The AI Shift vs. Enterprise Video These days one must travel to find valuable information. The Fonn Group’s annual User Summit is a chance to escape the brain-numbing noise of the mega-expos. It is also a unique opportunity to listen and learn from some of the smartest people on the planet. Fonn Group builds Mimir…
We spent four days at NAB Show 2026 with a specific agenda. Not to see everything. To answer four questions that matter to the organizations we work with: corporate communications teams, IT leaders, and institutional buyers who run serious video operations without broadcast engineering staff. Which vendors are genuinely building for the enterprise buyer, and…
April 2026 | Las Vegas Convention Center The final day of NAB is always a little lighter on the floor. Affectionately known as “Vendor Day”, a travel day for me, and often also for exhibitors who are mentally halfway to the airport. But the conversations get more candid, and that suits me fine. By Day…
April 2026 | Las Vegas Convention Center By Day 3, patterns on the floor were becoming clearer. Conversation inside and outside of the LVCC tended to focus on one of three key problems: Where content lives and whether you can find it; how AI gets embedded into practical workflows rather than bolted on as a…
April 2026 | Las Vegas Convention Center Day 2 covered a deliberately broader range of the floor than the day before. Some of the companies I visited this time are firmly broadcast-oriented; they have a long legacy of building technology for newsrooms, live production control rooms, and some of the world’s biggest media operations. Beyond…
April 2026 | Las Vegas Convention Center Day 1 on the NAB Show floor is a particular kind of sensory overload. The West Hall alone covers more square footage than most corporate campuses, and every booth is competing for attention with the same combination of giant screens, loud demos, and staff trained to flag you…
April 2026 | Las Vegas Convention Center I recorded this before the exhibit hall opened. At the time, I had a list of booths, a set of questions, and a working theory. Four days later, most of the theory held. Some of it got sharper. A couple of assumptions did not make it out alive……