With AI now the industry-wide priority, Big Tech companies are uniquely positioned to reinvent video and broadcast workflows. Backed by deep engineering talent, massive cloud infrastructure, and top-down AI mandates, these enterprise video teams are already driving rapid video innovation  — from creative to production.– using native APIs and Agentic AI tools.

NASA’s original mandate in the Space Act of 1958 was clear: share the story of exploration with the widest possible audience. Today, NASA+ fulfills that mission by delivering rocket launches, astronaut spacewalks, and real-time views from the International Space Station directly into homes and mobile devices worldwide. This session features NASA Media leaders discussing how they’re leveraging cutting-edge video technologies to stream the cosmos, inspire new generations, and redefine what live broadcasting means when your backdrop is 250 miles above Earth.

With Super Bowl LX kicking off next week in Santa Clara, all eyes are not only on the field — but on the future of fandom itself. New technologies are being introduced in the sports stadium that are poised to transform how all fans, including those of brands, products and corporate personalities, are engaged.

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What happens when machine learning meets cinematography and virtual production? This panel of AI filmmakers focuses on how the new AI technology toolkit is changing the way they work and better serve the enterprise. Noah Kadner will lead a deepdive follow-up to this session in the Boole Room, 2:00 – 2:30 PM.
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In the evolving world of video production, the real question isn’t what gear you’re using — it’s where your gear lives. Software-defined workflows now provide broadcasters and creators unprecedented freedom to run their operations on-prem, in private data centers, or across public cloud platforms. The DMF Town Hall will follow-up this session in the Lovelace Room, 3:15 – 3:45 PM.

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When it comes to live events, no one understands spectacle, logistics, and audience impact better than rock and roll. Hear how concert producers have been engineering high-stakes, high-emotion stage moments and what it can mean to your next corporate event.

As AI becomes a powerful co-creator in digital video, producers and directors face new challenges in balancing the allure of speed and cost with the North Star of humanity. A panel of producers and directors explains how they are using AI video so their productions are both compelling and real.

Who could anticipate that a dot on a screen could revolutionize an industry? Together, Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith and journalist and author Barbara Robertson discuss the great digital convergence when, for the first time, all old media types disappeared to be replaced by pixels.

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As scripted storytelling shifts to digital-first formats, Emmy-nominated director and producer Scott Brown of Our Second Rodeo shares how modern production studios are being built from the ground up. Drawing from his work with MrBeast, he explores vertical series, microdramas, and the future of scalable, creator-led studios.

When your audience is watching their videos on everything from a phone to glasses to a big screen, how do you give everyone on every device the best viewing experience – and all at once? How are enterprise producers approaching this workflow challenge?

In this inspiring SMPTE Student keynote, Silicon Valley tech evangelist Guy Kawasaki shares why growth, grit, and grace just as much as technical skills. Speaking to the current and next generation of media technologists at Silicon Valley Video Summit in January 2026, he reveals how being a good person can fuel long-term success in both life and career.

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As AI reshapes creation, distribution, and monetization, where will outsized returns emerge—tools, infrastructure, or new platforms? This panel convenes Bay Area investors who are actively writing checks in the media & entertainment stack—covering rights & provenance, model ops, agentic workflows, realtime experiences, and new monetization rails. Expect candor on metrics, moats, and near-term exit paths.

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We live in the future – supercomputers in every pocket, 4K cameras, vast storage, and ubiquitous wireless connectivity. Add to that AI capable of understanding and analyzing images, remarkable video codecs, and real-time processing power, and you’d think we’ve arrived at the future. We have transitioned to IP-based video and audio workflows, seemingly completing the puzzle. Yet somehow, when you get into work and sit down at your desk and try to do something as simple as move a video from your phone to your computer, the experience falls frustratingly short of what all these ingredients should deliver. In this talk, Andrew Cross will explore why having all the right ingredients is not enough, and what the next chapter will look like.

IP video production is more accessible than ever. Explore today’s options in IP transport and how networked audio and video are enabling new levels of flexibility, scalability and access for a range of workflows and budgets.

Since 2020, efforts have been underway to define standards for determining what’s real, what’s trustworthy, and where the media we experience comes from. Catalyzed by the power and peril of generative AI, it’s now time to put these standards to work in video. A speedy exploration of the history, pragmatism, and future of digital provenance via the C2PA.

Enterprise learning programs deliver video-based education to global workforces with localized consistency, speed, and impact. But what does it take to maintain a content ecosystem of this size? This panel discusses the people, processes, and platforms that are driving digital education.

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REMI workflows have revolutionized how events are produced — enabling fewer people onsite, faster turnaround, and cost efficiencies. This panel explores the REMI model through the lens of enterprise video, asking a provocative question: are businesses ready to go remote?

Today’s brands face relentless content demands and internal resource drain. In this case study, Pete Abel of AbelCine and Eli Ash of Backhouse unpack the rise of the Embedded Alliance—a new operational model that integrates agile infrastructure and strategic operators directly into in-house teams. Drawing on their recent collaborations with Netflix, Hello Sunshine, Mustache, and Endeavor, among others, they’ll discuss how this partnership approach allows forward-thinking organizations to move beyond agency silos and unlock scalable, high-impact content creation from within.
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Enterprise brands are leveraging live event production to fuel high-volume content strategies across social, e-commerce, and marketing channels. How are event producers and their TDs producing more and bigger events ,and turning them all into scalable content factories.

Beyond all the big screens and special effects, the intent of every event producer is to have their audience leave the room with a shared moment. Our panelists share the tech wizardry that evokes emotion, loyalty, and a sense of community in the audience.

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Most video production and delivery pipelines are built around the 16:9 frame. Yet many of today’s most ambitious video experiences, from live shows, immersive installations, and architectural media, all operate on spatial display systems that no longer fit that format. This session explores how non-standard video configurations are built on top of 16:9 infrastructure, and what those adaptations suggest about the future of video delivery beyond entertainment.

The post-pandemic world caused us to rethink the reason we head back to the office. Can big screens, VR, A/V studios, immersive video conferencing and events offer experiences that employees can’t replicate at home?

Stop waiting for the future—see it now! Join the AI Collective, the largest global AI Community, to decode the creative AI revolution in a high-impact panel discussion! The AI Collective will bring together visionaries from the forefront of the AI Creative space.

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AI makes it easy to generate images, but it remains hard to keep them consistent.  This workshop shows how filmmakers build repeatable AI workflows that maintain character, world, and story continuity from concept through previs using production-ready approaches.  CG Pro is a professional training and consulting company helping filmmakers and studios adopt modern CG, virtual production, and AI workflows.

Real-time content creation sits at the center of concert touring, broadcast graphics, brand activations, and interactive installations. Yet we are continually faced with solving complex content production problems: latency, fidelity, operator control, integration, and the eternal tug-of-war between creative ambition and technical stability. Join Laura Frank (Frame:work), Danny Firpo (All of It Now) and Aron Altmark (Visual Endeavors) to discuss building robust real-time workflows that scale across environments: evaluation frameworks, creative + engineering interlock, breaking points, and the organizational habits that make real-time production work under pressure.

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Production teams were once defined by physical proximity — control rooms, studios, trucks, and on-site crews working together in real time. Today, AI, cloud workflows, and remote production technologies are fundamentally changing how teams are structured, where work is done, and which skills matter most. This session explores how production leaders are redesigning staffing models across live events, studio operations, and large-scale content production by balancing automation with human expertise to maintain quality, speed, and reliability at scale.

Design, post-production, and social teams are experiencing an unprecedented influx of AI-powered tools. These tools accelerate everything from editing and motion graphics to versioning and distribution. But while the tools are moving faster, expectations are rising even faster. This panel brings together working makers to explore what’s actually changed in their day-to-day craft, how roles and staffing are evolving, and where human judgment, taste, and storytelling still matter most in an AI-augmented workflow.

Learn how Fox Sports is leveraging 2110 Infrastructure across a wide area network to support remote events and studio operation at the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2026. Whether it’s a new product announcement at CES or the world’s biggest sporting events, IP video is at the center of making it happen. How can this workflow solution be used as a REMI solution for the enterprise?

AI is revolutionizing media—from content creation to audience insights—making AI literacy key for creativity, strategy, and ethical decision-making. Students can thrive by mastering both the tech and the bigger picture of AI’s impact.

Silicon Valley drives technological innovation in media production, while Hollywood is the global center of film production and storytelling. Networking between the two offers educational and career opportunities

Here’s where the experts answer all your questions from the earlier panel; it’s a Town Hall so everyone’s voice matters. Come prepared to be part of the conversation. And if you know your DMF, bring something of value to the conversation.

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With tools like Veo and Sora reshaping the creative landscape, it’s getting harder to know which platforms truly deliver and which are just hype. As AI innovation accelerates, creators and businesses alike are searching for reliable, high-performing tools that enhance production without sacrificing authenticity. Explore how to identify trustworthy AI solutions and navigate an increasingly crowded market.

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Discussion around solutions for live-event multi-channel audio capture (sporting, concerts, etc.) Detailed discussion on multi-channel audio capture with feeds sent in real-time to broadcast mixers who can then make decisions on creating the listening environment to match the visual experience. David will discuss multiple, currently available, product solutions to facilitate the audio capture. This session is ideal for audio professionals providing real-time mix engineering along with capture for later post-production purposes.

Eclipsa Audio is a new open source spatial audio format based on the IAMF (Immersive Audio Model and Formats) specification, available under a royalty-free license from the Alliance for Open Media. Eclipsa Audio is designed to enable high-quality, immersive audio experiences across various devices and platforms, including streaming, gaming, and virtual reality. The IAMF specification is codec-agnostic and allows for flexible rendering and mixing, making it adaptable to different playback environments.Eclipsa Audio streaming and upload support has launched on YouTube. Join this tutorial session to learn more about the IAMF specification and to listen to creators talk about how to do sound design for Eclipsa Audio format. Learn about sound design differences and similarities for factual, animation & high end narrative content.

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AudioShake, the leading audio isolation and separation tool for media and entertainment, today announced the launch of its first streaming-capable SDKs designed specifically for real-time music detection and copyright-safe audio cleanup. The SDK enables broadcasters, sports leagues, and media creators to automatically detect and remove copyrighted music from live and post-production content—helping them avoid takedowns, fines, muted audio, and distribution delays.

The rapid evolution of immersive experiences, particularly in Extended Reality (XR) applications like Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR), and Augmented Reality (AR), presents significant challenges for delivering compelling and perceptually accurate spatial audio. Traditional audio formats and rendering techniques fall short of meeting the requirements of these environments, leading to a need for novel approaches to audio representation, encoding, and delivery. Using the Apple Spatial Audio Format (ASAF) and its underlying Apple Positional Audio Codec (APAC) as a case study, we will examine how a unified framework can natively support a diverse array of immersive audio representations, including object-based audio, High Order Ambisonics (HOA), channel-based audio, and binaural rendering.

Presenters from the previous sessions will participate in a Q&A session moderated by Brian Gibbs and Jean-Marc Jot.

This session presents a real-world case study exploring how AI-generated video can be seamlessly combined with real-time, in-camera visual effects to transform modern filmmaking. Attendees will see how AI-driven assets integrate into virtual production pipelines, accelerating creative workflows, reducing costs, and expanding what’s possible on set—without sacrificing cinematic quality.

AI is rapidly reshaping how producers, crews and artists plan, shoot, manipulate and deliver content. Successful adoption requires seamless integration with long-established practices. Through real world examples, this talk will outline how industry professionals have introduced AI into existing pipelines while retaining continuity, creative intent, content quality, and delivery expectations. All of it while training talent in extended roles, allowing human creativity to continue to drive the process.

The resurgence of immersive content is real. Nearly every market vertical looking to entertain their audience with engaging experiences have embraced a form of VR, XR, 180° or Interactive projects to gain traction with customers. From entertainment venues to film and TV studios all the way to enterprise branding, the demand keeps growing. During this session, we’ll explore how leading content creators approach every phase of a project, from discovery and ideation to creative and technical execution.

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As GenAI continues to improves at a rapid pace, it’s creating more and more opportunity for up and coming creatives to compete with larger more established agencies. In this step-by-step breakdown Roy Wanguhu from Elewa Media will show how they used Gen AI to create a compelling anthem video for a global tech company.

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