Join the Revolution with the IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme
The IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme’s annual Kickstart Day 2025, was hosted on Wednesday 12th of February at the BBC Broadcasting House, London.
The full-day event focused on media industry innovation, with an international audience of media & entertainment technology professionals and leaders. Aside from industry-leading speaker & panel sessions on compelling challenges and opportunities for the sector, the highlight was a series of Quickfire Pitches by the 12 shortlisted Accelerator Project Challenges vying to be part of the final eight selected for development in 2025. The event also included networking drinks and the 2024 Accelerator Project of the Year Award.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for a record-breaking event!
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The IBC Accelerator Innovation Programme has, since its inception in 2019, reflected some of the critical business & technology challenges – with an emphasis on innovation led by end users or buyers of tech and solutions within the broad media & entertainment ecosystem.
The IBC Accelerator Kickstart Day 2025 is an opportunity to get involved and learn more about the programme, which is a framework to support fast-track collaboration and innovation.
Of the 12 pitches selected, only 8 challenges will be chosen to go forward as Accelerator projects. This could mean some ideas may merge with others, where there are direct synergies. The teams then begin work on their solution and a PoC that will be unveiled and showcased on the Accelerator Zone and Innovation Stage at IBC2025 in September.
The 12 Pitches presented at 2025 Kickstart Day:
- AI Assistant Agents in Live Production
- Ultra-Low Latency Live Streaming at Scale
- AI for Live Media
- Master Control Room in the Cloud
- ECOFLOW II
- Stamping Your Content (C2PA Provenance)
- A Framework for Generative AI
- Broadcast Comms Meets Web Tech
- Conquering the Air(waves): P5G from Land to Sea to Sky
- Multi-Vendor Software Live Media Exchange
- Holoconferencing and Interactive Social XR
- IBC INCUBATOR 2025: Changing the Game... AGAIN
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Accelerator Project of the Year Award Winner: The winner of the Accelerator Project of the Year Award for the previous cycle of projects is announced at Kickstart Day.
The 2024 Project of the Year Award was presented to the 'Evolution of the Control Room - Leveraging XR, Voice, AI & HTML-Based Graphics Solutions' Team. With Champions BBC, TV2 Danmark, YLE, EBU, Channel 4, Technological University of the Shannon (TUS)/TRANSMIXR, Trinity College Dublin, HSLU Lucerne University, Switzerland, ITN, Al Jazeera Media Networks, XReco, Vodafone Group, SVT and Participants Tinkerlist, Nxt Edition, Loopic, SPX Graphics, Cuepilot, Erizos TV, the project explored the evolution of live production workflows.
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2024 Accelerators Kickstart Day Highlights
Contact Us
Please contact marketing@ibc.org if you would like to get involved in the 2025 Accelerator Innovation programme.