IBC: Accelerating Innovation Podcast

With the impending shutdown of digital terrestrial and satellite television, the industry urgently needs a truly scalable, high-performing TV architecture over an entirely different technology stack. Recorded live from IBC2025, episode 13 of the IBC365 Accelerating Innovation podcast hosted thought-leaders from the ‘Ultra Low Latency Live Streaming at Scale’ project who picked up the gauntlet. Bui...

Recorded live from IBC2025, episode 12 of the IBC365 Accelerating Innovation podcast hosted thought-leaders from the ‘Multi-Vendor Software Live Media Exchange’ project.   Most live production environments today remain built around hardware appliances and mixed standards. While live IP cores exist, the ecosystem still depends heavily on proprietary interconnects and fixed devices. This limits agil...

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’ interact...

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.   Recorded live from IBC20...

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.  Recorded live from IBC2025, episode nine of the IBC365 Accelerating Innovation podcast hosted thought-leaders from Shure.  The IBC Accelerator Programme brings together leading industry buyers of med...

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.  Recorded live from IBC2025, episode seven of...

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. Recorded live from IBC2025, episode eight of the IBC365 Accelerating Innovation podcast hosted thought...

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. Recorded live from IBC2025, episode six of the IBC365 Accelera...

In this episode, Keran Boyd, Accelerator Project Lead at IBC, was joined by Ian Nock, Vice Chair of IET; Walid-Oualid Saddi, Chief Architect at Bouygues Telecom; Benjamin Schwarz, President of Greening of Streaming; James Varndell, Senior Director of Product Management at Bitmovin; and Francois Polarczyk, Sustainability Director at Accedo.   Having delivered a digital twin of a live-to-IP workflow...

In this episode, Muki Kulhan, Accelerator Lead at IBC, was joined by: Clive Santamaria, Chief Architect at ITV; Tim Deussen, Creative Director of Studio Deussen; and Will Draffin, Director of Digital and Future Technology for the Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Kent. The team unpacked their tech and creative process, and how ethics and responsibility in AI will c...

In this episode, Keran Boyd, IBC Accelerator Programme Lead, welcomed: James Taylor, CEO of Insync; David Atkins, CEO of Phrame; and Russell Trafford-Jones, Industry Engagement Manager at Techex.  In August 2025, this project group staged a proof-of-concept live at the Irish National Senior Track and Field Championships in Dublin. Programme feeds were delivered as SRT over the public internet, wit...

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.   Recorded...

As end-users clamour to get ever closer to the action, how can broadcasters ensure wireless connectivity in the most challenging conditions? For Strathclyde University, Eutelsat Group, and France Télévisions, it was time to take to the sky. Recorded live from IBC2025, episode one of the IBC365 Accelerating Innovation podcast hosted thought-leaders from the 2025 Accelerator Project ‘ Conquering the...