Broadcast & AV Tech Trends to Watch in 2026

As 2026 approaches, broadcast, AV, and IT leaders are facing one of the fastest periods of change our industry has seen in a decade. New move to IP-Based Topology, AI tools, and evolving user expectations are reshaping everything-from control room design to meeting spaces to media workflows.

In this live roundtable episode of Broadcast2Post, Key Code Media’s top thinkers break down the trends that actually matter as you plan major upgrades, refresh aging infrastructure, or align IT, AV, and post-production teams around a unified strategy.

We’ll separate what’s real vs. what’s hype, highlight the most meaningful vendor announcements of the year, and share the products and workflow choices that are delivering real results in customer facilities today.

Whether you’re planning an IP transition, evaluating AVoIP, redesigning studios and control rooms, or modernizing your creative media pipeline, this session will help you cut through the noise and invest with confidence.

What We’ll Cover

• Facility Design Trends: Modern control rooms, studios, meeting spaces, and lecture halls with flexible layouts and stronger monitoring and security.
• Major Industry Announcements: The most important product launches and platform updates shaping 2026 planning.
• What’s Working Today: The products and workflows delivering the most consistent results in real customer deployments.
• Support and Lifecycle Planning: Building systems that teams can operate, maintain, and upgrade long term.
• IP-Based Solutions, AVoIP and ST 2110: Where 2110, NMOS, NDI, and IPMX fit in 2026 projects and what hybrid IP/SDI looks like in practice.
• AI in Broadcast, Post Production and AV: Practical uses for automation, camera control, audio mixing, captioning, QC, and metadata
• Content Workflows: Moving media from set to editorial with shared storage, MAM, archive tiers, and remote collaboration.
• Signal and Infrastructure Planning: Routing, timing, network design, redundancy, and scaling for future bandwidth needs.

Join us for this free live-streamed discussion and stay until the end for a live Q&A with our expert panel.