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  • IBC honours Thelma Schoonmaker with top award as Globo and EBU team recognised

    IBC honours Thelma Schoonmaker with top award as Globo and EBU team recognised

    AMSTERDAM: IBC has named legendary editor Thelma Schoonmaker as the recipient of its highest accolade, the International Honour for Excellence. A three-time Oscar winner and lifelong collaborator of Martin Scorsese, Schoonmaker will also appear in a fireside chat at the Rai Amsterdam on 14 September, free for all attendees.

    Two other major honours were announced ahead of the IBC Innovation Awards. Globo will receive the IBC Special Award, recognising a century of media innovation and leadership in Brazil. Meanwhile, a Swiss team from the European Broadcasting Union and HEIG-VD will take home the best technical paper award for groundbreaking research on artificial intelligence in trusted news.

    This year’s awards highlight both sides of the media equation: Schoonmaker’s enduring commitment to the art of editing, Globo’s forward-looking broadcasting strategy, and the EBU-led team’s pioneering work applying AI to journalism. Winners will be formally recognised at the IBC Innovation Awards ceremony on 14 September in Amsterdam.

  • IBC2025 conference lines up global media heavyweights and bold ideas

    IBC2025 conference lines up global media heavyweights and bold ideas

    LONDON: IBC 2025 has pulled back the curtain on a turbocharged conference programme packed with power players from across the global media, entertainment and tech ecosystem. From 12 to 14 September at RAI Amsterdam, the three-day summit promises to tackle media’s defining challenges—AI disruption, fragmentation, collapsing business models, and the war for attention.

    Top brass from Netflix, Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Global, Snap, TikTok, YouTube, Roku, TelevisaUnivision, PGA Tour, kweliTV and India’s JioStar are among the featured speakers. Industry provocateur Evan Shapiro will headline with a data-fuelled keynote, while seasoned commentator Mike Darcey closes the show with a sharp take on rights, economics and the shape of future broadcasting.

    “This year’s agenda is urgent, imaginative and provocative,” said IBC head of content Sally Watts. “We’re bringing together disruptors and legacy leaders to map the media universe as it shifts beneath our feet.”

    The conference kicks off with a heavyweight CTO roundtable featuring Avi Saxena (Warner Bros. Discovery), Simon Farnsworth (ITV) and Phil Wiser (Paramount). Big tech meets broadcast in sessions like YouTube’s Pedro Pina in conversation with Channel 4’s Grace Boswood, and Snap’s Jorrit Eringa alongside execs from Yahoo, Sky, Sling TV and A1 Group dissecting the future of content collaboration.

    TikTok’s Rollo Goldstaub will explore how short-form video is rewriting the rules of sports engagement, while Netflix’s Victor Marti and Vancouver Media’s Migue Amoedo offer a behind-the-scenes look at storytelling innovation.

    In a major AI-focused session, ABC’s Damian Cronin unpacks how the broadcaster is embedding machine learning into its core workflows. Meanwhile, DeShuna Spencer (kweliTV), Brad Danks (OUTtv), Rajat Nigam (JioStar India) and others weigh in on what’s next for the streaming wars.

    ‘MovieLabs – Leading the Vision’ sees Disney, Sony, Warner Bros. and Paramount map the road to 2030 for content creation, moderated by MovieLabs president Richard Berger. Sunday’s schedule spotlights Fremantle’s Jens Richter on global distribution in a post-peak TV world, while PGA Tour execs reveal how they deployed live AR shot-tracking across all 18 holes — winning a Sports Emmy in the process.

    In the closing session, Mike Darcey, now managing director at Tide End Consulting and former News UK boss, breaks down how rights, economics and regulation must evolve to fit the new media order.

    Beyond the main stage, the IBC Technical Papers Programme offers 10 peer-reviewed sessions delving deep into bleeding-edge R&D across 5G, 6G, AI, immersive formats and content authentication. Topics include:
    * AI in speech, postproduction and curation
    * Provenance, privacy and content trust
    * Wireless tech advances from 5G to 6G
    * IP Studio 2.0 and live production
    * Sport tech, AR, avatars and AI-enhanced streaming

    Registration is now open at show.ibc.org.

  • Amagi wins IBC 2015 Innovation Award

    Amagi wins IBC 2015 Innovation Award

    MUMBAI: Cloud-based broadcast infrastructure and targeted TV advertising company, Amagi has bagged the IBC Innovation Award 2015 in the ‘Content Delivery’ category.

     

    Winners were honoured on 14 September during an awards ceremony at the RAI Amsterdam during IBC2015, Europe’s largest electronic media and entertainment conference and exhibition.

     

    Amagi co-founder KA Srinivasan said, “Winning the IBC Innovation Award signals a new era for content regionalisation where TV networks can deliver localised channels in an affordable and efficient manner than traditional satellite and fiber-based delivery methods. As television viewers around the world continue to demand more personalised content, Amagi’s advanced cloud and watermarking technologies will make it a cinch for broadcasters to address viewer preferences on a global scale.”

     

    Amagi’s solution was given the IBC Innovation Award based on its unique ability to replace key content on Sundance Channel Global’s Latin American feed with content specifically geared toward the Brazilian audience, without using separate satellite feeds or degrading audiovisual quality.