The IBC2025 convention programme will showcase all the pieces from media fragmentation and AI-driven transformation to shifting enterprise fashions and the brand new guidelines of viewers engagement.
The three-day even – IBC2025 -, going down 12–14 September on the RAI Amsterdam, will look at the forces reshaping the {industry} by various classes from Netflix, PGA Tour, Paramount World, Walt Disney Studios, YouTube, TikTok, Snap, Roku, TelevisaUnivision, JioStar India, kweliTV and extra. The collection opens with the headline session on ‘The New Regular’ to be delivered by main {industry} influencer and ‘Media Universe Cartographer’ Evan Shapiro, whereas high-profile media sector commentator Mike Darcey, former CEO of Information UK, COO of Sky, and Chair of Arqiva, closes a invoice that features different influential {industry} commentators.
Evan Shapiro
The IBC2025 Convention affords a robust mixture of perception, provocation, and sensible technique from an array of thought leaders, prime {industry} figures and trailblazers from all through the world. Audio system and panellists from non-traditional media manufacturers corresponding to Snap, TikTok and YouTube will be a part of international giants corresponding to Netflix, Paramount World and Walt Disney Studios, gamers rising their broadcast and streaming presence like PGA Tour, Vodafone and Roku, and firms in quickly rising markets and segments corresponding to JioStar India, kweliTV and TelevisaUnivision.
“At a time when media’s conventional borders are dissolving, the IBC Convention is the place all the international {industry} gathers to make sense of all of it,” mentioned Sally Watts, Head of Content material for IBC. “Our 2025 programme displays the urgency, experimentation, and creativeness defining the sector – with a dynamic speaker line-up that spans social platforms, broadcasting giants, international streamers, main studios and infrastructure innovators.”
Right here is extra detailed details about the convention, shared by IBC2025:
Highlights: speaker classes and panels mapping media’s new actuality
The Convention kicks off on Friday with a heavyweight CTO roundtable that includes Warner Bros. Discovery’s Avi Saxena, ITV’s Simon Farnsworth, and Paramount’s Phil Wiser. One other main session that day sees YouTube’s EMEA Vice President Pedro Pina and Channel 4 Director of Expertise & Distribution Grace Boswood in dialog on how broadcasters and platforms can higher collaborate within the evolving video ecosystem.
Jorrit Eringa
Later, Rollo Goldstaub, World Head of Sports activities Partnerships at TikTok, will discover how the platform is redefining sports activities content material engagement. There may be additionally a panel that day analyzing how collaboration and strategic partnerships are reworking the content material panorama, with:
- Elena Petrova, Head of Group Content material and Broadcasting, Worldwide Enterprise, A1 Group
- Jorrit Eringa, Head of Media Partnerships, DACH, The Netherlands and Nordics at Snap Inc
- Harish Sarma, VP of Enterprise Growth and Partnerships at Yahoo Mail
- Liz Riemersma, VP of Technique, Enterprise Growth & Worldwide at Sling TV
- Katherine Wen, Director of Technique and Growth, Worldwide Syndication, Sky
On the Saturday, Netflix’s Head of Manufacturing for Spain and Portugal, Victor Marti, and Migue Amoedo, Govt Producer and Visible Designer of Vancouver Media, will current ‘Empowering Creativity by Innovation’, which affords an unique behind-the-scenes have a look at how manufacturing instruments are reworking storytelling workflows.
Following that, Damian Cronin, Chief Digital and Info Officer at ABC, will take to the stage to discover how the broadcaster is embedding synthetic intelligence on the coronary heart of its digital transformation technique in ‘The Evolution of AI: Supercharging Broadcasting’.
Sarah Milton
Elke Walthelm
In his headline session, entitled ‘The New Regular’, Evan Shapiro delivers a compelling, data-driven presentation mapping the true form and shifting gravitational forces of at this time’s media galaxy.
The Convention then affords a strategic panel on ‘What subsequent for streaming’ – exploring innovation, analytics, and aggressive positioning, with enter from:
- Brad Danks, CEO, OUTtv
- DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV
- Sarah Milton, Chief Product Officer, Everybody TV
- Rajat Nigam, CTO, JioStar India
- Elke Walthelm, COO, Sky Deutschland
One other panel session, ‘MovieLabs – Main the Imaginative and prescient’, highlights industry-wide collaboration on its 2030 Imaginative and prescient for content material creation and will probably be moderated by MovieLabs President and CEO Richard Berger and have:
- Eddie Drake, CTO of Walt Disney Studios – Disney Dwell Motion, Marvel Studios, twentieth Century Studios & Searchlight Photos
- Yoshikazu Takashima, SVP Superior Expertise at Sony Photos Leisure
- James Crossland, Govt Vice President, Head of World Content material Operations at Warner Bros. Discovery
- Phil Wiser, Govt Vice President and Chief Expertise Officer of Paramount World
Sunday opens with Thomas Gruber, Co-CEO of ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4, addressing how German streaming platform JOYN is adapting codecs for a younger, fast-moving, digital-first viewers, whereas in a separate session, Fremantle CEO of Industrial & Worldwide Jens Richter shares insights on evolving international distribution methods and financing fashions in a post-peak TV market.
Mike Darcey
The PGA Tour will later showcase its groundbreaking use of drone-enabled augmented actuality in reside golf broadcasts, with Jon Freedman, SVP of Media Broadcasting, and Alex Turnbull, VP of Manufacturing Expertise and Analytics, revealing how the PGA deployed reside AR shot tracing throughout all 18 holes — a primary for the game — profitable the George Wensel Technical Achievement Award on the forty sixth Sports activities Emmy Awards.
The Convention closes with the session from Mike Darcey, now Managing Director of Tide Finish Consulting, on ‘Rights, Economics, and the New Form of Broadcasting’.
Technical Papers: groundbreaking analysis introduced to the world
A key aspect of the IBC Convention is the IBC2025 Technical Papers Programme, spanning 10 classes on peer-reviewed, authentic analysis that tackles real-world challenges throughout the printed and digital media ecosystem:
- Sport – AI, AR and 5G
- Streaming – Low Latency and Multi-Supply
- Way forward for Broadcasting – 5G Broadcast and Brazilian TV3.0
- Advances in Wi-fi Expertise – 6G Media and 5G for PMSE
- AI in Postproduction
- AI in Content material Curation
- AI in Speech
- IP Studio 2.0 – Dwell Manufacturing
- Provenance, Authentication and Privateness
- Advances in Video – AI Encoding, Avatars, and Immersivity
A full listing with extra particulars on the classes and audio system within the Technical Papers programme at IBC2025 is on the market at present.ibc.org/convention.
