Where Broadcast Meets Its Next Evolution

The annual OTT.X Breakfast at NAB returns to Las Vegas on April 19th, 2026, bringing together the most influential voices shaping the future of broadcasting, streaming, CTV, and the broader media & entertainment ecosystem. Start your NAB week with an exclusive, executive-level gathering designed to spark new ideas, strengthen partnerships, and examine how broadcast’s legacy is evolving alongside next-generation platforms, technologies, and workflows.

Featuring forward-looking programming, candid conversations, and a full, hearty breakfast, this event convenes executives, technologists, creators, and dealmakers focused on what’s next across content creation, live production, distribution, monetization, and measurement. Each year, the OTT.X Breakfast helps frame the conversations that matter most—making it a must-attend moment during NAB.

Who You’ll
Meet

An influential mix of leaders from across the broadcast, streaming, CTV, and media technology ecosystem — including broadcasters, studios, platforms, FAST operators, OEMs, cloud and infrastructure providers, ad-tech and mar-tech companies, data and measurement firms, agencies, and emerging technology innovators.

Explore Broadcast’s
Next Chapter

Kick off NAB with future-forward programming that explores broadcast’s next evolution. Gain early insights from industry leaders, examine the State of Broadcast and Streaming, and connect with executives redefining content creation, live events, distribution models, and monetization in an increasingly converged media landscape.

Mark Your
Calendar

Join us in Las Vegas on April 19th, 2026, from 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM, at the Stirling Club — an exclusive venue just steps from the NAB action and the perfect setting to start your NAB week with clarity, connections, and big ideas.(Final date to be announced.) 

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Call for Thought Leadership Programming

OTT.X is now accepting proposals for sponsor-supported thought leadership sessions at the 2026 OTT.X Breakfast @ NAB. Lead the conversation through curated programming segments that inform, inspire, and address the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing broadcasters, streamers, and media organizations navigating broadcast’s next evolution.

Why Participate?

  • Position your company as a thought leader in front of senior decision-makers across broadcast, streaming, and media technology
  • Showcase innovation, workflows, and partnerships shaping the next era of media
  • Connect with broadcasters, platforms, production leaders, ad-tech, data, and infrastructure partners attending NAB from around the world

Programming Opportunities

  • Case studies or technology spotlights demonstrating measurable impact across production, distribution, monetization, or operations
  • Fireside chats or conversations featuring your executive or alongside a partner.
  • Panel discussions highlighting key transitions in broadcast, streaming, and media workflows
  • Creative session formats that bring real-world insight into broadcast’s next evolution

Potential Areas of Focus

  • The convergence of broadcast, streaming, and FAST business models

  • Live production, sports, and event workflows in cloud and IP environments

  • Monetization strategies across linear, FAST, AVOD, and hybrid models

  • Programmatic advertising and audience activation across platforms

  • Measurement, attribution, and cross-platform analytics

  • AI and automation across production, content operations, and ad workflows

  • Content discovery, metadata, and rights management

  • Infrastructure modernization: cloud, edge, and IP-based delivery

  • The evolving role of creators, short-form, and digital-first content within premium ecosystems

Submit Your Session Proposal

Space is limited and programming slots are expected to fill quickly. Submit your programming proposal to secure your company’s place on stage at the OTT.X Breakfast at NAB.

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Featured Sessions

More programming details coming soon.

Presentation TBA - AWS

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Session Details to be announced

Presented By: 

Chris Ziemer, Global Sub-Industry Leader, Broadcast & Streaming, AWS Media, Entertainment, Games, and Sports, Amazon Web Services

Presented By

The Missing Layer in Live Sports Streaming: Why Open Data Infrastructure Is the Next Competitive Advantage

Live sports pushes streaming infrastructure harder than any other content category, exposing gaps in latency, metadata sync, ad signaling, and personalization. But as audiences demand real-time stats, overlays, and interactive experiences alongside their stream, a deeper challenge has surfaced: the data powering these experiences is fractured across vendors and proprietary ID systems that don't interoperate.

Every platform is wrestling with the same dynamic sports universe — rosters changing, schedules shifting, events unfolding minute by minute — yet each is solving it independently, driving up cost and creating vendor lock-in that limits innovation.

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This session explores how an open, enterprise-managed identification layer can serve as connective tissue across the ecosystem — standardizing how platforms reference teams, players, games, and events to accelerate metadata pipelines, improve ad targeting, enable richer personalization, and lower barriers to experimentation across OTT and FAST environments.

Presented By: 

Dustin Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer, SportsDataIO

Presented By

NAB Show Streaming Summit: Content and Speaker Preview

This session sets the stage for NAB's opening day of the NAB Show Streaming Summit, with conference chairman Dan Rayburn providing a concise, high-level orientation to the content, conversations, speakers and focus areas shaping this year’s show.

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Designed as a strategic primer, the discussion highlights where industry attention is converging across streaming, CTV, media technology, and content delivery—and what attendees should watch for as the week unfolds. The goal is to help participants step into the NAB Show Streaming Summit with a clear sense of context, priorities, and the conversations likely to define the show.

Presented By: 

Dan Rayburn, Chairman, NAB Show Streaming Summit

Presented By

Speakers

Hollie Choi

President & Chief
Executive Officer

OTT.X

Dan Rayburn


Chairman

NAB Streaming Summit

Dustin Sullivan

Chief Executive
Officer

SportsDataIO

Chris Ziemer

Global Sub-Industry Leader, Broadcast & Streaming

Amazon Web Services

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Free for OTT.X Members

  • OTT.X Members receive complimentary admission to the OTT.X Breakfast at NAB.
  • To redeem your free admission, simply reach out to the OTT.X team or Click Here
  • Breakfast is included for all attendees.
  • Early bird registration runs through February 28th.

Industry Partners

Previous Attendees

  • 3Play Media
  • 43Twenty
  • 7 Miles Global
  • A+E Networks
  • AdGood Foundation
  • Advantage Video Systems
  • Agit Studios
  • Alliance Entertainment
  • Amagi
  • Amazon
  • Amazon Ads
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • Amazon Web Services
  • America's Test Kitchen
  • AMC Networks
  • Apple
  • Arcvideo
  • Arise Communications
  • Aux Mode
  • Bango
  • BeeYout.tv
  • Bell Canada
  • Bitcentral
  • Blu Digital
  • Blue Ant Media
  • Broadpeak
  • Bubble Agency
  • C15 Studio
  • Castify.ai
  • Cineverse
  • Codemill
  • Comcast
  • Comcast Technology Solutions
  • CPB
  • Deepdub
  • Double Dog
  • Dovetail Creative
  • echo3D
  • Electric Entertainment
  • ElementalTV
  • Epidemic Sound
  • Equativ
  • Equatuv
  • Fabric
  • Fluorescent Media
  • FPT Software
  • Giant Worldwide
  • GoGo CTV
  • Google
  • Gracenote
  • GSC Consulting
  • GTM Consulting
  • GumGum
  • Hawk Ventures
  • Integration Therapy
  • ITN Distribution, Inc.
  • ITN Studios
  • JamLoop
  • JWP Connatix
  • Katch
  • LG electronics
  • Magnolia Home Entertainment
  • Marketing Completion Fund
  • MediadataTV
  • MediaMelon, Inc.
  • Multicom Entertainment
  • Needham & Company
  • Olympusat
  • Omdia
  • OmniMedia Solutions Group
  • Orka TV
  • PADEM Media Group
  • Paramount Pictures
  • Parks Associates
  • PBS Distribution
  • Pixelogic
  • Plex
  • PRcoms
  • Quick and
  • Rasenberger Media
  • Revry
  • Roku
  • Sabio
  • SoFast
  • Spherex
  • Stadium Media
  • Stingray
  • StreamVantage
  • Studio Dome
  • SVTA
  • SymphonyAI
  • SymphonyAI Media
  • Synamedia
  • Telemedellin
  • Telestream
  • TelevisaUnivision
  • Tellnology Consulting
  • The Asylum
  • The CES Bible
  • The Lippin Group
  • ThinkAnalytics
  • Three Gingers Entertainment
  • TMRW Sports
  • TotalMedia Inc
  • Tricoast Media
  • Tubi
  • TVNZ
  • Universal Search And Discovery
  • VideoElephant
  • Visaic, Inc.
  • Visionular
  • WideOrbit
  • Whip Media
  • Women In Tech Hollywood (WITH)
  • Wurl, LLC
  • Xenon Pictures
  • XL8 Inc
  • Xperi
  • YouTube