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.
The exhibition floor opens TODAY! Lace up comfortable shoes and hit the floor starting at 10 a.m. Be sure to stop by Futures Park in the West Hall.
Monday at NAB Show, we start by hearing from NAB President and CEO Curtis LeGeyt, and the Broadcast and Engineering and IT Conference continues. The day ends with the Futures Park Press Conference and Reception.
