Agenda
The program will be announced soon. If you'd like to join us as a speaker, please see our Call for Speakers or Invitation to Sponsor.
- Tuesday Dec 9
- Wednesday Dec 10
- Thursday Dec 11
Day One - Scaling Up Live Streaming
Day Two - Money Matters: Live Streaming Costs & Gains
Day Three
10:00 AM ET
7:00 AM PT
7:00 AM PT
Day One - Scaling Up Live Streaming
Length: 30 Minutes
Description: Additional Information Coming Soon!
11:00 AM ET
8:00 AM PT
8:00 AM PT
Day One - Scaling Up Live Streaming
Length: 1 Hour
Description: As 2025 rounds to a close, Streaming Media Connect assembles four forward-thinking industry thought leaders for a candid discussion of how 2026 is likely to take shape in the live-streaming world, with an eye to emerging technologies ready for real-world implementations and predictions unencumbered by promises, pitches, and hype.
12:30 PM ET
9:30 AM PT
9:30 AM PT
Day One - Scaling Up Live Streaming
Length: 1 Hour
Description: In an August 2025 Streaming Media article, Field to Feed columnist Matt Stagg writes that sports rightsowners and tech companies who want to play a meaningful role in live sports streaming’s future need to “get some skin in the game”—which is to say, prepare themselves to serve up streams in multiple “skins” that are flexible and adaptable to the tastes of next-gen viewers, rather than the one-size-fits-all uniformity of broadcasts past. Join this panel of sports streaming innovators to learn what’s possible and what’s practical when it comes to personalizing streams guaranteed to engage today’s demanding sports fans.
2:00 PM ET
11:00 AM PT
11:00 AM PT
Day One - Scaling Up Live Streaming
Length: 1 Hour
Description: With the nonstop rush of performance and quality metrics that the latest AI-powered analytics and monitoring solutions deliver to live streamers in real time, how can you manage the information overload and make sure you’re getting the right metrics at the right time to ensure streaming quality and reliability and pinpoint problems as they happen? Seasoned pros who’ve survived hundreds of high-stakes streams at scale offer real-world insights on how to grab the right datapoints and optimize the most demanding streams.
3:30 PM ET
12:30 PM PT
12:30 PM PT
Day One - Scaling Up Live Streaming
Length: 1 Hour
Description: From sports and esports to concerts, festivals, and political debates, high-value streams attract gate-crashers, and staying one step ahead of pirates and responding to stream-stealing in real time requires constant vigilance and ongoing tech innovation and deployment. From DRM to watermarking and other ever-evolving technologies and strategies for keeping pirates at bay, what will live streamers need to know and do to protect their streams and their profit margins from attacks in 2026?
10:00 AM ET
7:00 AM PT
7:00 AM PT
Day Two - Money Matters: Live Streaming Costs & Gains
Length: 30 Minutes
Description: Additional Information Coming Soon!
11:00 AM ET
8:00 AM PT
8:00 AM PT
Day Two - Money Matters: Live Streaming Costs & Gains
Length: 1 Hour
Description: A host of new in-stream digital ad insertion technologies made headlines in 2025, promising to bring brands into sports broadcasts via squeezebacks and the like, keeping viewers engaged without breaking up the action to show conventional ads. What will 2026 bring when it comes to real-world implementations, and how can sports streamers start to deploy and leverage these technologies to satisfy fans and brands alike?
12:30 PM ET
9:30 AM PT
9:30 AM PT
Day Two - Money Matters: Live Streaming Costs & Gains
Length: 1 Hour
Description: Streaming production tools and playback devices have taken huge leaps forward in recent years, but streaming’s “middle mile”—the infrastructure between ingest and delivery—is where the transcoding, packaging, and routing happen that can make or break a stream as it’s prepared for delivery to multiple feeds and destinations. As streams scale and stakes rise, this session offers best practices and new strategies for mastering the middle mile and developing effective and flexible workflows that yield resilient and reliable streams.
2:00 PM ET
11:00 AM PT
11:00 AM PT
Day Two - Money Matters: Live Streaming Costs & Gains
Length: 1 Hour
Description: It’s hard to overstate the value of delivering dazzling, engaging, high-quality streams, but it’s just as important to bring those streams in on budget. Sometimes that means cutting costs, but just as often it means identifying workflow efficiencies that will make your streams leaner, meaner, and just as successful without sacrificing any essentials. This panel’s lineup of seasoned pros will reveal the secrets of streaming’s most streamlined workflows.
3:30 PM ET
12:30 PM PT
12:30 PM PT
Day Two - Money Matters: Live Streaming Costs & Gains
Length: 1 Hour
Description: For large-scale streamers, implementing a new codec is a complex undertaking, combining the promise of new efficiencies and cost savings with compatibility hits and the risks of jettisoning legacy users, as well as a dizzying web of licensing challenges. With emerging and tantalizing codecs edging ever closer to the mainstream, what are the pros and cons of casting your lot with new codecs in 2026, what are the most important factors to consider, and what will it all cost you?
10:00 AM ET
7:00 AM PT
7:00 AM PT
Day Three
Length: 30 Minutes
Description: Additional Information Coming Soon!
11:00 AM ET
8:00 AM PT
8:00 AM PT
Day Three
Length: 1 Hour
Description: How low can streaming latency go? Is real-time streaming a realistic goal? When does sync matter more than latency? Is tunable latency the real ideal for sports and other live streams? Are new and emerging protocols like Media over QUIC the future of high-quality, low-latency streaming, and how quickly will they go mainstream? Learn the answers to these urgent questions and more as we discuss how real the latest technologies and protocols for real-time streaming will get in 2026.
12:30 PM ET
9:30 AM PT
9:30 AM PT
Day Three
Length: 1 Hour
Description: AI-driven subtitling and translation has transformed the localization landscape for VOD and brought global reach within the grasp of a generation of once-landlocked publishers. But how viable have new AI-enabled technologies made subbing and dubbing for live streamers who need to achieve it in real time, what are the most effective solutions, and what are the persisting challenges?
2:00 PM ET
11:00 AM PT
11:00 AM PT
Day Three
Length: 1 Hour
Description: You won’t want to miss our live show-and-tell with live streaming’s coolest, hottest tools of the trade.