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ANGA COM 2026

ANGA COM 2026
May 19-21, 2026Cologne, Germanyangacom.de

Cologne is on the calendar

Smartlabs CCO Gary Hamer will be at ANGA COM 2026 in Cologne — and looking forward to spending time with the operators, broadcasters, and platform folks who actually run this industry.

What we're watching

Three tracks are on the priority list this year:

  • Fiber Summit — FTTH take-up: who's converting fibre passes into paying subscribers, and what's working.
  • TV & Streaming Summit — monetisation: subscription dynamics, ad-supported tiers, and the unit economics of OTT in 2026.
  • AI in OTT — frankly, every conversation about how AI is changing the economics of the video business.

Our take on 2026

2026 is the year operators stop treating recommendations, ads, and personalisation as separate problems.

For a decade these were three different teams, three different vendors, three different data models — and the cracks showed up where it hurt: recommendations that didn't know about ad inventory, notifications that ignored viewing behaviour, churn analytics that ran a quarter behind the decisions that caused it.

At Smartlabs we've been building SmartTUBE around the opposite bet — one AI foundation powering recommendations, notifications, ad targeting, and analytics. It's working. The operators running it see compounding effects across the loop, not isolated lifts in one metric.

Let's grab 30 minutes

If you're a CTO, Head of Product, or OTT lead heading to Cologne — and you've got a project on the table that touches:

  • OTT/IPTV middleware
  • How to migrate from legacy platforms
  • Amazing and fast applications for all devices
  • Video streaming CDN
  • Dynamic ad insertion
  • Growing AI features in your future platform

— let's find a slot. Contact us to book a meeting with Gary at ANGA COM 2026.

About the show

ANGA COM is Europe's leading business platform for Broadband, Media and Connectivity — bringing together network operators, vendors, and content providers around broadband and media distribution. The last edition counted over 500 exhibitors from 42 countries and 22,000 participants from 80+ countries.

Key topics this year: Gigabit Networks, FTTH, HFC, 5G, OTT, AppTV, Cloud TV, Video Streaming, Artificial Intelligence, Smart City and Smart Home. C-level speakers in recent programmes have included Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Deutsche Glasfaser, NetCologne, M-net, ProSiebenSat.1, RTL Television, Amazon Prime Video, Sky, and DAZN.