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Why Exhibit?

At IBC2025, Hall 14 welcomed industry innovators like Microsoft, Google, AWS, Mo-Sys, 3Play, CaptionHub, Deepdub, Files.com, Monks (formerly Media Monks), Tata Communications, Veritone, Ultra HD Forum - and many more.

Now 30% larger year-on-year, Future Tech is the fastest-growing area of the show, attracting a highly engaged audience of media executives, technology buyers, and industry pioneers who are actively seeking solutions like yours.

By exhibiting here, you’ll stand shoulder-to-shoulder with global tech leaders and trailblazing startups, all showcasing breakthrough products and services that are transforming the industry.

Growing in scale and impact, with strong commercial backing, Future Tech reflects what makes IBC unique: innovation not just imagined, but built, tested, and applied in a real-world context.

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Future Tech Ignite

Future Tech Ignite is the home of start-ups, emerging talent, future skills and entrepreneurial thinking at IBC2026.

Delivered with EIT Culture & Creativity as Innovation Partner, Future Tech Ignite brings together students, creators, technologists, start-ups, investors, educators and industry leaders to explore how new ideas can become real opportunities for the media and entertainment industry.

By exhibiting here, you’ll be in the spotlight of what buyers want now - and next.

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Future Tech Themes 

Explore the technologies shaping the next era of media and entertainment.

Including Microsoft, Vionlabs, NHK, Mosys, Magycal, AudioShake, Deepdub, Avid and Orange Logic.

Future Tech brings together emerging companies, innovators and established technology leaders, showcasing breakthrough solutions and real-world applications - giving visitors direct access to the ideas, technologies and companies shaping what comes next.

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Future Tech Features

Future Tech Ignite 

Future Tech is now a central destination at IBC, where new ideas meet real industry adoption. 

Future Tech will feature a Start-Up Zone featuring 30–40 emerging companies.

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Accelerator Innovation Programme

The Accelerator Innovation Programme  continues to grow in scale and impact, with a clear focus on real-world innovation. Supported by Google as Headline Sponsor and EIT Culture & Creativity as Innovation Partner. 

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IBC Exchange

IBC continues to strengthen how value is delivered through new and enhanced engagement formats such as IBC Exhchange, a new layer of structured, peer-led conversations enabling deeper, more focused knowledge sharing.

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Future Tech Networking Hub

The Future Tech Networking Hub will be the perfect place to connect with attendees, host informal meetings, have business-led conversations and form connections that extend past the show.

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The Future Tech Stage

Future Tech Stage:
This stage will feature exclusive sessions, tech demos, and expert debates, attracting a constant flow of visitors.

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Next-generation Talent & Creators

IBC2026 Future Tech will deliver depth of engagement – not just scale. Hall 14 will host a Podcast Studio, as well as Skills & Development Programme, incorporating the IBC Talent Programme plus Hackfest, Creator and dedicated student initiatives.

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2026 Future Tech Agenda

Future Tech Stage

Free to Attend

  1. Future Tech Stage
    In a multi-platform world, how are media companies building distribution strategies to realise the f ...
  2. Future Tech Stage
    The TV and Film industry struggles to accelerate creative iteration while maintaining standards, ham ...
  3. Future Tech Stage
    AI agents can now orchestrate multiple real-time transformations of live content, enabling use cases ...
  4. Future Tech Stage
    Join Quickture for the premiere of our most ambitious release since the company’s launch. We're unve ...
  5. Future Tech Stage
    "In today’s hyper-connected media landscape, live event broadcasters face a major operational challe ...
  6. Future Tech Stage
    Broadcasters lose audiences they never see: viewers who tune out when commentary is buried, global f ...
  7. Future Tech Stage
    "A live demo of practical AI in production: hybrid search, combining full-text matching with semanti ...
  8. Future Tech Stage
    Poor dialogue intelligibility remains one of the biggest frustrations for audiences, yet there is no ...
Ignite Stage
  1. Ignite Stage
    With a trove of exclusive new data from around the world, Evan Shapīro, Media’s Cartographer, reveal ...
  2. Ignite Stage
    Recent research from IAMT seeks to better understand the current landscape for media and entertainme ...
  3. Ignite Stage
    Strengthening the relationship between the industry and the education sector is seen as ‘mission cri ...
  4. Ignite Stage
    How can Europe help emerging talent turn bold ideas into media experiences people actually want to w ...
  5. Ignite Stage
    Some of the most important issues facing the industry extend beyond technology and business strategy ...
  6. Ignite Stage
    Everyone’s using AI now. To write, to edit, to speed things up, to “generate ideas”. But let’s be ho ...
  7. Ignite Stage
    Meet the technology and business innovators shaping the future of our industry. This session will fe ...
Future Tech Stage

Free to Attend

  1. Future Tech Stage
    This session demonstrates a fundamental disruption of live streaming core foundations, moving beyond ...
  2. Future Tech Stage
    Live rights remain central to the value of sports media, but audiences increasingly expect more than ...
  3. Future Tech Stage
    As artificial intelligence becomes embedded across content creation, editorial, localisation, archiv ...
  4. Future Tech Stage
    "Imagine opening your Adobe Premiere Pro Productions or DaVinci Resolve Cloud project tomorrow morni ...
  5. Future Tech Stage
    "Everyone has heard AI dubbing that reads a script. Drama is where it breaks: overlapping dialogue, ...
  6. Future Tech Stage
    "In an age of content abundance, how can media organisations advance their use of AI to better unloc ...
  7. Future Tech Stage
    Every newsroom runs on integration. Decades of it teaching our systems to talk to each other. None o ...
  8. Future Tech Stage
    "On 2 August 2026, Article 50 of the EU AI Act became applicable: AI-generated content must carry ma ...
  9. Future Tech Stage
    "Discover how AI is transforming broadcast accessibility with the introduction of live German Sign L ...
  10. Future Tech Stage
    We’ll show how plain X is enabling broadcasters to quickly put agency feeds with live translated sub ...
Ignite Stage
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  2. Ignite Stage
    Media Cartographer Evan Shapiro and Marion Ranchet, founder of Streaming Made Easy, return to the Ig ...
  3. Ignite Stage
    Recent incidents and TPN STAR Report findings suggest many companies wouldn't be. Join TPN, ACE, NBC ...
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  5. Ignite Stage
    "Meet the technology and business innovators shaping the future of our industry. This session will f ...
  6. Ignite Stage
    Europe produces world-class creativity, research and media innovation, yet too few European companie ...
  7. Ignite Stage
    Europe has the talent. Why isn't it winning? Drawing on new independent research from Ampere Analysi ...
  8. Ignite Stage
    Securing funding is only the beginning. Turning an innovative idea into a successful media business ...
Future Tech Stage

Free to Attend

  1. Future Tech Stage
    "Deepdub, a foundational voice AI company trusted by major Hollywood studios and global streaming pl ...
  2. Future Tech Stage
    "Video has become the world's dominant medium, but language remains its biggest barrier. Every day, ...
  3. Future Tech Stage
    "EYZFlow is an AI-powered platform for intelligent, automated video workflows across accessibility, ...
  4. Future Tech Stage
    "Weather content production is undergoing a fundamental shift, and this session showcases how Baron ...
  5. Future Tech Stage
    This team of world-leading broadcasters and mobile network operators will discuss and demonstrate Po ...
  6. Future Tech Stage
    "While breakthrough creative tools capture the headlines, the day-to-day business of media depends o ...
  7. Future Tech Stage
    "Discover how to eliminate costly, manual media tasks and seamlessly bridge the gap between traditio ...
  8. Future Tech Stage
    "Media companies are sitting on a fortune - held back by the Rights and Royalties workflows that sho ...
  9. Future Tech Stage
    Eluvio will discuss the first commercially available means to replace legacy satellite distribution, ...
  10. Future Tech Stage
    "As media organisations move beyond AI experimentation, the focus is shifting towards building the A ...
  11. Future Tech Stage
    "Every broadcast application ships its most valuable intellectual property directly to potential att ...
  12. Future Tech Stage
    "Highlight production has passed through two eras: manual editing that could not keep pace with live ...
  13. Future Tech Stage
    Photorealistic Immersive 3D applications have been enriched by recent advances in Neural Radiance Fi ...
  14. Future Tech Stage
    "Join this live demonstration of SPAIQ Linq, an AI-powered Visual Intelligence Transport technology ...
  15. Future Tech Stage
    This exciting, immersive-focussed IBC Accelerator united the finest cohort of broadcasters, academia ...
Ignite Stage
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  2. Ignite Stage
    Europe's next generation of media innovators takes the stage. In this fast-paced showcase, EIT Cultu ...
  3. Ignite Stage
    This session, led by Caretta Research, will explore the new media landscape driven by the creator an ...
  4. Ignite Stage
    "Last year, Women in Industries of Tomorrow challenged audiences to ""Persevere and Get Sh*t Done"", ...
  5. Ignite Stage
    Rapidly changing technology – such as the explosion of Gen AI, hybrid workflows, and immersive enter ...
  6. Ignite Stage
    Allyship in media and entertainment can unlock potential by improving access, visibility, and develo ...
  7. Ignite Stage
    "Meaningful professional connections can open doors to new opportunities, ideas and collaborations. ...
  8. Ignite Stage
    Meet the technology and business innovators shaping the future of our industry. This session will fe ...
Future Tech Stage

Free to Attend

  1. Future Tech Stage
    When standard delivery methods fail, what matters most isn't perfect picture quality - it's ensuring ...
  2. Future Tech Stage
    "Audiences are no longer limited by geography but reaching them requires media organisations to reth ...
  3. Future Tech Stage
    "Everyone's shipping an MCP server right now — and most are making the same mistake: wrapping an exi ...
  4. Future Tech Stage
    "Suitest is introducing a dedicated solution for network operators and pay TV providers that combine ...
  5. Future Tech Stage
    This Accelerator will showcase and discuss its work to prototype, test and validate a practical, dec ...
Ignite Stage
  1. Ignite Stage
     
  2. Ignite Stage
    Meet the technology and business innovators shaping the future of our industry. This session will fe ...
  3. Ignite Stage
     
  4. Ignite Stage
    "This two-part session will showcase the skills of the next generation. Part 1 will be led by repres ...
  5. Ignite Stage
    To close the Ignite Stage programme, we hand the forum of discussion over to the young people who wi ...

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