Parks Associates is a diamond media partner for TV Connect Latin America.

Leveraging from our TV Connect London event’s position as the world’s largest multi-platform connected TV event, TV Connect Latin America will reflect the incredibly rich and diverse market that Latin America has now become. TV Connect Latin America is the region’s leading multiplatform connected TV event for senior executives to come together to identify the strategy and technology needed to monetise the region’s rapid growth.

Parks Associates is supporing Grid-Interop.  

Held in partnership with the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) and the GridWise Architecture Council, Grid-Interop focuses on Smart Grid interoperability standards, technologies and issues to help define the interoperability framework necessary for Smart Grid to flourish. The location will be announced in coming months.

Parks Associates is supporting the TM Forum Management World Americas.

A new conference for a new world – TM Forum’s Management World Americas 2012. TM Forum’s Management World Americas 2012 is the only conference that brings together 1500+ professionals from communications and beyond to brainstorm, debate, share and learn everything you need to succeed in the digital world. This 4-day conference features re-imagined, highly interactive conference formats, unique pre-conference workshops, dedicated networking events, official TM Forum Training and Certification, and a central Hub featuring a bustling Expo, Catalyst demonstrations and all of the latest information from TM Forum.

Parks Associates is supporting Entertainment Apps Conference and Awards.

The Entertainment Apps Conference will bring together top digital distribution and marketing execs from the major studios and networks, CE and set-top box makers, technology and platform providers, developer and content creators for a day-long conference on the emerging world of app-based entertainment content and services. From social viewing and second-screen apps to content discovery to streaming and games, apps are becoming an integral piece of the content monetization puzzle. Variety’s Entertainment Apps Conference will focus on how content creators and distributors are using apps to enhance audience engagement, create new revenue opportunities, extend entertainment franchises and leverage power new social marketing and networking platforms. The app economy is large, active and thriving, with nearly half of the U.S. population using mobile apps. With hundreds of thousands of apps in the hands of consumers, we’re honored to present the Entertainment Apps Awards to recognize the best apps in the entertainment industry, selected by industry stakeholders, publishers, academics, tech journalists and more. The Entertainment Apps Awards categories and judging criteria are about industry recognition and rewarding excellence and innovation within the apps industry. More information about the Entertainment Apps Awards can be found here.

Parks Associates is supporting IP Cable World Summit.

The IP Cable World Summit will provide a unique forum for global cable operators and solution providers to come together to maximise the role of IP in monetizing enhanced multi screen customer experiences.

Building on the success of the IP&TV World Forum, the IP Cable World Summit is the only global event for cable operators to understand how to combine the bandwidth of cable with the flexibility of IP to deliver compelling multiscreen services.

Parks Associates is supporting Connected Entertainment 2012.

Connected Entertainment is Australia’s most important event focused on the connected TV and multi-screen digital entertainment opportunity.

Connected Entertainment is where:
• You can learn how to successfully monetise the opportunity presented by connected entertainment
• You are shown how to exploit the connected platform to deliver interactive experiences, multi-platform entertainment and social experiences 
• You can get access to the technologies and solutions that are enabling the connected entertainment world
• You can attend FREE educational seminars delivered by industry experts at the EXPO

Parks Associates is supporting Future of Television East.

Harry Wang, Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates will moderate the session, "Successful partnerships for content delivery in the vehicle."

Parks Associates is supporting Connected Cars 2012.

The Connected Car had its year in 2012 – it was the highlight of the 3 main telco trade shows CES, MWC and CTIA as the ‘convergence darling of the industry’. Connected Cars 2012 is a unique, one day event bringing the whole eco-system together for considered discussion of a number of essential themes, including: 

• Connected Cars – Basking in the Spotlight
• Connected Car Content – Music, video, infotainment
• Connected Car Services - Emergency services & tracking
• Connected Car Business Models, Pricing and Global Scaling
• Connected Cars Enablement – LTE, 4G, Satellite, Wifi, Wimax, M2M, Cloud, and Voice Activation, Electricity
• Connected Cars Safety and Privacy
• Connected Cars Customer Experience

This event is about content and business – addressing the above issues so you walk away from an intimate event with 1:1 contacts and a thorough knowledge about the state of play and best practice in connected cars. Get ready to meet Ford,Hyundai, Toyota, Panasonic, Nokia, AT&T, Sprint, Pioneer, Volvo, Rdio, Pandora and more all in one room. You will be involved as panel discussions with Q and A follow high level strategic keynotes.

Harry Wang, Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates is chairing the Innovative Service Delivery on Day 1, Wednesday, November 14th from 12:15 - 5:55 PM. Harry will be moderating the session, "Technologies of the Future: Which Innovations may become Commonplace?" from 2:35 – 3:25 PM. In addition, Harry will be moderating the session, "How Is Mobile Video Challenging the Network Architecture of LTE? Mitigating the Bandwidth-Hogger" from 4:55 – 5:25 PM.

Parks Associates is supporting LTE North America.

Now in its 5th year, LTE North America has firmly established itself as the ultimate ‘learning conference’ of the region, bringing together the leaders of the entire LTE ecosystem for unparalleled breadth and depth of discussion around the future of mobile broadband.

The event is a must-attend for regional carriers looking to search for potential new partners and learn from the market leaders about their deployment experiences. Hand-in-hand with a high quality programme and C-level speaker selection, the event offers opportunities for networking and learning opportunities though panel discussions, in-depth focus sessions, workshops, and a substantial exhibition floor showcasing the newest innovations and developments of the market.

Parks Associates is a diamond media partner for AfricApps.

AfricApps is a brand new and exciting addition to AfricaCom run for developers by developers. It is bringing together the growing community of Sub-Sahara’s mobile app developers to excahge ideas about how to create market leading apps and learn how they can bring to market the next Angry Birds.

Parks Associates is a diamond media partner for AfricaCast.

AfricaCast returns for a second year and continues to be the premier event in Sub Saharan Africa for broadcasters. This year we have the support of SABC, ABN, Endemol and Viacom; among many other major broadcasters who have provided CXO level speakers to discuss the future opportunities for African broadcasters. The event will provide a vital platform for all stakeholders to engage and debate how best to monetise the future of African broadcasting.

AfricaCast, an event organised jointly by Informa’s Com World Series and TV Connect Global Events returns again after attracting  228 high level conference delegates last year to address the challenges and opportunities in Africa’s broadcasting market. AfricaCast is part of Afircan' largest community event, AfricaCom which will attract 7,000+ exhibition visitors this year. This two day summit will bring decision makers from the entire value chain.

Parks Associates is supporting MVNOs Industry Summit USA 2012.

MVNOs Industry Summit USA looks forward to re-uniting senior executives from MVNOs, MNOs, MVNEs and device and retail companies to discuss how the second wave of MVNO business in North America is maximising device and services connectivity, global mobile data models, and roaming. 2012 promises to ramp up the action, with all eyes on carrier 4G strategy and the device sector move into connectivity and full ecosystem layer ownership.

This event is part of the MVNOs Industry Summit Series covering 5 major markets (Europe, Asia, Latam, Africa, USA). We were delighted to welcome Aspider, CDRator, Redknee, and Wyless as sponsors and exhibitors at the event in 2011 at the time of writing. 2012 continues our theme of supporting on site introductions, business wish lists, and industry catalyst for MVNO regional business development. The event is co-located with LTE North America and reaps the networking and business development benefits of this. 1,000 co-located attendees, 70 exhibitors, and 2 days and 6 streams of content.