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| Connected Consumers, Entertainment & IoT The 19th-annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference, hosted by international research firm Parks Associates, will take place May 19-21 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport. • Network with executives in the connected home marketplace • Examine business strategies, case studies, and recommendations for the smart home, tech support, and connected entertainment industries • Analyze the role of different distribution channels for smart home: security, cable, telecom, utility, and retail • Discover the impact and value of big data and analytics in the connected home • Understand consumer privacy concerns and the implications of new innovations, including robotics, the connected car, and wearables FIRESIDE CHAT Letha McLaren, Chief Marketing Officer, Icontrol Networks Kevin Petersen, President, AT&T Digital Life SPEAKERS Tim Alessi, Director - New Product Development, LG Electronics Amena Ali, Senior VP and GM, WeatherBug Home Jeff Allen, VP Business and Corporate Development, Clearleap Satish Annapureddy, Sr. Director, Strategy & Business Development, NeuLion Sefy Ariely, EVP Americas, Viaccess-Orca Mio Babic, President & CEO, iStreamPlanet Avi Barel, Director Business Development, ULE Alliance Ray Bariso, Vice President, Strategy for OSS/BSS, Ericsson Leah Belsky, Senior Vice President of Operations, Kaltura Greg Berkin, Managing Director, Concours Ventures Greg Blackett, Senior Product Manager, Tyco Peter Blanks, Vice President Technology, Asurion Chris Boross, President, Thread Group Kris Bowring, Director of Business Development, Iris Smart Home Business Unit, New Business, Lowe's Justin Butler, VP of Commercial Development, MisFit Scott Burns, Senior Director of Innovation, Reliant, an NRG Company Chris Carey, Chief Product Officer, Verizon Digital Media Services Winifred Chang, Head of Smart Home Innovation and Partnership, LG Electronics USA Steve Christian, SVP, Marketing, Verimatrix Rich Cusick, General Manager, Video, Gracenote Joe Dada, CEO, INSTEON Jason Donahue, Senior Product Manager, Jawbone Chris Drake, Vice President, thePlatform John Driver, Chief Operating Officer, PacketVideo Ken Durand, Vice President, Innovation & Business Development, Internet of Things, Ericsson Kristine Faulkner, VP/GM Home Security & Smart Home, Cox Manny Fernandez, CEO/Co-founder, DreamFunded.com Mike Fisher, Head of Strategy and Innovation, BrightLine Seth Frader-Thompson, President, EnergyHub David Friedman, CEO & Co-Founder, Ayla Networks Daren Gill, Vice President of Products, Advanced Search and Recommendations, Rovi Corporation David Glickman, Co-Founder & COO, Lively Larry Goldman, Director, North American Sales & Business Development, Kwikset David Grubb, Chief Technical Officer for Cloud Solutions, ARRIS Tim Harrington, GM Products Group, CEL Rick Herman, Chief Strategy Officer, MobiTV Kurt Hoppe, VP, Applications & Services, Prodea Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist and Technology Evangelist, Greenwave Systems Dr. Todd Hylton, EVP, Brain Corporation Jason Johnson, Co-founder and CEO, August Philip Jones, Product Information Manager - Video, Sony V. Rory Jones, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, PlanetEcosystems Jeremy Kaplan, Editor in Chief, Digital Trends Jay Kenny, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Alarm.com Joseph Y. Ko, Chairman & CEO, Techko Maid Inc. Chris Koverman, VP Engineering, Support.com Art Lancaster, CTO, Affinegy George Land, Business Director, Nexia Home Intelligence Ed Lee, VP of Content Acquisition, Roku Dan Lieberman, Head of Research & Standards, SmartThings Stephen Ludin, Chief Architect, Akamai Technologies Kenny Mathers, Senior Director, MediaTek Inc. Adam Mayer, Vice President & General Manager, IntelligentHome, Time Warner Cable Letha McLaren, Chief Marketing Officer, Icontrol Networks Ralph Morales III, Innovation Architect, Hewlett-Packard Nancy Nunziati, Vice President of Marketing, Neato Corporation Jim O'Neill, Principal Analyst, Ooyala Amanda Parrilli, Director, Strategic Business Development, The Home Depot Duane Paulson, SVP Product and Market Development, Nortek Security & Control Kevin Petersen, President, AT&T Digital Life Ryan Petty, Vice President, Product Development & Innovation, ADT Security Services Andrew Poliak, Global Director, Business Development, QNX Software Systems Sebastian Popovic, CEO, Zipato Rob Puric, Director - Product Management Connected Home, Honeywell Vishnu Rao, Director-Connected Platform, Sharp Stuart Rosove, VP, Advanced Solutions, Irdeto Todd Rytting, Chief Technology Officer, Panasonic Eran Sandhaus, Senior Director, Product Management, Qualcomm Atheros Adam Sager, CEO & Co-Founder, Canary Sridhar Santhanam, Founder & CEO, HFN Inc. / Nanoheal Curt Schacker, VP, Connected Devices, EVRYTHNG Bill Scheffler, Director of NA Sales and Business Development, Sigma Designs/Z-Wave Marcus Scheiber, CEO & Co-Founder, ROC-Connect Tal Schierau, VP Sales and Account Management, Radialpoint Brian Seemann, President, Resolution Products Mark Skarpness, Director of Systems Engineering, Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corporation Geoff Snyder, Vice President, Business Development, Pandora Mark Spates, Head of Connected Home Platform, Logitech Jody Stark, EVP - Commercial Strategy, Piksel Mike Talvensaari, VP Product Management, Wowza Media Systems Jason Thibeault, Sr. Director, Marketing Strategy, Limelight Networks Adam Tichelaar, Director, Connected Home Solutions, Amdocs Mike Tinskey, Global Director of Electrification and Vehicle Infrastructure, Ford Motor Company Jeff Unterreiner, Senior Vice President, Connected Living, Assurant Solutions John Valiton, Chief Business Development Officer, Playtabase Ali Vassigh, Director of User Experience, Roku Nick Warnock, President, Wellograph, Inc. Paul Weichselbaum, Executive Vice President, PlumChoice Tom Wesselman, Director of Communications Ecosystem Architecture, Plantronics Chris Williams, Senior Director Product Strategy, Time Warner Cable Robin Wilson, VP Business Development, NAGRA Brett Worthington, VP - General Manager, Wink Michael Yang, Managing Director, Comcast Ventures Özgür Yildirim, North America Business Unit EVP & General Manager, AirTies Yoel Zanger, CEO and Founder, Giraffic Technologies Sessions CONNECTIONS™ features research presentations, keynotes, and interactive sessions focused on technologies, marketing strategies, & business models for the connected home. Tuesday, May 19 • Emerging Trends and the Connected Consumer • Defining the Connected Home: Entertainment, Security, Health, Smart Home • Innovative Partnerships: The Connected Home • Internet of Things: Innovations and New Value Propositions • Explosion of OTT Services • 4K UHD TVs: The TV Landscape and Next Market Opportunity • IoT and APIs: Extending Functionality for Connected Devices • The Ideal Smart Home User Experience • Connected Cars: The Next Smart Platform Wednesday, May 20 • The Future of the Connected Home • Winning Channel Strategies for Smart Home Services • Role of Smart Watch and Wearables in the Connected Home • Unlocking the Value of Personalization: Big Data, Privacy • Streaming as Standard: The New User Experience • Integrating IoT into Smart Home Platforms • Evolution of Content Access: Cloud-based CE and Video Services • Managing IoT Services • Next-Gen Support Services: Connected Devices and IoT • Multichannel Networks and Emerging Content Alternatives Thursday, May 21 • The Changing Connected Home Ecosystem • Wearables and Connected Health Opportunities in the Home • The Future of Robotics in the Connected Home • Standards and Interoperability: Creating Competition through Cooperation • Entertainment and the New User Experience • Investing in the IoT Markets The Connected Consumer: Top Trends in IoT This whitepaper provides expert insight into global trends for 2015 within the Internet of Things • The impact of OTT on linear video and pay-TV • How bundles and interoperability will shape the market for smart home, energy management, and entertainment devices • Global prospects for the digital health industry, including within healthcare IT, virtual care, and wearables • Appeal of premium tech support services as adoption rate of connected devices continues to grow • Forecasts for 4K Ultra HD technology and mobile and Internet video • Innovations within mobile apps, digital media, and streaming media devices |
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