DALLAS -- Parks Associates today announced that John Barrett, director of research, will moderate two sessions at the Hometech Middle East 2007 conference being held 13-15 May at the Dubai International Exhibition & Convention Centre.
Parks Associates is a market research and consulting firm focused on all product and service segments that are "digital" or provide connectivity within the home. The company's expertise includes home networks, digital entertainment, consumer electronics, broadband and Internet services, and home systems.
Recent data from Parks Associates indicates that the number of households worldwide using a data networking solution will grow from approximately 80 million households at the end of 2005 to nearly 145 million by the end of 2010, creating significant opportunities for multiple industries within the value chain for digital living technologies and services.
The first session, "Home Systems - Controls, Entertainment & Security, will be held on 14th May, 2007 at 14:30. The speakers participating on this panel include:
Jay McLellan, President & CEO, Home Automation Inc.
Sunil Gopal, CEO, ImagIne Technologies
Herman Cardenas, Chairman and Founder, NetStreams
The second session, "Outfitting Digital Homes" will be held on 15th May, 2007 at 10:00. This panel will examine the technological needs of the digital home and trends that suggest how those needs will be fulfilled. Specific issues to be addressed include: set-top-boxes vs. PC based platforms, home networks & wireless in-home distribution, and packaged media vs. digital content storage. The speakers participating on this panel include:
Nilesh Khalkho, Head of Merchandising & Vendor Relationships, Sharaf DG
Nisreen Shocair, President, Virgin
Paul Yonghwan Kim, Chief Research Engineer, LG Electronics, Inc
Ian Wilkinson, MEA/CIS Solutions Marketing Manager, Motorola, Inc. Connected Home, Middle East, and Africa
Nigel McKenze, CTO, Pacific Controls
For more information on this event, please visit http://www.hometechexpo.com
About Hometech Middle East:
Hometech Middle East is the one and only trade fair for home entertainment, home automation, home appliances and domestic devices to source business in the Gulf States, the wider Middle East, North and East Africa, the CIS and the Indian Subcontinent.
Hometech Middle East is the region's most popular platform to showcase the hottest new products and trends in brown and white goods, as well as the latest technology and innovation in home intelligent systems and services, and time-saving state-of-the-art domestic devices.
About Parks Associates
Founded in 1986, Parks Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small start-ups through market reports, multiclient studies, consumer research, workshops, and custom-tailored client solutions. Parks Associates also hosts Fall Focus and co-hosts CONNECTIONS[TM] (in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association) each year. http://www.parksassociates.com
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