Connected Europe: Trends and Numbers

The day begins with an examination of global digital lifestyle trends – with a specific eye on Europe. Parks Associates provides a primary perspective on the “digital consumer,” with a focus on product and services growth and usage as well as interest in key digital lifestyle solutions. This presentation focuses on three core industry areas:

• Video and entertainment

• Broadband and online services

• Communications

Speaker

Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates

Defining the New Video Experience

The consumer video experience is incorporating more than just television and movie content. This panel identifies the near- and long-term roadmap for the shape of television, video, and entertainment consumption from both CE and service perspectives:

• New services as supplements to the core video experience

• Integrating mobile, online, and PC content into the three-screen ecosystem

• The emergence of 3D video and gaming solutions

• Cloud services to the set-top box

• Visual networking – bringing social networking to the TV

Speakers

Ronald Brockmann, Managing Director, ActiveVideo Europe

Richard Bullwinkle, Chief Evangelist, Rovi Corporation

Patrik Nilsson, Head of Business Development, EMEA, Mobile & Devices, Adobe

Geof Todd, Director of Sales & New Business Initiatives, NDS

Moderator: Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates

Evolution of the “Digital Furnace”: Residential Gateways and Set-top Boxes

New trends such as cloud computing, green living, mobile connectivity, and hybrid Internet-TV services are reshaping the role of the set-top box. Carriers, squeezed by low subscriber revenues and the demand for more features, need a home hub that offers more capability for less capital. This session explores:

• The evolution of features that home hubs will support

• Support for features such as home monitoring, energy management, and health monitoring

• Network and hardware requirements for “future-proofed” home hubs

• The role of retail-purchased consumer electronics as compatible nodes

SPEAKERS

Art Lancaster, CTO, Affinegy

Christer Larsson, CEO and Co-founder, Makewave (formerly Gatespace Telematics AB); VP EMEA, OSGi Alliance

Christopher Schouten, Advanced Products Marketing Director, Irdeto Group

Frederic Van Durme, Head of Product Management, Thomson

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

Business Models for On-Demand Lifestyles

Where is profitability in the connected lifestyle? What are the “rules of engagement” (business, regulatory, consumer) for implementing access to new content and applications? This panel examines the critical factors for monetizing the connected lifestyle:

• Monetizing online content

• The role of advertising and other revenue-generating programs

• Understanding the needs of content producers and owners

• Application stores, microtransactions, and the mobile provider

SPEAKERS

Wim Bus, Senior Vice President of Product Management & Operations, Civolution

Keith Donovan, Sales & Marketing Director, Intamac Systems

Rob Lewis, CEO, Omnifone

Moderator: Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates

Enabling Technologies: Connecting It All

Consumer electronics manufacturers have many choices when it comes to the design of network-connected products. This panel brings together companies developing connectivity solutions for both fixed and mobile platforms to discuss these challenges:

• Home networking architectures

• Device discovery software

• Media server solutions

• Conditional access and rights management

• User interfaces

• Software development and execution solutions

• Device and service management elements

SPEAKERS

Matthew Huntington, VP, Product Marketing, OpenTV

Wouter Leibbrandt, Manager, Advanced Systems Lab, NXP Semiconductors

Peter Smyth, CEO, RedMere

Jon Finegold, Co-Founder and COO,  Thinking Screen Media

Ian Walsh, VP of Business Development, ProVision Communications

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

Wrapping it Up – Predictions for the Next Five Years

Parks Associates wraps up CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit with a recap of key findings. Parks Associates provides perspectives and predictions for five key digital lifestyles markets in Europe:

• Broadcast and entertainment services

• Communications and broadband services

• Home networking

• Home monitoring and green-living technologies

• Device management and support services

SPEAKERS

Philippe Calvet, Head of Home & Broadband Networks Standards in Orange Strategy & Development group, Orange/France Telecom; Head of Business Group & Board Member, HGI

Meir Friedlander, President and CEO, Eyecon Technologies

Trond Neergaard, Founder and Managing Partner, Cloudberry Associates; Member of CTAM Europe Board

Paolo Pastorino, Business Development and Marketing Manager, Loquendo

Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates

Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates