Parks Associates announces new speakers for
CONNECTIONS Europe, featuring executive expertise in IPTV, connected CE, and advanced video services. The Summit, hosted by Parks Associates on November 4, 2009, at the Movenpick Hotel in Amsterdam, addresses consumer demand and business strategies for connected consumer electronics.
CONNECTIONS Europe panelists will address key industry issues:
- The development roadmap for digital lifestyle technologies and applications
- Adoption and revenue forecasts of key connected device and service categories
- An examination of the business models for video and entertainment content and applications, online services, and communications
Pierre Francois Dubois, VP Very High Broadband & Digital Home Products, Technocentre, Orange, will present the opening keynote. Other participating speakers include:
Ronald Brockmann, Managing Director, ActiveVideo Europe
Richard Bullwinkle, Chief Evangelist, Rovi Corporation
Wim Bus, SVP, Product Management & Operations, Civolution
Fabrizio Caffarelli, CEO, TVBLOB
Bill Correll, VP, Marketing & Business Development, Eyecon Technologies
Keith Donovan, Sales & Marketing Director, Intamac Systems
Jon Finegold, Co-Founder & COO, Thinking Screen Media
Matthew Huntington, VP, Product Marketing, OpenTV
Art Lancaster, CTO, Affinegy
Christer Larsson, CEO & Co-founder of Makewave; VP EMEA, OSGi Alliance
Wouter Leibbrandt, Manager Advanced Systems Lab, NXP Semiconductors
Rob Lewis, CEO, Omnifone
Theodore May, VP Content & Value Added Services, Synacor
Trond Neergaard, Founder & Managing Partner, Cloudberry Associates; Member, CTAM Europe Board
Patrik Nilsson, Director, Adobe
Paolo Pastorino, Business Development & Marketing Manager, Loquendo
Kurt Scherf, VP, Research, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates
Neerav Shah, VP, Business Development, Verimatrix
Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates
Peter Smyth, CEO, RedMere
Bill Stanley, Executive Director, Operations Solutions, Telcordia
Geof Todd, Director, Sales & New Business Initiatives, NDS
Frederic Van Durme, Head, Product Management, Thomson
Ian Walsh, VP, Business Development, ProVision Communications/AXAR Media
Andrew Wajs, CTO, Irdeto Group, Irdeto/Cloakware