Goodbye dashboards, hello agents? Vendors march on IBC to strip tech stack complexity If everyone is preaching to the choir, who survives? Reducing operational complexity is a pitch we hear repeatedly in the broadcast and streaming space. In the run-up to IBC 2026, the noise is growing louder. But this time around, the cacophony of complexity-crushing announcements are collectively telling us more about how the control plane—the “brain” of a system or network—is growing more intelligent, and the industry is using that intelligence to replace dashboards with agents. Many years of M&E engineering proficiency have been devoted to dismantling vertically integrated, multi-vendor broadcast infrastructure in favor of best-of-breed cloud and SaaS components. This gradual shift brought flexibility and efficiency, but in the process created one hell of an integration headache. As a result, vendors are pitching media…