Parks Associates and the Consumer Electronics Association announce the speakers for the CONNECTIONS Europe Summit, taking place on May 19, 2008, in cooperation with TM Forum's Management World 2008 in Nice, France.

The CONNECTIONS Europe Summit in Nice will address the new challenges to service providers in attracting and retaining customers in today's hyper- competitive worldwide market. Research from Parks Associates indicates the number of households worldwide using telco/IPTV services grew from 4.7 million in 2006 to more than 14 million in 2007. Europe -- with more than eight million households -- experienced a 250% growth rate between 2006 and 2007.

Roger Pitton, Program Director, TV Business, Microsoft Corporation, will deliver the Summit's Keynote address "IPTV and the keys to keeping customers."

Confirmed speakers include:

• Thierry Boudard, IPTV Strategic Innovation Manager, Thomson
• David Gillies, Director, Technology, Pace Micro Technology
• Stefan Jenzowsky, CEO, moreTV Broadcasting GmbH
• Moti Kintzlinger, VP, Broadband Home Networking, Broadcom (MoCA)
• Peter Kriens, Director, Technology, OSGi; CEO, aQute
• Steve Moore, Founder, DigitalPlumbers.com
• Frederic Onado, VP, EMEA, HomePlug Powerline Alliance; VP, Marketing & Sales, SPiDCOM Technologies
• Tricia Parks, CEO, Parks Associates
• Paolo Pastorino, CTO, Home Gateway Initiative
• Robert Rodenbucher, Director, Business Development, AwoX
• David Sayag, Founder and CEO, Enure Networks
• Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates
• Nils-Petter Tisell, Senior Product Manager - Home Network Management Products and Solutions, Tilgin
• Jim Warner, Vice Chairman, Content, Media & Entertainment Head, TM Forum

Enure Networks, the Multimedia over Coax Alliance, and Support.com are Advisory Sponsors for the 2008 CONNECTIONS Europe Summit Series.

The second CONNECTIONS Europe Summit will take place August 29, 2008, in Berlin, Germany, during IFA and is currently accepting speaking proposals at http://www.connectionseurope.com.