Reading the Signals. How AI Is Reshaping Media in 2026

AI is moving fast and the signals are everywhere. New models, new tools, new player entering the space, new ways audiences are finding and consuming information. It can be hard to know what matters and what's noise. This is the session to step back and see how everything connects. Nikita Roy spends her days working with newsrooms on AI and tracking how the landscape is shifting in real time. In this session, she pulls the threads together, surfacing the patterns forming across the industry, what they signal about where things are headed, and how they translate into editorial, product and business decisions for your newsroom.