The IBC Accelerators is celebrating its sixth year of bringing together broadcast and media tech innovators to collaborate and explore solutions to real-world challenges. As twelve shortlisted teams get ready to pitch their projects at the Accelerator Kickstart Day on 6 March, with a view to presenting demo PoC’s to an international audience at IBC2024, IBC365 asked last year’s Participants about the doors that the programme has opened and their biggest lessons learned.
Alumni members from two projects in 2023; 5G Motion Capture for Live Performance and Animation and Gallery Agnostic Live Production, shared their insight and experience.
Technology for Human Empathy
Echoing the programme’s ethos of collaboration, judges at last year’s Kickstart Day found synergies between two of the project pitches and the workstreams were merged. Roch Nakajima, President, Noitom International, Inc, was on one of the workstreams for 5G Motion Capture for Live Performance & Animation. Their focus was the inclusion and accessibility of children’s entertainment by leveraging 5G technology, regardless of location. He explained: “(2024) is our third year participating in the IBC Accelerators. Our project this time focused on delivering ground-breaking, real-time interactive animation to children in long-term cancer treatment.”...
You are not signed in
Only registered users can read the rest of this article.
SXSW London: Engagement, futurism and AI collide in East London
The inaugural South by Southwest London 2025 saw Shoreditch taken over by the US-founded creative festival brand, serving up a blend of business, tech and culture to an international audience, with delegates attending from 56 countries.
Hollywood is over: Time for creators to take charge
Film and TV professionals, studio executives and kit manufacturers are urged to open up to the creator economy or face ruin.
IBC Accelerators: AI Assistance Agents in Live Production
The IBC Accelerator project envisions AI-driven production assistants that seamlessly integrate into control room workflows, enhancing live production with intelligent automation.
The Bends: Hollywood studios unite to fast-track Veo 3 education
Google’s generative filmmaking tool Veo 3 sparks Hollywood exploration but creative ownership remains in flux.
Point of ingest: Reshaping media capture and pre‐edit workflows
While questions remain over genAI’s impact on the creative sector, few can argue against the automation of mundane tasks bringing order to unprecedented volumes of footage.
