Streaming Summit dedicates full session to AI chatbots for content discovery

The 2026 NAB Streaming Summit (April 20–21) includes a dedicated session titled "Chatbots for Streaming Content Discovery: First-Hand Data Insights from Tests in the US and Europe," which will present live-test results on how AI chatbots perform as discovery interfaces for streaming platforms. It is the first time the Summit has devoted a full slot to AI as a front-end user-experience tool rather than a back-end workflow or encoding automation.

The session will be moderated by Akamai's Will Law and AWS's Yana Peacock, with speakers from Elecard, Tiledmedia, Altman Solon, Momento, MediaKind, and The Ankler. The panel composition — infrastructure companies alongside an analyst firm and a media trade outlet — suggests the discussion will cover both technical implementation and audience behavior data.

A separate Summit opening session titled "The Importance of Trust in the AI Era" frames the event's AI arc from a governance and reliability angle. Taken together, the two sessions signal that streaming industry conversations about AI in 2026 are moving beyond automation metrics into questions about how AI interfaces interact with subscribers and what data is needed to evaluate them. Streaming Summit registration is priced between $699 and $849, with approximately 85 speakers across concurrent tracks.