Parks Associates is supporting the 41st PLMA Conference.

The 41st PLMA Conference -Online, originally scheduled to be presented in Scottsdale, Arizona, will instead be presented online with a mix of live and pre-recorded content presented at no charge to members and non-members alike. Gain real-world insight from practitioners and energy utilities active in the demand response, load management, and distributed energy resources marketplace.

The updated conference agenda includes live 2-hour-long webcasts on Tuesday, April 21 and Wednesday, April 22 as well as pre-recordings of much of the rest of the previously scheduled conference content as practical. The pre-recordings will be made available to all conference registrants for your binge-watching pleasure starting on April 20.

Please make time to view and share this online conference content to reinforce the value of networking and learning among our load management practitioner community during these challenging times. Together, let’s make this the biggest and best conference that PLMA never had... and set our sights on being together again this November 9-11 for the 42nd PLMA Conference in Baltimore.

https://www.peakload.org/41st-conference-agenda

Jennifer Kent, Senior Director, Parks Associates, will speak on the panel "Addressing Social Isolation and Aging in Place" at the Aging & Tech Forum: Addressing the Silver Tsunami on March 9 at 2:30 p.m. The preconference event will examine how virtual care and other technologies are being used to manage chronic-care seniors in the home. It will also help seniors who are thriving to live the active lives they choose for as long as they can. 

Lindsay Gafford, Research Analyst at Parks Associates will speak on the upcoming webcast from HME News, focusing on aging in place and PERS as a way for the providers in those markets to increase revenue with their existing customer bases and expand into new markets.

Lindsay Gafford participates in and supports all areas of research at Parks Associates, specializing in connected home solutions. Prior to joining Parks Associates, Lindsay had a diverse professional background with experience in the federal, non-profit, and private sectors. Her expertise falls in multisource data collection and analysis, operations and development of new programs, as well as increasing efficiency in already established programs.

Lindsay earned her MA in Church-State Studies and her BA in English Language and Literature from Baylor University in Waco, TX.
 

Parks Associates is supporting Utility Telecoms 2020.

Transforming utility telecom departments to drive the migration to MPLS networks and maximise security, reliability and visibility

Save 10% with promotion code: UTC-20-MEDIA-PARKS

The 3rd edition of the Utility Telecoms conference will draw together technical utility telecom professionals to review 14+ utility implementation case-studies from leading TSOs and DSOs. Discussions will focus on the migration to MPLS networks, Traffic Engineering, Private LTE, cybersecurity, leveraging 5G capabilities, public carrier relationships, as well as future network developments in the context of operating existing internal services such as teleprotection and telecontrol over MPLS.

Alongside the case-study programme, there is a utility strategy panel session, a technology innovation panel discussion, intimate end-user round table debates, a live demo lab of the latest systems and solutions, and an evening networking reception open to all participants.

Dina Abedelrazik, Senior Analyst, Parks Associates will moderate a panel session at the SecurityNext conference, February 9-11 in New Orleans, LA. The panel will look at the benefits of building an RMR Business Model, using research to look at how the consumerization of security — fueled greatly by the whole smart home movement — creates new opportunities for RMR, monitizing/leveraging data, and the impact/influence this is having on commercial security as well.

Jennifer Kent, Senior Director, Parks Associates, will speak during the webinar "Who’s Monitoring Grandma? Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors," hosted by Personal Connected Health Alliance. Join the webinar to hear from research and provider experts in the trenches of health technology deployment to aging populations.

Register Online.

Denise Ernst, Vice President, Parks Associates, will moderate several sessions at DISTRIBUTECH International, Thursday, January 30 in San Antonio. Session include:

• Breakfast Roundtable Discussion on 5G
  Room: 006 and 007, River Level
  Wednesday, January 29: 8:00 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.
   
• Eco Planning for Smart Utilities
  Room: 214B
  Session Number: Smart Cities/IoT 3
  Thursday, January 30, 8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
   
• EV Ready Utility Challenge: EV Blueprint for the City of Santa Clara, California
  Room: Booth #417, Exhibit Floor
  Session Number: e-Mobility & Smart Cities
  Thursday, January 30, 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
   
• A Look at How Enterprise-grade Platforms can Democratize Energy Solutions
  Room: Booth #417, Exhibit Floor
  Session Number: e-Mobility & Smart Cities
  Thursday, January 30, 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Parks Associates is supporting the Consumer Telematics Show. 

Join us on January 6th and immerse yourself in the future of automotive technology. Automakers are no longer just focused on the exterior. Increasingly, the consumer is being swayed by the in-vehicle experience. To stay competitive, automakers are adopting new consumer-centric technology that seamlessly brings our creature comforts into the car.

Brad Russell, Research Director, Connected Home, Parks Associates, will deliver the presentation, "The Tech Plays of the Biggest Players," Monday, December 9 at 3:00 p.m. at the TecHome Builder Summit in Washington, D.C.

Parks Associates is supporting Conecta Latam.

Conecta brings together a C-level executives from leading carriers, communications service providers, regulators, user groups and vendors from across the Caribbean and Central America markets to share experiences and market insights in a single world class forum.

Parks Associates is supporting Connected Insurance Summit USA 2019.

At Connected Insurance USA we are combining and building upon the foundation of our previous Insurance IoT USA and Customer Engagement USA Summits. We are excited to present in 2019 three conferences in one – three streams that dive into detail on product development, customer engagement and innovative tech.

Connected Insurance USA is bringing together over 700 senior insurance leaders to define the future of insurance. Over 500 CEOs, COOs, SVPs and VPs from across from Claims, Product, Customer, Technology and Innovation have already confirmed their places – have you?

Parks Associates is supporting the AI & Big Data Expo.

The leading Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Conference & Exhibition will showcase the next generation technologies and strategies from the world of Artificial Intelligence & Big Data, providing an opportunity to explore and discover the practical and successful implementation of AI & Big Data to drive your business forward in 2019 and beyond.

The AI & Big Data Expo will be co-hosted alongside the IoT Tech Expo, the largest global gathering for the Internet of Things sector, the Blockchain Expo and the Cyber Security & Cloud Expo. As a whole, the event will attract in excess of 13,000 attendees for two days of insightful content covering the whole ecosystem surrounding AI, Big Data, IoT, Blockchain, Cyber Security & Cloud.