AT&T Services and Verizon to Keynote CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase at TIA 2012

Connected home industry leaders address impact of connected CE, new business models, tech support, and mobile marketing strategies

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Parks Associates

Apr 17, 2012, 10:09 ET

DALLAS, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Parks Associates today announced the preliminary list of speakers for the 16th annual CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase, co-located with TIA 2012: Inside the Network, June 5-7 at the Gaylord Texan, Dallas, Texas. Executives from AT&T Digital Life, AT&T Services and Verizon will present keynotes at CONNECTIONS™, addressing the impact of multiscreen convergence and second-screen services on the service provider market.

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According to Parks Associates, North American consumers will buy 110 million smartphones and 32 million media tablets in 2012, and the amount of video they are consuming on these platforms is rapidly increasing.

"The average U.S. broadband user watches 36 minutes of video on a tablet and 102 minutes of video on a mobile phone every week," said Stuart Sikes, president, Parks Associates. "As consumers adopt multiple connected platforms, opportunities to build new business around multiscreen content distribution, value-added services like tech support, and advanced advertising are vast. CONNECTIONS™ clarifies the roles of various players within the converging connected consumer ecosystem."

At CONNECTIONS™, Parks Associates' leading analysts moderate all sessions. The analysts, joined by 100+ speakers, will present new consumer research and industry trends about emerging business models and opportunities in digital content, mobile applications and services, connected consumer electronics, broadband and value-added services, and home systems.

KEYNOTES
Kevin Petersen, SVP – AT&T Digital Life, AT&T Services
Mike Ritter, CMO, Consumer & Mass Business Markets, Verizon

PANELISTS
David Adams, VP Corporate Development, Accedo
Chris Allen, SVP/Director, Video Innovation, SMGx
Peter Ansel, VP Business Development, Clearleap
Joe Buggy, SVP, Customer Lifecycle Management Services, Sutherland Global Services
Nick Chakalos, President, Catch Media
Humphrey Chen, Executive Director-New Business Ventures, Verizon Wireless
Aine Denari, Director, Strategy, Residential Solutions, Ingersoll Rand
Jim Denney, VP, GM Product Marketing, TiVo Inc.
Mikko Disini, Director, Product Marketing, Bytemobile
Sunil Gujral, Business Lead - Technical Solutions Group, Quatrro Global Services Pvt Ltd
Jason Henderson, Product Manager, FiOS TV, Verizon
Kurt Hoppe, Director, Smart TV Innovation and Alliances, LG Electronics
Dennis Kyle, VP, Strategic and New Market Development, Tendril
Art Lancaster, CTO, Affinegy
Chad Lucien, SVP, Sales & Marketing, Hillcrest Labs
James Morehead, VP Product Management and User Experience, Support.com
Todd O'Brien, Services Marketing Director, North America Consumer, Dell
John Penney, EVP, Strategy & Business Development, Starz Entertainment and Starz Media
Mike Petrocelli, SVP Sales America, Civolution
Duncan Potter, CMO, Edgeware
Marty Roberts, SVP, Sales & Marketing, thePlatform, a Comcast subsidiary
Stuart Rosove, VP, Corporate and Online Marketing, Irdeto
Jerome Rota, SVP, Consumer Products and Services, PacketVideo
Ken Roulier, Deputy CTO, Broadband, Cable & Satellite Division, Amdocs
Russ Schafer, Senior Director, Product Marketing Yahoo! Connected TV and Desktop, Yahoo!
Frank Sinton, CEO, MeFeedia
Loren Shade, VP Marketing, Allegro Software
Ohad Shvueli, VP, Sales and Marketing N.A., PrimeSense
Adam Tichelaar, Director, Connected Home Solutions & Program Management N.A., Amdocs
Ben Weinberger, CEO and Co-founder, Digitalsmiths
Paul Woidke, SVP & GM, Advanced Advertising, Nagra-OpenTV

CONNECTIONS™ sponsors: CEA, IBM, Actiontec, Affinegy, Allegro Software, Digitalsmiths, PacketVideo, Quatrro, Sutherland Global Services, Waterstone Management Group, Irdeto, Sigma Designs, and HomePlug Powerline Alliance.

About CONNECTIONS™ at TIA

Hosted by international research firm Parks Associates, CONNECTIONS™ at TIA 2012 focuses on innovative solutions for the connected consumer and leading strategies to monetize digital content, mobile applications and services, value-added services, connected consumer electronics, and home systems.

For more information, contact [email protected], call 972-490-1113, visit www.connectionsconference.com.

Mindi Sue Sternblitz-Rubenstein
Parks Associates
972-490-1113
[email protected]

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