Streaming engineers' traditional functions are increasingly usurped or at least altered by the offloading of observability and monitoring and much decision-making to automated solutions. When it comes to streaming infrastructure management, how much have AI and automation driven humans from the loop? Where are human eyes on glass—however comparatively inefficient—still critical to sound streaming operations? Do automated solutions actually enable engineers to accomplish more than they could before? Servers.com's Lukas Navickas, SVTA's Bhavesh Upadhyaya, Qualabs' Juan Pablo Saibene, and LiveU's Ben Ratner discuss in this clip from their panel at Streaming Media Connect 2026.
03 Sep 2026
Single-show drop-ins who subscribe and churn in short order are the bane of subscription-based streaming services. In this clip from Streaming Media Connect, Philo's Steven Chang, Horse & Country's David Guinan, and Chris Pfaff Tech Media's Chris Pfaff discuss some tried-and-true or newly emerging strategies services can deploy to keep fair-weather fans in the fold.
27 Aug 2026
As streaming consumers increasingly gravitate toward multiview sports and multiscreen experiences that combine content from phones and CTVs and other devices, does lack of sync across devices or different feeds or content sources threaten to scuttle or detract from the seamlessness of that experience? Roku's Margret Schmidt, SVT Play's Annika Bidner, Hub Entertainment Research's Shannon McKenzie, and Chris Pfaff Tech Media's Chris Pfaff discuss various scenarios in which sync is more or less critical in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2026.
25 Aug 2026
Although redundancy is considered a hallmark of a sound live streaming ops playbook, "it's only your friend if you test it," warns Live X co-founder Corey Behnke. So, what is the key to fail-safe operational protection in live streaming? LinkedIn Global Live Operations Lead Chris Packard and Streaming Technology Strategist Bhavesh Upadhyaya also offer streaming resiliency best practices and cautionary tales in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2026.
20 Aug 2026
The benefits of leveraging AI in personalizing the CTV discovery experience and facilitating fruitful content searches are considerable, but so are the costs. Are there ways that OTT services and platforms can manage or minimize those costs, such as only enlisting AI for more complex queries? Dataxis' Ophelie Boucaud, TiVo's Chris Ambrozic, Gracenote's Ashok Bania, and Future Today's Alok Ranjan discuss token conservation, handling conversational and non-conversational queries, and the "Swiss Army knife approach" in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2026.
18 Aug 2026
On Tuesday, August 11, Streaming Media will launch 20th Streaming Media Connect virtual event with an exclusive fireside chat with NASA's GM & Head of NASA+ Rebecca Sirmons, back by popular demand! Each morning of the 3-day event will kick off at 11am ET/8am PT with back-to-back keynote fireside chats featuring a varied array of industry luminaries, including TwelveLabs' Simon Lecointe, Google's Shobana Radhakrishnan, Wowza's Krish Kumar, TiVo's Briana Larsen, and Bally's Media's Jon Lin.
04 Aug 2026
On August 12, panelists from AWS, Paramount, Al Jazeera, and TAG Video Systems will join the Streaming Media Connect panel "Optimizing Live Streaming QoS and QoE." From measuring and improving rebuffering, startup time, and bitrate quality to tying QoE metrics directly to retention, this panel focuses on quantifiable streaming metrics that matter, as well as harder-to-measure viewer satisfaction signals that define true QoS (quality of service) and QoE (quality of experience). Come for the real-world war stories from high-stakes live events, where every hiccup costs viewers and revenue, and stay for the real-time QoS/QoE Q&A with live streaming's best and brightest.
24 Jul 2026
On Thursday, Aug. 13, Dataxis Principal Analyst Ophélie Boucaud will moderate the Streaming Media Connect panel "Find It FAST: Leveraging AI in CTV Discovery," with panelists from TiVo, Gracenote, Hub, and Future Today. AI is transforming how viewers find content and the never-ending struggle for visibility in a saturated content ecosystem. This panel unpacks the recommendation engine architectures and real-time personalization pipelines that top streaming platforms and EPGs are using to surface the right content for the right user at the right moment and the increasing shift toward agent-assisted, conversational search.
24 Jul 2026
Wowza's Video Intelligence Framework (VIF) is a Wowza Streaming Engine module that can dramatically cut the cost of mission-critical analytics that organizations would run anyway, turning required workflows into far cheaper ones. For many others, these factors will enable producers to get more from their videos, like scene-level metadata to feed programmatic advertising and enable more personalized and higher-performing ads and higher CPMs. In short, if you're streaming live video for mission-critical operations or revenue, VIF is a technology you need to know about.
20 Jul 2026
On Thursday, Aug. 13, Roku's Nicole Fencel, Philo's Steven Chang, Women in Streaming Media's Deepali Narsiker, and Horse & Country's David Guinan will join Chris Pfaff for the Streaming Media Connect panel "The Retention Game: Managing Subscriber Acquisition and Churn." Join this closing panel for a candid discussion on which subscriber acquisition and retention strategies work in 2026 and which ones fail to move the needle. Learn how leading streaming platforms are drawing on data science insights and leveraging personalization to turn one-show drop-ins into long-term, loyal subscribers.
14 Jul 2026
On Thursday, Aug. 13, LinkedIn's Chris Packard, LiveX's Corey Behnke, and MemeHouse's Zylo Hefferan will join the SVTA's Bhavesh Upadhyaya for a Streaming Media Connect panel that examines how top streaming teams prepare for, monitor, and recover from tentpole live events like sports and concerts. The discussion will range from pre-event capacity planning, load testing, and failover strategies to establishing best practices for managing traffic spikes when the stakes are highest.
14 Jul 2026
Streaming Media Connect May 2026 was all about delivering and monetizing sports streaming featured exclusive keynote fireside chats with Matt Graham of the Tennis Channel and Maria Malinowitsch of Verimatrix and a slate of expert panels packed with speakers from DAZN, Globo, Fubo, OneFootball, FloSports, NESN, IAB Tech Lab, Telestream, Zixi, BuyDRM, ViewLift, CacheFly, Servers.com, Tiledmedia, Norsk, and more. Check out a playlist with Streaming Media Connect sessions on Streaming Media's YouTube channel to catch the sessions you missed and revel in the ones you want to relive through the magic of VOD.
15 May 2026