While we had some flattering things to say about last week’s virtual ConnecTechAsia event, a 90-minute session called ‘Enabling AI Across the Content Chain’ – for which we had high hopes – fell frustratingly flat. For a topic so integral to the foundations of the future of video, organizers glazed straight over many of the AI-based innovations happening in many verticals of media and entertainment, perhaps based on the notion that many emerging technologies harnessing AI and machine learning will further erode what revenues the broadcast sector has left. Where were the mentions of AI in video compression, visual effects, network delivery and management, recommendations and discovery, all sorts of angles for AI-based analytics, and even customer response systems, to…