Parks Associates and Consumer Electronics Association announced the speakers for CONNECTIONS(TM): The Digital Living Conference and Showcase. The CONNECTIONS conference will take place June 24-26 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The annual event, now in its 12th year, will provide high-level research, knowledge, and analysis to more than 800 executives from the converging consumer technology and service industries.

CONNECTIONS: The Digital Living Conference & Showcase is hosted by leading research firm Parks Associates in partnership with the CEA(R). It is the premier executive event focused on the market developments and growth factors for advanced digital lifestyle solutions.

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.”

Speakers at the CONNECTIONS Conference will address TV and bundled services, mobile technology and applications, social and digital media, and home and lifestyle management. The line-up includes:

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, WW 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 [at] parksassociates [dot] com, or call 972-490-1113 for registration information.

Tekrati is pleased to be a supporting organization of CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference & Showcase.

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