IBC2023 Accelerators Project: Authenticated Data Specification
The Authenticated Data Specification project is one of the eight Challenges in the 2023 cohort for IBC’s Accelerator Media Innovation Programme.

As well as being a music producer and composer, John Maxwell Hobbs is CEO of music tech startup Streamline, media consultant and the former Head of Technology at BBC Scotland.
The Authenticated Data Specification project is one of the eight Challenges in the 2023 cohort for IBC’s Accelerator Media Innovation Programme.
IBC’s Accelerator Media Innovation Programme will be showcasing eight projects in Amsterdam this year. Created in 2019 to provide a framework for agile, collaborative, and fast-track innovation, the programme offers a unique multi-company project-based approach to solving complex media and entertainment business and technology challenges, focused on hands-on experimentation.
Dr Alex Connock is a Senior Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and recently wrote a textbook on media and AI. He discussed AI through in the context of media perception with John Maxwell Hobbs.
While the two frontrunners in the NGA codec stakes are similar in many ways, a comparison of their background and frame of reference gives some interesting insights, writes John Maxwell Hobbs.
2022 marked the 10th anniversary of the first significant public demonstration of 8K television when NHK and the BBC co-operated to present the London Olympic Games on 15-meter-wide screens in London, Glasgow, and Bradford, writes John Maxwell Hobbs.
Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ has recently built out a range of new studio facilities. John Maxwell Hobbs gets the grand tour, and investigates some of the thinking driving visual studio design.