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The connected digital home is turning into the next battleground for companies across the value chain, including cable and satellite operators, telcos, set-top-box manufacturers, PC OEMs and CE vendors. Multi-room DVR is only the beginning of the imminent home networking revolution. An open Web broswer on the PS3, IPTV functionality on upcoming Xboxes, Wi-Fi capabilities on portable media players (PMPs) and increasingly sophisticated mobile phones will all have an impact. How should broadcasters, service providers and STB makers respond?

As the home networking landscape begins to open, there are hurdles to overcome for the opportunity to be maximised. Issues that need to be resolved include interoperability and the exchange of the content itself between multiple platforms, CA/DRM, business models and, perhaps most importantly, the user experience. The technology itself is not that difficult, but making it simple to the end-user is the real challenge.

The opportunities are huge, but what’s the best way to monetise the riches on offer? What strategies exist for product and service differentiation? How is the network topology, the home gateway and customer premises equipment evolving? What will the networked home of tomorrow look like? And, as companies jostle for positioning, who - if anyone - will end up owning the consumer? These and many other questions remain unanswered.

This strategic and high-level one-day conference will explore these issues, helping companies better understand the next battleground. It will ask a range of speakers from government, vendors, operators, analysts and academics to peer into the near, and not so near, future.