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The dawn of day two at IBC2025 brings even more chances to hear from and network with leading media and entertainment (M&E) experts. Across the show’s 14 halls, these international industry luminaries will showcase their knowledge, skills and technology, which have been designed for today’s most pressing challenges and opportunities. To navigate the whirlwind of content innovation, IBC365 has broken down some highlights for the day amongst the panel talks, demos, and masterclasses at Amsterdam’s RAI.

More realistic virtual and graphical environments, increased personalisation, and new opportunities for interactivity will be among the beneficiaries of combining XR and AI, writes David Davies.

Following its successful debut last year, the IBC Talent Programme returns on Friday 12 September with a full day of sessions featuring speakers from across the industry.

IBC2025 has opened its doors to the international media and entertainment industry.

Building on last year’s ECOFLOW accelerator project, phase II works to better understand the environmental impact of digital content distribution.

Martin Čehulić, CTO and Head of Production at FNC, reveals how the company designed and deployed its first OB van using the latest production systems from Blackmagic Design.

The Esports World Cup demonstrated a future in which competitive video gaming blends with traditional sport and entertainment on a global scale. Adrian Pennington reports.

The broad and ultimate goal of the Multi-Vendor Software Live Media Exchange project is to shift from current dedicated media exchange technologies to a software-based, native live media exchange. This will be able to harness HPC interconnect and compute resources asynchronously, a move that not only adds immense scalability, but also flexibility, cost savings and future-proofing into the bargain.

Drawing on insights from the IBC2025’s Technical Paper programme, Izzy Benham explores how AI is shaping the future of creative success in the media economy.

The prevailing narrative around AI in journalism frames automation as suitable mainly for “grunt work” – repetitive, low-stakes newsroom tasks. Yet, two award-shortlisted IBC2025 technical papers challenge this assumption in practice. Izzy Benham investigates.