Parks Associates Announces CONNECTIONS™ at TIA Conference Agenda and AT&T Keynote

DALLAS, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Parks Associates today announced the conference sessions and opening keynote for the CONNECTIONS™ at TIA 2012 Conference, the leading event for service providers, device manufacturers, and advanced technology companies working on solutions for the connected consumer. CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference & Showcase, co-located with TIA 2012: Inside the Network Conference and Exhibition, takes place June 5-7 in Dallas, Texas. Kevin Petersen, senior vice president of AT&T Digital Life for AT&T Services, will present the opening conference keynote on Tuesday, June 5.

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CONNECTIONS™ at TIA will feature over 100 executives speaking about monetization and content distribution strategies, customer support, second-screen services, and other trends impacting the connected home industries and changing the ways consumers access content. Currently 42% of U.S. consumers with media tablets use their devices to check listings while watching television, and nearly one-third of consumers in U.S. broadband households have streamed TV shows and/or movies in the past month.

"Consumer habits are changing, and businesses must adjust their strategies in designing solutions and bringing products to market to meet these new demands," said Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates. "Value‐added and multiscreen services are key to retaining customers and building for future revenue growth. CONNECTIONS™ at TIA addresses the opportunities spanning such categories as entertainment, technical support, mobile solutions, home management, energy services, and healthcare."

Whole-audience Presentation Sessions:

What to Watch: Connecting Consumers to Content
The Evolution of Customer Care: Technical Support and Beyond
Emerging Mobile Services: Boon for Carriers or OTT Providers?
Partnerships and Competition among Broadband and Security Service Providers, Utilities, and Retailers

Parks Associates Research Presentations:

The State of the Connected Consumer
The Future of OTT Video: Monetization Strategies
The Rise of the App Platform in the Mobile and CE Markets
Defining Roles for Connected Consumer Electronics
Managing the Connected Home – Security, Health, Monitoring, and Controls

Panel Sessions:

Innovations in Digital Content Delivery
Building Interoperability among Home System Services and Devices
Exemplifying Superior Customer Experiences
Second Screen Services – Apps, Interactivity, and Advertising
The Human TV Remote: Gesture and Voice Recognition
Emerging Value-added Services: Music, Gaming, and More
The Media Cloud and Digital Locker
Delivering Superior 4G Experience to Mobile Consumer
The Next Steps in TV Everywhere
Smartphone and Tablet Innovations: Transforming Consumer Behavior
Connected Consumer Electronics as the Set-top Box
New Approaches to Device Management
Video Search and Discovery: Tools, Techniques, and Outcomes
Personal Cloud - Path to Revenues
Advertising Everywhere – Connected Devices, Content, and Consumers

Early Sponsors include CEA, IBM, Affinegy, Allegro, Digitalsmiths, PacketVideo, Irdeto, and Sigma Designs.

Platinum supporters are CEDIA and Digital Media Wire.

Supporters: Best Web Design Agencies, BoogarLists, CABA, Conference Guru, Connected TV Marketing Association, CSI Magazine, EIS Alliance, EMF, FierceMarkets, HiddenWires, HomeToys, LonMark International, MPEG Industry Forum, OpenADR Alliance, OSP Magazine, ScreenPlays, Storage Visions, Telemedianews.com, topSEOs.com, UMTS Forum, U-SNAP Alliance, Visibility Magazine, Vision2Mobile, and Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP).

About CONNECTIONS™ at TIA

The 16th annual CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase will be co-located with TIA 2012: Inside the Network on June 5-7 at the Gaylord Hotel, Dallas, Texas. 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 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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