Parks Associates will host service providers, content owners, and CE makers at CONNECTIONS Europe, November 8-9, Amsterdam, to discuss opportunities in the worldwide market for operator-provided, cloud-based value-added services, which will exceed $8.5 billion in 2015.

The executive conference has keynotes from Siemens and Orange and a variety of sessions and special lunch roundtable discussions on the best strategies to monetize the connected home.

"Already 30-40% of European broadband households have a connected CE platform," said Kurt Scherf, VP, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates. "Competition for these households is increasing across all regions, and companies looking to succeed in these markets must make inroads now. CONNECTIONS Europe puts you face-to-face with the service providers and technology vendors at the forefront of these market changes."

CONNECTIONS Europe also features data-driven presentations from Parks Associates’ industry analysts, including new data from consumer surveys of the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. These consumer data presentations will address the most critical issues facing the European connected home market:

• Real Demands of Consumers
• New Revenue Models that meet Consumer Expectations
• Cloud Suppliers and CDNs
• Connected CE and Content Distribution
• IP Home Management and other Value-added Services
• The Impact of Multiscreen Services

CONNECTIONS Europe speakers:

• Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB)
• Alcatel-Lucent
• AVIQ Systems AG
• BBC World News
• Cable Europe
• Cisco
• Deloitte Consulting GmbH
• Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)
• GreenPeak Technologies
• Irdeto
• Motive Television
• MediaSet
• Omniphone
• Orange
• PacketVideo
• Rovi
• Samsung
• Siemens
• TalkTalk Group
• Technicolor
• thePlatform, a Comcast subsidiary
• TV Genius, Red Bee Media
• Ziggo