A busy NAB showed above all that innovation in media and entertainment hasn’t slowed with exhibits on the show floor incorporating AI, prioritising net-zero and integrating with the cloud.
We are talking about sustainability
This year’s NAB revealed an industry treating sustainability as something essential and a problem to be solved, not brushed under the carpet.
“We saw companies leaving huge amounts of money on the table because they just didn’t think sustainability had anything to do with them, and others who were trying to hold sustainability in mind at every stage of business,” reports Neal Romanek, editorial director, The Flint.
A focus on sustainability actually seemed to be generating...
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