About Net-atHome

In a few words

Over the years, Net-atHome became the largest conference and exhibition in Europe devoted to the domain of the networked home (gathering every year 200 delegates and 20 exhibitors in average), and the only one in the world with a true international dimension: most key stakeholders not only from Europe but also from other regions used to send delegates to Net-atHome.

Net-atHome had the reputation to truly offer each delegate a unique opportunity to access highly valuable information and to network with a great number of key stakeholders worldwide.

Addressed topics

The connected home area is quite vast and the conference objectives were quite ambitious. This inevitably led, on the occasion of each Net-atHome event, to a very lively exchange of information and debate on a large number of topics, in the framework of thematic sessions. The precise themes of the sessions, and the contributors to each session were selected only after the call for papers process was closed, to make sure that most recent developments and the hottest issues were addressed during the event. However, some topics were quite recurrent:

• Which technologies and standards (in the field of home networking, home platforms and gateways, access networks) are imposing themselves or likely to be dominant in the short term?
  
• Which products and services are the most promising for the short to medium term and why (how are they answering to consumer needs and expectations, why is the business model relevant, why is the distribution channel adapted)?
  
• What are the actual opportunities and threats linked to the globalisation of connected home markets?
  
• How can we suitably address the "extending home" (apartment buildings, communities, people on the move, etc.)
  
• When will major emerging challenges (ageing population, sustainable development, eHealth) really impact the development of connected home markets?
  
• Are major short to medium term market perspectives mainly linked to the deployment by service providers of wireless broadband solutions?
  
• Who will be the dominant players in the short to medium term?
  
• How can we solve issues leading to coherent home infrastructures able to fully support market development: middleware, standards and interoperability, QoS, safety and privacy, "the" gateway, the role of integrators, etc.

Who attended Net-athome?

• Companies from all sectors involved in the domain in Europe and worldwide (typically represented by their project managers, marketing and business development managers, technology and R&D managers, etc.)
• Start-ups and SMEs (represented by their CEOs, vice-presidents, marketing and business development managers)
• Research centers (represented by their laboratory managers and key researchers)
• Industry associations and groups, standardization bodies (represented by their chairmen or vice-chairmen)
• Institutions involved in pilot initiatives, demonstration programs, etc. (represented by their program managers)  

About recent Net-athome events