AV Stumpfl is bringing its PIXERA media-server community to Nashville for Base Camp 2026, a three-day user gathering running October 26 to 28, 2026. The company frames the event around a single line, "Where the Crafts Get Shared," and draws a hard boundary in its own description: "Not a trade show. Not a sales pitch."
Peer-to-peer over exhibit hall. The program is built from keynotes, case studies, workshops, and technical training rather than booths and product demos.
Single-track by design. Main-stage keynotes run with no concurrent programming, so the room moves through the schedule together.
Nashville venues, not a convention center. Sessions spread across Marathon Music Works and Nelson's Green Brier Distillery, with the historic Marathon Village district as the central hub.
The schedule trades a crowded show floor for laptops-open, hands-on sessions
Base Camp splits its programming into five formats. Keynotes take the main stage with nothing scheduled against them. Case studies walk through real projects presented by the teams that built them, and single-track presentations keep the audience on one path instead of forcing choices between parallel rooms.
The hands-on tiers are where the event leans technical. Workshops run one to two hours and are laptop-based, aimed at working through a task rather than watching a slide deck. Training sessions go deeper, running three to four hours with dedicated equipment for technical deep dives.
AV Stumpfl pitches the lineup at a broad slice of the media-server world: integrators, operators, designers, and decision-makers, plus people new to PIXERA who want a structured on-ramp.
Why a media-server user conference matters for virtual production teams
PIXERA is AV Stumpfl's real-time media-server platform for playback, compositing, and show control, and it feeds the same LED walls that virtual production stages depend on. The current release is version 26.1, and the platform added a PIXERA hub of utilities and a free Creator Demo License for entry-level users.
We covered how Pixera turns LED walls into interactive, real-time environments from a single platform, the same capability that puts media servers at the center of any in-camera VFX pipeline. A training-first conference gives the operators who run those systems a place to compare setups and troubleshoot workflows directly with the people who build the software.
The confirmed speakers are AV Stumpfl staff, with a fuller roster still to come
The initial speaker list is drawn from AV Stumpfl's own team, including Martin Maercker, Head of Software Products, and Conor McGill, Director of PIXERA USA. Also listed are Michael Bateman, Community Development Manager; Abbie DeLeve, Technical Sales Specialist; Miles Kipper, Business Development Manager; Cody Luketic, Technical Support Coordinator; Tavia Morra, Principal Creative Technologist; and Ryan Jones, Media Server Systems Engineer.
AV Stumpfl says a full speaker list is still to come, which leaves room for the case studies to bring in outside integrators and operators presenting their own installations.
What Base Camp signals for the media-server market
Running a user conference as structured training rather than a sales event is a bet that PIXERA's growth now depends on operator depth as much as new-customer reach. For virtual production shops, LED integrators, and live-event teams weighing a media-server platform, three days of single-track sessions and hands-on labs offer a clearer read on the system than a trade-show demo. Registration is open through the event site, with the additional Rock Nashville production hub rounding out the venue list.
