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Parks Associates Announces Topics for 22nd Annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home ConferenceDALLAS, Dec. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Parks Associates today announced the topics for the 22nd annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference, to be held May 22-24, 2018, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. The firm's research finds more than one-half of U.S. broadband households plan to purchase a smart home device in the next 12 months. The event focuses on business strategies to convert consumer intentions to actual adoption and analyzes the transition to service-based models built on AI and contextual learning in order to expand the use cases and lifecycles of IoT solutions. Mark Spates, Product Lead for Smart Home at Google, will present the opening keynote on May 22 and address the growing landscape and future of connected products in the home. "Creating combinations of use cases, such as monitoring combined with safety, security, and health alerts, will help to drive broad, mass-market adoption of smart products and services—up to 70% of U.S. broadband households express strong interest in smart home packages that feature multiple cross-industry benefits," said Elizabeth Parks, SVP, Parks Associates. "Data analytics, machine learning, and AI will play a substantial role in creating flexible, user-specific IoT solutions that enhance and expand value propositions. We are excited about this year's CONNECTIONS™ and look forward to featuring new innovations driving changes in the smart home and connected entertainment industries." EarlyConference Sponsors include Zigbee Alliance, Rapid Response Monitoring, Cirrent, iQor, Trusource Labs, Whisker Labs, Johnson Controls, HomeAdvisor, HelloTech, and MivaTek. Innovations to Improve Consumer UX
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CONNECTIONS™ attracts more than 650 executives each year to discuss the changing landscape for the smart home and IoT, to provide insight and learning into the new business models, to share technology and standards developments, and to focus on consumer engagement strategies. Parks Associates is accepting speaker submissions through www.parksassociates.com/events/connections-us/conn-us-cfp. About CONNECTIONS™ Parks Associates' 22nd annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference will take place May 22-24, 2018, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport in San Francisco. CONNECTIONS™ is the premier connected home event hosting more than 600 executives from the connected entertainment, IoT, and smart home industries. CONNECTIONS™ provides networking opportunities combined with two days of visionary keynotes and conference sessions focused on technology adoption and trends, product and service forecasts, evaluation of new business strategies, and recommendations for strategic partnerships, monetization opportunities, and value-added service design. Throughout the event, sponsors offer tabletop demos during networking events, spotlighting new technology innovations and services for the entertainment, mobile, and smart home market segments. For more information, contact [email protected], call 972-490-1113, visit www.connectionsconference.com. Julia Homier View original content with multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/parks-associates-announces-topics-for-22nd-annual-connections-the-premier-connected-home-conference-300567684.html SOURCE Parks Associates 
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