Speakers Confirmed for TM Forum Device Management Summit

The TM Forum Device Management Summit focussing on “Low-Cost Device Deployment and User Support” is pleased to announce their speaker line-up for the event that will take place on June 24th, 2008, prior to CONNECTIONS™. The event has been produced to address the growing management requirements generated by intelligent interconnected devices in the home, including mobile handsets, set-top boxes and gateways.

Chris Ballard, who leads the TM Forum’s Device Management interest group will be joined by Abraham Joseph of the Device Management Forum to outline business drivers for device management and the scope and direction of the TM Forum’s own interest group. The speaker panel line up also includes Paul Coxhead from Coxhead Consulting who has spent a long career working for BT, Dr Plamen Nedeltchev from Cisco’s internal IT organization, John Fisher, from Peak8Solutions, Robin Mersh, COO from the DSL Forum and Frank den Hartog, Chair of the Remote Device Management Group from the Home Gateway Initiative and Stan Moyer, President of the OSGi Alliance.

The TM Forum is the world’s leading trade association focused on management of information, communications, and entertainment services. TM Forum helps its members by defining best practices, guidelines, and standards for operational processes and systems to enabling better automated processes by deploying operational systems that require lower integration effort across the service delivery chain. The TM Forum has formed an interest group of hardware, software, and service provider companies to investigate the feasibility of a common industry approach to user-device management which will be explored during this event.

The TM Forum are offering a special discount to all those who register for CONNECTIONS™, as well as an Early Bird discount which expires on April 22nd, 2008.

To find out more about this event please visit: www.tmforum.org/device

Enure Networks Announced as CONNECTIONS Europe Summit Series Sponsor

Parks Associates and CEA are proud to announce Enure Networks as an Advisory Sponsor for CONNECTIONS Europe Summit Series 2008 held in France and Germany.

Enure Networks provides the world’s first and award-winning patented home network management software solution capable of completely and intelligently automating the entire broadband home network environment. This includes automating set up, security, configuration, diagnosis and the self healing of connectivity problems in real time. The solution operates without the need for user or service provider intervention. This level of intelligent automaton in

Enure’s products dramatically reduces technical support inquires, operations and costs for telecommunications and cable broadband and triple play service providers. Enure Networks is a venture capital-backed company with funding from Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. More information can be found online at http://www.enure.com/.

If your company is interested in becoming an Advisory Sponsor or Supporting Sponsor, please contact Steve Harvey at 972.996.0221 or steve.harvey@parksassociates.com.

MoCA Sponsors CONNECTIONS Europe Summit Series

Parks Associates and CEA welcome The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA™) as an Advisory Sponsor at this year's CONNECTIONS Europe Summit Series.

MoCA is an open, industry driven initiative promoting distribution of digital video and entertainment through existing coaxial cable in the home. MoCA technology provides the backbone for whole home entertainment networks of multiple wired and wireless products. Visit http://www.mocalliance.org/ for more information.

For additional sponsorship information, please contact Steve Harvey: by phone at 972.996.0221 or by email at steve.harvey@parksassociates.com .

CONNECTIONS Europe Summit Series is Now Accepting Speaker Submissions

The CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit Series is now accepting speaker submissions for the May 19th summit accompanying the TM Forum's Management World 2008 in Nice, France.

For all those interested in speaking at the CONNECTIONS Europe Summit France event, please complete the Call for Papers submission form: http://www.parksassociates.com/events/europe/2008/may20/call-for-papers.htm

The agenda sessions topics include the following: Digital Lifestyles: Building the European and Global Business Cases, IPTV and Television 2.0, Differentiating Video Services in a Hyper-competitive Market, Broadband, Value-added Services, and the Bundle, Adding Value to Access Services: Connectivity, Content, and the Customer, Which Connections Matter?, Connected Home and Device Management, Surrounding the Digital Home with Support, The Role of Customer Support in the Digital Home, and Consumers and Digital Media.

The second CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit will take place August 29, 2008, in Berlin, Germany.

CONNECTIONS™ Europe: Strategies for Digital Living Markets summits are produced by Parks Associates in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®). These one-day summits provide attendees with high-level analysis and consumer research from Parks Associates, networking opportunities, and information on emerging residential and mobile technologies and services. These focused events provide a forum where executives can present and learn about vital international trends, successful strategies, and key players in the development of digital living technologies. http://www.connectionseurope.com/

Inaugural CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit to Address Connected Home Strategies for Service Providers, CE Vendors

Parks Associates and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®) announced the agenda and early sponsors for the inaugural CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit, taking place May 19, 2008, in cooperation with TM Forum's Management World 2008 in Nice, France.

This CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit will be the first of two 2008 seminars for the European continent. These summits will host high-level strategists and executives active in the digital living space and feature discussions and analysis on designing, developing, and marketing advanced products and services for the home.

Enure Networks and the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA™) are Advisory Sponsors for both 2008 Summit events. The first of the two Summits will take place May 19, 2008, at the Palais de la Mediterranée, in cooperation with Management World 2008, which takes place May 18-22, 2008, at the Acropolis Convention Center in Nice, France.

Agenda Sessions include:
Digital Lifestyles: Building the European and Global Business Cases
IPTV and Television 2.0
Differentiating Video Services in a Hyper-competitive Market
Broadband, Value-added Services, and the Bundle
Adding Value to Access Services: Connectivity, Content, and the Customer
Which Connections Matter?
Connected Home and Device Management
Surrounding the Digital Home with Support
The Role of Customer Support in the Digital Home
Consumers and Digital Media

The second CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit will take place August 29, 2008, in Berlin, Germany.