Moderated by media consultant Skip Pizzi, this session begins with a welcome from NAB President Curtis LeGeyt and CTO Sam Matheny, along with a presentation of the NAB Best Paper Award, honoring the author(s) of the best paper published in the NAB Broadcast Engineering and IT Conference Proceedings. The session features an exciting Keynote presentation about the future of broadcasting from Michael McEwen, Director General of the North American Broadcasters Association and Head of Secretariat, World Broadcasting Unions (WBU). In his keynote, he draws a line from technology development/implementation to the increased opportunities that it brings to broadcasters and the audiences they serve -- past, present and future.