Themes, Shifts, and What It All Means The 2026 NAB Show didn’t just wrap with a record 58,000+ registered attendees. It wrapped with a verdict: the broadcast and media technology industry has officially moved past the proof-of-concept phase. The questions that dominated the floor in 2024 and 2025 — “Can AI do this?” “Is cloud viable for live?” “Will IP replace SDI?” — have been answered. What replaced them was harder and more interesting: “How do we operationalize all of