2026 Showfloor Agenda

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IBC Future Tech
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    Future Tech Stage
    In a multi-platform world, how are media companies building distribution strategies to realise the full revenue potential of their intellectual property across multiple channels? Join us for this in-d ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Join Quickture for the premiere of our most ambitious release since the company’s launch. We're unveiling a fundamentally new way to interact with footage—one designed around how editors think about s ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    "In today’s hyper-connected media landscape, live event broadcasters face a major operational challenge: covering dozens of simultaneous live events with lean editorial teams. Modern audiences demand ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Broadcasters lose audiences they never see: viewers who tune out when commentary is buried, global fans waiting on languages that never ship, archives earning nothing because the rights can't be repor ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    A live demo of practical AI in production: hybrid search, combining full-text matching with semantic vector retrieval, running on a real media catalogue. The demo uses RMC BFM Play's catalogue (EPG an ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    As media organisations rethink how content is created, produced and delivered, the focus is shifting towards more agile, connected and intelligent creative operations. This panel explores how cloud-na ...
Future Tech Ignite
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    Ignite Stage
    With a trove of exclusive new data from around the world, Evan Shapīro, Media’s Cartographer, reveals the true video habits of global audiences and shows how impacting today’s viewers means meeting th ...
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    Ignite Stage
    Recent research from IAMT seeks to better understand the current landscape for media and entertainment professionals, while independent IBC-backed research from Women in Streaming Media, SMPTE, Rise A ...
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    Ignite Stage
    Strengthening the relationship between the industry and the education sector is seen as ‘mission critical’ in ensuring a healthy flow of technical and creative talent into media businesses. This sessi ...
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    Ignite Stage
    How can Europe help emerging talent turn bold ideas into media experiences people actually want to watch, hear and use? This panel explores what happens when cities, broadcasters, universities, R&D ne ...
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    Ignite Stage
    Some of the most important issues facing the industry extend beyond technology and business strategy. Bringing together experts in sustainability, cybersecurity, talent diversity and the responsible a ...
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    Ignite Stage
    Everyone’s using AI now. To write, to edit, to speed things up, to “generate ideas”. But let’s be honest: it hasn’t magically made anyone more creative. This session is a straight conversation about w ...
    • Future Tech Ignite
    Ignite Stage
    Meet the technology and business innovators shaping the future of our industry. This session will feature a host of 5-minute pitches from start-up companies involved in this year’s Future Tech Ignite ...
IBC Accelerators
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    Future Tech Stage
    The TV and Film industry struggles to accelerate creative iteration while maintaining standards, hampered by rigid production silos and inefficient, fragmented workflows. Join us for this all-star IBC ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    AI agents can now orchestrate multiple real-time transformations of live content, enabling use cases such as localisation, personalisation, accessibility and monetisation, while maintaining the low la ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Poor dialogue intelligibility remains one of the biggest frustrations for audiences, yet there is no consistent way to measure or optimise speech clarity across the production and distribution chain. ...
IBC Content Everywhere
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    This session will explore how agentic AI is redefining the media value chain through multi-agent orchestration across content creation, supply chain, and distribution, and intelligent distribution at ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    Content Everywhere is no longer only a distribution challenge. For news broadcasters, it is now a real-time supply chain challenge: how to turn every live bulletin and VOD asset into the right format, ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    Untold Studios was the first creative studio to go all-in on the cloud, rebuilding its entire infrastructure on AWS from day one. Operating seamlessly across five global sites, the studio has scaled t ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    Live demo with Google Flow, an AI creative studio built with and for creatives. Join us for a walkthrough of how this platform helps teams experiment with their ideas, accelerate scene development, an ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    Ateme Media solutions deployed on Scaleway, from ingest, transcoding, packaging and Server Side Add Insertion to offer a concrete alternative with no network and egress costs.
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    As streaming enters the intelligence economy, profitability depends on the ability to predict and act in real time. Traditional billing systems are reactive, causing revenue leakage, slow product inno ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Zentag AI turns live sport into instant, social-ready content with no production team in the loop. In this 15 minute demonstration we will show the full pipeline running on its own, from a live feed t ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    Presenting Lumos, Saranyu’s agentic MicroDrama platform, built differently from conventional short-video and OTT platforms by leveraging three Saranyu product pillars: Lumos, Behavioral Observability, ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    The conversation around AI in streaming has largely focused on isolated use cases: copilots, chatbots, content recommendations, or workflow automation. But while many organizations are experimenting w ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    Sports consumption is changing rapidly. Younger audiences increasingly experience live sport through mobile devices, social platforms and short-form video rather than traditional television. Yet much ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    Why does every workflow still need its own copy of the media? In this session, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Norsk explore how TAMS enables a more open model: store media once, make it accessible ac ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    FAST has evolved from an emerging model into a mainstream viewing behaviour, but launching a channel is only the beginning. Operational complexity—from content ingestion and scheduling to distribution ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    A new sports pass, content bundle, discount or win-back campaign shouldn’t require weeks of coordination across mobile apps, app stores, billing systems and entitlement backends. In this live demo, we ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    Merapar will introduce AI-assisted sports production tools, engineered to solve the operational bottlenecks of sports and high-volume media asset management. Production teams contend with highly labou ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    As ad-supported streaming’s growth accelerates and pressure increases on broadcasters to grow revenue without compromising the viewer experience, new CTV ad formats present a huge opportunity to creat ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    AI is rapidly reshaping media production and live experiences, powering automated captioning, real-time content analytics, intelligent replay and dynamic graphics. This session shows how Cisco advance ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    In a challenging financial environment with reduced budgets and pressure to cut capital expenditure, innovation in business models becomes essential for broadcast and Media&Entertainment industry.This ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    Today’s sports organisations are operating in an increasingly complex ecosystem of broadcast, OTT, social, and direct-to-consumer platforms. Live content is no longer confined to a single endpoint, it ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    AI and edge infrastructure are transforming broadcasting with faster, smarter, secure video workflows. Find out how Edge AI brought viewers into a live stream through real-time AI-generated avatars. T ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    The CTV landscape is fragmenting faster than ever — moving in the opposite direction from the consolidation we see elsewhere in the media industry. Viewers expect seamless, personalised experiences ac ...
IBC Owner & Partners Programme
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    Conference Room 1
    Your ultimate guide to the State of MediaTech. This essential executives’ briefing will reveal how you can leverage the momentum of change at IBC, creating new business opportunities amid a rapidly ev ...
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    E102
    After 100 years of the Television Industry, change is in the air as we address the future of Television and its impact on Broadband Networks. Owner session run by SCTE
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    E102
    The direction of travel for television / video distribution has been towards Internet based delivery over fixed line and wireless networks for some time, and some markets are looking to make that tran ...
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    E102
    Broadband networks for years have been augmented to support large-scale video delivery using Adaptive Bit Rate technologies and CDNs. We are now seeing new technologies and reworks of older technologi ...
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    E102
    Getting Video to the edge of broadband networks is just one challenge but reliably delivering video within the last 10 metres - inside the home or on a mobile network - are seen as one of today's majo ...
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    E102
    A supercut of panellists ready to answer any question you have around what has been raised about the Network dimension of the move to Internet delivered video. Owner session run by SCTE
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    E102
    At IBC in 2019, MovieLabs started an important industry conversation. The MovieLabs Vision introduced a bold roadmap for a future many considered aspirational. Today, studios and technology companies ...
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    E105
    What does sustainable production look like when reliability, scale and performance cannot be compromised? This Media Tech Sustainability Series (MTSS) session examines two areas in which ambitious ide ...
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    E102
    As the evolution of television continues and is fully distributed via the Internet, how is this occurring and which platforms, both in creative production and distribution, have the strongest reach, s ...
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    E105
    How much energy does streaming actually use? Right now, the industry mostly guesses. Greening of Streaming (GoS), the global member-driven non-profit, is changing that — building the tools and uniting ...
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    E102
    Freed from the reach of a transmitter, broadcasters can now reach anyone. But borderless distribution is only half the story: it changes the programmes themselves. This panel explores how an internet- ...
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    E102
    It used to be all about being on the first page of the EPG, now it is about being in control of or being on the home screen. We are here to talk about the commercial, technical and policy realities of ...
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    E102
    In a world of peak content, of 5000 channels and billions of assets, how does a viewer find what they want to watch? What are the technologies that matter? Is it all about Metadata and what is the rol ...
IBC Showcase
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    Showcase Theatre
    Artificial intelligence has moved from novelty to necessity across the media and entertainment value chain. What began as isolated experiments in metadata tagging and recommendation engines is now res ...
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    Showcase Theatre
    Industry leaders from across telcos, broadcasters and the wider ecosystem will discuss how AI is reshaping media operations, from content creation to monetisation. As audience fragmentation increases ...
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    Showcase Theatre
    This summer’s World Cup once again showed what happens when the world turns up at the same time. Millions of viewers, enormous traffic peaks and no room for interruption make major live events the ult ...
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    Showcase Theatre
    AI agents are starting to move beyond demos and become part of how media companies actually operate. They can help teams find content, prepare campaigns, create different versions, manage metadata, te ...
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    Showcase Theatre
    Join Sony, together with Stephan Heimbecher SWR,  David Knapp CEO  AV-Professional, who recently delivered an exceptional Live Multicamera PoC and Roberto Iacoviello representing the European Broadcas ...
IBC Future Tech
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    Future Tech Stage
    Real-time hybrid filmmaking - the convergence of performance capture, LED virtual production, and generative AI into a single unified pipeline - is fundamentally changing how stories get made. Adam Jo ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Live rights remain central to the value of sports media, but audiences increasingly expect more than simply watching the match. They want personalised experiences, faster access to highlights, richer ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    As artificial intelligence becomes embedded across content creation, editorial, localisation, archive management, and media operations, organisations face a fundamental question: who controls the inte ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Imagine opening your Adobe Premiere Pro Productions or DaVinci Resolve Cloud project tomorrow morning and discovering there's a new editor on the team.That's Eddie.Not another app.Not another website. ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Everyone has heard AI dubbing that reads a script. Drama is where it breaks: overlapping dialogue, whispers, sarcasm, a performance the audience already believes. This demo shows an AI dubbing system ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    In an age of content abundance, how can media organisations advance their use of AI to better unlock the value of content across the entire lifecycle, from creative decisions before launch to audience ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    On 2 August 2026, Article 50 of the EU AI Act became applicable: AI-generated content must carry machine-readable marking, and substantially altered content a visible label. Most video teams cannot ye ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Discover how AI is transforming broadcast accessibility with the introduction of live German Sign Language (DGS) translation. In this joint demonstration, Signapse and G&L Systemhaus will showcase how ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    We’ll show how plain X is enabling broadcasters to quickly put agency feeds with live translated subtitles on-air, meet the European Accessibility Act requirements (e.g., subtitles, audio description) ...
Future Tech Ignite
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    Ignite Stage
     
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    Ignite Stage
    Media Cartographer Evan Shapiro and Marion Ranchet, founder of Streaming Made Easy, return to the Ignite Stage for Start-up Day, offering a masterclass and clinic for media tech innovators
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    Ignite Stage
    Recent incidents and TPN STAR Report findings suggest many companies wouldn't be. Join TPN, ACE, NBCUniversal, Netflix, and Once Upon a Time Agency for an engaging discussion on the lessons learned fr ...
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    Ignite Stage
     
    • Future Tech Ignite
    Ignite Stage
    Meet the technology and business innovators shaping the future of our industry. This session will feature a host of 5-minute pitches from start-up companies involved in this year’s Future Tech Ignite ...
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    Ignite Stage
    Europe produces world-class creativity, research and media innovation, yet too few European companies become global industry leaders. As AI accelerates change and competition intensifies, what will it ...
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    Ignite Stage
    Europe has the talent. Why isn't it winning? Drawing on new independent research from Ampere Analysis, this session examines the structural changes reshaping the global media industry and why Europe f ...
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    Ignite Stage
    Securing funding is only the beginning. Turning an innovative idea into a successful media business requires customers, partnerships, investment, and the ability to scale. Through two candid fireside ...
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    Ignite Stage
    Meet the technology and business innovators shaping the future of our industry. This session will feature a host of 5-minute pitches from start-up companies involved in this year’s Future Tech Ignite ...
IBC Accelerators
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    Future Tech Stage
    This session demonstrates a fundamental disruption of live streaming core foundations, moving beyond pixel transmission to an architecture of pure intelligence. Delta Protocol leverages AI to define a ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Every newsroom runs on integration. Decades of it teaching our systems to talk to each other. None of it taught them what the story means. As those systems become intelligent, that context, currently ...
IBC Content Everywhere
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    The live video supply chain and the programmatic advertising ecosystem have operated in parallel for too long — one optimizing for signal reliability, the other for audience monetization. That gap is ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    The relationship between sports organisations and their audiences is changing. Leagues, federations and clubs are investing in their own streaming platforms, content teams and digital channels to buil ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    BBC shares the value analysis behind its assessment of production in the cloud, covering the business drivers, evaluation methodology, results and lessons learned across the production lifecycle.
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    Web standards are ever evolving, and media-related web standards are no exception. It feels like just a few years ago that Media Source Extensions (MSE) completely turned the world of in-browser playe ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    Live sports is one of the hardest tests for any streaming platform. Fans arrive around the same peak moments, move between screens, follow conversations in parallel, and want more than the match itsel ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    Using C2PA for live-streaming is currently limited in the C2PA Live Video specification to content packaged using the ISO BMFF standard (fMP4, CMAF) and does not yet support other containers, such as ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    Live sports remain one of the most valuable assets in media, but fans increasingly expect more than simply watching the game. They want a destination that helps them discover content, follow teams and ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    GStreamer is a modular multimedia framework that has proven to be useful in multiple areas in the last 25 years. This talk will present some applications of the technology. GStreamer Editing Services ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    Live rights remain central to the value of sports media, but audiences are increasingly engaging with content outside live match windows. Documentary series, behind-the-scenes access, short-form socia ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    Generative AI is not a replacement for human artistry, it is the ultimate creative collaborator. As a veteran Hollywood producer turned technology leader, Google Cloud’s Buzz Hays explores how generat ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
     
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    How can a player specialized in non-theatrical film and TV content licensing and distribution digitalize provisioning while ensuring bulletproof copyright protection? Join this exclusive fireside chat ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    S.L. Benfica will take the stage to tell the story of Benfica Play, Portugal's first football OTT platform, built on our InsysGO solution and launched in just four weeks. Their (representative) leads ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    MainStreaming and T Wholesale (Deutsche Telekom) have jointly developed the Live Stream On Demand Delivery Platform: a fully managed Private Edge Network that gives broadcasters and OTT platforms acce ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    The 2026 World Cup is Argentina’s biggest entertainment event: 104 matches over 39 days, across multiple time zones, with most subscribers unable to watch everything live. For Personal (formerly Telec ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    Personalization is essential for media platforms, but strict regional regulations often lead services to believe that AI personalization is not possible. Most recommendation engines are black box solu ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    For three decades, Opta has been the data engine behind the sports stories broadcasters, publishers and rights-holders tell every day. This session marks that milestone by looking forward: how AI is t ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    The streaming industry has long been forced to compromise, trapped in a trade-off between the sub-second latency of WebRTC and the massive, cost-effective scalability of traditional HTTP-based streami ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    This session explores how DRM and other revenue security technologies can be effectively combined to provide the best protected video delivery service for live and on-demand content. AT EZDRM we illus ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    The sports rights market now extends far beyond traditional broadcast partnerships. Streaming platforms, social media services, FAST channels and creator-led ecosystems (including podcast providers) a ...
IBC Owner & Partners Programme
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    E105
    Ecoflow X is the industry's experiementation arm for sustainable streaming, coming to IBC 2026 with a two hour mini conference covering:• Ecoflow X: From Signals to Impact• Technical Session: Digital ...
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    E102
    The Future Media Townhall will focus on the latest developments and implementation of connected media applications including both the technology and commercial perspectives. The event will feature a c ...
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    E105
    The way audiences consume content is evolving rapidly, driven by the growth of streaming platforms, cloud-based production, IP workflows, and the demand for live, high-quality experiences across multi ...
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    E105
    The move towards Internet Delivered Video was defined by early adopters working around the trials and tribulations of making things work, not necessarily work well. That is not good enough today, and ...
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    E105
    For most of the time we have had with Internet delivered video, it was early adopters who broke through the user interface mental load of how to make it work, but the viewer is the mainstream audience ...
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    E102
    As media organisations lean further into AI and cloud infrastructure, questions of control, dependency, and resilience are moving to the centre of the technology agenda. This panel explores what sover ...
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    E105
    After decades of buying a TV and just plugging it to an antenna cable, the Internet has different needs to connections. From having to fiddle with logins and installing applications, to the changes to ...
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    E102
    Before exploring the Dynamic Media Facility (DMF) vision, it is important to understand why it exists. This session examines the industry challenges that DMF addresses and why traditional facility arc ...
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    E105
    RISE Awards shortlist announcement
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    E102
    OGraf is an open specification for HTML5 graphics developed by the EBU.OGraf lets users design graphics with common web technologies and play them back on many different systems (OGraf compliant) —no ...
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    E102
    Innovation thrives when open collaboration and formal consensus-based standardization work hand in hand. Open-source communities rapidly develop and refine technologies, while standards bodies establi ...
IBC Showcase
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    Showcase Theatre
    Audience loyalty now demands context, not just content. Move beyond simple metadata to deliver hyper-personalised, real-time experiences. Discover how leading companies use multimodal AI to reason acr ...
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    Showcase Theatre
    The industry is evolving at breakneck speed, and the key to keeping pace isn't just faster tools—it’s empowering the creatives and business user alike. As production and distribution demands scale, le ...
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    Showcase Theatre
    In an era of relentless demand for fresh content, the bottleneck is rarely the size of the idea—it is the time it takes to bring it to life. Today, visionary production teams are leveraging generative ...
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    Showcase Theatre
    A single tournament can now be monetised through a dozen different models simultaneously: free-to-air in one market, SVOD in another, a one-off event pass in a third, and bundled with a telco in a fou ...
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    Showcase Theatre
    Your best editor finishes their shift. Someone on the other side of the world picks it up without missing a beat. No calls, no file transfers, no ""which version is this?"" That's how DAZN operates ac ...
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    Showcase Theatre
    The broadcast industry is undergoing a profound transformation as software-defined technologies reshape the way content is produced, managed and delivered. As audiences demand faster turnaround times, ...
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    Showcase Theatre
    MOQ is more than a new transport protocol. It is a new way to build live video delivery, where cloud, CDN, player, and content teams work together. Paramount, Oracle, and Netskrt will showcase how the ...
IBC Future Tech
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    Future Tech Stage
    Deepdub, a foundational voice AI company trusted by major Hollywood studios and global streaming platforms, will show how agentic AI orchestration has evolved from a single AI dubbing co-worker into a ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Video has become the world's dominant medium, but language remains its biggest barrier. Every day, millions of hours of content are created across streaming platforms, television, sports, social media ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    EYZFlow is an AI-powered platform for intelligent, automated video workflows across accessibility, localisation and delivery. This product demo will show how EYZFlow uses multimodal Video RAG to under ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Weather content production is undergoing a fundamental shift, and this session showcases how Baron is leading that transformation. We explore three technologies reshaping how broadcasters deliver weat ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    While breakthrough creative tools capture the headlines, the day-to-day business of media depends on seamless collaboration, trusted data, and fast decisions across production, distribution, audience ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Discover how to eliminate costly, manual media tasks and seamlessly bridge the gap between traditional post-production and AI. Join us for a live demonstration of Ation Flow (https://ation.it), a scal ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Media companies are sitting on a fortune - held back by the Rights and Royalties workflows that should be unlocking it. Complex, time-consuming processes slow things down and suppress margin. Vistex B ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Eluvio’s CEO & Co-Founder, Michelle Munson, will demonstrate how Eluvio’s Content Fabric transforms live broadcast and D2C streaming—replacing legacy satellite, point-to-point fiber, and ground-to-clo ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    As media organisations move beyond AI experimentation, the focus is shifting towards building the AI infrastructure, data foundations and operational capabilities needed for successful enterprise AI a ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Every broadcast application ships its most valuable intellectual property directly to potential attackers. Whether it's DRM implementations, proprietary media processing algorithms, or embedded AI mod ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Highlight production has passed through two eras: manual editing that could not keep pace with live audiences, followed by fully automated tools that delivered speed but often produced generic, contex ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Photorealistic Immersive 3D applications have been enriched by recent advances in Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and Gaussian Splatting based volumetric rendering technologies as well as increasing XR c ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    Join this live demonstration of SPAIQ Linq, an AI-powered Visual Intelligence Transport technology that helps preserve critical video information across low-bandwidth and unstable links. Through a rea ...
Future Tech Ignite
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    Ignite Stage
     
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    Ignite Stage
    Europe's next generation of media innovators takes the stage. In this fast-paced showcase, EIT Culture & Creativity-supported startups present innovative solutions to real industry challenges, sharing ...
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    Ignite Stage
    This session, led by Caretta Research, will explore the new media landscape driven by the creator and experience economies, the AV Broadcast dynamic, and what it all means for industry talent pools, c ...
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    Ignite Stage
    Last year, Women in Industries of Tomorrow challenged audiences to ""Persevere and Get Sh*t Done"", a conversation about resilience, leadership and breaking barriers in industries undergoing rapid tra ...
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    Ignite Stage
    Rapidly changing technology – such as the explosion of Gen AI, hybrid workflows, and immersive entertainment – has disrupted traditional talent pipelines, creating new demands for skills and reskillin ...
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    Ignite Stage
    Allyship in media and entertainment can unlock potential by improving access, visibility, and development opportunities for emerging and existing talent. Through listening, opening doors, amplifying v ...
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    Ignite Stage
    Meaningful professional connections can open doors to new opportunities, ideas and collaborations. Yet for many women in the broadcast industry, starting those conversations doesn't always come natura ...
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    Ignite Stage
    Meet the technology and business innovators shaping the future of our industry. This session will feature a host of 5-minute pitches from start-up companies involved in this year’s Future Tech Ignite ...
IBC Accelerators
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    Future Tech Stage
    This team of world-leading broadcasters and mobile network operators will discuss and demonstrate PoCs at major events harnessing open network APIs such as CAMARA Quality on Demand that help transform ...
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    Future Tech Stage
    This exciting, immersive-focussed IBC Accelerator united the finest cohort of broadcasters, academia, VR production teams and Spatial Audio tech pioneers that developed groundbreaking R&D to redefine ...
IBC Content Everywhere
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    Live sports delivery increasingly depends on a managed mix of fibre, satellite, internet, 5G and edge infrastructure. This session examines how broadcasters and sports organisations can use hybrid con ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    The risk of oblivion looms over the entire digital film industry. While established celluloid preservation practices have fallen by the wayside, in the minds of film producers and other rights owners ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    After years of powering thousands of Tier-1 live sports events in "stealth mode", Tiledmedia is now making Fabric generally available. Tiledmedia Fabric is actually much more than just a transcoding p ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    As premium sports rights move from linear channels into OTT, live events are exposing the limits of streaming infrastructure designed for more predictable on-demand workloads. Sig Luft would discuss w ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    AI in media today is a patchwork of point tools bolted onto legacy pipelines. This talk presents a different approach: an AI-native content system built from the ground up, where generative models (ph ...
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    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    AuroraVision, NAB 2026 Product of the Year for Intelligent Technology, is Visionular's AI-native live production platform. It replaces specific hardware dependencies in live sports workflows with real ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    AI is reshaping the media content supply chain. See how Helix, Whip Media's AI-native platform, orchestrates rights, avails, metadata, content performance, royalties, and revenue management within a s ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    Every major broadcaster and sports league has the same challenge: their content can reach every screen in the world, but it still speaks only one language. CAMB.AI is changing that. Join us for a live ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    AI can help your teams reduce workloads in the area of content management, content creation, localisation and distribution. This session will explore the latest cutting-edge AI workflows to reduce man ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    Live sport is a demanding environment for captioning: commentary is fast, names and specialist terminology change constantly, and captions must remain synchronised without disrupting the broadcast cha ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    As OTT video consumption grows, residential Wi-Fi has become a critical part of the content delivery chain. Most in-home video traffic now relies on wireless connectivity, making Wi-Fi performance a d ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    Every camera in a live sports broadcast produces two feeds: one for live broadcast and one for everything else. This second feed is where extended engagement (and new revenue) is being unlocked. In th ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    In 5 years, will telco and broadband operators still own the customer relationship, or will they become invisible connectivity providers while someone else controls discovery, engagement and monetisat ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    Live sport is the most demanding environment for subtitling. Commentary moves fast, terminology is highly specialised, and the cost of a missed word or dropped stream is measured in regulatory penalti ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    As sports streaming platforms expand across APAC and beyond, delivering live events at scale is increasingly complex. Audiences expect real-time, interactive viewing in 4K/HDR. APAC brings challenges ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    Newsrooms know their audiences have moved beyond the linear bulletin, but turning every live broadcast into platform-ready content is still too slow, manual and expensive. In this 15-minute demo, Amag ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    What if every fan could choose their language while watching a live event?Be among the first to experience LEXI Link, AI-Media's Proof of Concept for delivering real-time captions, translations & mult ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    The satellite-to-IP transition is no longer a future roadmap item. The pressure to move is real, the technology is ready, and the business case is compelling.Amagi and Zixi share the stage to present ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    Vela will demonstrate the AdStrategy and Argos solutions in its inference Platform.AdStrategy autonomously detects, logs, captures, and analyzes ads and advertisers on all competitive channels/streams ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    Every engineering leader is under pressure to show measurable efficiency from AI tooling. For web and mobile, that story is becoming familiar. For connected devices — TVs, set-top boxes, consoles, aut ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    For decades, the world's biggest sporting events have shaped the future of television. From colour broadcasting to HD and UHD, major sports have often been the catalyst for industry-wide transformatio ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    Twelve consecutive years as Denmark's best-rated internet provider. 315,000+ customers. A premium brand built on quality. So why did Waoo, Denmark's third-largest ISP, decide to stop running its own T ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    The 2026 FIFA World Cup is the most demanding live streaming stress test ever conducted on the global internet. The United States' opening match against Paraguay became the most-watched football match ...
IBC Owner & Partners Programme
    • IBC Owner & Partners Programme
    E105
    The broadcast and media technology industry is actively seeking more diverse voices on stage. From keynote presentations and expert talks to panel discussions and fireside chats, there has never been ...
    • IBC Owner & Partners Programme
    E102
    The integration of satellite communications into 5G standards is accelerating the convergence of space and terrestrial connectivity. Through 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN), satellite systems are be ...
    • IBC Owner & Partners Programme
    E102
    Introduction to the technologies under the hood of the Internet transition – the alphabet spaghetti of acronyms that have real importance to the next decade. Owner session run by IET
    • IBC Owner & Partners Programme
    E102
    The infrastructure layer — how broadcasters are fusing one-to-many broadcast with one-to-one IP streaming. This opens the technical arc: mapping how broadcasters and streamers are re-engineering infra ...
    • IBC Owner & Partners Programme
    E102
    The intelligence layer — where GenAI and machine learning is already paying for itself, and where the hype gets ahead of the reality.The industry's biggest current lever on both cost and experience ru ...
    • IBC Owner & Partners Programme
    E102
    The monetisation layer — how the broadcast signal itself is becoming an addressable, data-rich ad platform.Covers addressable and targeted advertising technology — identity, measurement, server-side a ...
    • IBC Owner & Partners Programme
    E102
    The responsibility layer — closing the track on the environmental cost of everything discussed in the previous three sessions.Covers measuring and reducing energy use across the full streaming chain — ...
    • IBC Owner & Partners Programme
    E105
    The European Digital Cinema Forum (EDCF) returns to IBC to host its Global Cinema Seminar, one of the industry's most authoritative annual forums on cinema technology and its future.What sets the EDCF ...
    • IBC Owner & Partners Programme
    E102
    As the media landscape grows ever more complex, broadcast radio's unique strengths - universal reach, trusted content, resilience in a crisis - have never mattered more. With the EU's Digital Networks ...
IBC Showcase
    • IBC Showcase
    Showcase Theatre
    As novel technological advancements come online, adoption has historically unfolded over three stages. First, individuals and enterprises apply the new technology to existing processes. Then, they use ...
    • IBC Showcase
    Showcase Theatre
     
    • IBC Showcase
    Showcase Theatre
    The media and connectivity landscape is evolving rapidly. Traditional broadcast infrastructure remains critical, while IP, managed connectivity and new LEO satellite networks are creating entirely new ...
    • IBC Showcase
    Showcase Theatre
    This session presents the story behind Newsmax Ukraine, a new Ukrainian news operation created through close collaboration between Broadcast Solutions, nxtedition and Newsmax. The speakers will take t ...
IBC Future Tech
    • IBC Future Tech
    Future Tech Stage
    Audiences are no longer limited by geography but reaching them requires media organisations to rethink how content is adapted, localised and delivered across markets. This panel explores how media org ...
    • IBC Future Tech
    Future Tech Stage
    Everyone's shipping an MCP server right now — and most are making the same mistake: wrapping an existing API 1:1 and handing it to an LLM. It looks fast. It's the wrong move. A raw API was built for a ...
    • IBC Future Tech
    Future Tech Stage
    Suitest is introducing a dedicated solution for network operators and pay TV providers that combines continuous service monitoring, testing of the Android TV OS and Performance Analytics into a unifie ...
Future Tech Ignite
    • Future Tech Ignite
    Ignite Stage
     
    • Future Tech Ignite
    Ignite Stage
    Meet the technology and business innovators shaping the future of our industry. This session will feature a host of 5-minute pitches from start-up companies involved in this year’s Future Tech Ignite ...
    • Future Tech Ignite
    Ignite Stage
    While many courses provide an excellent educational foundation for work in the media industry, grabbing opportunities to gain work experience should be at the forefront of all students' minds. In this ...
    • Future Tech Ignite
    Ignite Stage
    This two-part session will showcase the skills of the next generation. Part 1 will be led by representatives from the independent industry initiative On-Air, who will discuss the inner workings of the ...
    • Future Tech Ignite
    Ignite Stage
    To close the Ignite Stage programme, we hand the forum of discussion over to the young people who will inherit the industry we are building today. Our student panel will tell the industry ‘what’s impo ...
IBC Accelerators
    • IBC Accelerators
    Future Tech Stage
    When standard delivery methods fail, what matters most isn't perfect picture quality - it's ensuring that the information that matters still gets through and can be trusted. Q-Stream Alpha explores a ...
    • IBC Accelerators
    Future Tech Stage
    This Accelerator will showcase and discuss its work to prototype, test and validate a practical, decision-ready digital twin workflow for broadcast and virtual production planning, culminating in an i ...
IBC Content Everywhere
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    As younger audiences increasingly consume creator content, gaming, social video, and streaming services on the biggest screen in the home, traditional definitions of television are changing. Drawing o ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    Live video has moved far beyond traditional broadcast. Interactive sports betting, live casino, virtual production, and real-time commerce are all use cases that now have video at the center, and each ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    How does a football club build a full-fledged streaming platform — without an army of developers and without depending on hyperscalers? Blue Billywig shows how football club AZ Alkmaar does it, and un ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 2
    Micro-Dramas — short, vertical, binge-ready stories — are the fastest-growing format in streaming, and they are rewriting the rules of engagement and revenue. In this session, inoRain explores how ope ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    Media companies are sitting on decades of footage that costs money to store and earns nothing until someone can find the right clip. This session covers how TwelveLabs turns undiscoverable archives in ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    IO River introduces an innovative approach to video streaming by steering CDN traffic based on CMCD (Common Media Client Data) metrics. CMCD is an industry standard for measuring video QoE, widely sup ...
    • IBC Content Everywhere
    IBC Content Everywhere Stage 1
    India recorded 246 million unique digital viewers during the ICC T20 Cricket Match Finals, and 228.4 million for IPL 2026. High traffic volume during these events caused severe network congestion and ...
IBC Showcase
    • IBC Showcase
    Showcase Theatre
    How do you turn a practical archive problem into a strategic AI opportunity? In this panel, leaders from CBS, TwelveLabs, and Mimir will discuss how a large-scale archive initiative evolved from a sto ...