Combining the flexibility of rapidly maturing cloud solutions with the immediacy and reliability of on prem is an increasingly popular choice, says Paddy Taylor, particularly around video acquisition. However, the wider industry needs to focus on improving education for the next generation of engineers and operators for these advanced technologies, he believes, as current education focuses on traditional live production roles rather than on efficiency and automation, which are crucial for the future.
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NAB 2025 – Vizrt’s Rohit Nagarajan: “How do we disrupt ourselves quicker so we’re not the ones being disrupted”
Rohit Nagarajan, CEO at Vizrt points to cloud and AI as two technologies leading the charge in terms of both innovation and adoption. “Cloud is one that has really come of age,” he says. “All of the underlying technical challenges are being ironed out and we see more and more customers of ours looking to adopt cloud, and I think it’s a good coming together of maturity and cost.”
NAB 2025: Brijesh Yadav, Tata Communications Media: “We are at a pivotal year in 2025 - the conversation is about AI”
There’s no escaping the fact that AI is transforming many business verticals, and the media and entertainment industry is no exception. Experts agree that some applications are not yet mature, but there is much transformative opportunity, especially in general automation and AI enhanced metadata and subtitle generation. However, cloud and hybrid cloud economics are also a key theme, with increased cloud adoption driving broadcast workflows, as is the ongoing transition to IP.
NAB 2025: Johannes Franken, HBS: “It's critical to get out content as quickly as possible”
Johannes Franken, Director of Digital at HBS sets out how immediacy is crucial to success - especially in social media promotion terms - and how embedding AI in the content workflow is helping to deliver faster, better content - albeit with human quality control.
NAB 2025: Thomas Thomson, Omdia: “Trust is vital. Media organisations trade on trust.”
Thomas Thomson, Senior Analyst, Video Technology at Omdia discusses the importance of trust in media, the tension between app-led and content-led strategies in recommendation discovery and the value of user data and the potential role of AI in delivering personalisation by default.
NAB 2025: Rohit Nagarajan, Vizrt: “Cloud has really come of age. It's a coming together of technical maturity as well as cost.”
Almost unanimously, the industry experts at NAB agree that it is cloud that has really matured into a practical, everyday technology for the M&E industry. Whether as a hybrid setup with on-prem support to enhance flexibility, creating specific workflows in the cloud, or as a cost-saving strategy, cloud is here to stay.
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