Fabric at IBC 2026: A Portfolio Built the Hard Way

I began my career at Sony in physical media, launching Blu-ray discs back in 2006.  I loved being part of the tangible, format-defining product decisions and the craftsmanship of getting a disc release right. I still have a soft spot for it; sometimes when I'm streaming a movie I think, “this would look so much better on BD”. In 2012 I moved into digital, and the learning curve was steep, but I immediately fell in love with the technology, the speed and the ground-breaking digital backbone platform that was built at Sony to support millions of content deliveries 24/7.

After a stopover at Deluxe following a company sale, I landed at Fabric in 2023 with a clear-eyed view of content distribution, the media supply chain, and the gap that can open up between what a product promises and what a customer actually experiences.

Here is what all those years taught me: you cannot fake your way to a great product. It is always downstream of a great team, and a great team is always downstream of a strong culture. Get the culture right, get the team right; people who always want to do better, and the product takes care of itself. I have never seen it work in any other order.

That's not a nice sentiment I keep on a slide. It's the actual explanation for what we're bringing to IBC this September.

A Portfolio Built the Hard Way

For the past two years, Fabric didn't just add to the portfolio, we put in the work to make it better, and two of our products got rebuilt almost from scratch to prove it.

Xytech:  X2 is a ground-up reimagining of what came before it: agent access, a completely new interface, and a level of speed and usability that makes broadcast scheduling, media operations, and transmission management feel like they belong in the same decade as the rest of your tech stack. That's not a coat of paint. That's a team taking something that already worked and refusing to leave it alone until it worked the way it should.

Origin Studio:  What used to be a title management tool is now a genuine enterprise title master system, built with enough rigor to keep title data trustworthy and enough flexibility to bend as content catalogues grow and licensing rights keep moving. 

Origin Nexus: The most affordable, complete metadata and video libraries in the industry, with sports data on the way; proof that you don't have to choose between breadth and price.

Origin Insights: Media analytics which refreshes daily instead of weekly, in one unified, faster dashboard; so the people making decisions are working from today's numbers, not last week's.

Four products, four different reasons to be proud, and one thing in common: none of them got this good by accident. Every one of them is the visible result of a team that wasn't willing to settle.

Why I Keep Coming Back to Culture

None of the above happens without a culture that pushes people to get to the best possible outcome, together, without anyone needing to protect their turf to get there. It's also why I care so much about making that culture visible to other people coming up in this industry, especially other women. Early in my career, in physical media, I was often the only woman in the room. It was intimidating, but I learned that what I brought to the table — listening, caring, having a voice mattered just as much as anything else being discussed. I've had incredible mentors along the way: women like Darcy Antonellis, Shelley Klingerman, and of course Kira Baca, Fabric's Chief Strategy Officer, my manager, and the woman who hired me into digital back in 2012. I don't think any of them fully know how much they shaped the way I think about product, teams, and leadership.

The Real Thread

That's the thread connecting everything we're bringing to IBC this year and it's why I'm as proud of the team behind Fabric's products as I am of the products themselves.

If you're early in this industry, or any other, here's what I'd actually tell you, because it's what Darcy and Tricia and Kira told me, in one form or another, when I needed to hear it: be assertive even when you're the only one who looks like you in the room, stay curious past the point where it's comfortable, and don't mistake failure as a setback. The best products I've ever shipped came from teams that were willing to do exactly that.

If you're heading to IBC, come find us on our boat at the RAI Beach, where we'll be demoing all that Fabric has to offer.  I would love to see you there!