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Networking to reach 168 Million Households Worldwide in 2008
CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit focuses on
entertainment and multimedia services in European markets
Dallas, Texas August 7, 2008 – Rapid growth in
home networking, approaching 168 million households worldwide in 2008,
is laying the foundation for expansion of multimedia services
internationally and especially in the European markets, according to
Parks Associates.
The market research firm will host
CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit
on August 29, 2008, at the Kempinski Hotel Bristol Berlin, to discuss
the implications of this market growth and share the latest findings of
its
Global Digital Living™ (GDL) project.
Parks Associates launched
GDL
in 2005 to track and analyze international adoption and consumer attitudes
toward advanced digital technologies and services. The most recent survey,
GDL: Entertainment 2.0 in Europe, studies the growth of
entertainment services in the top European markets. The project includes
country profiles and consumer surveys and examines adoption and valuation
of DVDs, online video and video-on-demand, DVRs, and high-definition TV
services, among other topics.
“Broadband growth pushed Europe ahead of North America in
terms of home network adoption,” said
Kurt Scherf, vice president, principal analyst, Parks Associates.
“With the network in place, providers will tie in high-demand
entertainment services. By 2012, over one-third of networked nodes
worldwide will have entertainment or multimedia functionality, with
particularly strong growth in IPTV services.”
CONNECTIONS™ Europe will provide attendees with
international consumer research and feature interactive discussions on
advanced television services, new media and digital content, and
value-added services.
Advisory sponsors for
CONNECTIONS™ Europe: Cisco, Enure Networks, F-Secure Corporation,
Macrovision, the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA),
Neotion,
support.com, Toshiba Electronics Europe, WirelessHD, and Zilog, Inc.
Speakers for CONNECTIONS™ Europe:
Fernando Gil de
Bernabé, Managing Director, Strategy and
Consumer, IBSG, Cisco
Udo Biro,
Senior Product Manager IPTV, Nokia
Siemens Networks
Richard
Bullwinkle, Chief Evangelist, Macrovision
Peder Burgaard, Chief Analyst, Media
/ Manager, Int. Network, Innovation Lab
Bernhard von
Canstein, Director of Business
Development for Europe, Qualcomm
Debbie
Greenstreet, Director, Service Provider
Strategic Marketing, Texas Instruments
Steve Harvey, Director, Business
Development, Global Events & Digital Health
Research, Parks Associates
Laurent Jabiol,
CEO & Co-Founder, Neotion
Stefan Jenzowsky,
CEO, MoreTV
Alx Klive, Founder and CEO,
WorldTV.com
Hans-Joerg Kolbe,
Senior Researcher, NEC Europe
Christer Larsson,
CEO, Makewave AB / OSGi Alliance
John LeMoncheck,
Co-Founder, WirelessHD; President &
CEO, SiBEAM, Inc.
Michelle Leyden Li, General Manager,
Home Control, Zilog
Klaus Milczewsky,
Senior Manager for Innovation Management,
Technology Management Products & Innovation,
Home Gateway Initiative / Deutsche
Telekom
John Newman, VP,
European Operations, Roxio Division, Sonic
Solutions
Ashley Norris,
Founder, Shiny Media
Frederic Onado,
Vice President EMEA, HomePlug Powerline
Alliance; Vice President, Marketing &
Sales, SPiDCOM Technologies
Eugen Pfumfel,
Principal Engineer, Toshiba Electronics
Europe GmbH
Stephen Reeder, Managing Director,
Europe, ActiveVideo Networks
Anthony Rodio,
Chief Operating Officer, support.com
Dr. Ralf Schäfer, Head Dpt. Image
Processing, Fraunhofer
Heinrich-Hertz-Institute
Kurt Scherf, Vice President,
Principal Analyst, Parks Associates
Stuart Sikes, President,
Parks
Associates
Cord Stukenberg,
Director, Service Provider Solutions, F-Secure
Jim Wallace,
Director, Emerging & Home, Segment
Marketing, ARM
The WirelessHD Consortium will host a
pre-show workshop on August 28, followed by a reception for
CONNECTIONS™ Europe attendees. For more
information, visit
http://www.connectionseurope.com or contact 972-490-1113,
sales@parksassociates.com.
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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