Streaming Summit lines up Paramount, Prime Video, NBCU and JioStar on scale

The NAB Show Streaming Summit returns to West Hall on April 20-21 with roughly 85 speakers across concurrent tracks, chaired by analyst Dan Rayburn. Headline fireside chats feature Paramount Global CTO Phil Wiser, Amazon Prime Video's BA Winston on day two, and NBCUniversal DTC chairman Matt Strauss — a platform-leader roster heavier than any Streaming Summit to date.

The editorial signal is that 2026's streaming conversation is post-growth. Agenda weight sits on FAST/SVOD/AVOD monetization mechanics, content bundling, advertising measurement, content discovery, and scaling video workflows rather than launch playbooks. BBC Studios' direct-to-consumer chief Robert Schildhouse has a dedicated slot titled "How North America Became British TV's Biggest Opportunity," the first BritBox/BBC Studios headline appearance on the Summit stage.

The single most technical slot may be JioStar CTO Akash Saxena's fireside, "Orchestrating JioHotStar Traffic: Scaling a Video Workflow for 72 Million+ Concurrent Viewers," which will dissect the platform's record concurrency during the ICC Men's T20 World Cup. That session's prominence is itself a statement — NAB is telling the industry that "streaming at scale" is now defined by live sports workloads rather than SVOD prime-time peaks. A Streaming Summit Happy Hour runs Monday, April 20, 5-6:30 p.m. on the third-floor terrace.