For more than 20 years, the TV of Tomorrow (TVOT) Show has gathered the brightest minds in television, technology and the creative world — first in San Francisco, then New York. This May, for the first time ever, TVOT comes to Montreal (May 20–21). And the timing couldn’t be better.

The television industry is in the middle of a genuine identity crisis — and TVOT is where the people solving it come to debate. This year’s show will tackle the questions keeping media executives and creatives up at night:

• Is the creator economy eating traditional TV’s lunch — or saving it?
• Shoppable TV is no longer a novelty. How is it reshaping the relationship between content and commerce?
• AI is transforming video production at every level. What does that mean for the writers, editors and creators whose livelihoods depend on it?
• And perhaps most urgently: how do you measure ad impact when Gen Z is watching on a phone, a tablet, a laptop — everywhere but an actual TV?

These aren’t hypothetical debates. They’re the conversations happening on stage, in the hallways and between sessions at TVOT Montreal — with 100+ speakers from Bloomberg, Google, LG, Nielsen, Nvidia, Warner Bros. and more.

Crucially, Canada’s own innovators will be front and centre. TVOT founder Tracy Swedlow has long believed there’s an extraordinary concentration of creative and technological talent bubbling up here — and this year’s speaker roster proves it:

• Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, CEO of Watch Mojo, based in Montreal
• Cecile Andreu, founder of Le Brouillon Creative Studios, based in Montreal,
• Paul Pastor, Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder of Quickplay, based in Toronto,
• Aude Mathey, head of media sales and B2B marketing at TV5,
• Marc Petit, board member of Moment Factory, based in Montreal,
• David Prudy, Chief Revenue Officer of Stingray, based in Montreal
• Paul McGrath, SVP of content operations for UnderKnown, based in Toronto,
• Jerome Leys, General Manager of Media Solutions, Quebecor