Parks Associates and CEA® announced the speakers for CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference & Showcase. The CONNECTIONS™ conference will take place June 24-26 at the Santa Clara Convention Center and provides high-level research, knowledge, and analysis to 800+ executives from the converging consumer technology and service industries.
Parks Associates research finds that there are over 300 million households worldwide with residential broadband and over 150 million households with a data network. “We are rapidly approaching an ignition point for converged services and networked products,” said Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with Parks Associates. “What is particularly exciting to see is how the market is connecting content and applications to access networks and making them accessible on numerous devices. We are looking forward to addressing all of these issues at this year’s conference.”
The speakers for the twelfth-annual CONNECTIONS™ Conference include:
Keynotes
Amy Banse, President, Comcast Interactive Media
Rebecca Jacoby, SVP & CIO, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Paul Liao, CTO, Panasonic North America
Fred McIntyre, SVP, AOL Video, AOL
Phil McKinney, VP & CTO, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett-Packard
Speakers
Timo Auer, VP, TV, Content & Digital Home, TeliaSonera Group
Saul Berman, Media & Entertainment, Global & Americas Strategy Leader, IBM Global Business Services
Scott Birnbaum, VP, Samsung LCD Business
Stephen Blum, President, Tellus Venture Associates
Richard Brand, Co-chair, IPTV Interoperability Forum, ATIS; Director, Video Solutions, Nortel
William Knox Carey, Director, Technology Initiatives, Intertrust
Brian Chamberlin, VP, Interactive, NDS
Jim Chase, Director of Business Development, Ubicom, Inc.
Rick Cnossen, Technical Working Group Chair, Continua Health Alliance; Manager, Medical Device Interoperability Standards, Digital Health Group, Intel Corp.
Patrick Cosson, VP, Marketing, VUDU
Kelly Davis-Felner, Sr. Manager, Wi-Fi Alliance
Martin DeBono, VP, Sales and Business Development, Pure Networks
Ray DeRenzo, SVP, Product, Programming and Marketing, MobiTV
Nick Desai, CEO, Juice Wireless
Pat Dunbar, Director of Mediaroom & Connected TV Advertising, Microsoft Corp.
Martin B. Dunsby, President & CEO, Vollee Inc.
John Edwards, President and CEO, Move Networks
Kirk Edwardson, Director, Marketing, Espial Group Inc.
Mike Ehlenberger, VP, North America Channel Sales, Actiontec
Thomas Ellsworth, CEO, GoTV Networks
Milan Erbes, Ambassador, HGI; Business Development & Standardization Manager, DS2
Gil Eyal, CEO, Enure Networks
Thierry Fautier, Director, Telco Solutions, Harmonic Inc.
Doug Fikse, President, On-Q/Legrand
Meredith Flynn-Ripley, CEO, Integra5
Rob Gelphman, Chair, Marketing Work Group, MoCA
Chano Gomez, VP, Marketing, DS2
Marc Goodman, Director, Alcatel-Lucent
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Grallert, Managing Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, HHI
David Haadsma, President and CEO, Bsecure Technologies
Ken Haase, Sr. Director, Product Line Management, Motorola
Barry Haaser, Sr. Director, LonWorks Infrastructure Business, Echelon Corporation
Dalen Harrison, CEO, Ensequence
Matt Harrison, General Manager, Medical Business Unit, Texas Instruments
Brian Henrichs, VP, Business Development, Actiontec Electronics
David Henry, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Home Products, NETGEAR
Chris Hock, SVP, Product Management, BlackArrow
Ben Huang, Director, Product Management and Marketing, Microsoft TV
Brad Hunt, President, Digital Media Directions, LLC
Amit Jain, VP and GM, CDMA Femtocell Business Unit, Airvana
Jim Johnson, President, uControl
Jim Jones, Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners
Dave Kamalsky, Program Manager, Virtual Worlds Research, IBM Almaden Research Center Bradley A. Kayton, COO, 4HomeMedia
Samir Khazaka, Sr. Director, Technical Marketing, Qualcomm
Fred King, VP, Sales and Marketing, PlumChoice
Eiji Kobayashi, President, HD-PLC Alliance
Keith Kocho, Founder & President, ExtendMedia
John LeMoncheck, Co-Founder, WirelessHD; President & CEO, SiBEAM, Inc.
Lou Lenzi, SVP, AudioVox
Michael Liddle, Chief Executive Officer, Home Director
Ellis Lindsay, Director, Strategy, Americas, Alcatel-Lucent
Amy Lipton, Director, Global Marketing, Media & Entertainment, IBM
Brian Mahony, VP, Marketing, ZeeVee
Tara Maitra, General Manager and VP, Content Services, TiVo, Inc.
Steve Mannel, IBM Cable & Broadband Solutions Executive, IBM
Joy Marcus, General Manager, US, Dailymotion
Keith McCurdy, President and CEO, VIVATY
Kevin Meagher, CEO, Intamac Systems
Eric Miller, Executive in Residence, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Jeff Miller, President and CEO, ActiveVideo Networks
Steve Mitgang, CEO, Veoh Networks
Henry Muyshondt, Sr. Director, Business Development, SMSC Automotive Infotainment Systems
Patricia Nakache, General Partner, Trinity Ventures
Tim Napoleon, Chief Strategist, Media & Entertainment, Akamai Technologies
Ashwin Navin, President and Co-founder, BitTorrent, Inc.
Hung Nguyen, General Manager and VP, Wireless Products Division, Sigma Designs
Cynthia Pacheco, General Manager, Philips Telehealth Solutions, Philips Home Healthcare Solutions
Frank Paniagua, Jr., CEO & Founder, Green Plug, Inc.
Buno Pati, Co-Founder and CEO, Sezmi Corporation
Petr Peterka, Distinguished Member, Technical Staff, Advanced Technology, Home & Networks Mobility, Motorola, Inc.
Michael Peveler, VP, Corporate Development, AMX
Adam Powers, Principal Engineer and Architect, Macrovision
Sterling Pratz, CEO, Autonet Mobile
Len Rand, Managing Director, Granite Ventures
Tandhoni Rao, Founder and VP Product Strategy, Radiospire Networks
Ron Renjilian, CEO, Peak8 Solutions
Michael Robkin, Principal Enterprise Architect, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
Anthony Rodio, EVP, Worldwide Operations, support.com
Dan Salmonsen, Director, Product Management, DivX, Inc.
Anil Sawe, Sr. Director, Marketing, Quartics
Tushar Saxena, Director, Technology, Verizon
George Schweitzer, President, CBS Marketing Group
Neerav Shah, VP, Business Development, Verimatrix
Tony Shakib, CEO & President, Zensys
Dan Simpkins, CEO, Hillcrest Labs
Melissa Simpler, CEO, Affinegy
Greg Smith, VP, Marketing and Business Development, Movea, Inc
Jordan Socran, Sr. Director, Business Development, Radialpoint
Singu Srinivas, President, HiWired
Reuben Steiger, CEO, Millions of Us LLC
Brian Steel, CEO, VoloMedia
Dean Takahashi, Lead Writer, Digital Media, VentureBeat
Brian Thomas, SVP, Client Services, Acceller
Floyd Turner, Director, Customer Care, Wild Blue Communications
Ryan Tykwinski, Director, Home Entertainment Experience, Best Buy
Yoav Tzruya, CMO, Exent Technologies
Hervé Utheza, VP and GM, TV Properties, ORB Networks
Oded Vardi, COO, Superna
Mark Vena, VP, PC Business, Synaptics
Tony Wan, Director, Marketing, Cisco Systems
Bruce Watkins, Co-Founder and President/COO, Pulse~LINK, Inc.
Bryan Watts, Business Development Manager, DSC
Lior Weiss, VP, Marketing, Celeno Communications
Will West, CEO, Control4
Stephen White, VP, Product and Content Management, Gracenote
Rusty Williams, SVP, Social Media Product Planning, Prospero Technologies, LLC (acquired by Mzinga)
Michael Wilson, CEO, Makena Technologies
Daniel Wong, Director, Product Management, D-Link
Simon Wynn, VP, Products, Devicescape Software
Marc Yi, Director, Intel Capital
Russell Zack, VP, Product Management, Anystream
Scot Zarkiewicz, CEO, SingleClick Systems
Parks Associates Workshop, Speakers for Special Lunch Session
Robert Eisses, President & CEO, Icron Technologies Corp.
John Gildred, President, SyncTV
Robert Rodenbucher, Director, Business Development, AwoX
Rick Schwartz, Product Manager, Consumer Software, PacketVideo (PV)
Loren Shade, VP, Marketing, Allegro Software Development Corporation
Parks Associates
Bill Ablondi, Director, Home Systems Research
John Barrett, Director of Research Michael Cai, Director, Broadband & Gaming
Tricia Parks, CEO
Kurt Scherf, VP and Principal Analyst
Stuart Sikes, President
Harry Wang, Sr. Research Analyst
Visit www.connectionsconference.com, contact sales@parksassociates.com, or call 972-490-1113 for registration information.
About CONNECTIONS™CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase, hosted by leading research firm Parks Associates in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®), is the premier executive event focused on the market developments and growth factors for advanced digital lifestyle solutions. www.connectionsconference.com
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