Join the Revolution with the IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme
The IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme’s annual Kickstart Day 2026 will take place on Wednesday, 25th of February at the BBC Broadcasting House, London.
The full-day event will focus 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.
The event will also include networking drinks and the 2025 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 2026 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 at IBC2026 in September.
2026 Kickstart Agenda coming soon!
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2025 Kickstart Day Programme
Last year's Kickstart Day included 12 Pitches:
- AI Assistant Agents in Live Production - Watch pitch here.
- Ultra-Low Latency Live Streaming at Scale - Watch pitch here.
- AI for Live Media - Watch pitch here.
- Master Control Room in the Cloud - Watch pitch here.
- ECOFLOW II - Watch pitch here.
- Stamping Your Content (C2PA Provenance) - Watch pitch here.
- A Framework for Generative AI - Watch pitch here.
- Broadcast Comms Meets Web Tech - Watch pitch here.
- Conquering the Air(waves): P5G from Land to Sea to Sky - Watch pitch here.
- Multi-Vendor Software Live Media Exchange - Watch pitch here.
- Holoconferencing and Interactive Social XR - Watch pitch here.
- IBC INCUBATOR 2025: Changing the Game... AGAIN - Watch pitch here.
View the final 2025 Accelerator Projects
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Accelerator Project of the Year Award Winner:
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.
Contact Us
Please contact marketing@ibc.org if you would like to get involved in the 2026 Accelerator Innovation programme.