Hydrolix plans AI and multi-CDN demos at IBC 2026

Hydrolix will showcase agentic AI and multi-CDN tools at IBC 2026 in Amsterdam from Sept. 11-14, including a panel with Rory McVicar and four live partner demonstrations. The pitch: real-time, full-fidelity data can help media teams detect and fix streaming problems while a live event is still underway.

Why it matters: - Media and streaming operators are moving from AI experiments to live deployments. - Hydrolix is positioning its real-time data platform as the layer that lets AI agents act on streaming problems fast enough to matter during live events. - The demonstrations target operational use cases, including diagnosis, resolution, and CDN switching.

What happened: - Hydrolix said it will take part in IBC 2026, the International Broadcasting Convention, from Sept. 11-14 at RAI Amsterdam. - Rory McVicar, Hydrolix director of partnerships, will join an industry panel on Sunday, Sept. 13, from 14:30 to 15:15 CEST. - Hydrolix will also show its own demo in Hall 14, C47. - The company will appear in four partner demonstrations across the show floor.

The details: - The panel includes Sean King, chief revenue officer and general manager of Veritone Commercial, and Marcus Edel, machine learning lead at Collabora. - The discussion will focus on the infrastructure, data foundations, and operational capabilities needed to deploy AI at scale in media. - The panel will also cover customization and integration of AI models and how real-time observability is changing media operations. - Hydrolix will demonstrate agentic digital operations and multi-CDN performance optimization. - With AWS in Hall 14, Future Tech, 14.B30, Hydrolix will act as the streaming analytics data layer behind Agentic Intelligent Operations for Streaming Media. - That AWS reference architecture uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and the AWS Strands SDK. - Through Hydrolix’s MCP server, Bedrock agents can query full-fidelity telemetry from Amazon CloudFront, AWS Elemental MediaLive, AWS Elemental MediaTailor, and AWS WAF in natural language within seconds. - The AWS demo is designed to show agents detecting, diagnosing, and resolving streaming quality issues in real time without human intervention. - A Bitmovin demo in Hall 5, Content Everywhere, 5.F72, will pair Bitmovin video playback observability with Hydrolix CDN Insights and Orange Wholesale CDN. - That setup is intended to cut the time to trace a viewer-facing issue to its root cause from hours to minutes across playback and delivery layers. - An Accenture demo in Hall 5, Content Everywhere, 5.G18, will show agentic multi-CDN switching across Amazon CloudFront and Google Media CDN. - The Accenture demo will use real-time performance data down to the country and ISP level so AI can shift traffic to the best-performing CDN as conditions change. - An Einbliq demo in Hall 3, booth B48c, will show a quality-of-experience anomaly detection workflow built on Hydrolix’s multi-CDN data fabric. - Hydrolix said Einbliq’s machine learning models can spot anomalous playback sessions and write root-cause findings back into Hydrolix dashboards. - Hydrolix also said teams can move between Einbliq’s root-cause view and standard multi-CDN dashboards without switching tools. - Rory McVicar said media audiences usually find problems before providers do, which puts a premium on getting from a signal to the raw event quickly. - McVicar also said the same logic applies to AI because context windows are finite and models need high-fidelity aggregates with the ability to reach back into full-fidelity data. - Kamil Bogacz, senior solutions engineer at Hydrolix, said the Einbliq workflow shows how a fast, full-fidelity data layer can sit underneath specialized AI models.

Between the lines: - Hydrolix is framing data infrastructure, not the model alone, as the main constraint on agentic AI in media. - The four demos suggest the company is betting on practical workflows that connect observability, anomaly detection, and automated traffic management. - The focus on multi-CDN switching and anti-piracy detection signals that Hydrolix wants to be seen as an operational platform, not just an analytics tool.

What's next: - Hydrolix experts, including McVicar and Bogacz, will be available on site at IBC 2026 for interviews about agentic AI operations, anti-piracy detection, and real-time streaming data. - Meeting requests go to Abby Ross, head of corporate communications, at abby@hydrolix.io. - Hydrolix will continue using the event to show how its data platform supports AI-ready media operations.

The bottom line: - Hydrolix is using IBC 2026 to argue that real-time, full-fidelity data is the foundation for agentic AI in streaming media.