All IBC Accelerators articles
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Webinar
Webinar: Measuring and reducing the footprint of streaming workflows
Join IBC365 and the ECOFLOW project champions, the recently launched IBC Accelerator, who will discuss the goals of the project, and how to determine and demonstrate opportunities for the industry to make processing, streaming and consumption of media more sustainable. Now available on-demand.
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Daily News
IBC unveils accelerator projects for 2024
IBC has unveiled eight new projects selected for the IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme, through which a mix of players from across the global media, entertainment and technology communities collaborate to explore potential solutions to critical challenges the industry faces today.
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Industry Trends
IBC Accelerators 2024: Kickstart Day in review
Pitches for the shortlisted projects on the IBC Accelerators Innovation Programme were presented in a quick-fire round in front of an international M&E audience at the Kickstart Day on 6 March.
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News
Pitches unveiled for Kickstart Day 2024: projects to address biggest challenges in M&E
Project pitches on the most progressive challenges in 2024 across the M&E industry have been revealed for the IBC Accelerators Kickstart Day as 12 shortlisted projects have been announced.
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Industry Trends
Synthetic-based humans: a solution to talent shortages or threat to skilled jobs?
Following the success of the IBC Accelerators Project on synthetic humans in 2023, John Maxwell Hobbs caught up with one of the project leaders to discuss subsequent progress and wider market adoption.
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Industry Trends
IBC Accelerators 2023: Where Are They Now?
The IBC Accelerators is celebrating its sixth year of bringing together broadcast and media tech innovators to collaborate and explore solutions to real-world challenges. As twelve shortlisted teams get ready to pitch their projects at the Accelerator Kickstart Day on 6 March, with a view to presenting demo PoC’s to ...
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News
IBC Accelerators 2024: Twelve Projects to Tackle Industry Challenges at Kickstart Day
The 2024 tranche of broadcast technology specialists whose proposals were successfully shortlisted to this year’s IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme will be pitching their ideas to a live, in-person audience and a panel of judges on 6 March.
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Video
IBC Accelerators: Synthetic Humans for Entertainment & Accessibility
IBC2023: The aim of this challenge was to present two different use cases based on synthetic humans: the first one is a theatre filled with the melodic tones of Maria Callas, and the second is a photorealistic sign language interpreter, to address accessibility. These two distinct use cases demonstrated how ...
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Video
IBC Accelerators: Authenticated Data Specification
IBC2023: The Authenticated Data Specification defines a standardised data distribution package to ensure that, as programming is distributed and works its way through the entertainment landscape.
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Video
IBC Accelerators: Real Time Interactive Streaming Personalises Live Experiences
IBC2023: As linear broadcasts convert to streaming, revenues from advertising and sponsorship are being lost. This project demonstrated that additional revenue and a ROI can be achieved through personalising viewer engagement from the streaming of live interactive experiences, for big or small sporting and other events. Striving for a next-generation ...
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Industry Trends
Accelerators 2024: The Media Innovation Challenge is On
The call for projects to tackle real-life challenges faced by the world of M&E has begun as the IBC Accelerators 2024 officially opens for submissions and celebrates its fifth birthday.
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Video
IBC Accelerators: Responsive Narrative Factory
IBC2023: Responsive Narrative Factory delivered the right narrative for any consumer in real time via a metadata-powered content fast-track, to demonstrate a new component-based approach to quickly and cost effectively creating multiple versions of content from a single master to enable precision targeting of programs to different demographics or regions ...
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Video
IBC Accelerators: Gallery Agnostic Live Media Production
IBC2023: Gallery Agnostic Live Media Production aimed to bring all media productions into the modern day via device-agnostic, gallery-agnostic and hybrid ways of working to prove control of both existing on-prem and cloud devices.
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Video
IBC Accelerators: 5G Motion Capture for Live Performance and 3D Animation
IBC2023: 5G Motion Capture for Live Performance & Animation explores using 5G to build ultra-low latency networks to support the creation of new immersive audience experiences for those present at a live performance or engaging remotely at another venue. The project also seeks to leverage 5G technology to bring joyful, ...
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Video
AMD and Microsoft support IBC Accelerators in Amsterdam
At IBC2023 in Amsterdam, John Canning, director of developer relations - creators, AMD, and Scott Davis, broadcast mediua architect, Microsoft, discussed their participation in the IBC Accelerators programme.
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Video
IBC Accelerators: Connect & Produce Anywhere
IBC2023: 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.
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Video
IBC Accelerators: Real-Time XR Sport Edge
IBC2023: The aim of this challenge was to broadcast digital twin XR Sports, including combat MMA (mixed martial arts), and the progressive AR techno-sport HADO into a live, immersive 3D world with high-end graphics, virtual advertising, spatial and social audio, and real-time edge-compute deliverability to fans in VR headsets, computers ...
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News
IBC2023: What’s on during the IBC Accelerator programme?
IBC’s Accelerator Media Innovation Programme is showcasing eight projects in Amsterdam at IBC2023 and the programme has developed significantly since it began in 2019.
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Daily News
Networking opportunities aplenty at IBC2023
In addition to a comprehensive content programme and more than 1000 exhibitors showing their latest innovations, there are also multiple opportunities for visitors to IBC2023 to make new connections and catch up with contacts thanks to a whole host of networking events throughout the show.