CONNECTIONS™ Summit At CES Features Media, Communications, And Home Systems Executives

Parks Associates and CEA® today announced speakers for CONNECTIONS™ Summit, a one-day executive conference taking place Tuesday, January 8, at 2008 International CES. Hosted by Parks Associates and CEA, CONNECTIONS Summit featurescommentary, insight, and debate on successful market strategies and deployment for home controls and systems, new media and social networking, home networking, and entertainment products & services. The summit summarizes many of the key factors driving the digital living industries and serves as a perfect primer for CES. All attendees will receive consumer and industry data and be able to network with leading executives and Parks Associates' expert analysts. "Home networking and broadband adoption have increased dramatically across Europe," said John Barrett, Director of Research at Parks Associates. "In France and the U.K., the number of home networking households tripled and broadband households doubled between 2004 and 2006. These trends highlight the opportunities worldwide in the digital living domain, and we look forward to discussing the business cases and successful strategies at CONNECTIONS Summit." CONNECTIONS Summit will feature the following panels and speakers, including a special lunch session hosted by MoCA™ Beyond Broadband: The Role of Value-Added Services in a High-Speed Context Ade Bamigboye, CTO, Intamac Systems Ltd Brian Caskey, VP, Worldwide Marketing, UTStarcom Ray Sokola, CVP & CTO, Home & Networks Mobility, Motorola, Inc. Singu Srinivas, President, HiWired, Inc. Chris Wagner, EVP and Co-Founder, NeuLion, Inc. Success Stories in Home Systems Joe Dada, CEO, SmartLabs, Inc. Christopher Geiser, Manager, Strategic Development, Honeywell Jeff Kussard, VP, Strategic Development, Russound William T. Schafer, Director, Product and Channel Development, Crestron Electronics, Inc. Oded Vardi, Co-Founder, COO, Superna Ltd. Consumers Do Not Want A Network -- They Want Connectivity, sponsored by MoCA Charles Cerino, President, MoCA; VP, Network Technology, Comcast OCTO Karen Hanley, Senior Director, Wi-Fi Alliance Andy Melder, SVP Strategic Business Development, HomePlug PowerLine Alliance Richard Nesin, VP, Marketing, HomePNA (CopperGate Communications) How Social Media is Changing the Rules Ralph Ackerman, Founder and Director, International Short Film Association Marc Canter, CEO, Broadband Mechanics Rick Clancy, SVP, Corporate Communications, Sony Electronics Dan Scheinman, SVP & GM, Cisco Media Solutions Group, Cisco Systems Inc. Sebastiano Tevarotto, SVP & GM, CME, Hewlett-Packard Company Engaging Consumers: The Next Wave of Ad Technologies Paul R. Brody, Partner, IBM Global Business Services; Global Lead, IBM Electronics Industry Strategy Practice Jonathan Cobb, Founder, CTO, Kiptronic, Inc. Paul Palmieri, President & CEO, Millennial Media, Inc. Kate Purmal, GM and SVP, Digital Content Solutions Division, SanDisk John Reister, Chief Architect, IPTV, BigBand Networks, Inc. Yoav Tzruya, EVP & CMO, Exent Technologies, Ltd. Ben Weinberger, CEO, Digitalsmiths Corporation Digital Home Tech Support: New Revenue Opportunities? Jeff Erwin, President and CEO, Pure Networks Jeffrey McCrea, VP, Digital Home Group, GM, Consumer PC Platform Group, Intel Corp. Steven McKean, CEO, Acceller Inc. Ron Renjilian, Co-Founder and CEO, Peak8 Solutions Michael Wexler, President, HiWired, Inc. For information, visit http://www.connectionssummit.com or http://www.CESweb.org