RoundTables

Advanced ad creation, signaling, insertion, and lifecycle management across HDR streaming workflows, including interoperability, metadata integrity, quality assurance, and standards-vased delivery at scale.

Framing the Frontier — NASA’s Visual Storytelling

This roundtable explores how post-trained AI models can serve as purpose-built creative tools for film and television teams. We’ll discuss practical uses such as testing camera angles in previs, animating storyboards, and exploring alternate takes, with a focus on how teams can try new ideas, make specific changes, and keep control of the creative process.

 IAMT: Vision 2030 and Technology and Trends Roadmap 

Join an open and candid conversation about the future of SMPTE’s standards work. Software, open source, and AI are reshaping how the industry achieves interoperability — and how, and whether, it engages with formal standards. What should SMPTE become over the next decade: the trusted keeper of durable standards, a faster and more open community, a home for the reference code behind our specs — or some blend we haven’t named yet? Bring your honest take.

Young Innovators: Resume Building – host Tim Carroll (Dolby)

Mentorship within RISE

How do backup, archiving, restoration, and preservation workflows intersect, and where do they diverge? Participants at this roundtable will brainstorm ideal workflows, and compare to what can realistically be achieved.

HDR Color Workflow

HPA Pivot

HPA Women in Post: Navigating Connections Through Your Career  

HPA Young Entertainment Professionals (YEP)

Legacy licensing models don’t align well with today’s cloud workflows. The IAMT Dynamic Software Licensing (DSL) Group is developing a practical, cross-industry framework for modern software licensing. At this round table, we’ll review the group’s first-cut proposal and gather your feedback. Join the discussion and help shape the best practices.

What if the future of media infrastructure isn’t about choosing between SDI and IP, hardware and software, or on-premises and cloud—but deciding where each function belongs?

What Does the Industry Need From Us?

Join us for a working discussion on the Open Media Technology Competency Framework Project, an industry-wide initiative to define the knowledge, skills, and learning pathways needed for current and emerging media technology roles. Participants will help review the proposed framework, identify gaps and priorities, and shape a shared roadmap for future workforce development and education.

What is it? How does it work? Why is it good?

Video Quality