Las Vegas greeted us with sunshine, warm desert air, and on the second-to-last day of the show, strong winds that, I won’t complain, did wonders for my hair. NAB 2026 was a show of contrasts, lighter in some ways, heavier in others. And I’ve been sitting with those contrasts ever since I boarded my flight home.
A Noticeable Shift
And they are not alone in noticing. Fellow exhibitors flagged it too. Monday was by far the busiest day. After that, the energy thinned noticeably. The serendipitous hallway collisions that used to define NAB were fewer. The conversations, however, were sharper.
Officially, NAB Show 2026 drew over 58,000 registered attendees from 146 countries, with more than 1,100 exhibitors. The composition of the room has shifted, content creators up 140% year-over-year, nearly half of attendees first-timers. NAB is evolving its audience. Whether the legacy broadcast and production community is growing with it or quietly stepping back is a question worth sitting with.
But here’s what I won’t do: write NAB off.
Because when the curious and the committed show up, even in smaller numbers, the signal-to-noise ratio improves. I’ll take 20 meaningful conversations over 200 badge scans any day. NAB remains the central gathering point for broadcast, media production, and the technology ecosystem that serves them. That still matters enormously.
We Stopped Telling. We Started Showing.
Going live to YouTube from the Eutelsat demo vehicle, outside the Central Hall, with Dean Taylor behind the camera.
Months before the show, Kevin Fernandes, our Chief Revenue Officer, said something that became the mantra for everything we built: “We’re going to start showing people, not telling them.”
That conviction became Field to Air, a live, end-to-end partner ecosystem demo that brought together Ross Video, Matrox Video, Clear-Com, GlobalM, Cuez, Eutelsat, and Dejero to demonstrate every step of a modern broadcast workflow. Field contribution. Encoding. Distribution. Decoding. Rundown. All live. All integrated. All running on the show floor and streaming to YouTube across multiple days.
The kind of thing that sounds great in a planning deck and terrifying three days before load-in. It worked beautifully.
Dean Taylor, who led the technical backbone of the entire ecosystem, put it best: “Our partners are the pieces and the ingredients. We were just the ones that mixed it all up and got it to work.” What Dean didn’t say, but what everyone on the team knows, is that “mixing it all up” involved many hours of continuous multi-state road testing, live debugging on the convention floor, and more coordination calls than any of us care to count.
Paul Calleja from GlobalM helped us understand just how ambitious the infrastructure was: our connectivity chain spanned the entire Las Vegas Convention Center, crossing three halls simultaneously, distributing a live feed in SRT to partner booths and in RTMP to YouTube at the same time. Jimmy Morris from Grabyo ran four simultaneous demo stands on the show floor powered by a single Dejero EnGo 3. Catherine Koutsaris and Daniel Maloney from Matrox Video brought their Monarch Edge encoder and decoder to handle multi-channel synchronized contribution, and they reminded us all: “Test it. Show up a few hours early. Know your conditions.”
Sound advice for broadcast. Sound advice for life.
TITAN Command: Best of Show
Left to right: Trish Eleftheriadis, Jason Neureiter, Ivy Cuervo, Ian Piercy, Dean Taylor, Nic Yungblut, Anderson Silva, Ralph Iyer, Michael Stanton, Kevin Fernandes and Bogdan Frusina.
At the heart of everything was Dejero TITAN Command, our new router featuring three independent 5G modems, integrated antennas, and our Smart Blending Technology. Not bonding. Blending. The distinction matters.
As Dean explained it on the live stream: bonding assigns traffic to individual links. Blending creates a bigger pipe, intelligently routing every packet in real time to the best available connection. Cellular, LEO satellite, fixed broadband, venue Wi-Fi, all of it contributing to one resilient, seamless pipeline. That’s what our 120 patents are built around.
Midway through the show, we received word that TITAN Command had won a Best of Show Award in the TV Tech category.
We announced it live during the stream.
This is not just a product win. It’s validation of a thesis that mission-critical connectivity is not a commodity. It is infrastructure. And that thesis now has a trophy.
The Friends You Make Along the Way
Left to right: Dean Taylor (Dejero), Martin Marshall (Eutelsat), Claude Stoffel (GlobalM), Drew Brandy (Eutelsat), Ivy Cuervo (Dejero), Michael Stanton (Dejero), Daniel Maloney (Matrox Video), Anderson Silva (Dejero).
Interviewing Jim Carroccia, North America Media Sales Director at Eutelsat.
Picture team with the Grabyo team. Jimmy Morris and Josie Waddams.
Ladies in tech. Posing with Catherine Koutsaris (Matrox Video)
Here’s the part I think gets left out of most trade publication recaps.
Jim Carroccia from Eutelsat said it on the stream, and it landed: “The wonderful thing is to keep coming back to these shows, seeing the friends that we’ve acquired over the years.”
He wasn’t talking about contacts. He was talking about friends.
I think about our relationships with Eutelsat, Grabyo, BlackMagic, Sony (who loaned us the camera we used during our live streams), Villrich Broadcast (who loaned us the tripod to hold that camera), and KitPlus (who saved us by loaning us the microphone cables) — partnerships built year over year, show over show. Every year you learn more about each other. Respect grows. And at some point, you stop meeting strangers on the show floor and start meeting people you genuinely care about. That’s what the broadcast and media production community is, at its best. A network of people who keep showing up for each other.
To the Team
A barrel of laughs with Kevin Fernandes, Jason Neureiter and Michael Stanton.
Triple threat. Ralph Iyer, Trish Eleftheriadis and Ian Piercy.
The blog wouldn’t be complete without this.
Dejero is a global company. Most of us connect through Google Meet, across time zones, across continents. So when we land in the same city for a week, when you see in person the people whose faces you know only from a screen, something shifts. It’s a gift.
To the Dejero team who represented us in Las Vegas: Dean, Ian, Trish, Kevin, Michael, Anderson, Jason, Ralph, Nic, and our founder Bogdan, thank you.
And to Trish, Anderson said it in our team chat and I couldn’t say it better: “Trish, you are the fuel to this amazing engine we brought to NAB. Without you nothing would ever move.” Michael Stanton put his finger on something else I’ve been feeling: “It’s amazing what we have built over the years.”
To our teams across Canada, the US and the UK, the engineers who built what we brought to market, the marketers who helped tell the story, the people who keep the business moving and hire the brilliant humans that make this company what it is, this show was yours too.
On the flight home, I found myself thinking about the four years since I joined Dejero. The changes. The growth. And this group, this specific group of people, remains constant. I’m proud and grateful to be part of this pack.
What I’m Watching
Left to right: Jimmy Morris (Grabyo), Cary Bonds (Eutelsat), Andrew Vasquez (NDI), Ivy Cuervo (Dejero), Genaro Grajeda (Eutelsat), Kevin Fernandes (Dejero), Martin Marshall (Eutelsat), Anderson Silva (Dejero) and Catherine Koutsaris (Matrox Video).
The industry is in a genuine transition. The creator economy is ascending, NAB’s own data reflects that. AI, streaming infrastructure, and sports broadcasting dominated the session stage. These are not fringe forces. They are reshaping what “broadcast” means and who the customer is.
John Orlando from NDI said something that made me laugh during our live stream, and also think: “Eventually you’ll be able to turn on a microwave using NDI.” He was joking. Not really.
The point is that the ecosystem is expanding. The tools are getting smaller, smarter, and more accessible. And the workflows that used to require a satellite truck and a crew of 20 can now be run from a demo vehicle in a convention centre parking lot, live to YouTube, powered by Dejero connectivity that blends anything and everything including a LEO constellation, and a lot of very dedicated people.
That’s not the end of the broadcast. It’s this industry’s second act.
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