Exploring Trends
The IBC2025 core pillars - Shifting Business Models, Transformative Tech and People & Purpose – will form a thread that ran through the entire event, from the innovations on the showfloor, to the features and content programmes taking place across the RAI.
At IBC2025, a line-up of over 325+ speakers across an expanded number of theatre halls will take to the stage to champion new technologies, future business models, and creative innovations that broaden the horizons of media and entertainment.
Launching at IBC2025, Future Tech will make Hall 14 the ultimate destination for media tech professionals eager to explore groundbreaking advancements. Immerse yourself in the latest innovations across AI, 5G, VR, sustainability, gaming, and more—all in one vibrant space designed to inspire and connect.
IABM, SMPTE, SCTE, IET, RTS and IEEE BTS are the six leading international bodies behind IBC. At this year's show, they will deliver a multitude of sessions covering a wide variety of topics from the latest business industry strategies to defining future networks.
The IBC2025 Partner Programme will deliver a multitude of free-to-attend sessions from the IBC owners and partners, covering a wide variety of topics from the latest industry standards and strategies for business transformation, to defining future networks and building new sustainable broadcast infrastructures.
The ever-popular IBC Showcase Theatre will return in Hall 8 for 2025, highlighting the latest innovations and solutions in media and entertainment. This 240+ attendee, purpose-built stage, offers free-to-attend sessions that covered strategic content from rapid growth market sectors.
A free-to-attend programme of panel discussions and product demonstrations devised to help IBC visitors explore different aspects of the delivery and consumption of content, covering everything from Advertising Tech, Cloud Services and Cyber Security to Multi-Platform Delivery, OTT equipment and Streaming.
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Streaming at scale to millions of viewers concurrently; AI taking centre stage to drive efficiency and innovation; ecosystems, collaborations and value chains shifting - this is broadcasting in 2025 and it’s showing no sign of losing momentum.
With disruption now the new normal, the industry is transforming at breakneck speed and broadcasters need to fundamentally rethink how they create, deliver and monetize content in an era where viewing habits change as quickly as the technology enabling them.
The IBC Conference explores the latest trends in content creation, distribution, and monetisation and how these shifts are shaping the future of media.
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IBC2025 offers a comprehensive line-up of innovative show features, designed to reflect the current landscape of media and entertainment and shape the future of technology through collaboration and education.
From the celebration of this year's prestigious IBC Innovation Awards and our new IBC Future Tech, the ultimate destination for groundbreaking advancement, to our Accelerator Media Innovation Programme, enabling fast-track, collaborative experiments to solve some of the complex challenges of transformative new technologies, catch up on all the features IBC2025 offered here.
- Business operations
- Supply chain
- Digital transformation
- Competitive landscape
- Consumer behaviour
- Distribution & content rights
- Customer acquisition & retention
- External economic factors
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- Artificial Intelligence, machine learning & analytics
- Cloud
- Next-Gen Adtech
- OTT / Streaming Technologies
- Connective Technologies
- Immersive Technologies
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- Diversity, equality, inclusion
- Sustainability & climate change
- Talent: recruitment & retention
- Skills & training
- Innovation & thought leadership
