The Media Technology Summit Returns to Pasadena! 

November 16 - 19, 2026 
The Pasadena Convention Center

The annual Summit, taking place November 16-19, 2026, in Pasadena, California, brings together engineers, technologists, business leaders, innovators, and decision-makers shaping the future of media technology. This year's conference program will feature peer-reviewed technical papers, keynote presentations and executive panels tackling today’s most pressing media technology issues.

Schedule

Morning Gathering 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
Welcome Address 9:50 AM - 10:00 AM
🔥 Leading Through Change: A Conversation with David Ross on the New Global Landscape10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
🎥 The Story behind ARRI: Cinema meets Live10:25 AM - 10:50 AM
✨ AI and the Battle for Attention: What Broadcasters Must Do Nexta10:50 AM - 11:15 AM
📈 Market Intelligence: Where the Industry and the Audience Are Headed11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
☕ Coffee Break11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
.✦ ݁˖ The Real Value and Impact of AI for Business: From Hype to Business Impact12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
🍽️ Lunch Is Served!1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
🔮 Industry Vision 2030: Shaping the Future of Media, Entertainment, and Technology2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
☕ Coffee, Conversation & Connections4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
🚀 Big Tech Meets Startups: Unlocking the Next Wave of Media Innovation4:30 PM - 5:45 PM
👉 Closing Reflections: Key Takeaways and the Road Ahead5:45 PM - 6:00 PM
🎲 MTS Casino Night: Speakeasy7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Morning Gathering9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Part 1: NASA Astronaut Donald R. Pettit KeyNote10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Part 2: NASA Technical Session10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
☕ Coffee Break11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
C2PA Content Provenance in Live Video: Challenges of Real-Time Signing and Watermarking12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Part 2: C2PA Content Provenance in Live Video: Challenges of Real-Time Signing and Watermarking12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Roundtables & Interactive Activities1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
SMPTE Fellows Luncheon2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
🍽️ Lunch Is Served!2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Streaming Infrastructure: A Scalable Edge Architecture for Personalized Streaming Experiences3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Trust in Media: PSE Risk as Streaming Metadata: A Sidecar Schema Bridging QC Reports and Client-Side Mitigation3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Trust in Media: When the Story Becomes the Attack3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Streaming Infrastructure: Kyber: An Open-Source QUIC-Based Framework for Ultra-Low Latency Multi-Regional Streaming3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break Solutions Hub / Demos4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Modernizing Broadcast Distribution and Cloud Connectivity: Broadcast Transformation: Replacing Satellite and Legacy Cloud Distribution5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Energy in Streaming: A Dual-Track Measurement Framework for Streaming Energy: Real-World and Lab-Reproducible Approaches5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Energy in Streaming: Exploring the Tradeoff Between Compression Efficiency and Energy Consumption in Modern Video Codecs5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Modernizing Broadcast Distribution and Cloud Connectivity: Client Device Discovery VSF TR-12: An Open Specification for Bridging the First-Mile Gap in Cloud Media Workflows5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Soultions Hub Opening Night Reception6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Morning Gathering 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Latency in DMF: Living on the (Latency) Edge: DMF and the Modern Production Ecosystem10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
EBU: Innovation Lab (ORF, Eurovision)10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Latency in DMF: Performance Tuning ST 2110 Applications in an Open Source Virtual and Container Compute Environment10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
☕ Coffee Break & Demos11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Case Studies in IP and Software-Defined Production: OGraf – HTML5 Graphics Integration at the CBC11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Mid-Career Program11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Part 2: Case Studies in IP and Software-Defined Production12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Roundtables & Interactive Activities12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
🍽️ Lunch Is Served!1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
AI in Media: Trust, Rights, and Production: Toward a Neutral Talent Provenance Infrastructure for the AI Era: Persistent Identifiers, Consent Architecture, and the Four C’s as a Standards Framework2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
AES Partner Program: The Paralysis of Analysis Are the Details the Devil?2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
AI in Media: Trust, Rights, and Production: Cleared or Exposed? A Practitioner's Framework for AI Content Rights in Media Production Workflows3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
SMPTE Standards3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
AI in Media: Trust, Rights, and Production: Importance-Guided Reframing Based on Temporal Subject Classification for Vertical News Video Generation3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Cocktail Hour4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Building Scalable MXL Infrastructure: Lifting Cross-Node Media Flow Transport into the Cluster: A Kubernetes Control Plane for MXL5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Smart Media Workflows: Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Automated Media Delivery Specification Compliance Verification5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Smart Media Workflows: Modernizing the Color Transformation Language for Faster and More Practical Color Pipelines5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Building Scalable MXL Infrastructure: Inter-Node Memory Replication with DMF-MXL SDK 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Morning Gathering 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
From Creation to Preservation: The Academy’s New Sound System: Advancements in Loudspeakers, Their Tuning and Verification.10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
IEEE BTS Partner Program: Building the Next Generation of Broadcast Infrastructure10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
From Creation to Preservation: Canonical Aspect Ratio Definitions and Interoperable Framing Workflows Across All Exhibition Formats10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
STAR Report Six Months On: What the Data Tells Us Now10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
From Creation to Preservation: Days of Future Past: What It Takes to Maintain Access to 140 Years of Film and Tape Media Content Collections11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
☕ Coffee Break11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Advancing HDR with SMPTE ST 2094-50: On a Student-led Open-Source Implementation and Validation of SMPTE ST 2094-5012:00 PM - 12:30 PM
AI-Powered Media Production: Artist-Led Generative AI Animation: Designing and Evaluating a Hybrid Workflow for Short-Film Production12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Advancing HDR with SMPTE ST 2094-50: SMPTE ST 2094-50: A Modular Framework for HDR Reference White–Anchored Adaptive Tone Mapping and Content Compositing12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Part 2: AI-Powered Content Creation for Media Production 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
🍽️ Lunch Is Served!1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Foundation of IP Production: Signal Sync Alternate Mode (SSAM): Frame-Accurate Sync Over USB-C — A Walkthrough of SMPTE ST 2139 and Its First Deployment2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Display Quality Through Human Perception: Contrasting Value of Uniformity versus Dynamic Range Enhancement in Nonconforming Projection Surfaces2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Display Quality Through Human Perception: The problem of wide colour gamut mathematics – a critical issue for the television and cinema production2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Foundation of IP Production: How Metadata Transport Shapes Tomorrow's Audiovisual Experiences2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Foundation of IP Production: Converged IP Infrastructure Design and Operation for Drama Studio Lighting Systems3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Display Quality Through Human Perception: Reducing Instrument–Observer Metamerism Failure in Modern Display Calibration Using CIE 170-2:2015 Cone-Fundamental-Based Colour Matching Functions3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
✨ SMPTE MTS26 Gala5:00 PM - 6:15 PM

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