TM Forum is hosting a pre-show device-management Summit on June 24 in conjunction with CONNECTIONS: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase. CONNECTIONS is the largest executive conference and showcase focused on the market developments and growth factors for advanced digital lifestyle solutions. The 12th annual conference will be held June 24-26 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

The TM Forum Device Management Summit on “Low-Cost Device Deployment and User Support” addresses the growing management requirements generated by intelligent interconnected devices in the home, including mobile handsets, set-top boxes, and gateways. With one trillion devices expected in the next 15-20 years, service providers must solve device-based management issues, leading to reduced support costs, improved customer experience, and potentially add additional service revenues.

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.

“In a marketplace where customers demand ‘any service on any device, anywhere,’ user devices are becoming a key part of content and information services, creating major challenges for service providers,” said Keith Willetts, chairman and CEO, TM Forum. “The Forum has launched a new initiative to explore the feasibility of a common device management approach. We are delighted to have forged this exciting new relationship with CONNECTION for a series of events to help stimulate innovative solutions to this growing challenge."

“We are excited to collocate with the TM Forum,” said Tricia Parks, CEO, Parks Associates. “New technologies create challenges and opportunities as we bring more devices into our life and work. The TM Forum fulfills a vital function in realizing the full value proposition of user devices.”