In November I am heading to Pasadena: I will be speaking at the SMPTE Media Technology Summit 2026, the annual gathering of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
The conference runs from 16 to 19 November 2026 at the Pasadena Convention Center in California.
Why that is notable
SMPTE is one of the most tradition-rich organisations in the industry – this is where the standards that have shaped television for decades are made. That the Dynamic Media Facility and the Media eXchange Layer get a track of their own in this programme says something about where things are heading.
The programme includes sessions on:
- Latency in DMF – DMF and the modern production ecosystem, plus performance tuning ST 2110 applications in an open-source virtual container environment
- Scalable MXL infrastructure – cross-node media flow transport in the cluster, a Kubernetes control plane for MXL, and inter-node memory replication with the DMF-MXL SDK
The context
This fits a development that has accelerated noticeably this year. MXL has grown as a project under the Linux Foundation umbrella, interoperability between components from different vendors is becoming concretely testable, and architecture slides are turning into running systems.
The conference
SMPTE Media Technology Summit 2026, 16–19 November 2026, Pasadena Convention Center, California. Programme and registration at summit.smpte.org.
If you are there: do come and say hello. And if you cannot make it – I will report back here afterwards.