CONNECTIONS™ Industry Insights

Greg Kruczek, Director of New Ventures, Asurion, provided insight on several key industry trends ahead of Parks Associates’ 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™ Conference, which will be held May 23-25 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport:

What is the most important next step to engage consumers in smart home solutions, connected entertainment services, and/or value-added services like tech support and connected health?

The connected home industry is arguably gadget driven wit ...read more

Kian Saneii, Founder and CEO, Independa, provided insight on several key industry trends for Parks Associates’ 11th-annual CONNECTIONS™ Summit conference, which was held January 5 at CES 2017 in Las Vegas:

What is the most important next step to engage consumers in smart home solutions, connected entertainment services, and/or value-added services like tech support and connected health?

We must leverage technology people are already using and stop requiring them to learn ...read more

Daniel Herscovici, SVP & GM, Xfinity Home, Comcast, provides insight on several key industry trends for Parks Associates’ 11th-annual CONNECTIONS™ Summit conference, which will be held January 5 at CES 2017 in Las Vegas:

What is the most important next step to engage consumers in smart home solutions, connected entertainment services, and/or value-added services like tech support and connected health?

Making it really easy for consumers to integrate the smart home soluti ...read more

Bill Lee, Vice President of Smart Home Product Marketing, Samsung Electronics America, provides insight on several key industry trends for Parks Associates’ 11th-annual CONNECTIONS™ Summit conference, which will be held January 5 at CES 2017 in Las Vegas:

What is the most important next step to engage consumers in smart home solutions, connected entertainment services, and/or value-added services like tech support and connected health?

Authentic “DIY” simplicity will be, ...read more

Bob Marshall, CEO, Whisker Labs, provides insight on several key industry trends for Parks Associates’ 11th-annual CONNECTIONS™ Summit conference, which will be held January 5 at CES 2017 in Las Vegas:

What is the most important next step to engage consumers in smart home solutions, connected entertainment services, and/or value-added services like tech support and connected health?

While nearly half of the U.S. broadband households plan to purchase a smart home device i ...read more

Asit Goel, SVP and GM, Secure Monitoring & Control / Internet of Things, NXP Semiconductors, provides insight on several key industry trends for Parks Associates’ 11th-annual CONNECTIONS™ Summit conference, which will be held January 5 at CES 2017 in Las Vegas:

What is the most important next step to engage consumers in smart home solutions, connected entertainment services, and/or value-added services like tech support and connected health?

Make smart home solutions eas ...read more

Parks Associates will host the 11th-annual CONNECTIONS™ Summit: Engaging Consumers: IoT and the Smart Home on January 5 at CES® 2017. The one-day executive summit will focus on the best business models and value propositions in the Internet of Things (IoT), the smart home, and connected and mobile CE and services.

5 Benefits of Attending:

• Learn about emerging business strategies, con¬sumer trends, and new partnerships
• Network with over 500 top executives in IoT ...read more

The European Commission is driving infrastructure changes to contribute €250 billion of tech-industry growth to the European economy by 2020 through the Digital Economy Policy. This will create hundreds of thousands of jobs across Europe. But one looming issue with this policy is that, according to the EC's own figures, there won't be enough appropriately skilled workers to take on these roles, with an anticipated 756,000 unfilled ICT vacancies in 2020.

While the Commission ...read more