Dalet, a leading technology and service provider for media-rich organizations, will unveil the next evolution of Dalia at IBC2026 (7.A43), its media-aware agentic AI solution and a cornerstone of the company’s strategy for the future of media operations. Designed to change how people interact with media technology, Dalia is evolving the user experience from navigating tools and predefined workflows to simply expressing what needs to get done.
Today, Dalia can understand a user’s intent, determine the workflows and actions required, and drive the process forward while keeping people in control. At IBC2026, Dalet will demonstrate this vision in action across Dalet Flex and Dalet Pyramid, with Dalia creating and orchestrating workflows, assisting newsroom teams from story planning through production, and accelerating content discovery, sports production and social publishing.
“Dalia is much more than another product in the Dalet portfolio. It is central to how we see the future of media operations,” said Matteo De Martinis, EVP of Product, Dalet. “We are moving toward a world where people don’t need to understand every tool or technical step required to accomplish their work. They tell Dalia what they want to achieve, and Dalia brings together the right workflows, actions and technology to help them get there. The technology adapts to the person, while the human remains in control of the creative and operational process.”
From Assistant to Driver
The most significant evolution is Dalia’s ability to work directly with the Dalet Flex workflow engine, the operational foundation that drives processes across the platform. Dalia can discover existing workflows, determine which is needed for a task, initiate actions and begin creating new workflows based on what a user wants to accomplish.
Dalia’s evolution reflects a broader shift IDC sees taking place across media operations in the IDC Evaluating Business Office Operations and Services Vendors for the Media Industry 2026 report (IDC #US53411826, August 2026). “It (The IDC Perspective) assesses where agentic AI use cases in media stand in 2026, the human-in-the-loop governance that separates durable vendor deployments from stalled pilots, and the road map toward ERP convergence and cross-pillar autonomous orchestration by 2030. This document also profiles the ERP incumbents and media-native and AI-native specialists — including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Workday, Salesforce, Mediagenix, TwelveLabs, AWS, Dalet, and Vizrt — building this agentic layer and offers guidance for technology leaders on sequencing data, governance, and vendor selection decisions.”
“Media organizations are moving beyond AI that surfaces insights toward agentic systems that can reason across workflows and help put those insights into action,” said Alex Holtz, Research Director, Worldwide Media and Entertainment Digital Strategies, IDC. “Dalia reflects that shift, bringing media-specific intelligence and workflow orchestration together while preserving the human oversight that will be critical as AI takes on a more active role in media operations.”
The result is a move beyond fixed automation toward intelligent workflows that can adapt to the work at hand. Instead of requiring a user to know how a process has been configured or which technical steps need to happen next, Dalia can help determine the path and put it into action.
“One of the most powerful things about Dalia is how much complexity it can take out of adapting and integrating media operations,” explained De Martinis. “For example, you can ask Dalia to integrate with an external API, and it can generate the script, save it into Dalet Flex and help create the workflow to put that integration into operation. What traditionally required specialized technical expertise becomes dramatically easier, giving organizations the agility to adapt as their needs change.”
An Intelligent Assistant for the Newsroom
Dalet will preview the next expansion of Dalia into Dalet Pyramid, demonstrating how agentic AI can support journalists and producers across the editorial process.
Dalia can assist with the work that takes a story from an idea into production, helping coordinate tasks, work orders and assignments while keeping journalists and producers in control. A producer planning a story, for example, can work with Dalia to identify what needs to happen next and coordinate the supporting activities, from requesting graphics to assigning work to the appropriate team members.
Dalet will also demonstrate Dalia assessing the health of a rundown before going to air, helping producers identify missing or incomplete elements that require attention.
Turning Sports Moments into Fan Engagement
For sports organizations, Dalia accelerates the journey from finding the right moment to getting it in front of fans. Media-aware search helps teams quickly discover relevant content across growing media libraries, while intelligent workflows assist with creating and repackaging highlights for different platforms and audiences. At IBC2026, Dalet is putting these capabilities into action as part of the IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme, where Dalia is orchestrating live sports workflows from ingest through AI-powered analysis, compliance review and publishing. By reducing the manual steps across live production, content discovery and publishing, Dalia helps sports organizations turn more moments into timely, engaging content for fans while maintaining editorial oversight and governance.
Built for How the Media Industry Works
Dalia was developed with Dalet’s decades of media and entertainment expertise. Its media-aware intelligence understands industry terminology and workflows, enabling customers to operationalize AI faster without having to build the media-specific context from scratch. Governance and human oversight are integral to how Dalia agents interact within the Dalet environment, giving organizations greater control as AI takes on a more active role in media operations.
Book a Dalia Demo
Visit Dalet in Hall 7, Stand 7.A43 to experience the latest innovations across Dalet Flex, Dalet Pyramid and Dalia, and meet with Dalet executives, product experts and customer success teams.
Book a Dalia demo here: https://www.dalet.com/events/ibc/
About Dalet
Dalet empowers media-rich organizations to transform their production and distribution workflows – accelerating media operations, maximizing collaboration and creating higher value from content. As a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation, our software solutions enable greater control, enhanced visibility and increased productivity for content professionals and storytellers around the globe. Leading organizations such as Fox Networks Group, Arsenal Football Club, MediaCorp, and the BBC trust Dalet to support their daily content operations. Our team is driven by a passion for media and committed to empowering a world where compelling stories are beautifully made, effortlessly told and thoughtfully delivered. Learn more at www.dalet.com.
