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Ryan McKeague is the founder and CEO of Flomenco, one of three winners of the 2025 PILOT Innovation Challenge.In today’s media landscape, teams face growing pressure to create, adapt and deliver content faster, often with fewer resources. Yet many are still stuck with fragmented tools, manual processes and disconnected data that limit their agility.Flomenco was built to change that.As a 2025 NAB PILOT Innovation Challenge winner, Flomenco was proud to introduce an expansion of our product into an AI-powered media automation platform that simplifies operations, accelerates workflows and helps teams get more value from their media

Broadcast infrastructures have gone IP-first: cameras plug into network switches, video routers run in software and production engines live on Ethernet. Yet audio capture still relies on analog cables, patch bays and rack gear. The traditional chain (mic → cable → preamp → A/D → network interface) delivers stereo in a handful of locations today, but it cannot scale to immersive formats or hard-to-reach placements without rewiring every time you add channels or change layouts. Viewers now take surround sound for granted - Dolby Atmos and other immersive formats are built into modern TVs, soundbars and headsets. Flat stereo feels outdated, and legacy workflows simply cannot keep pace.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and latakoo won the NAB Technology Innovation Award at the 2025 NAB Show. SwRI won for their demonstration of “BEAMoCap: Biomechanical Evaluation and Animation Motion Capture” and latakoo won for their demonstration of "Generative Video Codec."

The NAB Best Paper Award at the 2025 NAB Show was presented to independent consultant Alan Jurison and Xperi's Jeff Baird and Mike Raide for their paper, “Digital-Only Boosters for HD Radio Single Frequency Networks.”

The NAB Best Student Paper Award at the 2025 NAB Show was presented to Mohammad Ghasempour, a Ph.D. student and research assistant at Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt, Austria for the paper titled, “Two-Pass Encoding for Live Video Streaming.”

The NAB Broadcast Engineering and IT (BEIT) Conference, part of NAB Show taking place April 5-9, 2025, is blasting off with a keynote session that’s literally out of this world! Conference attendees will engage in a live 4K UHD conversation with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station, showcasing new live UHD switching and routing capability at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 PILOT Innovation Challenge - Advanced Image Robotics, Flomenco and Voyage Audio. The winners will receive travel support to 2025 NAB Show, held April 5-9, in Las Vegas. There, they will exhibit in PropelME on the convention floor to demonstrate their products to potential customers, investors and partners. The winners will also present their work on the Startup Stage on Sunday, April 6 at 10:30 a.m.

If you're a broadcast engineer or media technologist looking for a little help finding the "must-do" sessions and events at NAB Show, use our daily guides below. For each day of NAB Show, we've compiled a list of the things that you should be sure to not miss.

The 2025 NAB Show starts early for broadcast and media technologists with workshops offered by SBE and PMVG

While exhibitors put the finishing touches on the show floor, the conference programming begins, and we start with a can't miss event for broadcast engineers and media technologists - the BEIT Conference Opening Session.