Parks Associates forecasts more than 920 million connected devices, including smartphones and tablets, will be sold worldwide in 2012 and revenues from operator-provided cloud-based value-added services will exceed $8.5 billion by 2015. International research firm Parks Associates will highlight its latest consumer and industry research in these key markets at CONNECTIONS™ Summit at 2012 International CES in Las Vegas on January 10th.
CONNECTIONS™ Summit sessions address the television’s evolving role in the home, content distribution across multiple screens, new value-added services including energy management, and consumer interest in the digital locker to store content.
Participants at the event include representatives from:
Akamai Technologies
Best Buy
Blue Line Innovations
Dell
Digitalsmiths
GE Appliances
GSMA
Hitachi Communication Technologies America, Inc.
IBM
Insight Communications
Irdeto
LEVEL Studios
LG Electronics
Motorola Mobility
Orange; UMTS Forum
PlumChoice
Qualcomm Atheros
Radialpoint
Rovi Corporation
Siemens Communications, Media and Technology
Support.com
Technicolor
thePlatform, a subsidiary of Comcast
Verizon
The summit, hosted in the South Hall Convention Center, Rooms S204-S205, during the first day of CES, features sessions with Parks Associates analysts and senior executives from Verizon, Best Buy, Motorola, IBM, and other leading companies discussing the changing entertainment and device landscape and its impact on consumers. Following the sessions, GSMA is sponsoring the CONNECTIONS™ Summit Networking Reception.
During CES, visit Parks Associates in Booth # 20259 in the LVCC South Hall 1.
