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Fall Focus: Making Media Meaningful features
leading executives examining the changing landscape for digital content
Parks Associates, leading analyst firm for “digital
living” technologies, today announced
the
preliminary lineup of speakers for
Fall Focus: Making Media Meaningful,
to be held November 9-11, 2005, at the Fairmont San Jose.
Fall Focus,
hosted by Parks Associates, will address the changing consumer habits that
result from expanded Internet capabilities and the diffusion of available
digital entertainment products and their corollary services. The agenda
features industry experts and executives from service providers,
manufacturers, and developers making key advances in media and product
personalization.
“This year’s event is focused on the changing
landscape in the ‘digital living’ industries,” said
Tricia Parks,
president of Parks Associates. “Based on our latest consumer research,
consumers want their content personalized and available in different
formats and through different platforms. There are many aspects to be
considered, and the participants at Fall Focus will address the key
business issues surrounding the consumer demand for these services and
products.”
Parks Associates’ recent consumer research shows that
a relatively large percentage of consumers are interested in enjoying
music, video, and TV content on their mobile phones and also reveals that
consumers are warming up to emerging television services:
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10% of Internet users in the U.S. are interested in
the ability to view pre-recorded video, video clips, or live TV on their
mobile phones.
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11% percent of Internet users in the U.S. are
interested in the ability to download and play music files or listen to
radio stations through their mobile phones.
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46% of U.S. Internet consumers 13 and older
are comfortable with viewer tracking and targeted advertising services
if offered in conjunction with ad-skipping capabilities.
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27% of all U.S. households are interested in
interactive services such as voting on game shows, targeted advertising,
representing a lucrative early market for IPTV services and
applications.
The preliminary agenda
for Fall Focus includes the following participants:
Conference Keynote:
David H. Courtney,
Executive Vice President, Corporate Products & Services Group, Chief
Financial Officer, TiVo Inc.
Confirmed Speakers:
Mitch Berman, Corporate Vice President, Global
Marketing, C-COR, Inc.
Jan Luc Blakborn, Director of Digital Entertainment, HP North
America
Jim Brehens, CEO, Orb Networks
John Bryan, Vice President / Director of Operations, emuse
Technologies
Gerry Campbell, Vice President and General Manager, AOL
Suranga Chandratillak, Co-Founder, Blinkx
Udo Eberlein, President, Nero Inc.
Beth Erez, Vice President Strategic Alliances, NDS
Bill Flitter, Founder, Pheedo
David Geary, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Ofoto/EasyShare
- Kodak
Larry Gitlin, Vice President Business Development, HandHeld
Entertainment
Joshua Goldman, CEO, Akimbo Systems
J. Scott Hamilton, President and CEO, VoodooVox
David Hanson, SVP, Business Development, AgileTV
Dalen Harrison, President and CEO, Ensequence
Steve Iverson, President and CEO, Streamload
Howard Kaushansky, Founder, President and CEO, Umbria
Communications
Seth Kenvin, Vice President, Strategic Marketing & Corporate
Development, BigBand Networks, Inc.
Taunia Kipp, VP of Strategy, Wurld Media
Keith Kocho, CEO, ExtendMedia
Daniel O'Brien, Chairman and CEO, Gotuit Media Corp.
Michael Raneri, COO, MeeVee Paul Sherer, Co-founder & CEO, Arroyo
Video Solutions, Inc
Stephen Reeder, Executive Vice President, Marketing, ANT plc
Chad Richard, Chief Executive Officer, Simple Star, Inc.
Christina Tancredi, SVP, Advertising, Marketing & Sponsorships,
MusicChoice
Kanaiya Vasani, Vice President, Business Development & Marketing,
Digital Video Solutions, Terayon Communication Systems
Ladd Wardani, Vice President, Business Development, Entropic
Communications
David Whetstone, Chief Marketing Officer, Idetic/MobiTV
Early
sponsors for Fall Focus 2005 include Gold Sponsors Entropic
Communications and Metalink Ltd.; Silver Sponsors NDS, Nero Inc., and
Streamload; and Break Sponsors BigBand Networks, Inc. and Terayon. For
more information on attending this event or participating as a sponsor,
visit www.fallfocus.com.
For more information on Fall Focus, visit
www.fallfocus.com.
About Fall Focus
Fall Focus conferences are targeted events providing a full analysis and
evaluation of the “focus” topic. These conferences typically host 250-300
people, and the agenda features industry leaders from the relevant domains in an
interactive environment, moderated by Parks Associates’ analysts.
About Parks Associates: Parks Associates is an
internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing
in emerging consumer technology products and services. Founded in 1986, Parks
Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to
small start-ups through market reports, primary studies, consumer research,
custom research, workshops, executive conferences, and annual service
subscriptions.
The company's expertise includes new media, digital
entertainment and gaming, home networks, Internet and television services,
digital health, mobile applications and services, consumer electronics, and home
control systems and security.
Each year, Parks Associates hosts executive thought
leadership conferences CONNECTIONS™, with support from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®), and CONNECTIONS™ Europe. In addition, Parks
Associates produces the online publication Industry Insights in
conjunction with the CONNECTIONS™ Conference series.
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