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