Zonic Wins CES Innovation Awards 2027 Best of Innovation

Zonic Editorial Intelligence has been named a CES Innovation Awards® 2027 Best of Innovation in the Filmmaking & Distribution category, presented in partnership with Cannes Next. Best of Innovation is the highest-scoring entry in a category. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® announced the 2027 honorees on November 9, 2026.

The Workbench view submitted with the entry: analysed footage on the left, the edit preview and the chat with Dekiru in the middle, scenes and transcript on the right.

We will show Zonic at CES 2027 in Las Vegas, January 6 to 9, at Eureka Park, booth 63101, in the Venetian Expo. If you are going, come and bring footage.

What the judges recognized

The entry was Zonic Editorial Intelligence as it ships today. This is the description on the CES award page:

Zonic Editorial Intelligence is an AI-native collaboration pipeline for video production, bringing planning, directing, cinematography, editing and client review into one shared production context.

Its long-term multimodal memory connects footage, transcripts, creative intent, decisions and feedback across roles and stages. Human experts and role-based AI agents work from this context to understand source material, guide capture, assemble editable sequences and carry revisions through delivery.

Zonic continuously improves through human expert–AI interaction: professionals direct it in language, revise cuts and review results, while Zonic retains the context and lessons from those interactions. Editorial decisions remain traceable to recorded material, and sequences can be exported for continued work in professional editing software.

With broadcast-grade capabilities used by television customers, Zonic also supports live capture and editing, helping teams coordinate complex production workflows while preserving human creative direction.

What that means in practice

Zonic is one system with two halves. Nandemo reads the footage: scenes, speech, people, text on screen and metadata, for recordings that run for hours and for cameras that are still recording. Dekiru reasons over what Nandemo found, answers questions with timestamped evidence, and builds editable sequences from a request in plain language.

The part the award names, and the part we care most about, is what happens next. An editor opens the sequence in Zonic, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or CapCut and changes it. Zonic keeps the proposal, the change and who made it, so the next cut starts from what professionals accepted rather than from a blank model. Every decision stays traceable to the recorded material it came from.

Since the entry, we have launched streaming and real-time editing for studios: cameras, encoders and phones stream into one project, Zonic analyses the footage while it records, and a producer can ask for a cut and review it before the shoot ends.

Exhibiting at CES? Release your video the same day

If your company announces at CES 2027, we would like to produce your show video with you, at the show. A computer at your booth runs Zonic; cameras, a switcher feed or phones record your press conference, demos and interviews into one project, and Zonic analyses the footage while it is still recording. Ask for a recap, a quote reel or a set of social clips in plain language, review it on a laptop or phone, add subtitles in your markets' languages, and render or hand the sequence to your editor in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or CapCut. The aim is a cut that can go out with your press release, not a week after it.

We are looking for partners at CES who want to try this directly during the event. Contact Zonic with the button below, or Array Effect (陣列效應), our development strategic partner, led by its founder Alis Feng, who is arranging these productions with us. Tell us what you are announcing and when, and we will plan the capture with you before the show.

Meet us

• CES 2027, Las Vegas, January 6 to 9. Eureka Park, booth 63101, Venetian Expo. Live demos at the booth; bring a clip you have permission to use and we will cut it with you.
• Inter BEE 2026, Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, November 18 to 20, Hall 6, booth 6105.
• Meet Taipei 2026, Taipei Expo Park, November 19 to 21. Zonic is at booth GP-UC09, or find us at the booth of Array Effect (陣列效應), our development strategic partner.

Not travelling? Try Zonic with a short clip, or book a demo with the button below and tell us about your footage and your workflow.

About Zonic

Zonic is the video intelligence and production layer between footage, domain experts and AI agents. It records or uploads footage, turns it into searchable, evidence-backed understanding, and builds editable sequences that editors finish in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or CapCut, in the Workbench or through the open Platform API.

The CES Innovation Awards are based on descriptive materials submitted to the judges. CTA did not verify the accuracy of any submission or of any claims made and did not test the item to which the award was given.

Read next: how Zonic learns from the editor's changes, or the automated rough cut, in depth.