Jennifer Kent, Director, Research Quality & Product Development, Parks Associates will be leading the roundtable "The Connected Healthcare Consumer: Bridging the Consumer and Care Professional Ecosystems" and chairing the Connected Cars and Healthcare & Wearables tracks on Tuesday, October 6. Kent will also be moderating the panel "Trends, Timelines and Predictions: Assessing the future of the connected car" on Wednesday,October 7.

Parks Associates is supporting Internet of Things World Europe.

Internet of Things World Europe is the largest IoT event of its kind. Taking place in October 2015, Berlin, the show will attract the entire ecosystem together under one roof to build business relationships and learn from industry experts across two days. With the past year having been an important one for IoT with the huge opportunities of this technology now firmly being realized. Accentures’ recent report predicts that 69% of consumers plan to buy an in-home device by 2019, reaffirming that consumer adoption of connected technology is on the rise! Attend Internet of Things World Europe and get updated on the latest trends and developments happening in this space and be part of this multi-billion dollar industry.

Parks Associates is supporting Content Delivery World.

Formerly CDN World Summit and TV in the Cloud, Content Delivery World 2015 has evolved to provide delegates with a forum to discuss and debate the opportunities and challenges surrounding the evolution of content delivery architectures and workflows – including, but not limited to, the role of the CDN in these new and ever improving architectures. While it is clear that CDN’s still play an important role in the distribution of content throughout the globe, as the consumption of media across multiple platforms in multiple formats continues to grow, the scope for convergence and innovation around the CDN is what is driving the industry forward. 

Parks Associates is supporting LTE Asia.

The 5G Asia Summit will explore how the region is leading the evolution towards the next generation of networks and promises to be an event filled with cutting-edge talks, case studies and innovation. 2015’s show will also look at the emerging markets of Asia; how the deployment and expansion of LTE is impacting their networks and what can be done to ensure a consistent high quality of service for consumers. By 2017 the developing markets of Asia will be the largest LTE markets in the world, and this year at the LTE Asia show their case studies and challenges will be brought to the fore.

Parks Associates is supporting TC3: Telecom Council Carrier Connections.

TC3 is a 2-day, executive summit, where the companies which are building and maintaining the networks comes to find innovations. Telcos, vendors, VCs, platform providers, startups, and developers from every corner of the ecosystem will participate with one objective in mind - get more innovation to the market, faster. 

Brett Sappington, Director, Research, Parks Associates will be giving a presentation on the smart home landscape.

BUILDER CONNECTIONS, a BUILDER and Metrostudy production, is a conference that brings together purchasing executives from the top builders in the nation with key suppliers in the industry.Buyer-seller interaction is the mission of BUILDER CONNECTIONS. Builders will meet face-to-face with top suppliers, focusing on the latest and greatest products and opportunities in the residential home building market. 

Tom Kerber, Director, Research, Home Controls & Energy, Parks Associates will be the lead presenter and moderator of the Workshop Session "What Customers Want: The Evolution to Value-Added Services" on Tuesday, September 29, at 3:30 PM. There’s momentum building rapidly. Consumers are making new choices every day, in every market structure, that impacts the electricity business as we know it. With the onslaught of the Internet of Things and the Smart Home, consumers are now being offered many options to help them manage their energy use. Many of these service offerings are not coming from utilities.

Since 1983, Gulf Coast Power Association (GCPA) has served Texas and the Gulf Coast as a regional electric power trade organization dedicated to promoting an improved understanding of the issues and opportunities impacting contemporary power markets.

Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates will be moderating the panels "Determining the Optimum Networking Solution for the Smart Home" on Tuesday, September 29 and "Which Device to Use as Smart Home Control?" on Wednesday, September 30.

The Smart Home Summit is dedicated to exploring these technologies, bringing together senior decision makers, colleagues and peers to meet, learn and do business. Boasting an interactive, cutting edge agenda with visionary speaker line-up, The Smart Home Summit is the platform for global authorities to present their “how-to” strategy and vision for a smart future.

Jason Paris, Director, Business Development, Parks Associates, will moderate Verizon's Opening Keynote "A Connected World with Intelligence", and two panel discussions, "Canadian Smart Home" and " Internet of Everything," on Monday September 28.

Parks Associates is supporting CONNECTED +.

CONNECTED + is a conference and exhibition tailored to meet the industry’s need for a unified and collaborative forum that paves the way to Internet of Things applications and smart home success. CONNECTED + is the premier event in Toronto where you can learn and network with the best and the brightest in IoT and its smart home technologies, connected consumer devices, and the latest innovations. From wearables, connectivity platforms, home automation, smart security, smart energy, or even connected health, CONNECTED + offers you a 360 degree view on this ever-growing industry. CONNECTED + will host 250 decision-makers, 50 + speakers, and 20 sponsors.

Parks Associates is supporting LTE Voice Summit.

The LTE Voice Summit 2015 will be addressing current challenges, issues that have come forth from live deployments and defining next steps for VoLTE services. Further more this year’s summit will concentrate on how operators can leverage VoLTE networks to protect critical voice revenues from attrition, and partnering with OTT players would be beneficial. Along with additional services such as HD Voice + introducing Video! Join this summit and benefit from presentations from key individuals, representing the full value chain including all the top operators and disruptive players, who will be providing the audience with a range of interesting perspectives.

Tom Kerber, Director, Research, Home Controls & Energy, Parks Associates, will be moderating the Appliance Design Webinar: IoT - Transforming the design process.

Transforming the design process to compete in the era of the Internet of Things is critical to long term success. Speed is key. Collecting and analyzing data from reviews, blogs, and crowd sources and leveraging that information to transform the enterprise requires fast information flow and breaking down silos.

Parks Associates is supporting HetNet World.

With key representation already confirmed from Telecom Italia, BT, Three and Vodafone, the newly re-branded HetNet World is set to be our most progressive yet with an agenda specifically designed to compliment the fast evolving RAN ecosystem. New challenges and opportunities have arisen through unlicensed spectrum, carrier aggregation, interference management and small cell backhaul, highlighting 2015 as the key year for progressing your HetNet strategy.

Parks Associates is supporting Internet of Things Security.

Internet of Things Security 2015 is the first event of its kind to focus on the security issues surrounding IoT and managing the information and data associated with the ever increasing amount of connected devices and appliances. Attracting decision makers, stakeholders and investors together under roof, Internet of Things Security boasts a C-Level executive speaker line-up with interactive round table sessions, case studies and networking breaks designed to instigate discussion and enabling business opportunities.