP Interactive and Broadband, NDS

Tom Woods, VP, User Experience, Rovi Corporation

Moderator: Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates

3DTV - Ballroom H

3D displays and content consumption are bringing significant opportunity to many digital lifestyles players, including content producers, service providers, gaming companies, and display manufacturers. This panel discusses key developments in 3D technology creation and deployment, focusing on the opportunities to build new business around television and gaming applications.

Speakers

David Chechelashvili, Head of Gaming and Retail, XpanD, Inc

Ajay Luthra, Senior Director of Advanced Technology, Motorola

Yaron Raz, Director of Video Solutions Marketing, BigBand Networks

Peter Smyth, CEO, RedMere

Moderator: Pietro Macchiarella, Research Analyst, Parks Associates

Home Area Network: Architectures and Implications - Ballroom F

As energy management and the smart grid move inside the home, utilities, broadband service providers, control systems vendors, and other firms are vying to extend the benefits to consumers. This session explores the challenges in developing viable HAN solutions – from standards-setting activities to building consumer demand.

Speakers

Alfredo Choperena, President, SimpleHomeNet

Greg Ennis, Technical Director, Wi-Fi Alliance

Scott Hublou, Co-Founder, SVP of Products, EcoFactor

Richard Nesin, Executive Director, HomePNA Alliance

Dr. Kenneth Wacks, Member, GridWise Architecture Council, U.S. Department of Energy

Moderator: Bill Ablondi, Director, Home Systems Research, Parks Associates

Business Models for Energy Management - Ballroom H

Advantages of the smart grid to utilities and their partners are well documented, but creating a viable business model for energy management within the home requires demonstrable benefits and a focus on the consumer. This session addresses the challenges in building the business case for energy management and the strategies that will accelerate the growth of the service sector.

Speakers

David Barclay, Director Energy Management, OpenPeak

David Bercovich, Vice President of Business Development, AlertMe

Martin Flusberg, CEO, Powerhouse Dynamics

Nathan Ota, Solutions Product Marketing Manager, Consumer Solutions, Trilliant

Moderator: Bill Ablondi, Director, Home Systems Research, Parks Associates

The Future of the Set-top Box - Ballroom F

New trends in cloud computing, green living, and online video are reshaping the set-top box. Carriers need a home hub that offers more capability for less capital. This session explores features service providers need to offer and how the set-top box needs to evolve to play a much larger role in the home network. The session also discusses the network and hardware requirements for “future-proofed” home hubs and the role of retail in driving this CE category.

Speakers

Cedric Arnaud-Battandier, VP, Strategy & Corporate Development, Technicolor

Tony Masterson, COO, CTO and Co-founder, Zenverge

Malachy Moynihan, VP, Video Strategy, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Sean Parham, Executive Vice President & CMO, 2Wire, Inc.

Ian Walsh, VP Business Development, ProVision Communications

Moderator: Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates

TV Everywhere and Online Video - Ballroom G

The consumer video experience is expanding into the cloud and incorporating more than just TV and movie content. This panel identifies the near- and long-term roadmap for the shape of television, video, and entertainment consumption and how these changes, from visual networking to the three-screen ecosystem, will affect CE and service providers.

Speakers

Gilles BianRosa, CEO, Vuze, Inc.

Thomas Carpenter, VP Operations and Digital Chief of Staff, Epix

Alex Glass, Vice President, Global Operations, thePlatform

Todd Hinders, Senior Vice President, ExtendMedia

Douglas Light, Sr. Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development, Widevine

Moderator: Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates