Parks Associates announces the preliminary agenda for CONNECTIONS Europe Summit, taking place March 31, 2009, in Nice, France. This executive event focuses on the roles of service and technology providers, media companies, and manufacturers in creating new entertainment, communications, and lifestyle applications for consumers.

According to Entertainment 2.0 in Europe, Parks Associates' multinational research project, the French market is a microcosm of the overall European market for advanced entertainment services. In France, 28% of broadband users watch online TV on a regular basis, and 16% of pay-TV subscribers watch movies-on-demand at least monthly. Parks Associates forecasts that IPTV and cable video-on-demand revenues in major European countries will grow from euro 1.1 billion in 2008 to euro 5.4 billion by 2013. At the same time, online video revenues will grow from euro 350 million in 2008 to euro 3.2 billion by 2013.

Summit topics include Value-added Access Services, Video Services, Digital Media Content and Delivery, Connected Consumer Electronics, and Customer Support.

Event sponsors include Advisory Sponsors Affinegy and Enure Networks and Supporting Sponsor HomeGrid Forum. CONNECTIONS Global Sponsors include ActiveVideo Networks, Affinegy, DSC, HD-PLC, Icron, Macrovision, the Multimedia over Coax Alliance, ProVision Communications, Telcordia, and Zilog.