Parks Associates Announces Speakers for CONNECTIONS Conference
Dallas TX -/March 30, 2006 - Wi-Fi Technology News/- Parks Associates announced today the speakers for the tenth annual CONNECTIONS(TM): The Digital Home Conference and Showcase, which will take place at the Santa Clara Convention Center, May 2-4, 2006.
Produced by Parks Associates in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®), CONNECTIONS(TM) is the largest executive conference and showcase dedicated to advanced digital lifestyle solutions for residential and mobile environments.
This year's conference topics include digital entertainment, mobile platforms & services, home networking & infrastructure, home management & digital health, and broadband & IP services.
"This year, CONNECTIONS(TM) features an agenda packed with top-notch speakers, including leading service providers such as AT&T U-Verse, Cox, and Comcast, among others," said Tricia Parks, CEO of Parks Associates. "We look forward to hearing diverse views on how to offer consumers even richer entertainment options."
CONNECTIONS(TM) Keynote Speakers:
-Peter Barrett, Chief Technology Officer and General Manager, Engineering, Microsoft TV Group
-Michael Grasso , Assistant Vice President - Consumer Marketing, AT&T U-verseSM
-Allen Delattre, Global Managing Director, Electronics & High Tech Industry Practice, Accenture
-William O. Leszinske, Jr., General Manager, Networked Media Platform Group, Intel Corp.
-Gary Shapiro, President and CEO, Consumer Electronics Association
Plenary Speakers
-Jan-Luc Blakborn, Director of North America Digital Entertainment Category, Digital Entertainment Products, Hewlett-Packard Company
-Joe Dada, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, SmartLabs Inc.
-Peter Daley, Equity Research Analyst, Digital Media, Rutberg & Company, LLC
-Eddie C. Drake, CTO, Siemens Home Entertainment
-Bob Greene, Senior Vice President, Advanced Services, Starz Entertainment Group
-Bob Heile, Chairman, ZigBee Alliance
-Amy Heller, Vice President, Business Planning & Development, International Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment
-Rob Herb, Managing Director, BA Ventures
-Peter Lee, Vice President, Business Development, The Walt Disney Company
-Alexander K. Marquez, Director, Strategic Investments, Media & Entertainment, Intel Capital, Intel Corporation
-Douglas Means, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Connected Home Solutions, Motorola, Inc.
-Joe Menard, Corporate Vice President, Software Strategy, AMD
-Hyun Park, Vice President, Research Fellow, and Head of Ubiquitous Solution Team, LG Electronics, Inc.
-Ladd Wardani, Vice President, Business Development, Entropic Communications; President, MoCA
-J.D. Zeeman, Director, Digital Media, Global Communications Sector Services, IBM Global Services
-Oren Zeev, Partner, Apax Partners
Operator Q&A Round Table - Special Event hosted by MOCA
-Will Beals, Director, Hardware Systems Architecture, EchoStar Technologies, Corp.
-Charles Cerino, Vice President, New Services Technology, Comcast New Media Development
-John Hildebrand, Vice President, Multimedia Technology, Cox Communications
-Brian Whitton, Executive Director, Access Technologies, Verizon Communications
-Moderator: Ladd Wardani, President, MoCA; Vice President, Business Development, Entropic Communications, Inc.
Special Lunch Session - "Making the Network Work" - Parks Associates Pre-Show Workshop
-Anne Marie Biernacki, CTO and Founder, Digiticians
-Richard Caballero, Director, Product Management, SupportSoft
-Tim Dowling, President and CEO, Pure Networks
-John Fisher, CTO, Peak8
-M. Fahim Siddiqui, CEO, Sereniti
Panel Speakers
-Faraj Aalaei, CEO and Co-founder, Centillium Communications
-David Arfin, CEO, GlooLabs, Inc.
-Mike Barlow, CEO, PacketVideo Network Solutions, Inc.
-Gunjan Bhow, Vice President, Marketing and Product Management, Actiontec Electronics, Inc.
-Michael Brochu, President and CEO, Loudeye
-Steve Brown, CEO, Health Hero Networks
-Maciek Brzeski, Vice President, Marketing, Toshiba Storage Device Division
-Jack Buser, Director, Consumer Electronics, Dolby Laboratory
-Ron Cates, Vice President, North American Sales & Marketing, Metalink
-Tom Cullen, Co-founder & Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Sonos, Inc.
-Matt Cuson, Vice President, Marketing, Minerva Networks, Inc.
-Aaron Dagan, President and CEO, PsiNaptic Inc.
-David Davies, Vice President of Strategy and Product Marketing, Subscriber Networks, Scientific-Atlanta, A Cisco Company
-Bill Diamond, President, Xanboo, Inc.
-Charles Dougherty, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Connected Home Solutions, Motorola
-Udo Eberlein, President, Nero Inc.
-Mike Einstein, Vice President, Corporate Innovation, Intermatic, Inc.
-Ken Fairbanks, Vice President, Sales and Business Development, SmartLabs, Inc.
-Robert Ferrari, Managing Director, Global Business, Turbine Inc.
-Mike Fidler, CEO, Digeo, Inc.
-Kevin Foreman, General Manager, Mobile Business Unit, RealNetworks, Inc.
-Ron Frankel, CEO and President, Synacor
-Doug Glen, Chief Marketing Officer, Zetera
-John Graham, Vice President, Marketing, Entropic Communications
-Pete Griffin, Director, Corporate Technology, RadioShack
-Manish Gupta, Vice President, Marketing and Alliances, Aperto Networks
-John Hannan, Director, Business Development, Qualcomm
-David Hanson, Co-Founder & Senior Vice President, Business Development, AgileTV
-Frank Hanzlik, Managing Director, Wi-Fi Alliance
-Bill Holmes, Vice President, Consumer Electronics, DivX, Inc.
-Nassir Iravani, Director, Americas, Forum Nokia
-Greg Jones, General Manager, Worldwide Service Provider Strategic Marketing, Texas Instruments
-David Kaiserman, President, Lennar Communications Ventures
-Keith Laepple, Director, Consumer Electronics Partner Team, Windows eHome Division (Media Center), Microsoft Corp.
-Ron Levin, Home Networking Marketing Manager, ECI Telecom Ltd.
-Al Lizza, Director of Marketing, Honeywell
-Selina Lo, CEO, Ruckus Wireless, Inc.
-Ted Malone, Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Marketing, Digital Deck
-Ella Mar, Senior Vice President, Operations, Espial
-Mick McManus, President and CEO, MAYA Design
-Andy Melder, Senior Vice President, Sales, Marketing, and Business Development, Intellon
-Philippe Mora, Director, Marketing and Business Development, PortalPlayer, Inc.
-Malachy Moynihan, Vice President & General Manager, Home Networking, Linksys Division of Cisco Systems
-Richard Nesin, Vice President, Marketing, CopperGate Communications
-Jeff Oscodar, CEO, HandHeld Entertainment, Inc.
-Steve Parkis, Vice President, Premium Products, Disney Online
-Peter Percosan, Executive Director of Broadband Strategy, Texas Instruments
-Adam Powers, Chief Technical Officer, Coaxsys Inc.
-Daniel Putterman, President and CEO, Mediabolic, Inc.
-Reza Raji, CEO & President, iControl Networks
-Greg Raleigh, President & CEO, Airgo Networks
-Stephen Reeder, Executive Director, Product Strategy, ANT Software Limited
-Bill Rehbock, Director of Developer Relations, NVIDIA Corporation
-Stefan Roever, CEO, Navio Systems
-John Santhoff, CTO, Pulse~LINK, Inc.
-Esteban Sardera, Vice President, IPTV Solutions, OpenTV
-Matthew Shoemake, Founder, CEO, & President, WiQuest Communications
-Dan Simpkins, Founder & CEO, Hillcrest Labs
-Melissa Simpler, CEO, Affinegy
-Larry Smith, COO, Archos Technology
-Young-Sae Song, Director, Corporate Marketing, Redback Networks
-Michael Stelts, President, CEPCA
-Sean Storin, President, TechConnectors
-Jonathan Symonds, Vice President, Product and Distribution, GoldPocket Interactive
-Steve Tranter, Director, Interactive and Broadband Delivery, NDS
-John Traynor, Director, Business Segment Marketing, Microsoft Mobile and Embedded Devices, Microsoft
-Steve Troyer, Vice President, Marketing, Zensys
-Yoav Tzruya, COO, Exent
-Jocelyn Vigreux, President, U.S. Operations, TomTom
-Ofer Vilenski, Co-Founder, President, and CEO, Jungo
-Mark Walters, Chairman of the Developer Forum, Z-wave Alliance; Director, Business Development, Leviton Integrated Networks
-Stephen Whalley, Manager, Business Development, Consumer PC Platforms, Digital Home Group, Intel Corp.
Moderators
-Bill Ablondi, Director, Home Systems Research, Parks Associates
-John Barrett, Director, Research, Parks Associates
-Yuanzhe (Michael) Cai, Director, Broadband & Gaming, Parks Associates
-Deepa Iyer, Research Analyst, Parks Associates
-Patrick Mannion, Editor, EE Times
-Tricia Parks, CEO, Parks Associates
-Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates
-Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates
-Harry Wang, Research Analyst, Parks Associates
About CONNECTIONS(TM): Now in its tenth year, CONNECTIONS(TM): The Digital Home Conference and Showcase is produced by Parks Associates in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association and is the largest executive conference and showcase dedicated to advanced digital lifestyle solutions for residential and mobile environments.
For information on speaking, sponsoring, or attending, please visit
http://www.connectionsconference.com.
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