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CONNECTIONS™ Europe Press Release
ENGLISH
CONNECTIONS™ Europe to examine opportunities, implications as home
networking exceeds 150 million households worldwide
Executive summit features speakers from digital media
companies, CE manufacturers, service and solution providers
Dallas, Texas, March 19, 2009 – International
research firm Parks Associates today announced the final agenda and
speakers for CONNECTIONS™
Europe Summit, March 31, 2009, in Nice, France.
This executive event, taking place at the
Hotel Palais de La Mediterranee,
provides attendees with international consumer research and features
interactive discussions on European consumer trends, broadband and
value-added services, IPTV and video services, digital media, connected
CE, and digital home services and support.
“At the end of 2008, more than 150 million households
worldwide had basic home network configurations, with nearly 50 million
in Western Europe,” said
Kurt Scherf, vice
president, principal analyst, Parks Associates. “Rapid adoption of
broadband created this sizeable market, and at
CONNECTIONS™ Europe we
will discuss the implications as high-speed connectivity creates new
opportunities for service and technology providers, media companies, and
manufacturers.”
Roger
Pitton, Program Director, TV, Video & Music Business, Microsoft
Corporation, will deliver the keynote
“IPTV and the keys to
keeping customers” at
CONNECTIONS™ Europe. The
event also features the following speakers:
Michimasa Aramaki, Director, Industrial Standardization,
HD-PLC Alliance
Thierry Boudard, IPTV Strategic Innovation Manager, Thomson
Richard Bullwinkle, Chief Evangelist, Macrovision
Mark Cavicchia, CEO & Founder, WhereverTV
Nicolas Decitre, GM: France and Benelux, Jungo
Brian Donnelly, VP, Sales and Marketing, Icron
Margot Dor, Director, Strategic Projects, ETSI
Paul Entwistle, CTO, Pace
Milan Erbes, Ambassador, HGI; Standardization & Business Development
Manager, DS2
Gil Eyal, CEO, Enure Networks
Paul Gainham, Director, Service Provider Marketing, EMEA, Juniper Networks
Peter Galyas, CTO, Tilgin
Stefan Jenzowsky, CEO, moreTV Broadcasting GmbH
Art Lancaster, CTO, Affinegy
Dr. Ulrich Leiner, Head, Department Interactive Media, Human Factors,
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, HHI
Dr. Anton Monk, CTO, MoCA; Co-Founder, Entropic Communications, Inc.
Trond Neergard, VP, Sales and General Manager, EMEA, Radialpoint
Dr. Randolph Nikutta, Project Field Head "New Media", Deutsche Telekom AG,
Laboratories
Frederic Onado, VP EMEA, HomePlug Powerline Alliance; COO, SPiDCOM
Technologies
Eric Plesner, Director, Business Development, IO-Homecontrol
Micha Risling, VP, Marketing, Valens Semiconductor
Bill Stanley, Director, Operations Solutions, Telcordia
Matt Theall, Technology Strategist, Intel Corporation; President, HomeGrid
Forum
Navin Varsani, Consumer Director, EMEA, Cloakware
Ian Walker, Director, Sales and Marketing, EMEA PayTV, EchoStar
Event
sponsors include Advisory Sponsors
Affinegy and
Enure
Networks and Supporting Sponsor
HomeGrid Forum. CONNECTIONS™ Global Sponsors include
ActiveVideo Networks,
Affinegy,
Cloakware,
DSC,
HD-PLC
Alliance,
Icron,
Macrovision,
MoCA,
ProVision Communications,
Radialpoint,
Telcordia, and
Zilog.
For information, visit
http://www.connectionseurope.com or contact 972-490-1113,
sales@parksassociates.com.
Press passes are available at
http://www.parksassociates.com/connectionseurope.
About CONNECTIONS™ Europe
CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summits, produced by Parks Associates, provide
attendees with high-level analysis and consumer research, networking
opportunities, and information on emerging residential and mobile
technologies and services.
The next CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit will take place in Amsterdam,
Netherlands, 4 November 2009, and focuses on the impact of new
platforms, consumer buying habits, and new business models and
opportunities for TV operators, content developers, advertisers, and
consumer electronics companies.
http://www.connectionseurope.com
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