2026 NAB Show Interview Studio: Stats Perform – Niall Hendry, Vice President of AI Applications and Solutions
Niall Hendry, vice president of AI applications and solutions at Stats Perform, joined us at the 2026 NAB Show to talk about:
- How Stats Perform combines vast data collection with AI‑powered applications to surface insights and enable richer sports storytelling
- Key challenges in the market, including improving the speed, efficiency and creativity of sports content production workflows
- Where growth is coming from in sports media, particularly short‑form, interactive and highly visual content that fuels fan engagement
- What Stats Perform showcased at NAB Show, including its newly launched OptiPulse automated highlights product and a relaunched graphics platform for data‑driven digital distribution
- Stats Perform’s collaboration with NVIDIA, using GPU‑accelerated AI to power real‑time single‑camera tracking and scalable sports intelligence
- The development of Opti‑AI Chat, a sports‑focused large language model that applies domain‑specific sports knowledge to answer complex questions
April 19, 2026