Given the title of this virtual IBC session, ‘The Journey to the Edge – is the Media & Entertainment industry a leader or a follower?’, we were hoping for something of an answer. Instead, we left concluding that the Media & Entertainment industry is adrift, and using the shiny new hammer that is ‘the edge’ to solve any problem it finds. In the talk, post-production and VFX were held up as examples for edge computing opportunities, but there was little in the way of a convincing argument as to why edge compute was explicitly meant for this application, or rather, why cloud computing wasn’t fit for purpose. This was surprising, given that the speakers stemmed from AWS, the current cloud…