ADT, Comcast, GM, HomeAdvisor, IBM Watson, Panasonic, and other leading IoT companies to discuss consumer engagement strategies 

ConsumerIoT research firm Parks Associates today announced the keynotes and initial speaker lineup for the 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference, which will be held May 23-25, in San Francisco, California. The executive conference focuses on ways to engage consumers and grow revenues in the converging IoT industries, including smart home, connected entertainment, and mobile ecosystems. The conference features keynotes by executives from Comcast, Cox Communications, Intel, and Vivint Smart Home and new research from Parks Associates.

Parks Associates research shows that innovators and early adopters are driving the smart home market, and this group is adopting solutions for safety, security, and access control. While the security industry remains the leading channel for smart home services, consumers are adopting point solutions in increasing numbers.

“As smart home solutions expand into new product categories, smart home service providers need to expand their ecosystem to keep up with the consumer,” said Elizabeth Parks, Senior Vice President, Parks Associates. “CONNECTIONS™ addresses the overall market for the connected consumer, including new use cases, product features, and evolving business models that will successfully engage consumers and increase adoption of products in multiple IoT industries.”

The 21st-annual event, which will be held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, will include the following keynote speakers:

• Matt Eyring, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Vivint Smart Home
• Kristine Faulkner, Senior Vice President / General Manager, COX Homelife, Cox Communications
• Miles Kingston, GM of Smart Home, Intel
• Sridhar Solur, Senior Vice President, Product & Development for Xfinity Home, Internet of Things and Data Services, Comcast

“The smart home is forcing convergence of traditionally separate industry silos, and partnerships are driving new value as integrated and flexible solutions offer a variety of unique user experiences,” said Tom Kerber, Director, IoT Strategy, Parks Associates. “With more than 650 executives in attendance at CONNECTIONS™, we will shine the spotlight on new partnerships and share new business models, technology innovations, and monetization opportunities.”

“Generating enthusiasm around home energy management comes down to providing consumers with meaningful data, which is increasingly challenging as the volume of information produced by connected home IoT devices and sensors continues to grow,” said Amena Ali, Chief Revenue Officer, Whisker Labs. “At CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference, we look forward to discussing strategies to get consumers excited about energy management, deepening their engagement and incentivizing them to take action.”

“Delivering customer value via IoT analytics and data science is the next big opportunity for smart home providers. Manufacturers who will be able to improve product design, accelerate adoption, and enhance user experience - using insights from connected product data - will eventually lead the smart home space," said Jennifer Sewell, Head of Product Marketing at mnubo, a leading IoT analytics solution provider. "I am excited to partake in the Parks Associates’ CONNECTIONS™ event to meet leading consumer IoT and smart home brands and discuss how data-driven insights can help them differentiate and take their value-proposition to the next-level.”

Additional confirmed speakers include:

2017 Speakers Keynotes Matt Eyring Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer Vivint Smart Home Kristine Faulkner Senior Vice President / General Manager, COX Homelife Cox Communications Miles Kingston GM of Smart Home Intel Rahul Patel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Connectivity Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Sridhar Solur Senior Vice President, Product & Development for Xfinity Home, Internet of Things, and Data Services Comcast Speakers Jean-Pierre (JP) Abello, Sr Director, Global Engineering R&D, Nielsen Amena Ali, Chief Revenue Officer, Whisker Labs Fredrik Andersson, Co-founder & SVP Strategy and Business Development, Accedo Yossi Atias, General Manager, IoT Security, BullGuard Avi Barel, Business Development Director, ULE Alliance Christopher Baskin, CEO, American Two-Way ( ATW ) Greg Berkin, Managing Director, Concours Ventures Dan Berte, Director, IoT, Bitdefender Jean Anne Booth, CEO, UnaliWear Jeroen Brouwer, Marketing, Sales and Business Development Director, Philips Benjamin Brown, Senior Product Manager, Google Home Lead for Apps & Connectivity, Google Mike Buckingham, Director Business Development, August Home Greg Calvert, Director, Business Development, Roku Jon Carter, UK Head of Business Development - Connected Home, Deutsche Telekom Oliver Cockcroft, Product Architect, Ayla Networks Rob Conant, CEO, Cirrent Jay Darfler, SVP Emerging Markets, ADT Casper de Clercq, General Partner, Norwest Venture Partners Jim Denney, VP Product Management and Strategy, TiVo Dan DiClerico, Smart Home Advisor, HomeAdvisor Derrick Dicoi, Executive Director, Xfinity Home Product Management, Comcast Ed Doran Ph.D., Principle Program Management, Microsoft Justin Doucette, Sr. Dir, Product Management, Linksys & Wemo, Belkin International Grant Erickson, President, Thread Group Dave Evans, CTO and Co-Founder, Stringify Scott P. Ford, CEO, Pepper IoT Brent Franks, Co-founder, Abode Systems, Inc Scott Frost, Technical Evangelist, Adobe Seth Frader-Thompson, Co-founder and President, EnergyHub, Inc. Luke Freiler, CEO, Centercode John Gardner, Partner, Nokia Growth Partners William Greene, Product Manager, Energy Services, Nest Labs Kal Gyimesi, Automotive Marketing Leader, IBM Watson IoT Scott Harkins, VP IoT Partner Programs Honeywell Connected Home & Buildings, Honeywell Avner Halperin, CEO, EarlySense Martin Heckmann, Director, Emerging Business, Chamberlain Group, Inc. David Henry, CMO & Sales, Roost Kurt Hoppe, Global Head of Innovation - Connected Car, GM Scott Hublou, VP of Global Connected Solutions, Salus Inc Brian M. Huey, IoT Client Director – Smart Grid, Smart City and Energy, Sprint Greg Kahn, President & CEO, Internet of Things Consortium Rich Kennewick, President, Voicebox Technologies Hakan Kostepen, Executive Director - Product Strategy & Innovation, Panasonic Greg Kruczek, Director of New Ventures, Asurion Leon Kuperman, CTO, CUJO IoT Security Aleem Lakhani, EVP, AmTrust Darren Lepke, Marketing Director, Verizon Digital Media Services Ryan Lester, Director, IoT Strategy, LogMeIn Rusty Lhamon, Sr. Director of Solutions for IoT, T-Mobile Greg Lillegard, General Manager - Product Development, A&D Medical Joe Liu, CEO, MivaTek Olaf Lohr, Director of Business Development, sonnen, Inc. Stuart Lombard, Founder & CEO, ecobee Sandra Maples, Director of IoT Product Management, Verisk Insurance Solutions Alton Martin, Chief Evangelist, Trusource Labs Nicholas Mashburn, Chief Product Officer, Tank Utility Elizabeth Mathes, Director of Smart Home, The Home Depot Noelani McGadden, Vice President of IoT, PlumChoice Rod McLane, Sr. Director Marketing, Ayla Networks Greg Mischou, Sr. Partner, Woodside Capital Partners Bill McIvor, Executive Vice President/Chief Development Officer, SeniorLink Ryan McManus, SVP, Head of Corporate Development and Partnerships, EVRYTHNG Kevin Meagher, SVP Business Development, ROC-Connect Sean Miller, President, PointCentral Dr. Chris Mitchell, CEO and Founder, Audio Analytic Daniel Moneta, Marketing Work Group Chair, Zigbee Alliance Lainie Muller, Director, Wellness, Alarm.com  Ashish Nair, Analyst, Citi High Yield Sami Nassar, VP of Cybersecurity, NXP Anoo Nathan, Founder & CEO, Smart Monitor Corp. Sanjay Noronha, Product Manager for Wireless and Networking, Google  Kelemen Papp, Executive Director, Mooreland Partners John Joonho Park, Executive Director, Open Connectivity Foundation Jeff Patton, GM Connected Home Products, GE Lighting Duane Paulson, SVP-Strategic Development, Nortek Security & Control Jorge Perdomo, SVP Corporate Strategy & Development, MivaTek Phil Pyo, Sr. Director Product Marketing, NETGEAR Dan Quigley, Sr. Manager, Single Threaded Owner Alexa Whole Home, Amazon Peter Radsliff, VP, Marketing, Arrayent Vaughn Rhodes, VP of Product Management, Greenwave Systems Elisabetta Romano, VP & Head of Media Solutions, Ericsson Avi Rosenthal, President, IoT Consulting, LLC D'Arcy Rossiter, Head of Insight, Centrica Connected Home, Hive Kian Saneii, Founder & CEO, Independa Bill Scheffler, Director of NA Sales and Business Development, Sigma Designs/Z-Wave Jennifer Sewell, Head of Product Marketing, mnubo - IoT Analytics Darrin Richard Shewchuk, Vice President, Connected Car Communication, HARMAN Dr. Joseph Smith, President and CEO, Reflexion Health  Matt Smith, Vice President, Principal Media Evangelist, Brightcove Jonathan Stern, SVP Strategic Development, Fusion Media Ace St. Germain, Senior Director of Programming, Content & Brand, VRV, Ellation Adam Thibault, Sr. Director, Business Strategy and Development, Nuance Communications, Inc. Andrew Thomas, Co-founder and CRO, SkyBell Video Doorbell Nathan Treloar, President & COO, Orbita, Inc. Rod Turner, CEO and Founder, Manhattan Street Capital Kenneth Wacks, President, Home, Building & Utility Systems Marc Westermann, Managing Director - Connected Solutions, Somfy Jason White, Head of Marketing, Growth and Product Innovation, Hippo Insurance Richard Wolpert, Co-Founder & CEO, HelloTech Bruce Wright, Business Development Director, Americas Business Unit, AirTies Wireless Networks Michael Yang, Managing Director, Comcast Ventures Jingwei Zhou, Director Business Development, Media Solutions, Ericsson   Moderators / Analysts Dina Abdelrazik, Research Analyst, Parks Associates Glenn Hower, Senior Analyst, Parks Associates Jennifer Kent, Director, Research Quality & Product Development, Parks Associates Tom Kerber, Director, IoT Strategy, Parks Associates Brad Russell, Research Analyst, Parks Associates Patrice Samuels, Senior Analyst, Parks Associates Brett Sappington, Sr. Director, Research, Parks Associates Harry Wang, Sr. Director, Research, Parks Associates

Parks Associates will also host three pre-show workshops on May 23, led by the firm’s senior IoT analysts, on the following topics:

• Smart Home and IoT: Growth, Consumer Trends
• Connected Health and IoT: Technology Innovators and Disruptions
• Connected Entertainment: Evolving Platforms and Services

The workshops will include the latest research and industry analysis from Parks Associates. Recent data from the leading consumer IoT research firm includes the following:

• One-third of newly acquired home security systems are self-installed.
• 26% of U.S. broadband households own a smart home device; 11% of U.S. broadband households own a smart thermostat.
• 5% of U.S. broadband households own a smart plug/adapter module.
• U.S. broadband households with smart light bulbs own 2.4 of these products on average.
• 19% of U.S. broadband households plan to buy a smart major appliance in the next 12 months.
• 70% of U.S. broadband households with smart energy devices report saving money due to reduced energy consumption.
• 42% of U.S. broadband households would select electric utilities as their first choice for energy management services.
•  51% of U.S. broadband households find an IoT device that alerts them to smoke and fire highly appealing and 41% find a device that alerts them to a water leak to be highly appealing.
•  More than 30 million U.S. broadband households will have a home security system by 2019.
• 11% of U.S. broadband households now have a smart watch, and approximately one million use their watch to control devices.
• 18% of U.S. broadband households own a wearable fitness device such as a smart watch or fitness tracker.
• Two-thirds of wearable fitness device owners use the device daily or almost daily.

To register for the 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™ conference and a pre-show workshop, visit http://bit.ly/CONNUSregistration. To schedule an interview with an analyst or request specific research, contact Holly Sprague at [email protected], 720.987.6614.

About CONNECTIONS™

Parks Associates' 27th annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference features an in-person conference on May 23-25, 2023 and multiple virtual sessions hosted throughout 2023. The event focuses on the adoption of technology including smart home, security, connected health, energy, and home automation.

Bringing together more than 1,500 senior executives, CONNECTIONS™ provides networking opportunities combined with visionary keynotes and virtual sessions. The Parks Associates analyst team leads all conference sessions, which are focused on technology innovations, consumer adoption and trends, product and service forecasts, and the evaluation of new business strategies, partnerships, monetization opportunities, and value-added service design.

Throughout the event, sponsors offer demos during networking events, spotlighting new technology innovations and services for the entertainment, mobile, and smart home market segments.

CONNECTIONS™ 2023 features an in-person conference on May 23-25, 2023, with virtual sessions on March 2, July 20, and October 5. For more information, contact [email protected], call 972-490-1113, visit www.connectionsconference.com.

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