Parks Associates will host the 18th-annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference on May 13-15, 2014, at the San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront. CONNECTIONS™ focuses on innovative technology and business solutions for the connected consumer. The event features consumer research and market strategies to monetize digital content, mobile applications and services, value-added services, connected consumer electronics, and home systems.

The executive research conference includes presentations from Parks Associates' leading analysts and visionary sessions featuring executives in the connected entertainment and digital home technology industries. CONNECTIONS™ addresses critical business issues pertaining to the converging entertainment, media, and service markets for consumers. The audience is top executives, media, and thought leaders in the digital living markets. Presentations include information and analysis on the following subjects:

• New Business Models
• Challenges/Opportunities
• Standards/Interoperability Issues
• Technology Trends
• Case Studies
• Consumer Trends and Research

For more information and to register for this event, visit www.connectionsus.com .

Parks Associates is supporting LTE MENA.

Following on from last year’s hugely successful event,LTE MENA is back in Dubai for its 4th year. Returning with a new conference programme including, greater representation from the whole ecosystem, more operator case studies and more influential LTE experts than ever before. This year LTE MENA will look closely at the monetization aspects of LTE and how the network can bring increasing sources of revenue to the operator. We will examine the new services that operators are providing for their subscribers and the infrastructure that is needed to make these services possible.

Parks Associates is supporting CSI Magazine's Converging Home Summit.

CSI Magazine's Converging Home Summit will explore the increasingly intersecting worlds of television, telecoms and the internet. As web technologies begin to change TV in profound ways – smart TVs, cloud UIs, OTT streaming and TV Everywhere to name but a few new phenomena – the industry is looking to adapt and payTV operators are looking to stay in touch with the fast changing CE sector. Join the leading names in the industry at this two-day summit. Register now: www.csimagazine.com/summit

Parks Associates is supporting the Open Business Conference.

Open Business Conference is ground zero for learning how to put data to use while networking with the people who are building and deploying the latest in enabling technologies and solutions. Register now and save 50%.

Glenn Hower, Research Analyst, Parks Associates is speaking in the session "Content Rights and Technology Solutions in Media and Entertainment: Implementation of Technology Strategies - Protecting the Product" on Wednesday, May 7th at 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM.

Content is what the entertainment and media industry produce, and the viability of the industry's future rests on its ability to manage its content and control its distribution while at the same time making it available to an ever larger customer base. And that is the job of the DRM technology industry, to make the film, music and mobile technology delivery systems safe for mass use. In this session, we will explore, from the point of view of the technology companies, the possibilities and potential of DRM in the evolving content landscape. From CDs and DVDs to broadband and wireless delivery, DRM and content protection represents the bottom line of the future of our industries.

Parks Associates is supporting LA Games Conference.

Held in the iconic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, LA Games Conference (LAGC) is a favorite among game, media and investment leaders for the high energy, focused environment for networking, meetings and deal-making. Featuring two tracks with fireside chats, roundtables, panels and presentations on digital game investment, creation, distribution, marketing and monetization, the event brings together many of the elite in the industry for top sessions and power networking.

Parks Associates is supporting Broadband and TV Connect Asia.

Broadband & TV Connect Asia 2014 brings together 1000+ senior level decision makers and buyers from the fixed, wireless and mobile broadband industry from across the Asia- Pacific region and beyond. With senior decision makers gathering in one location and over 40 hours of rich content delivered by 65+ industry visionaries have you cleared you diary to ensure you will be there?

Parks Associates is supporting SDN World Asia.

Following the successful launch of SDN World, this brand new conference and exhibition will bring together the Asian operator community to discuss Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Virtualization in more complete detail than any other show to date, covering topics such as: SDN’s potential to improve network performance, flexibility and manageability; increasing the pace of innovation through software, instead of hardware; its ability to establish an open environment for delivering high value, game changing applications for customers; and crucially, its ability to make networks faster and more efficient. The forum will also examine SDN as a disruptive technology, its cost implications and its impact on the industry as a whole.

Parks Associates is supporting IMS World Forum.

Informa Telecoms & Media are delighted to announce the 11th IMS World Forum – the only dedicated global IMS event in the market. 2013/14 has given us more commercial launches of VoLTE and RCS services across a number of markets and has proved to be a very exciting time for everyone in the industry.

Parks Associates is supporting The Cable Show.

Hosted by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), The Cable Show 2014 is the live event that ignites business opportunities, cultivates new relationships and produces unparalleled learning experiences for more than 12,000 Internet and television professionals from around the world.

Parks Associates is supporting LTE Latin America.

Celebrating its 5th year, LTE Latin America follows on from last year’s hugely successful show, and is returning to Rio de Janeiro with an extended conference programme and new speakers from the whole ecosystem to give greater depth and breadth of discussion around the region’s most pertinent mobile broadband developments.

Parks Associates is supporting Rich Communication.