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CONNECTIONS™
Summit Agenda
Tuesday, January 8 LVCC, South
Hall, S104-105
Thanks
to everyone who made the CONNECTIONS™ Summit a success!
The CONNECTIONS™ Summit featured leading
research firm Parks Associates and top executives. This one-day executive seminar, held in conjunction
with CES, featured panel presentations and an interactive environment
ideal for networking. The agenda included commentary, insight, and
debate on successful market strategies and deployment for home
controls and systems; new media and social networking; and home
networking and entertainment products and services for the consumer.
The panels are interactive discussions led by
Parks Associates analysts.
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TIME |
Description &
Speakers |
MODERATOR |
| 9:00 AM -
9:15 AM |
Welcome and Introduction
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| 9:15 AM -
10:15 AM |
Beyond Broadband: The Role of
Value-Added Services in a High-Speed Context
As the competition for customers intensifies among
broadband and bundled services providers, carriers will
need innovative ways to differentiate themselves and
grow revenues. This panel focuses on how changing
business models affect the consumer experience, suggests
solutions for service providers, and examines trends in
fixed-mobile convergence.
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Ade Bamigboye, CTO, Intamac
Systems Ltd
Brian Caskey, Vice
President, Worldwide Marketing, UTStarcom
Victor Dominguez,
Director, Sales & Business Development; Co-founder, DS2
Ray Sokola,
Chief Technology Officer and Corporate Vice
President, Motorola, Inc.
Singu Srinivas, President,
HiWired,
Inc.
Chris Wagner,
Executive Vice President and Co-Founder, NeuLion, Inc. |
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Michael Cai
Director, Broadband & Gaming
Parks Associates |
| 10:15 AM -
11:15 AM |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:15 AM -
12:15 PM |
Success Stories in Home Systems
Although the evolution of home controls and home
systems has shown more promise than real success, the
outlook is beginning to change. Hear from a panel of
experts across integration categories about why and how
home systems will be hot in 2008 and beyond.
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Joe Dada, CEO,
SmartLabs, Inc.
Christopher Geiser, Manager, Strategic
Development, Honeywell
Jeff Kussard, Vice President, Strategic
Development, Russound
William
T. Schafer, Director, Product and Channel
Development, Crestron Electronics, Inc.
Oded Vardi,
Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer, Superna
Ltd.
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Bill Ablondi
Director, Channel Research
Parks Associates |
| 12:15 PM -
1:15 PM |
Lunch & Special Session
LVCC, South Hall, S102-103Consumers Do Not Want
A Network—They Want Connectivity
There are numerous standard bodies promoting the
value of their particular brand of technology as the
solution for home networking. In reality, the home net
will be a blend and confluence of technologies and
standards. Even more importantly, all the consumer
really wants to do is walk over and plug it in. They do not
want a network. They want seamless and easy to install
connectivity.
Representatives from many of the more prominent
standards bodies will provide insight and perspective of
the home connectivity, applications, trends, and who
actually is driving the home network—the service
provider or the end consumer?
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Charles Cerino,
President, MoCA; Vice President, Network
Technology, Comcast Corporation
Karen Hanley, Senior
Director, Wi-Fi Alliance
Andy Melder, SVP
Strategic Business Development, HomePlug
PowerLine Alliance
Richard Nesin, Vice
President of Marketing, HomePNA (CopperGate
Communications)
Steve Wildstrom,
Technology & You columnist, BusinessWeek
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Sponsored
by MoCA
Moderator
Kurt Scherf
VP & Principal Analyst
Parks Associates |
| 1:15 PM -
2:15 PM |
How Social Media is Changing the
Rules
Beyond the amusing user-generated blooper video,
social media’s impact is being felt across traditional
entertainment services and even in the corporate
boardroom. This panel discusses the ramifications of Web
2.0 applications for media, advertising, and corporate
collaboration.
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Ralph Ackerman, Ralph
Ackerman Founder and Director, International
Short Film Association
Marc Canter, CEO,
Broadband Mechanics
Eric Chan, Director,
Strategy & Marketing, Cisco Media Solutions
Group
Rick Clancy,
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications,
Sony Electronics
Sebastiano Tevarotto,
Vice President and General Manager,
Communications, Media and Entertainment,
Hewlett-Packard Company
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John Barrett
Director of Research
Parks Associates |
| 2:15 PM -
3:15 PM |
Engaging Consumers: The Next
Wave of Ad Technologies
Thanks to IPTV, VOD/DVR, podcasting and mobile
phones, advertising is changing dramatically. This panel
provides insight into the viability of new concepts for
advertisers, content owners/publishers, and consumers.
The panel will also analyze new ad-serving technologies
and innovative approaches to tracking and measuring
audience engagement.
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Paul R. Brody, Partner,
IBM Global Business Services; Global Lead,
IBM Electronics Industry Strategy Practice
Jonathan Cobb, Founder,
Chief Technology Officer, Kiptronic, Inc.
Paul Palmieri, President
& Chief Executive Officer, Millennial Media,
Inc.
Kate Purmal, GM and SVP,
Digital Content Solutions Division, SanDisk
John Reister, Chief
Architect for IPTV, BigBand Networks, Inc.
Yoav Tzruya,
EVP & CMO,
Exent Technologies, Ltd.
Ben Weinberger, CEO,
Digitalsmiths Corporation
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Harry Wang
Research Analyst
Parks Associates |
| 3:15 PM -
4:15 PM |
Digital Home Tech Support: New
Revenue Opportunities?
In a 2007 study, Parks Associates forecast that
revenues from user-paid digital support services will
reach nearly $1 billion by year-end 2011. Opportunities
abound for broadband service providers, retailers,
software and hardware vendors, and third-party support
services. A panel of experts will identify key
opportunities in the customer support life cycle.
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Jeff Erwin, President
and CEO, Pure Networks
Jeffrey McCrea, Vice
President, Digital Home Group, General Manager,
Consumer PC Platform Group, Intel Corporation
Steven McKean, CEO,
Acceller Inc.
Paolo
Pastorino, Chief Technology Officer,
Home Gateway Initiative
Ron Renjilian,
Co-Founder and CEO,
Peak8 Solutions
Michael Wexler,
President, HiWired, Inc.
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Kurt Scherf
VP & Principal Analyst
Parks Associates |
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