Parks Associates announced today the speakers for the tenth annual CONNECTIONS?: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase, which will take place at the Santa Clara Convention Center, May 2-4, 2006.
Produced by Parks Associates in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA?), CONNECTIONS? is the largest executive conference and showcase dedicated to advanced digital lifestyle solutions for residential and mobile environments.
This year?s conference topics include digital entertainment, mobile platforms & services, home networking & infrastructure, home management & digital health, and broadband & IP services.
?This year, CONNECTIONS? features an agenda packed with top-notch speakers, including leading service providers such as AT&T U-Verse, Cox, and Comcast, among others,? said Tricia Parks, CEO of Parks Associates. ?We look forward to hearing diverse views on how to offer consumers even richer entertainment options.?
CONNECTIONS? Keynote Speakers:
Peter Barrett, Chief Technology Officer and General Manager, Engineering, Microsoft TV Group
Michael Grasso, Assistant Vice President ? Consumer Marketing, AT&T U-verseSM
Allen Delattre, Global Managing Director, Electronics & High Tech Industry Practice, Accenture
William O. Leszinske, Jr., General Manager, Networked Media Platform Group, Intel Corp.
Gary Shapiro, President and CEO, Consumer Electronics Association
Plenary Speakers
Jan-Luc Blakborn, Director of North America Digital Entertainment Category, Digital Entertainment Products, Hewlett-Packard Company
Joe Dada, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, SmartLabs Inc.
Peter Daley, Equity Research Analyst, Digital Media, Rutberg & Company, LLC
Eddie C. Drake, CTO, Siemens Home Entertainment
Bob Greene, Senior Vice President, Advanced Services, Starz Entertainment Group
Bob Heile, Chairman, ZigBee Alliance
Amy Heller, Vice President, Business Planning & Development, International Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment
Rob Herb, Managing Director, BA Ventures
Peter Lee, Vice President, Business Development, The Walt Disney Company
Alexander K. Marquez, Director, Strategic Investments, Media & Entertainment, Intel Capital, Intel Corporation
Douglas Means, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Connected Home Solutions, Motorola, Inc.
Joe Menard, Corporate Vice President, Software Strategy, AMD
Hyun Park, Vice President, Research Fellow, and Head of Ubiquitous Solution Team, LG Electronics, Inc.
Ladd Wardani, Vice President, Business Development, Entropic Communications; President, MoCA
J.D. Zeeman, Director, Digital Media, Global Communications Sector Services, IBM Global Services
Oren Zeev, Partner, Apax Partners
Operator Q&A Round Table ? Special Event hosted by MOCA
Will Beals, Director, Hardware Systems Architecture, EchoStar Technologies, Corp.
Charles Cerino, Vice President, New Services Technology, Comcast New Media Development
John Hildebrand, Vice President, Multimedia Technology, Cox Communications
Brian Whitton, Executive Director, Access Technologies, Verizon Communications
Moderator: Ladd Wardani, President, MoCA; Vice President, Business Development, Entropic Communications, Inc.
Special Lunch Session ? ?Making the Network Work? - Parks Associates Pre-Show Workshop
Anne Marie Biernacki, CTO and Founder, Digiticians
Richard Caballero, Director, Product Management, SupportSoft
Tim Dowling, President and CEO, Pure Networks
John Fisher, CTO, Peak8
M. Fahim Siddiqui, CEO, Sereniti
Panel Speakers
Faraj Aalaei, CEO and Co-founder, Centillium Communications
David Arfin, CEO, GlooLabs, Inc.
Mike Barlow, CEO, PacketVideo Network Solutions, Inc.
Gunjan Bhow, Vice President, Marketing and Product Management, Actiontec Electronics, Inc.
Michael Brochu, President and CEO, Loudeye
Steve Brown, CEO, Health Hero Networks
Maciek Brzeski, Vice President, Marketing, Toshiba Storage Device Division
Jack Buser, Director, Consumer Electronics, Dolby Laboratory
Ron Cates, Vice President, North American Sales & Marketing, Metalink
Tom Cullen, Co-founder & Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Sonos, Inc.
Matt Cuson, Vice President, Marketing, Minerva Networks, Inc.
Aaron Dagan, President and CEO, PsiNaptic Inc.
David Davies, Vice President of Strategy and Product Marketing, Subscriber Networks, Scientific-Atlanta, A Cisco Company
Bill Diamond, President, Xanboo, Inc.
Charles Dougherty, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Connected Home Solutions, Motorola
Udo Eberlein, President, Nero Inc.
Mike Einstein, Vice President, Corporate Innovation, Intermatic, Inc.
Ken Fairbanks, Vice President, Sales and Business Development, SmartLabs, Inc.
Robert Ferrari, Managing Director, Global Business, Turbine Inc.
Mike Fidler, CEO, Digeo, Inc.
Kevin Foreman, General Manager, Mobile Business Unit, RealNetworks, Inc.
Ron Frankel, CEO and President, Synacor
Doug Glen, Chief Marketing Officer, Zetera
John Graham, Vice President, Marketing, Entropic Communications
Pete Griffin, Director, Corporate Technology, RadioShack
Manish Gupta, Vice President, Marketing and Alliances, Aperto Networks
John Hannan, Director, Business Development, Qualcomm
David Hanson, Co-Founder & Senior Vice President, Business Development, AgileTV
Frank Hanzlik, Managing Director, Wi-Fi Alliance
Bill Holmes, Vice President, Consumer Electronics, DivX, Inc.
Nassir Iravani, Director, Americas, Forum Nokia
Greg Jones, General Manager, Worldwide Service Provider Strategic Marketing, Texas Instruments
David Kaiserman, President, Lennar Communications Ventures
Keith Laepple, Director, Consumer Electronics Partner Team, Windows eHome Division (Media Center), Microsoft Corp.
Ron Levin, Home Networking Marketing Manager, ECI Telecom Ltd.
Al Lizza, Director of Marketing, Honeywell
Selina Lo, CEO, Ruckus Wireless, Inc.
Ted Malone, Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Marketing, Digital Deck
Ella Mar, Senior Vice President, Operations, Espial
Mick McManus, President and CEO, MAYA Design
Andy Melder, Senior Vice President, Sales, Marketing, and Business Development, Intellon
Philippe Mora, Director, Marketing and Business Development, PortalPlayer, Inc.
Malachy Moynihan, Vice President & General Manager, Home Networking, Linksys Division of Cisco Systems
Richard Nesin, Vice President, Marketing, CopperGate Communications
Jeff Oscodar, CEO, HandHeld Entertainment, Inc.
Steve Parkis, Vice President, Premium Products, Disney Online
Peter Percosan, Executive Director of Broadband Strategy, Texas Instruments
Adam Powers, Chief Technical Officer, Coaxsys Inc.
Daniel Putterman, President and CEO, Mediabolic, Inc.
Reza Raji, CEO & President, iControl Networks
Greg Raleigh, President & CEO, Airgo Networks
Stephen Reeder, Executive Director, Product Strategy, ANT Software Limited
Bill Rehbock, Director of Developer Relations, NVIDIA Corporation
Stefan Roever, CEO, Navio Systems
John Santhoff, CTO, Pulse~LINK, Inc.
Esteban Sardera, Vice President, IPTV Solutions, OpenTV
Matthew Shoemake, Founder, CEO, & President, WiQuest Communications
Dan Simpkins, Founder & CEO, Hillcrest Labs
Melissa Simpler, CEO, Affinegy
Larry Smith, COO, Archos Technology
Young-Sae Song, Director, Corporate Marketing, Redback Networks
Michael Stelts, President, CEPCA
Sean Storin, President, TechConnectors
Jonathan Symonds, Vice President, Product and Distribution, GoldPocket Interactive
Steve Tranter, Director, Interactive and Broadband Delivery, NDS
John Traynor, Director, Business Segment Marketing, Microsoft Mobile and Embedded Devices, Microsoft
Steve Troyer, Vice President, Marketing, Zensys
Yoav Tzruya, COO, Exent
Jocelyn Vigreux, President, U.S. Operations, TomTom
Ofer Vilenski, Co-Founder, President, and CEO, Jungo
Mark Walters, Chairman of the Developer Forum, Z-wave Alliance; Director, Business Development, Leviton Integrated Networks
Stephen Whalley, Manager, Business Development, Consumer PC Platforms, Digital Home Group, Intel Corp.
Moderators
Bill Ablondi, Director, Home Systems Research, Parks Associates
John Barrett, Director, Research, Parks Associates
Yuanzhe (Michael) Cai, Director, Broadband & Gaming, Parks Associates
Deepa Iyer, Research Analyst, Parks Associates
Patrick Mannion, Editor, EE Times
Tricia Parks, CEO, Parks Associates
Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates
Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates
Harry Wang, Research Analyst, Parks Associates
About CONNECTIONS?: Now in its tenth year, CONNECTIONS?: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase is produced by Parks Associates in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association and is the largest executive conference and showcase dedicated to advanced digital lifestyle solutions for residential and mobile environments.
For information on speaking, sponsoring, or attending, please visit http://www.connectionsconference.com.
Contact: Jenny Barrett or Chelsey Tyson
Jenny@parksassociates.com; Chelsey@parksassociates.com
972-490-1113
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