Podcasts

As broadcasters juggle an unprecedented volume of platforms and live content, control rooms are under growing pressure to merge legacy systems with cutting-edge tech. IBC2025 Accelerator Champions ITN, BBC, and Channel 4 set out to address this challenging situation – issuing a call for a purpose-built ecosystem of AI-driven production agents designed to fundamentally reimagine operators’ interaction with technology and, therefore, the future of live production galleries.

Even faced with a world overflowing with content, users still struggle to find media that appeals to them. Infinite choice has become more exhausting than liberating. To help navigate this maze and increase viewer engagement, this international Accelerator Special Incubator Project leveraged AI and ML to engineer a bespoke system that dynamically shapes content for fans.

Celebrating the company’s 100th anniversary, associate sponsor Shure shares insight into how it has survived and thrived for over a century by prioritising innovation, diversification, and evolution.

In an industry bursting with creativity and new ideas, how can technology be leveraged to realise theoretical concepts into practical applications most efficiently? Two of the leading enablers of IBC Accelerators examine the impact of the 2025 programme as well as its stand-out solutions of 2025.

With all manner of cutting-edge inventions looking to push the boundaries of the M&E industry at IBC’s Accelerating Innovation program, how is today’s technology keeping up with the demand? Associate sponsors AMD provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the CPU, GPU, and adaptive computing solutions that are powering the program’s creative solutions.

With AI flooding all aspects of the M&E value chain, how can new entrants and legacy players upskill with hands-on experience? At IBC2025, the high-intensity, two-day Google Hackfest brought together disparate digital innovators, engineers, content creators, and tech enthusiasts to share knowledge and forge the future of broadcast.

In an exceedingly complex and difficult-to-quantify industry, the fight to reduce global CO₂ emissions has become tougher than ever. To navigate this uncertainty, the IET, ITV, EBU, BT Media & Broadcast, Channel 4, Bouygues Telecom, and Greening of Streaming built a digital twin of a live distribution workflow to test real-world technologies and uncover energy-saving opportunities.

As generative AI charges into the content creation sector, how are production teams to face the barrage of new technologies without compromising on quality? With an eye on the future, ITV, Studio Deussen, and the University of Kent decided to answer the call with a simple, modular platform that could simplify the integration of multiple AI tools into the production pipeline.

As live broadcasting migrates to the cloud, how can broadcasters finally eliminate lingering on-prem dependencies and still guarantee that every piece of content reaches the right destination at the right moment? From this question, the fully featured master control room for the cloud was born.

When content is bountiful, but trust is scarce, how can broadcasters cut through the noise and keep their audience relationships alive? Rising to a challenge set out by IBC2025 Accelerator Champions BBC and ITN in early 2025, WDR, Sony, and RTÉ had a vision for an open-source tool that could seamlessly incorporate C2PA standards into each step of the media industry’s existing workflows.