Parks Associates is supporting The Lighting & Homes for Tomorrow Competition.

The Lighting & Homes for Tomorrow (LHFT) competition is looking to identify and support products in today’s market that will help achieve an integrated home. The competition is seeking connected devices and systems in the home that meet consumer expectations in terms of interoperability, reliability and simplicity of use with an emphasis on delivering energy and demand savings.

LHFT provides manufacturers the opportunity to push the industry forward by introducing high quality and innovative designs, contribute to the greater energy efficiency movement, and gain exposure for their brands and products among industry leaders and consumers alike. In particular, the exceptional products identified by the judging panel are heavily promoted by Lighting & Homes for Tomorrow for a full calendar year.

Is your connected home product or system innovative? Does it offer a unique value proposition? Provide a seamless consumer experience? Deliver energy savings and load management capabilities? If so, Enter Now to submit your product for evaluation to garner support from the utility industry and receive a year of promotion!
 

Steve Nason, Research Director at Parks Associates will be a panelist on the session "How to Attract or Retain Migrating Consumers" at NAB Show Express. Leading C-suite executives from pay TV offer a series of best practices for keeping the brand relevant, competitive and appealing to migrating content consumers.

NAB Show Express has been built with the flexibility for every one of us to find what we’re searching for and design our own experience.

- Watch 24-hour broadcasting on three channels, allowing for convenient viewing in time zones around the world.
- Get access to on-demand video content, covering everything from new industry trends and technologies to creator tools and distribution.
- Explore the marketplace, featuring exhibitor profiles, company-hosted events and press conferences. Special offers are available for those interested in exploring new products and exhibitor news.
- Access the resource library where partner organization has contributed timely industry-related white papers, eBooks, guides and research reports.

Steve Nason, Research Director, Parks Associates, will present a Keynote at the “Taking Streaming Video to the Next Level” hosted by Light Reading on Monday, April 20, 11 AM ET.

In this special NAB Show breakfast forum, video industry experts from across the spectrum will assess the streaming video market, evaluate the latest entrants, examine the major challenges they face and discuss how the industry can reach the desired goal of OTT Video 2.0 -- a scalable, stable, secure streaming platform that generates regular, predictable revenue. Using a roundtable format, the forum will tackle the most pressing technical and business issues facing video providers today as they seek to manage, market and monetize their new streaming services. Light Reading is hosting this special breakfast session in partnership with the Streaming Video Alliance, providing a fresh forum for video technologists and business strategists to share their experiences and expertise.

Due to the cancellation of NAB Show 2020 and travel restrictions, we will now be hosting our breakfast workshop as an online seminar which will take place April 20th, 2020. All breakfast workshop registrants will receive an email with more information shortly. We will also be accepting new registrants. More details to follow soon. For questions please contact marketing@lightreading.com.

Parks Associates is supporting the 41st PLMA Conference.

The 41st PLMA Conference -Online, originally scheduled to be presented in Scottsdale, Arizona, will instead be presented online with a mix of live and pre-recorded content presented at no charge to members and non-members alike. Gain real-world insight from practitioners and energy utilities active in the demand response, load management, and distributed energy resources marketplace.

The updated conference agenda includes live 2-hour-long webcasts on Tuesday, April 21 and Wednesday, April 22 as well as pre-recordings of much of the rest of the previously scheduled conference content as practical. The pre-recordings will be made available to all conference registrants for your binge-watching pleasure starting on April 20.

Please make time to view and share this online conference content to reinforce the value of networking and learning among our load management practitioner community during these challenging times. Together, let’s make this the biggest and best conference that PLMA never had... and set our sights on being together again this November 9-11 for the 42nd PLMA Conference in Baltimore.

https://www.peakload.org/41st-conference-agenda

Jennifer Kent, Senior Director, Parks Associates, will speak on the panel "Addressing Social Isolation and Aging in Place" at the Aging & Tech Forum: Addressing the Silver Tsunami on March 9 at 2:30 p.m. The preconference event will examine how virtual care and other technologies are being used to manage chronic-care seniors in the home. It will also help seniors who are thriving to live the active lives they choose for as long as they can. 

Lindsay Gafford, Research Analyst at Parks Associates will speak on the upcoming webcast from HME News, focusing on aging in place and PERS as a way for the providers in those markets to increase revenue with their existing customer bases and expand into new markets.

Lindsay Gafford participates in and supports all areas of research at Parks Associates, specializing in connected home solutions. Prior to joining Parks Associates, Lindsay had a diverse professional background with experience in the federal, non-profit, and private sectors. Her expertise falls in multisource data collection and analysis, operations and development of new programs, as well as increasing efficiency in already established programs.

Lindsay earned her MA in Church-State Studies and her BA in English Language and Literature from Baylor University in Waco, TX.
 

Parks Associates is supporting Utility Telecoms 2020.

Transforming utility telecom departments to drive the migration to MPLS networks and maximise security, reliability and visibility

Save 10% with promotion code: UTC-20-MEDIA-PARKS

The 3rd edition of the Utility Telecoms conference will draw together technical utility telecom professionals to review 14+ utility implementation case-studies from leading TSOs and DSOs. Discussions will focus on the migration to MPLS networks, Traffic Engineering, Private LTE, cybersecurity, leveraging 5G capabilities, public carrier relationships, as well as future network developments in the context of operating existing internal services such as teleprotection and telecontrol over MPLS.

Alongside the case-study programme, there is a utility strategy panel session, a technology innovation panel discussion, intimate end-user round table debates, a live demo lab of the latest systems and solutions, and an evening networking reception open to all participants.

Dina Abedelrazik, Senior Analyst, Parks Associates will moderate a panel session at the SecurityNext conference, February 9-11 in New Orleans, LA. The panel will look at the benefits of building an RMR Business Model, using research to look at how the consumerization of security — fueled greatly by the whole smart home movement — creates new opportunities for RMR, monitizing/leveraging data, and the impact/influence this is having on commercial security as well.

Jennifer Kent, Senior Director, Parks Associates, will speak during the webinar "Who’s Monitoring Grandma? Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors," hosted by Personal Connected Health Alliance. Join the webinar to hear from research and provider experts in the trenches of health technology deployment to aging populations.

Register Online.

Denise Ernst, Vice President, Parks Associates, will moderate several sessions at DISTRIBUTECH International, Thursday, January 30 in San Antonio. Session include:

• Breakfast Roundtable Discussion on 5G
  Room: 006 and 007, River Level
  Wednesday, January 29: 8:00 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.
   
• Eco Planning for Smart Utilities
  Room: 214B
  Session Number: Smart Cities/IoT 3
  Thursday, January 30, 8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
   
• EV Ready Utility Challenge: EV Blueprint for the City of Santa Clara, California
  Room: Booth #417, Exhibit Floor
  Session Number: e-Mobility & Smart Cities
  Thursday, January 30, 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
   
• A Look at How Enterprise-grade Platforms can Democratize Energy Solutions
  Room: Booth #417, Exhibit Floor
  Session Number: e-Mobility & Smart Cities
  Thursday, January 30, 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Parks Associates is supporting the Consumer Telematics Show. 

Join us on January 6th and immerse yourself in the future of automotive technology. Automakers are no longer just focused on the exterior. Increasingly, the consumer is being swayed by the in-vehicle experience. To stay competitive, automakers are adopting new consumer-centric technology that seamlessly brings our creature comforts into the car.

Brad Russell, Research Director, Connected Home, Parks Associates, will deliver the presentation, "The Tech Plays of the Biggest Players," Monday, December 9 at 3:00 p.m. at the TecHome Builder Summit in Washington, D.C.