Parks Associates is supporting IMPACT>CITIES.

IMPACT>CITIES will be the first event to truly connect business and government to create the blueprint for a tech powered urban future through a core focus on outcomes, impacts and real outcomes.

Through two days of focused content, tackle the real opportunities impacting cities and business, today; Including investment, mobility, transportation, sustainability, connectivity and digitalization. No rock will be unturned.

Join over 500 executive leaders from across the smart city space to drive action. It’s time for that change. Procrastination is no longer an option. 

Parks Associates is supporting Securing Digital ID 2018. 

Join us for an authentication showcase featuring experts who will explore, explain, debate and share their knowledge and experiences about today’s complex world of digital identities and how they are used for strong authentication and remote authorization purposes.

Attend this event to learn what today’s digital identity solutions and authentication technologies can do to help, what challenges businesses face in balancing security vs. convenience, what policies are either in place or being developed that help guide common practice, and learn what standards are doing to drive increased ubiquity and interoperability across solutions. 

Parks Associates is supporting AI Expo North America.

The AI Conference & Exhibition taking place 28-29th November at Santa Clara Convention Center is a showcase of next generation technologies and strategies from the world of Artificial Intelligence, an opportunity to explore and discover the practical and successful implementation of AI in driving forward your business in 2018 and beyond.

The AI Expo will bring together over 2,000 visitors over the two days including IT decision makers, developers & designers, heads of innovation, brand managers, data analysts and scientists, start-ups and innovators, tech providers and venture capitalists.

Parks Associates is supporting Blockchain Expo North America.

Blockchain Expo is returning to Silicon Valley this November.

The event explores pressing issues, developments and applications of blockchain technologies in major industry verticals including finance, energy and entertainment.

 

Parks Associates is supporting the Customer Engagement Summit, hosted at Connected Insurance USA.

As insurance carriers continually work on improving their products and services to survive an innovative future, the foundation of all transformation will be meeting the needs of customers. With connected data enabling personalized risk relationships, customer experience and engagement will take center stage on the agenda, featuring discussions on:

• Uncovering and delivering what customers want: providing the products and services that will deliver value to become invaluable to customers
• Creating an outstanding customer experience: making insurance easy to buy, claim and renew, across all touchpoints and channels
• Building a long-term risk relationship: engage customers around risk mitigation and management, enhancing experience and increasing the relevance to your customers lives
 

Parks Associates is supporting Connected Insurance USA Summit.

Connected Insurance USA is the only forum bringing together senior innovation teams and business unit executives to explore how to harness IoT, AI, blockchain and automation, delivering both enhanced customer experience and a more efficient carrier. With innovation a critical priority for insurers, Connected Insurance USA will give attendees the holistic strategies they need to embed connected technologies, seamlessly and efficiently.

Featuring proven business case studies, expert speakers and hours of networking, Connected Insurance USA will give you the tools you need to create a culture of innovation and ensure you stay relevant in customers’ lives.

Parks Associates is supporting HIVE 2018.

HIVE is the incubator for innovation and disruption in the ever changing housing landscape. Immerse yourself with the best and brightest minds from an array of industries who are passionate about design, strategy, and profitability to stimulate new ideas and shape the future of how people live, work and play.

Parks Associates is supporting The Future of Cable Business Services.

Now entering its 12th year, The Future of Cable Business Services is the premier independent conference focusing on the cable industry's continuing efforts in the commercial services space. This popular one-day event delves into the latest technological, operational and strategic moves by cable operators to carve out a more of the booming $150 billion US commercial market. More specifically, the live event explores cable's growing efforts to expand into the enterprise market and new vertical sectors; examines the tech, operational, financial and competitive hurdles that could hamper further growth; and addresses how those hurdles can be overcome.

Parks Associates is supporting 5G Africa.

Several major Mobile Network Operators in Africa, including MTN and Vodacom, have already embarked on their journeys towards bringing 5G to the continent, and 2018 has already seen new 5G test announcements resulting from partnerships with Ericsson and ZTE.

5G Africa (previously LTE Africa) is your opportunity to work with leading Mobile Network Operators and solution providers to assess feedback from recent 5G trials, explore 5G use cases, learn about next generation services enabled by 5G and build a detailed roadmap for 5G deployments in Africa.
 

Patrice Samuels, Senior Analyst, Parks Associates and Sid Victor, Vice President & Head of Support Services, CSS Corp will co-host a webcast to discuss consumer expectations and preferences in technical support.

Device manufacturers are adding more intelligent features to their products, enabling a broad range of new functionalities and automated cognitive capabilities. As consumers adopt more of these devices and use them in a variety of home, work, mobile, and play scenarios, they create unique connected ecosystems, making it imperative for companies to automate support processes while still delivering personalized and valuable user experiences.

This webcast examines new opportunities in managing tech support and driving connected experiences through cognitive and intelligent technologies and automated connected devices.

Topics will include: 

• Consumer expectations for support
• Consumer satisfaction with current systems
• Configurations for intelligent systems to minimize support resources
• Automation built on intelligent devices that deliver personalized connected experiences to consumers
• Consumer interest in new services created by automated, intelligent systems
• Outcome-based automation services and its impact on business outcomes

Parks Associates is supporting the 38th PLMA Conference.

Plan now to join over 300 energy industry professionals coming to Austin, TX to gain real-world insight from practitioners and energy utilities active in the demand response, load management and distributed energy resources marketplace. Come and experience why PLMA conferences consistently receive high marks for quality content and peer-to-peer information exchanges. Full details can be found at https://www.peakload.org/38th-plma-conference.

In addition to a fully packed conference agenda, you’ll also have an opportunity to join PLMA Interest Group activities prior to the kick-off of our formal conference. And post-conference, members of the Utility Load Management Exchange (ULME) will hold their Fall 2018 meeting. Complete agenda details are available at: https://www.peakload.org/38th-conference-agenda.
  

Parks Associates is supporting Software Defined Operations & the Autonomous Network.

Now in its fifth year, Light Reading’s flagship OSS event has been rebranded to reflect the increasingly software-defined nature of all new telecom technology, from networking to operations. The event will continue to build on its success as the industry’s premier forum for the discussion of the impact of SDN and NFV on network operations. In addition, the event has been expanded to a second day which will address the topic of automation, focusing on the core components of the autonomous network, namely analytics, artificial intelligence, intent-based orchestration and robotic process automation.