After launching on Nov 8, 2023, and the sunsetting of NASA TV (NASA’s linear channel) in August 2024, NASA+ has become the official content destination whether you are watching on Amazon Prime, Netflix or NASA’s website, and app. Currently, NASA is planning to stream the first crewed launch to the Moon in over 50 years, Artemis II (estimated viewership 25M) and will become the world’s largest live streaming event, the next moon landing on Artemis III (estimated viewership 250M). This fireside chat will discuss how Rebecca’s team built NASA+ and the infrastructure, ops, and workflows that launch live streams at this massive scope and scale.

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.

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?

Picture-in-picture, squeezebacks, and overlays are critical new components of an ad-supported streaming TV future for live sports as well as for fostering growth without more ad breaks in sports broadcasts. But the growth of multiview experiences adds a new wrinkle for the ecosystem to overcome. How can deployment happen faster for new viewer and advertiser experiences in 2026?

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.

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.

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?

In this exclusive keynote fireside chat, Warner Bros. Discovery Distinguished Platform Engineer Neal Roberts discusses how delivering optimal live streaming experiences on premium platforms takes more than bolting streaming onto broadcast workflows. The discussion will focus on end-to-end workflows that impact overall live sports streaming experiences and how to bring those live experiences to parity with VOD.

This panel dives deep into the architecture of Media over QUIC (termed MoQ) and its immediate implications for the live video ecosystem. We move beyond the theoretical to discuss real-world implementations, exploring how MoQ enables new interactive applications and the critical concept of tunable latency—allowing providers to optimize for either pure real-time engagement (such as sub-second betting, eSports and conferencing) or a reliable, synchronized broadcast experience

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?