Attend the CONNECTIONS Europe Summit Series on August 29 in Berlin for high-level sessions on the best strategies for growing revenues now and in the future. CONNECTIONS Europe will provide attendees with international consumer research and feature interactive discussions on advanced television services, new media and digital content, and value-added services.

Topics include:

• The building blocks - video, digital media, home networking, home control, and access and support services
• Trends, data, and predictions for areas of significant growth
• Strategies for service providers to compete on services and innovation
• Case studies for digital home customer support
• The role of service and applications providers and equipment vendors in saving support costs
• A global look at consumers habits and expectations

ADVISORY SPONSORS:

Cisco, Enure Networks, F-Secure Corporation, Macrovision, the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA), NEOTION, support.com, Toshiba Electronics Europe, WirelessHD, and Zilog, Inc.

Rapid growth in home networking, approaching 168 million households worldwide in 2008, is laying the foundation for expansion of multimedia services internationally and especially in the European markets, according to Parks Associates. Broadband growth pushed Europe ahead of North America in terms of home network adoption, said Kurt Scherf, vice president, principal analyst, Parks Associates. With the network in place, providers will tie in high-demand entertainment services. By 2012, over one-third of networked nodes worldwide will have entertainment or multimedia functionality, with particularly strong growth in IPTV services.

EVENT SPEAKERS:

• Fernando Gil de Bernabi, Managing Director, Strategy and Consumer, IBSG, Cisco
• Udo Biro, Senior Product Manager IPTV, Nokia Siemens Networks
• Richard Bullwinkle, Chief Evangelist, Macrovision
• Bernhard von Canstein, Director of Business Development for Europe, Qualcomm
• Gil Eyal, CEO, Enure Networks
• Debbie Greenstreet, Director, Service Provider Strategic Marketing, Texas Instruments
• Steve Harvey, Director, Business Development, Global Events & Digital Health Research, Parks Associates
• Laurent Jabiol, CEO & Co-Founder, Neotion
• Stefan Jenzowsky, CEO, MoreTV
• Hans-Joerg Kolbe, Senior Researcher, NEC Europe
• Christer Larsson, CEO, OSGi Alliance / Makewave AB
• John LeMoncheck, Co-Founder, WirelessHD; President & CEO, SiBEAM, Inc.
• Michelle Leyden Li, General Manager, Home Control, Zilog
• Klaus Milczewsky, Senior Manager for Innovation Management, Technology Management Products & Innovation, Home Gateway Initiative / Deutsche Telekom
• Ashley Norris, CEO, Shiny Media
• Frederic Onado, Vice President EMEA, HomePlug Powerline Alliance; Vice President, Marketing & Sales, SPiDCOM Technologies
• Eugen Pfumfel, Principal Engineer, Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH
• Stephen Reeder, Managing Director, Europe, ActiveVideo Networks
• Anthony Rodio, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations, support.com
• Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates
• Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates
• Cord Stukenberg, Director, Service Provider Solutions, F-Secure
• Jim Wallace, Director, Emerging & Home, Segment Marketing, ARM

Wireless HD will be hosting a meeting on Thursday, August 28 from 1 - 5pm followed by a networking reception from 5-6:30 pm. Learn about the WirelessHD 1.0 specification and how to join the world's largest consumer electronics and semiconductor companies in becoming a WirelessHD Adopter.