Imagination Wanted: Submit Your Proposal for The Cable Show’s Live-Event Stage

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January 19, 2012
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Xfinity iPad Demo at The Park 2011

Xfinity iPad Demo at The Park

If you strolled around the exhibits at last year’s Cable Show in Chicago, you had to notice the crowd gathering at an edge of the Exhibit Floor. Seated on (and standing around) benches within a display that resembled an outdoor park setting, the onlookers were getting ready for the next live presentation from The Park – a novel, live-demonstration stage that made its debut at The Cable Show 2011.

For three days, The Park featured back-to-back demos, interviews, announcements and dialogue around some of the latest cable-powered innovations in the marketplace. We learned about new applications in mobile services, tablet video, set-top advancements and more. There was even a live focus-group featuring young adults who talked candidly about their media usage habits.

The Park was a big hit. Big enough that it has inspired a sort of 2.0 version for The Cable Show 2012 in Boston. Rebranded as Imagine Park, the idea is to again create some serious buzz around

Focus Group at The Park

One of the Consumer Focus Groups

live events and demonstrations from a prominent location on the Exhibit Floor. This year, the agenda is expanding to offer an even richer array of presentations and dialogue. And yes, the Blogger’s Corner will be back, offering journalists a prime view of the action.

Speaking of action, here’s one you can take now: Submit an idea to be on stage at Imagine Park in Boston at this year’s Cable Show. The RFP is out there, and submissions are happening now. Nothing’s off-limits: If you and your company have a cool idea, product or app that runs from a cable-powered platform, it might just be perfect for Imagine Park. So take a shot. And as they say, let your imagination run free.

Spring Technical Forum: Looking for Submissions

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November 28, 2011
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Inspiring Innovation - The 2012 Spring Technical Forum

The Spring Technical Forum Technical Proceedings are like the treasure map everybody’s after in any self-respecting pirate movie: full of reference value, and very possibly the key to a major discovery.

This is the published resource, after all, that offered some of the first glimpses of game-changing cable technologies including satellite delivery of video signals and HFC architecture, well before they became everyday features of the modern cable industry. Similarly, last year’s Proceedings delivered fresh insights about current (and soon-to-be) technology and engineering initiatives including cloud-stored media access over cable networks and Social TV – areas that are now attracting keen interest from developers, technology vendors and investors.

So what’s in store for the 2012 edition of the Proceedings? We’re not entirely sure yet – the deadline for submissions extends until Jan. 6, 2012 – but a fair guess suggests we’ll see breakthrough thinking around emerging-tech subjects including cable Wi-Fi networks, Ethernet over cable, encoding/transcoding, IP video (and lots of it), plus an interesting new focus around energy management of home devices. A recent NCTA press release around the Spring Technical Forum offers a more exhaustive list, including:

  • Wide-area Distribution Technologies
  • Mobile Video/Applications
  • Optical and RF Engineering
  • IP Transport/IPv6
  • BSS/OSS/ISP Operations
  • New Encoding Protocols
  • Engineering Economics
  • IP Video
  • Energy Management
  • Cloud Processing
  • Ethernet over Cable and other Business Services
  • Advanced Advertising/Interactive Services
  • Wireless Services
  • Enhanced Navigation/Search/Discovery/Share
  • Social TV
  • Network Safety and Security
  • Cable Application Frameworks

Of course, it’s also possible the Proceedings peer-review team, led by GCI Cable’s Chief Technology Officer and Forum Selection Committee Chairman Dan Pike, will uncover something entirely original from the abstract submissions that nobody even contemplated. That’s the beauty and the appeal of the Spring Technical Forum Proceedings, which are the successor to the NCTA Technical Papers. For more than 50 years, they’ve been presenting leading ideas in cable science and technology, in many cases, well before their time.

Here’s looking forward to a few more surprises in store for 2012. And if you happen to have a great idea for a breakthrough presentation, here’s the place to tell the world (or at least the review committee) about it.

Remember, abstracts are due by Jan. 6. Good luck!

Register for The Cable Show 2012

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November 3, 2011
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Join us in Boston from May 21-23 for The Cable Show 2012.

Boston, a major center of innovation, is next year’s host for The Cable Show. We will be in Boston from May 21-23 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. Make sure to join us and other mover and shakers of the cable industry to find out what’s current and what’s next for cable. The Cable Show 2012 will feature excellent networking opportunities, over half of our attendees are executive-level. There is also our educational sessions which feature leaders form inside and outside of cable discussing strategy or making announcements on their company’s next steps. And to say the least, our exhibit floor which always features a mixture of cable programming networks and the latest technical innovations to come to cable.

Registering early for The Cable Show has some benefits. For one, we give you a $100 off our regular registration rate and secondly, there are more rooms available in our housing block. So experience more of what cable has to offer and register today!

Exhibit Sales Now Open for The Cable Show 2012

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September 19, 2011
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The Cable Show 2011 Exhibit Floor

Interested in getting a foot in the door with the cable industry? Or do you already have your finger on the pulse? Get the exposure that you need by reserving a space on The Cable Show 2012 exhibit floor.  The Cable Show annually attracts over 13,000 attendees that represent a diverse range of fields present in today’s cable economy. And we are the one place where you can meet them all in just a period of three days.

Exhibitors not only get access to the leaders of cable and broadband, but also special access to sponsorship and advertising opportunities that are only open to National Cable & Telecommunication Association members. And if you have never exhibited at The Cable Show before, we extend to you the member rate discount, a bonus to any new exhibitor. If you need help in making your decision, download our 2012 Exhibitor Prospectus.

So plan on joining us for The Cable Show 2012, on May 21-23 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center to experience more of what cable can do. And to snap up the best spot on the floor, make sure to get in before first-round floor assignments deadline on October 14th.

More questions about exhibiting? Contact Michael Garner, of NCTA Convention Headquarters at 202-463-7905 or mgarner@ncta.com.

Pick Up Your Copy of the 2011 Spring Technical Forum

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July 19, 2011
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The 2011 Spring Technical Forum proceedings are now available for purchase. The CD-ROM features all of the papers that were used as the basis for the Spring Technical Forum sessions at The Cable Show 2011.

This year’s Spring Technical Forum sessions featured various subjects and authors:

The CD-ROMs are $75 each and can be purchased at the Spring Technical Forum Store. To purchase audio recordings of the sessions, visit our Conference Recordings Store.

The Call for Papers for the 2012 Spring Technical Forum will occur later this year during Fall.

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