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HGI invites members of the broadband and smart-home industries to attend an open forum on the latest smart-home developments on Tuesday, March 19, at the TELECOM ITALIA LABS Auditorium in

Torino, Italy from 11:00 – 18:00. Attendees will also be welcomed at a cocktail reception from 18:00-19:00, where smart-home demonstrations will be given.

During the extended lunch time there will be the possibility to visit the Innovation lab of telecom Italia, adjacent to the Auditorium, to touch with hands the digital home solutions under development

This forum is part of the HGI Q1 2013 meeting and will update the HGI community and guests on the latest developments in the Italian smart-home ecosystem, including home interconnect technologies, service provider and utilities solutions, and contributions to international activities, standardization bodies, funded projects.

The forum will also provide updates about the smart-home architecture being developed within the HGI, in cooperation with other SDOs and fora. The HGI’s member companies are developing the software platform requirements for a range of smart home services being deployed by the Broadband Service Providers and partners.

If you would like to attend this Forum please send an email to contact@homegatewayinitiative.org with your name, position, company, and contact details. Registration to the forum is needed. Delegates registered to the Q1 2013 Torino HGI meeting will be automatically registered to the Forum.

Companies wishing to join as observers the HGI quarterly meeting can contact HGI at the above address.

Join HGI’s Smart-Home Open Forum in Torino, Italy - Tuesday 19 March

HGI Torino Forum Program (Preliminary DRAFT)Date: 19th March, 2013; Place: TELECOM ITALIA LABS AUDITORIUM - main entrance Via Olivetti 6, Torino

＜ Opening ＞□ 11:00-11:05 Welcome (HGI Officials) □ 11:05-11:20 TILAB welcome and the Value of the Torino HGI Forum :(Sandro Dionisi, Head of Telecom Italia Labs)

＜ Keynotes ＞□ 11:20-11:40 Telecom Italia marketing approach to digital home services (Luigi Zabatta, Marketing Consumer, Telecom Italia)□ 11:40-12:00 Innovation and smart home ecosystems (Fulvio Faraci, Innovation&Industry Relations, Telecom Italia)

＜ HGI updates ＞□ 12:00-12:30 HGI Smart Home activities. Use cases, Architecture, HG role (HGI CTO and Smart Home TF Officials)□ 12:30-12:40 Brief introduction about demonstrations and TI Innovation Lab□ 12:40-14:30 Lunch , Demos and Visit to Telecom Italia Innovation Lab

＜ Italian experiences - 1 ＞ Smart home energy efficiency□ 14:30-14:50 DSO: the Smart Info project for a connected Smart Meter (Sergio Brambilla, Enel Distribuzione) □ 14:50-15:10 The role of connected white goods (Alessandro Molinengo, Indesit)□ 15:10-15:30 Renewables, storage systems and domotics (Guido Fiesoli, Power One)□ 15:30-15:50 Smart Grid: Beyond the Energy plug (Diana Moneta, RSE)□ 15:50-16:10 Energy@Home Association (Fabio Bellifemine, E@H Director)

□ 16:10-16:30 Coffee Break & Demo

＜ Italian experiences - 2 ＞ TI partners’ view of smart home □ 16:30-16:50 Smart Home: an opportunity for the braves (Corrado Rocca, ADB Broadband)□ 16:50-17:20 The Connected Home Communication challenge (Danny Lousberg, Technicolor)

＜ The swiss perspective ＞ Swisscom □ 17:20-17:50 Learnings in the Home Automation Market (Conny Wölk, Swisscom)

□ 17:50-18:00 Wrap up (HGI CTO)

□ 18:00-19:00 Networking Event