The all-new IBC Incubator 2025: Changing the Game Again levels up in multiple different ways. The core concept is a wide-ranging extension of the 2024 Accelerator ‘AI Media Production Labs’, retaining several of the veteran Champions and Participants, but also widening industry engagement.
ErinRose Widner, Verizon Business Global Head, sets the scene and explains how the companies involved have evolved from last year: “This year, we've had the benefit of having a few new companies and voices participate in the program including Chyron, BFBS, Channel 4, Google, University of Kent and Tesla Technologies* in addition to a few of us who have returned, including AMD, Xansr Media and Verizon Business.
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