PILOT

We wanted to know what technologists in our industry are excited about and expect or hope to see in 2025, so we asked the NAB Technology staff and a few other luminaries in the industry if they had anything to share. They did. This compilation is our way of wrapping up 2024 by looking forward to 2025.

On Friday, October 25, the PILOT NextGen TV fellows from Howard University, the University of Missouri, and the University of Minnesota gathered at NAB Headquarters for the official in-person program kickoff event. Special thanks to AWS for its continued support and sponsorship of the PILOT NextGen TV Fellowship.

On September 9-11, 2024, we hosted a group of decision-makers and innovators who are shaping the future of the broadcast industry for a series of in-depth discussions and presentations dedicated to AI. NAB Futures: AI provided a unique opportunity to share ideas and experiences with other broadcasters charting a course to the future of broadcasting. Part inspiration, part innovation, part implementation - NAB Futures: AI focused on the potential of AI in broadcasting.  

Xperi Inc. won the NAB Technology Innovation Award at the 2024 NAB Show for their demonstration of “in-vehicle gaming features for DTS AutoStageTM” being exhibited at the Xperi booth (W3532) in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. The award was presented at the NAB PILOT Futures Park press conference on Monday April 15.

The NAB Best Paper Award at the 2024 NAB Show was presented to a collection of 15 authors from Strathclyde University, Neutral Wireless Ltd, and several divisions of the BBC for their paper “Using a Private 5G Network to Support the International Broadcast of the Coronation of HM King Charles III.”

The NAB Best Student Paper Award at the 2024 NAB Show was presented to Vibhoothi, a research assistant at Trinity College, Dublin for the paper titled, “Unraveling the Power of Single-Pass Look-Ahead in Modern Codecs for Optimized Transcoding Deployment.”