Day four: the finale. Last chance to shine and soak up knowledge, discover never-seen-before innovations and round off more lasting connections. With the Conference programme already wrapped up, Monday is a great opportunity to explore everything else the showfloor and stages have to offer. And make sure you don’t miss the brand new IBC Talent Programme.
To help you tick off anything you are still curious about, here’s a helpful highlights guide for Day Four.
Innovation Stage
Starting with the incredibly innovative Accelerators programme, the team behind the three projects under the umbrella theme: “AI Media Innovation Lab” will explore a series of specific AI concepts in various production scenarios within this exciting, fast-moving and disruptive area of media and technology, at 10:45 on Hall 3’s Innovation Stage.
Next up at 12:15, the thinkers and do-ers behind the project: “IP Networks: Finding the Needle in the Haystack,” will demonstrate findings 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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