IBC’s owners review 2018’s industry milestones

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From the auction of Sky, to the rising interest in 5G and growing adoption of AI, IBC’s owners share their highlights and reflections of the last 12 months.

As 2018 draws to a close IBC365 spoke with leaders of the six owners of IBC who shared their industry milestones and their organisations’ achievements.

Six leading international bodies – The IABM, IET, IEEE, RTS, SCTE and SMPTE – are IBC’s owners, representing both the exhibitors and visitors that gather in Amsterdam every September.

In April this year the IABM launched the BaM (broadcast and media) Content Supply Chain, an industry analysis model that was developed to reflect the technology advances and fast-paced change affecting the industry.

IABM Chief Executive Peter White said during 2018 there had been a coming together of manufactures, content creators and technologists.

He said: “The industry is beginning to fit together as part of a continuum rather than a set of separate entities in a ‘product supermarket’.

He said the industry is now interdependent and stressed the importance of “working together collaboratively…

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