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News
Applications now open for IBC Accelerators Kickstart Day 2025
Key insights, discussions and pitches for new media industry innovation project ideas are underway as attendance applications open for the IBC Accelerator Kickstart Day, on Wednesday 12 February 2025 at the BBC Broadcasting House, London.
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Daily News
IBC kicks off 2025 Accelerator Programme
IBC has announced the Call for Challenges for the 2025 Accelerator Media Innovation Programme, inviting proposals for transformative, fast-track innovation projects that will help shape the future of the media and entertainment technology sector. The deadline for submissions is Friday 6th December 2024.
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IBC Accelerator Programme 2025: Submissions now open!
IBC Accelerator Kickstart Day to take place at iconic BBC Radio Theatre as call for latest industry challenges gets underway.
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IBC Accelerators: Genesis of Digital Replicas and Talent ID concept
IBC2024: The Digital Replicas and Talent ID: Provenance, Verification and New Automated Workflows Accelerator project addresses issues tied to AI-generated content, virtual world representation, and talent provenance. By offering a distinct and standardised identification framework, it aims to streamline the authentication process, ensuring reliable verification of real individuals, virtual avatars, ...
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Commercial wins and IP Networks with Techex
Russell Trafford-Jones, Chair, IET Media Technical Network - Techex on why they focussed on the collective industry vision and the reality behind commercial wins in this Accelerator session on the project: IP Networks: Finding the Needle in the Haystack.
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Gen AI tools and skills for workflows: AI Media Innovation Labs
Roberto Iacoviello, Lead Research Engineer at Rai, talks about choosing the right GenAI tools and skills needed for traditional production workflows and game engine based workflows in the IBC2024 Accelerator session: AI Media Innovation Labs.
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Giving new tech a home: IP Networks with the BBC
From the wider project team behind one of the IBC Accelerator projects, Peter Brightwell, Lead Engineer at BBC emphasises the importance of taking new technolohies on board and tells us about the Accelerator’s collaborative and innovative workshops as part of the panel session, ’IP Networks: Finding the Needle in the ...
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Accelerating AI whilst championing diversity with Omroep ZWART
Resonating with a more diverse audience is an opportunity to make better content and grow engagement explains O’Jay Medina, Data Engineer & AI Innovation Lead at Omroep ZWART. Medina presents the AI Audience Validation Assistant (AAVA) Project, aimed to leverage off AI and data and create digital twins of taget ...
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IBC Accelerators: How the alteration of a digital replica can be identified
IBC2024: The Digital Replicas and Talent ID: Provenance, Verification and New Automated Workflows Accelerator project addresses issues tied to AI-generated content, virtual world representation, and talent provenance.
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IBC Accelerators: Essential requirements for reliable provenance verification
IBC2024: The Design Your Weapons in the Fight Against Disinformation Accelerator team presented their findings on the challenges faced today by all media outlets in identifying disinformation, helping audiences identify trustworthy news, information and images and the lengths that news organisations go to, to verify and authenticate sources and trace ...
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IBC Accelerators: When it comes to disinformation “the line between touch-up and manipulate is hard to call”
IBC2024: The Design Your Weapons in the Fight Against Disinformation Accelerator team presented their findings on the challenges faced today by all media outlets in identifying disinformation, helping audiences identify trustworthy news, information and images and the lengths that news organisations go to, to verify and authenticate sources and trace ...
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Accelerators - Evolution of the Control Room: helping content creators to produce a show “without advanced technical expertise”
Bringing the Control Room into the 21st Century - This ambitious accelerator project aims to combine voice control, XR, and AI to create a control room fit for the new world of media. This Challenge combines two original Accelerator 2024 proposals into a transformative, overarching project exploring the evolution of ...
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Industry Trends
IBC2024 Accelerator project: Scalable Ultra-Low Latency Streaming for Premium Sports
In the fast-evolving world of live sports broadcasting, latency has become one of the most critical issues. Broadcasters are increasingly looking for innovative solutions that can match or even surpass the performance of traditional broadcast systems.
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Accelerator session - AI Media Innovation Labs
In an IBC Accelerators first, the 2024 Programme will feature three very special challenges under an umbrella theme of ‘AI Media Production Lab’, featuring an all-star cast of Champions and Participants set out to explore a series of specific AI concepts in various production scenarios within this exciting, fast-moving and ...
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Accelerator session - Digital Replicas and Talent ID: Provenance, Verification and New Automated Workflows
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Industry Trends
IBC2024: Best of the Show
IBC recorded its strongest year yet post-pandemic with more than 45,000 visitors from 170 countries converging on the RAI Amsterdam from the 13-16 September.
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IBC Accelerators - Evolution of the Control Room: AI assistance unlocks potential for voice-controlled automation
The Evolution of the Control Room, leveraging XR, Voice, AI and HTML Based Graphic Solutions brings the control room into the 21st Century. This Challenge combines two original Accelerator 2024 proposals into a transformative, overarching project exploring the evolution of live production workflows – with two key streams of development. ...
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Accelerator session - Scalable Ultra-Low Latency Streaming for Premium Sports
This project seeks to achieve Twitter-equivalent latency and near-instant playback start using standard HTTP streaming technical stack and infrastructure. The areas explored will be the use of low-latency encoding and segment-based ingest, the latest low-delay extensions to MPEG DASH, and possible uses of MV-HEVC video codec and the QUIC protocol. ...
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Accelerator session - IP Networks: Finding the Needle in the Haystack
This will encompass researching and developing learnings around various AI tools and techniques to improve creativity and efficiency in production workflows, stamping out bias and AI hallucinations to embrace audience sentiments in content development, and exploring predictive video workflows in sports production.
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Accelerator session - Design Your Weapons in the Fight Against Disinformation
The goals of this Accelerator Challenge are to develop an industry -wide understanding on the challenges faced today by all media outlets in identifying disinformation, helping audiences identify trustworthy news, information and images and the lengths that news organisations go to, to verify and authenticate sources and trace the provenance ...