Kick off this year’s NAB Broadcast Engineering and IT Conference hosted by NAB’s Chief Innovation Officer John Clark with opening remarks from NAB’s President and CEO Curtis LeGeyt. Then, celebrate breakthrough research with the presentation of the Best Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award, co-sponsored with IEEE BTS, honoring the author(s) of the top technical and student papers published in the 2026 NAB Broadcast Engineering and IT Conference Proceedings. Keynote speaker, Poppy Crum, PhD, will then take the stage for her presentation “From Data to Mind: How Technology is Reshaping the Minds of Storytellers and Media Consumers,” which will discuss how advances in AI and human-centered engineering are reshaping how people interact with broadcast content, media, and technology. Don’t miss this signature NAB Show event!