Parks Associates announce the preliminary agenda, featuring the core topic areas of CONNECTIONS: The Digital Living Conference & Showcase, including mobility and communications, entertainment and content, connected consumer electronics, and cloud-based value-added services.

The three-day event, June 28-30 at Santa Clara, Calif., offers a unique mix of market research presentations, trending data, insight from industry leaders, and discussion of the current strategies and future challenges in providing connectivity and technology services for consumers.

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The Eurowebtainment – a unique offer of infotainment events. New with two additional and interesting Networking Events:

• On the opening day after 20:00 - the new Welcome Event “MEET & EAT"
• On Thursday afternoon - the special “Business Women’s Lounge”
• Now new: on 2 event days - our „ Speed-Networking-Events“
• In addition, several speeches, workshops and for the first time - the Webmaster Panel Discussion
• Spanish Webmaster Lounge

Verimatrix announced its partnership with Vestel to create a versatile IP-enabled range of connected TVs ready for premium service delivery. Vestel's range of MB36 IP enabled TV's are available for deployment with embedded Verimatrix ViewRight client security supporting VCAS protected digital TV services.

The secure connected TVs will be demonstrated at the IP&TV World Forum, March 22-24 at Verimatrix's booth #117.

Envivio will offer extensive opportunities for attendees of IP&TV World Forum, March 22-24 in London to experience TV without Boundaries. Envivio's Stand 158 at the Olympia Exhibition Centre will feature information on the new 4Caster C4 Gen III multi-screen encoder, which delivers nearly twice the processing power and HD density of previous generation encoders, as well as the latest version of firmware for the 4Caster family. This new firmware features Envivio Genesis—the new standards-based output format that transforms TV headends into efficient multi-screen delivery engines.

The Eurowebtainment is Europe’s truly largest business-event in its kind across Internet, Telecommunication & SAT/WEB-TV with over 700 company representatives in 2010 from 28 different countries held for the 19th time, this spring once again in Majorca.

Organizing Committee of the annual Kyiv International TV and Radio Fair - the main business forum for professionals of Ukrainian media industry - invites specialists in Media to the XVII Kyiv International TV and Radio Fair that will be held on 24-26 May 2011 at the Exhibition Centre “KievExpoPlaza”.

Main fields of professional interest:

• Television
• Radio broadcasting
• Telecommunications
• Internet
• Cinema production

Grab the nearest couch! At the IP&TV World Forum this week, Opera Software will unveil a new version of its embeddable browser engine for TVs, so, in addition to watching your favorite shows, you can also browse the websites to your favorite shows and a host of rich associated web applications directly on your TV.

Following its recent announcements of numerous deals with Tier-1 connected TV and set-top box vendors, Opera will launch Opera Devices SDK 3.0 at the show and also demonstrate live customer solutions based on the product, as well as pure technology demos that visualize its capability.

TVover.net and MM Conferences are giving away 5 free last-minute passes to the 2011 Telecommunications and Media World Symposium, March 23-24 in Warsaw, Poland. Enter to win by emailing us at media@tvover.net with subject line 'Telecommunications and Media World Symposium raffle', name, email, company, address and phone number by noon CST, March 21, 2011. The winners will be randomly drawn.

Mariner will be joining Deutsche Telekom, Informa Telecoms & Media, KPN and Portugal Telecom at the IP&TV World Forum 2011 in London as part of the IPTV Customer Satisfaction Track being held on March 22, 2011.

Mariner, a leading provider of end-to-end IPTV Service Monitoring solutions, will lead a discussion on the changing face of customer satisfaction for IPTV service providers, and what this means for their path to profitability.

Amino Communications will showcase its award-winning OTT and IPTV solutions at IPTV World Forum 2011 – giving a European debut to its Freedom Jump OTT media centre with new 3D capability.

Aligned with one of the key themes of the show, Amino will also highlight its “real world” OTT experience, drawing on its role in providing the technology underpinning the world’s first tier 1 hybrid/OTT rollout, with a range of demonstrations of its product and solutions capability.

Visitors to Amino’s stand (no. 41) - at London’s Olympia from 22-24 March – will have access to a range of “hands-on” demos of the company’s latest products targeted at the pay-TV, IPTV and enterprise and hospitality markets – plus the company’s end-to-end solutions offering.

IPTV – the word itself stands for new technologies and border-breaking TV entertainment. But although nearly everyone is talking about it the knowledge and understanding of IPTV is often only vague. This fact still pulls the handbrake on a market territory that is developing fast – but could easily develop even not only faster but more successfully.

"There are a lot of innovative people who are interested and able to build up their own IPTV projects. Unfortunately they are often missing the needed assistance – in project planning, technical assistance and market overviews and especially a clear understanding of all the possibilities – to really use the given opportunities to launch a successful IPTV project," Alexander Seitz from World Stream Telecommunication describes his point of view. And he directly adds a vision: "We are offering every visitor a clear and detailed view on a successfully established project – let’s say a ‘transparent-IPTV-project’ visualizing the work-flow of ethnic IPTV solutions. This will explain IPTV on a new level and enable everyone – even newcomers - to become a system operator for IPTV projects."

Netgem will outline its “IPTV 2.0” strategy at the upcoming IP&TV World Forum in London and demonstrate its new Home Cloud software platform. This enables Telecom operators to deliver innovative new TV and video services to the connected home.

Telecom operators face a challenging reality with growing demands for multi-screen services within the home and consumers’ appetite for nonlinear ultimedia content has grown exponentially. Netgem’s Home Cloud software platform will help operators respond to these challenges; it will enable users to share their video services across all screens in the home through a consistent and seamless user interface, and will provide innovative place shifting capabilities.

Verimatrix is supporting OTTCON Over-the-top TV and Video Conference 2011. Steve Christian, VP of Marketing, will be presenting "What Every Digital TV Executive Needs to Know About Adaptive Rate Streaming" on March 2 at 1:30 pm in the Granada Ballroom.

Adaptive rate streaming is being recognized as a disruptive technology for digital TV operators, and once they understand the basic principles of adaptive rate streaming, the next step is to make strategic decisions on how to best integrate the video delivery protocol with their existing network infrastructure. As a key player in the ecosystem that supports the growing momentum of the HTTP Live Streaming standard, the Verimatrix presentation will help illuminate the decision-making process, covering selection criteria and technical tradeoffs that are useful when deploying this technology. It will also cover the game-changing business issues from the perspective of different types of operators and vendors, as well as what might lie ahead for adaptive rate streaming technology.

The internet is revolutionising the way that people watch TV, and this year's IP&TV World Forum is set to establish the agenda on how the combination of TV with the internet is constantly evolving, user experiences and the TV business.

Technology trends such as internet gaming consoles, smartphones and tablets are fuelling significant and rapid growth and providing greater choice for consumers. The IP&TV World Forum (22-24 March at London’s Olympia) will provide the platform for the industry worldwide to discuss the implications of Smart TVs, which allow consumers’ to access content and smartphone-like Apps from the internet on the TVs in their living room.

The day two plenary session opens with a keynote discussion on Connected TV: Challenging business models for the TV environment? with expert speakers from Hulu, the connected TV standard HbbTV, and Nokia Siemens Networks.

Streaming Media Europe has just announced an exciting new set of enhancements to both the event’s format and its coverage.

Taking place at a new venue - London’s Olympia Conference Centre - on 17 to 19 October 2011, Streaming Media Europe has added a new satellite event to its existing offering so that the conference and Expo now provides technology solutions and business models covering all aspects of online video – whether at work, on the move, or at home.