Join the Innovation Revolution - 12 February, BBC Broadcasting House, London
Join us on Wednesday 12th of February at the BBC Broadcasting House, London for the IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme’s annual Kickstart Day 2025, a full-day event focusing 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 will be 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 will also include networking drinks and the presentation of the 2024 Accelerator Project of the Year Award.
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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.
Accelerator Project of the Year Award Winner
Each year at Kickstart Day the winner of the Accelerator Project of the Year Award for the previous cycle of projects is announced and presented.
The 2023 Project of the Year Award was presented to the Responsive Narrative Factory Project Team. The project delivered the right narrative for any consumer in real time via a metadata-powered content fast-track, to demonstrate a new component-based approach to quickly and cost effectively creating multiple versions of content from a single master to enable precision targeting of programs to different demographics or regions or groups that can be monetised for premium Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV advertisers. The team comprised Champions BBC and IET and Participants; Infuse Video, Metarex, Cuvo, JPB Media Solutions & EZDRM.
The 2025 winners will be announced on Wednesday 12th February at the IBC Accelerator Kickstart Day. Apply for Kickstart Day
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2024 Accelerators Kickstart Day Highlights
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Contact Us
Please contact marketing@ibc.org if you would like to get involved in the 2025 Accelerator Innovation programme.