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30/9/2003

Parks Associates' Fall Focus Seminars Feature 50+ Industry Leaders

Executive seminars, hosted Oct. 29 & 30 and Nov. 5 & 6, bring insight into broadband services and multimedia applications in the home

Parks Associates welcomes more than 50 speakers from the cable, hardware, software, service provider, and computing industries to its inaugural Fall Focus seminars, Banking on Broadband Services and The Home Multimedia Experience. Each one-and-a-half day Fall Focus seminar concentrates on a specific industry topic and offers insight through interaction, analysis, and networking. Banking on Broadband Services will be held Oct 29 & 30 at the Park Central Hotel in New York City, and The Home Multimedia Experience will take place Nov 5 & 6 at the Hyatt San Jose.

Banking on Broadband Services, October 29 & 30, is for equipment vendors and service providers who provide content solutions and applications to consumers. "The array of speakers featured at Banking on Broadband Services is second-to-none," said Michael Greeson, vice president and principal analyst for Parks Associates. "The event brings together leaders from both broadband service providers and the vendor community in order to identify and examine broadband service strategies that are capable of creating revenue in today's uncertain environment."

The Home Multimedia Experience, November 5 & 6, will provide attendees with a complete analysis of content and its role in the multimedia digital value chain; home networking technologies that will spur the growth of multimedia hubs/servers; as well as CE platforms and next-generation services. "We have a comprehensive collection of speakers, covering platforms to services to content, which will provide an unprecedented analysis of both the current and future state of digital entertainment in the home," said Kurt Scherf, vice president of research at Parks Associates.

The Home Multimedia Experience "Visionary Keynotes" include:

* Kevin Corbett, Director, Marketing and Strategic Planning, Desktop Platforms Group, Intel Corporation
* Michael Weir, Vice President, Worldwide Consumer Marketing, HP
* Leon Husson, Executive Vice President, Consumer Businesses, Philips Semiconductors
* Jeff Schrock, Vice President, Broadband, Yahoo!

The Home Multimedia Experience "Reality Panelists" include:

* Christopher Allen, Senior VP of Marketing, MUSICMATCH
* Tony Barra, Chief Strategy Officer Internet Home Alliance
* Bob Burke, Marketing Director North America, Samsung Semiconductor Inc.
* Chinn Chin, Vice President of Engineering, InterVideo Inc.
* Jonathan Claman, Director of Marketing and Business Development, BridgeCo
* Dave Clark, Director Product Strategy, Scientific-Atlanta
* Amir Freund, Vice President of Marketing, Wisair
* John Gildred, VP Technical Engineering, Pioneer Corporation
* Bob Gregory, Director of Initiatives Planning, Desktop Platforms Group, Intel Corporation
* Mike Harris, CTO, Digital 5 Inc.
* Reed Hinkel, Vice President Business Development, Oregan Networks
* Yogendra Jain, Founder and CEO, Personica Intelligence
* Peter Kempf, Vice President, Conexant Systems
* Keith Laepple, Director of Technical Evangelism, Microsoft
* Matt McRae, Director of Broadband, Linksys
* Richard Nesin, Vice President of Marketing, Coppergate Communications
* Scott Norder, Vice President, AMX
* John Payne, President and CEO, Magis Networks
* George Pohle, America's Communications Sector Executive, IBM
* Ty Roberts, CTO, Gracenote
* Bob Saffari, Senior Director of Marketing and Applications Engineering, LSI Logic
* James Snider, Executive Director, 1394 Trade Association
* Ladd Wardani, Vice President, Business Development, Entropic Communications
* Henry Wiechman, Genreal Manager, Streaming Media, Texas Instruments
* Matt York, Editor/Publisher, Smart TV & Sound Magazine

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