Global Inventures Connected Circle to Sponsor CONNECTIONS: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase, on May 7-9 at The Fairmont San Jose

The Global Inventures Connected Circle today announced the Platinum Sponsorship of CONNECTIONS: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase. This group represents HomePlug Powerline Alliance, OSGi Alliance, UPnP Implementers Corporation, WiMedia Alliance, and ZigBee Alliance. These alliances, managed by Global Inventures, Inc., develop and promote standards-based solutions and architectures for networked devices in homes, vehicles, and office buildings.

Global Inventures Connected Circle to Sponsor CONNECTIONS: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase
HomePlug Powerline Alliance, OSGi Alliance, UPnP Implementers Corporation, WiMedia Alliance, and ZigBee Alliance represented

DALLAS, TX April 4, -- The Global Inventures Connected Circle today announced the Platinum Sponsorship of CONNECTIONS: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase. This group represents HomePlug Powerline Alliance, OSGi Alliance, UPnP Implementers Corporation, WiMedia Alliance, and ZigBee Alliance. These alliances, managed by Global Inventures, Inc., develop and promote standards-based solutions and architectures for networked devices in homes, vehicles, and office buildings.

CONNECTIONS 2003: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase, taking place May 7-9, 2003, in San Jose, Calif., is produced by Parks Associates, in association with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and is the largest international executive conference for digital home technologies.

Connected solutions are prevalent today in a number of environments, including vehicles, buildings, and homes," said Deepak Kamlani, President and CEO of Global Inventures, Inc. Were happy to bring together leaders of five of the most prominent consortia to provide strategic direction and technology insight to those attending CONNECTIONS 2003."

In addition to presenting their networking technologies and solutions in the CONNECTIONS Showcase, representatives from these groups will also be on an interactive plenary panel titled Building the Foundation for Success." This panel of leaders, moderated by Deepak Kamlani, will address the progress, the issues, and the outlooks for these solutions on Thursday, May 8 at 10:35 AM.

Panelists include: Peter Kempf, Vice President of Business Development for Conexant Systems, representing the HomePlug Powerline Alliance; John Barr, Director, Standards Realization, Motorola, Inc, representing the OSGi Alliance; Stephen Whalley, Manager of Technology Marketing with the Desktop Architecture Lab at Intel, representing the UPnP Implementers Corporation; Jim Meyer, Vice President of Business Development, Time Domain Corporation, representing the WiMedia Alliance; and Bob Heile, Chair, IEEE 802.15 Working Group on Wireless Personal Area Networks, representing the ZigBee Alliance.

This panel at CONNECTIONS is representing alliances and solutions groups from the networking communities and will provide attendees with additional insight into the state and development of technology and its solutions," said Tricia Parks, President of Parks Associates. We are excited that the Global Inventures Connected Circle is participating at CONNECTIONS.

CONNECTIONS attracts leaders from an array of industries, including market research, energy services, broadband Internet access and services, entertainment, appliances, and computer manufacturers. Attendees include strategic planners, product developers, and marketers who are developing and selling advanced products and services for consumers in the residential market.

For additional information about CONNECTIONS 2003: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase, please visit www.connectionsconference.com, e-mail Parks Associates at sales@parksassociates.com, or call 972-490-1113.

About Global Inventures
Founded in 1992 as Interprise Ventures, Global Inventures, Inc. is a worldwide leader in incubating technology initiatives and growing managed around these initiatives. Since 1993, Global Inventures has helped build 17 such communities. Each was created from a "blank sheet of paper" and designed to meet the particular requirements of their founders and membership. Currently, these communities are centered around communications infrastructures, broadband enterprise and home networking, and web applications.

About CONNECTIONS
CONNECTIONS: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase, produced by Parks Associates in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association, is an international executive conference for digital home technologies. Market areas include broadband-related infrastructure and services, residential gateways, home networks, digital entertainment and home management. Speakers, panelists, and attendees see innovations, address technical challenges, network with peers, hear consumer research and business model presentations, and participate in industry discussions. www.connectionsconference.com