Transformative Tech at the Heart of IBC2023 – Highlights You Can't Miss

A key pillar for?IBC2023,?Transformative Tech?highlighted the cutting-edge innovations shaping the future of media, broadcasting and entertainment.

Championing new technologies such as Web 3.0, the Metaverse, Virtual Reality and AI, and discussing the pivotal shifts that broaden the horizons of the industry, here are a few IBC2023 stand-out sessions, providing all the latest thinking and insight on Transformative Tech:

IBC2023 CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS

VIRTUAL PRODUCTION: WORLD PREMIERE CASE WITH SONY & PLATEAU VIRTUEL

Discover how a Sony state-of-the-art 90m2 Crystal LED display combined with Venice camera capture technology are being used to create stunning near natural backgrounds for premium film, commercial and TV productions in studios near Paris. Join Plateau Virtuel (a virtual production studio and subsidiary of the Novelty-Magnum-Dushow Group) and Fabien Pisano, Head of Sales at Sony Imaging products & Solutions to learn about the technical challenges tackled by this new ecosystem from Sony, and about the business benefits including reducing travel and carbon footprint with each production.?Watch VOD Here.

HOW GENERATIVE AI WILL CHANGE THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOREVER

In this session, Adobe discussed the existential questions and challenges generative AI has introduced into our craft and what they’ve learnt from leaders and editors at the biggest broadcasters, studios and up-starts. Listen about how Adobe product leaders are navigating challenges ranging from provenance to deep fakes and how your teams can leverage emerging tools to explore more opportunities, all while saving your business time and money and with the assurance that content authenticity is top of mind. Watch VOD Here.

IBC2023 INNOVATION?AWARD WINNERS REVEALED

The IBC2023 winners of the prestigious Innovation Awards, celebrating ground-breaking initiatives transforming the media industry landscape, have been announced. Highlighting the transformative tech that is driving the industry forward, the Innovation Awards recognised the BBC and its partners, who won the Content Creation award for creating the world’s largest pop-up 5G standalone non-public network for live broadcast contributions using shared spectrum. It was deployed for the Coronation of HM King Charles III in May. Read More.

IBC CHANGEMAKERS PODCAST EPISODE 1: HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR NEW AUDIENCES...?

Nadira Tudor talks to former BBC Editorial Director and now co-founder of social media news platform, The News Movement, Kamal Ahmed about his zeal for zoomers and changing the rules of engagement.

Having always spoken of the need to modernise news and target younger audiences, changemaker Kamal Ahmed found himself in a position to walk his talk by co-founding The News Movement, a social-first platform, aimed at 18 to 25-year-olds. In this interview you’ll hear Kamal’s journey to setting a new agenda for youth audiences and the importance of listening. Listen Here.

IBC UPCOMING WEBINAR

TOWARDS A SINGLE TECH STACK: THE FUTURE OF DISTRIBUTION AND CONNECTED TV

With the rise of connected TV, content owners are distributing to an ever-growing number of platforms, all with individual requirements and often separate teams needed to manage individual platforms. Join IBC365 on 8 November to hear from?content owners, telcos and broadcasters on their strategy for managing distribution. Attend Webinar.

IBC2023 TECHNICAL PAPERS HIGHLIGHT

TECHNICAL PAPERS: HOW AI IS ADVANCING MEDIA PRODUCTION

The media world is focussing huge concern on the capabilities of AI which threatens to outperform humans, not only in laborious production tasks but also in the creative arts. This technical paper session examined three aspects of the power of AI to influence the future of media creation. First, multi-disciplinary teams from a prestigious institute delved into the future of AI news journalism. Next was an advanced Japanese AI technology which aims to benefit those of us with busy lives: a system which can edit a TV programme down to an arbitrarily short duration. Finally, a remarkable AI technology which can identify the nature and intensity of emotion in a dramatic scene and then compose and perform background music to accompany it. Read More & Watch the IBC2023 Session

IBC2023 ACCELERATORS PROJECT HIGHLIGHT

CONNECT & PRODUCE ANYWHERE

Detaching production teams from an event location brought us remote production. In this project, the aim was to detach software from hardware and deploy a distributed computing architecture between ground and cloud, exploring the benefits & challenges of such an approach.?

By dynamically moving live production media processing stages between cloud and edge computing at an event, the project can allow production crews to deploy software to the best location making the most efficient use of resources in locations where bandwidth and connectivity can vary greatly. Read More & Watch the Final Showcase Session.

Catch up on all the biggest announcements, product demos and launches, panel discussions, and fireside chats that happened at IBC2023, Europe’s big broadcast, media and entertainment show on our dedicated IBC365 page here.

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IBC Team