John Maxwell Hobbs

IBC Conference: Netflix’s Victor Marti and Vancouver Media’s Migue Amoedo retraced a collaboration that demanded constant adaptability – switching from ARRI to RED, pioneering HDR, experimenting with LED volumes and rear projection, and adopting AI tools for previz and digital twins.

IBC Conference: YouTube’s Justine Ryst and Channel 4’s Grace Boswood joined moderator Sasha Quadri to challenge the idea that streaming giants and traditional broadcasters are locked in competition.

From semantic search to automated highlights, AI is moving beyond hype. At IBC2025’s CTO Roundtable, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) CTO Avi Saxena and ITV CTO Simon Farnsworth unpacked 250 live use cases, new ad-tech platforms, the need for genAI-native skills, and how cultural resistance is shaping the future of broadcast innovation.

IBC Conference: Media cartographer Evan Shapiro joined RTS Chief Executive Theresa Wise to dissect the evolving broadcast landscape and explore how traditional broadcasters can survive in a world increasingly defined by platforms, creators, and audience control.

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

The ‘Conquering the Air(waves): Private 5G from Land to Sea to Sky’ Accelerator project explores how deploying private 5G networks, particularly through airborne and mobile solutions, can dramatically transform live broadcast production.

BBC R&D’s Antonia Kerle will be speaking as part of the panel, Fighting Disinformation and Disengagement: Staying Relevant in the Digital Age, alongside representatives from Euronews, News UK, Al Jazeera, and PA Media Group.

With the potential shutdown of digital terrestrial and satellite television in view, broadcasters are focusing on ways to deliver live television over public IP networks without losing the latency, stability, or quality that audiences expect.

ScreenSkills’ latest e-learning initiative aims to demystify, educate and expand the world of post-production across all levels of the industry. John Maxwell Hobbs reports.

The Master Control Cloud project, part of the 2025 IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme, aims to build a proof-of-concept system that reimagines the traditional broadcast master control room as a scalable, cloud-native service.