Brad Russell, Director of Research at Parks Associates, will speak on the Calix Webinar on March 7.

The evolution of the connected home continues to create opportunities for service providers. The webinar, "Staking a Claim in the Connected Home: Service Provider Solutions," will provide highlights from a recent Parks Associates whitepaper that presents strategies for operators to expand their footprint in the connected home.

Brett Sappington, Senior Director of Research at Parks Associates, will speak at this year's Cable Congress.

The 2018 Cable Congress examines how new industry dynamics and technological innovations such as virtualisation, smart cities, IoT, and machine learning are shaking up the business you are in. How will you react? What will your focus be? Cable Congress finds the answers.

Parks Associates is supporting the Intelligent Health Pavillion.

Experience illuminating and enlightening demonstrations of the latest transformative technologies in the health ecosystem at the Intelligent Health Pavilion. Educational and interactive by design, the pavilion showcases the latest innovative hardware and software solutions that are revolutionizing healthcare delivery. Discover how advanced technologies are being seamlessly integrated to support caregivers and caretakers at each step in a person’s health journey – contributing to improved patient outcomes, greater access to care, and a reduction in costs.

Parks Associates is supporting Home Health Technology Summit. 

Join us at the Home Health Technology Summit, March 4-6 at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans. With exciting educational sessions, networking opportunities with the brightest minds in home health technology and an exhibit hall featuring the latest technology, this event is crucial for anyone looking to understand and benefit from this emerging industry. Save $100 off the standard registration rate with Promo Code SP100 (can’t be combined with other discounts). For more information and to register, visit: www.homehealthtechnologysummit.com

Parks Associates is hosting the ninth-annual Smart Energy Summit: Engaging the Consumer.

The Smart Energy Summit examines the changing role of utilities to help empower consumers with solutions to save energy in the home. The event addresses the potential benefits of incorporating smart products into energy efficiency and DR programs and the opportunities across converging ecosystems for the market for energy solutions, including connected devices, energy management, utility services, and home control platforms and services.

The event also focuses on identifying new strategies that utilities and other providers can leverage connectivity as a result of the adoption of new consumer technologies. Research analysts, thought leaders, and industry executives present and discuss business strategies, case studies, partnership opportunities, and consumer research that utilities, service providers, retailers, and manufacturers can use to expand and monetize their energy offerings.

The ninth-annual Smart Energy Summit will take place February 19-21, 2018, at the Fairmont Hotel in Austin, Texas. The summit agenda features leaders from utilities, state and national regulators, telecom and security companies, retailers, and OEMs.

Brett Sappington, Senior Director of Research at Parks Associates, will speak at NCTC's Winter Educational Conference on Feb. 12-13. Sappington will speak on the session "Understanding the Next Generation of Pay-TV Viewers: Trends & Forecasts" at 9:45 a.m. on Monday, February 12. Sappington will then speak on the session "Retaining Broadband Customers: The Threat from Wireless" at 8:35 a.m. the following day. 

NCTC’s Winter Educational Conference is your first opportunity of 2018 to engage with experts and peers from around the U.S. for two days of educational forums, technology exhibits, and sharing best practices. Whether you’re an independent video and broadband provider, vendor, or industry expert, this conference is for you.

 Parks Associates is supporting the Voice of IoT – DECT and ULE Industry Summit.

Erik Overbeeke will give the keynote address "Voice: Unifying the Smart Home to Drive Consumer Adoption" on February 7 in Amsterdam. Overbeeke will examine the landscape of voice solutions in the smart home markets and share insights on strategies for success.

The Voice of IoT – DECT and ULE Industry Summit addresses recent business and technology developments in both DECT and ULE globally, and will give more insight in the possibilities for operators, service providers, soft- and hardware manufacturers how they can benefit from both.

Erik Overbeeke, European Partner Alliance, Parks Associates will speak at DISTREE EMEA on February 8, 2018 in Monaco. Overbeeke will speak about smart home trends and distribution channels.

DISTREE EMEA invites and brings senior level distribution executives together with senior vendor executives to meet and talk business. The event primarily focuses on the consumer channel for ICT products and consumer electronics. The event also brings together senior distributor representatives from Europe, Russia, the Middle East, and Africa.

Unlike traditional trade shows, DISTREE EMEA is an invitation only event. Only CEOs, Managing Directors and senior level executives are invited to attend the event in Monaco.

Parks Associates is supporting Digital Entertainment World 2018.

Digital Entertainment World (DEW) 2018 will focus on "THE NEXT FRONTIER OF ENTERTAINMENT: CREATIVITY POWERED BY INNOVATION" and will cover topics from OTT to AI to eSports to Millennials to Content Marketing to VR/AR to Music Rights to Startups, etc., as this theme guides all talks, discussions, meetings and presentations over the two days. DEW2018 will be held in the Marina del Rey Marriott just steps from the beach and located in the heart of LA's thriving Silicon Beach with easy access to Santa Monica, Venice and Playa Vista. Digital Entertainment World (DEW2017 clip) is where you want to be if you are in the business of digital entertainment. 

Parks Associates is supporting Digital Entertainment World 2019.

Digital Entertainment World is the must attend B2B event and marketplace for global media and technology executives to evaluate the digital media landscape. This two-day event brings together leading industry executives from video, music, games and publishing — the entire digital content ecosystem. DEW is the place where content creators and owners, enabling technology providers, digital distributors and device manufacturers connect and create the infrastructure and technology partnerships necessary to monetize digital content.

Brad Russell, Research Director, Parks Associates, will speak on the GE Lighting Facebook Live Event on Thursday, January 11 at 9 a.m. PT during CES.

Jennifer Kent, Director of Research, Parks Associates, will be presenting future of connected health data at the A&D Medical booth at CES on Wednesday, January 10 at 11 AM PST. The A&D Medical booth #43431 is located in Tech West, Sands Expo, Level 2, Halls A-D. 

The special presentation from Dr. Kent will highlight new research from industry analysts that sheds insight into the future of connected health and its potential for consumers. Pulling from data on health and wellness solutions, she will share how connected health is reaching into the home, and how it will influence consumers over the next decade. 

Her presentation will focus on four primary topic research areas:
• How technology is closing gaps in the care continuum;
• On-demand patient and consumer services;
• Direct-to-consumer health and wellness services; and
• Independent living and the aging population.