Streaming Media Connect 2026 this November 9–11 offers a dynamic lineup of sessions packed with practical advice, inspiring thought leadership, actionable insights, and lively debate. Learn how leading organizations are using innovative approaches to tackle the latest challenges in live streaming, OTT, content delivery, monetization, and more. Join us for cutting-edge information, analysis, and education that you won't find anywhere else.
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Monday, November 9: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (ET) / 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (PT)
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Monday, November 9: 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (ET) / 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (PT)
Get in tune with the evolving landscape of video delivery as we explore tunable low-latency architectures and Media over QUIC (MoQ), the emerging protocol poised to recast the future of real-time streaming. This panel explores the trade-offs between latency, quality, and reliability as live streams scale, providing insights into what's next for streamers as they deploy MoQ and map out the future of low-latency video.
Sean McCarthy, Co-Chair, Quality of Experience (QoE) Working Group, SVTA
Alex Zambelli, Director of Product Management - Encoding, Bitmovin
Luke Curley, Self-Employed
Monday, November 9: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (ET) / 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (PT)
While total cost of ownership spans an encyclopedic number of operational touchpoints, managing streaming P&L from CapEx to OpEx ultimately comes down to making targeted, high-impact architectural choices. This panel of streaming ops experts covers practical approaches to optimizing infrastructure, encoding, delivery, and operational costs without compromising the quality and reliability that live audiences demand.
Scott Grizzle, ex-Head of Unified Communications, IBM
Loke Dupont, Staff Software Engineer, Live Technology, TV2
Matt Miller, SVP Operations, FloSports
Monday, November 9: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (ET) / 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (PT)
The new generation of autonomous, goal-driven AI agents are poised to reshape ad-buying, ad-decisioning, contextual targeting, and optimized ad insertion across the CTV ecosystem. This panel explores what agentic AI means for advertisers, platforms, and the future of programmatic workflows.
Matt Burgess, Vice President of Ad Tech & Programmatic, Vevo
Brad Pipkin, Director, Product Management - Advanced TV, IAB Tech Lab
Tuesday, November 10: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (ET) / 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (PT)
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Laura Florence, SVP Global Channels, Fremantle
Tuesday, November 10: 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (ET) / 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (PT)
Connected TV is evolving beyond brand awareness into a measurable, performance-driven channel at the lean-back, living-room epicenter of the entertainment ecosystem. But delivering measurable ad experiences that result in conversions rather than enhanced brand awareness requires rethinking creative, targeting, and attribution actions for the streaming environment. This session breaks down performance advertising strategies and technologies that turn CTV impressions into trackable, revenue-generating outcomes that fuse first- and second-screen engagement into streaming-driven sales.
Yasmin Mitchell, VP, Head of Business Intelligence & Insights, Fuse Media
Ana Beaklini, Director of Adtech, Globo
Julien Boyreau, Business Development Director, Broadpeak
Tuesday, November 10: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (ET) / 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (PT)
In an industry buzzing about ways to integrate AI into today’s streaming workflows, strategically positioning the humans in the loop is more critical than ever. How will large-scale streamers in 2027 balance AI automation with human oversight to build workflows that are both efficient and reliable? This panel pinpoints where human judgment still matters most and how to design streamlined pipelines that leverage AI from ingest to processing to observability.
Stephanie Lone, Global Leader, Solutions Architecture, M&E, Games and Sports, Amazon Web Services
Michael Dube, ex-Director, Live Sports Advertising, Amazon Prime Video and HBO, NPR, ABC News, NBC, Accenture, SoCalNMotorsports, KDM Tuners
Tuesday, November 10: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (ET) / 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (PT)
High-performance, redundant, and resilient pipelines are critical to successful, mission-critical sports streams. This panel of seasoned sports streamers explores how sports streaming platforms leverage infrastructure designed to withstand the bursty demands of live sporting events without buckling under pressure. This session covers scaling strategies and failover systems that will keep your high-stakes streams running when your fan base surges in the moments that matter most.
Juan Pablo Saibene, CEO, Qualabs
Dennis LeMire, Director, Global Stream Operations, FloSports
Wednesday, November 11: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (ET) / 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (PT)
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Wednesday, November 11: 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (ET) / 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (PT)
The 2026 FIFA World Cup was the biggest global live sporting event of the year, and streaming was central to its success. The tournament’s 104 matches stress-tested streaming’s reach and resiliency like never before, with record concurrent viewership tuning in across a fragmented landscape of platforms and devices. This panel of expert industry analysts discusses the future of streaming as the primary platform for premium global sports events, what the rights matrix looks like going forward, what worked and what buffered, and lessons learned around localization, personalization, advertising, and subscriber retention and growth.
Jon Giegengack, Principal, Hub Entertainment Research
Wednesday, November 11: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (ET) / 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (PT)
This session explores how broadcasters and streaming platforms can dramatically accelerate the launch, management, and monetization of FAST channels by automating traditionally manual workflows across content ingestion, scheduling, and ad insertion. We’ll also discuss aspects of channel building where human intervention remains critical. Attendees will learn practical strategies and real-world case studies for compressing channel lifecycle timelines while maintaining quality and scaling operations efficiently across today’s sprawling CTV landscape.
Abhishek Neralla, Senior Director, Media and Content Services, A+E Global Media
Stuart Bishop, Founder & CEO, Katapy
Mike Gange, VP, Fubo Sports Networks, Fubo
Wednesday, November 11: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (ET) / 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (PT)
Today’s streaming platforms are increasingly leveraging deterministic audience data—as opposed to modeled or probabilistic estimates—to support more accurate ad targeting, measurement, and monetization strategies. This panel explores the emerging tech behind deterministic measurement and what it means for advertisers and platforms navigating a privacy-conscious viewer landscape.