Entertainment & Media

IBC2026

IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) is where the future of the global Media and Entertainment industry is defined and actioned. Bringing together the creative, technology, and business communities, IBC showcases game-changing innovations and addresses industry trends with a major four-day conference and exhibition. It attracts exhibitors and attendee…

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242Speakers
6Sponsors
28Sessions
196Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at IBC2026, in alphabetical order.

Abtin Erfani
Year 4 Student, BA International Creative Business · Inholland University of Applied Sciences
Adam Jones
Director of Production Technology and Innovation · Innovative Dreams
Adam Kaczmarski
Creative Producer · Electric Robin (Banijay UK)
Adrian Roe
CEO · Norsk
Agnès Marsan
Executive Director, International Event Series · SPORTEL
Alan Wolk
Co-Founder & Lead Analyst · TVREV
Albert Lai
Global Director for Telco, Media & Technology - Strategic Industries · Google Cloud
Alec Hendry
VP Video Streaming Engineering · Paramount
Alexandre Arnodin
VP of Solutions Engineering · Ateme
Alex Bassett
VP of Innovation · NBCU (NBC Universal)
Alex Williams
Technical Geospatial Specialist · Heliguy
Alma Ullén
Head of Community · Mirelo
Amaan Akram
Chief Technology Officer · Untold Studios
Amy DeLouise
Founder · #GALSNGEAR
André Antonelli
Founder & CEO · Machina Sports
Andreas Wildfang
Executive Director · EYZ Media
Andrew Dumbrek
Director · Andrew Dumbreck Media Ltd
Andrew Dunne
Technical Subject Matter Expert · BBC
Andrew Ladbrook
Regional Director · 28 Squared
Anette Schaefer
CEO · EIT Culture & Creativity
Anil Jain
Managing Director - Global Strategic Industries · Google Cloud
Anish Agarwal
Global Fortune 500 Media & Entertainment Company

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

IAMT
IEEE
IET
RTS
SCTE
SMPTE

Agenda

Selected from 28 sessions.

  • 10:00 11:00

    Accelerator - Q-Stream: Quantum Secure, Network-Adaptive, Verifiable, Live Media Infrastructure

    When standard delivery methods fail, what matters most isn't perfect picture quality - it's ensuring ...

    Future Tech Stage
  • 11:30 12:30

    Accelerator - Delta Protocol: The Future of Live Streaming

    This session demonstrates a fundamental disruption of live streaming core foundations, moving beyond ...

    Future Tech Stage
  • 11:30 12:30

    Accelerator - FRAMES: Federated Retrieval, Agentic Media Environment and Software (Defined Workflows)

    The TV and Film industry struggles to accelerate creative iteration while maintaining standards, ham ...

    Future Tech Stage
  • 11:30 12:30

    Accelerator - Network Control: Your Connection, Your Choice

    This team of world-leading broadcasters and mobile network operators will discuss and demonstrate Po ...

    Future Tech Stage
  • 13:00 14:00

    Accelerator - VooPla: The Decision Twin - Decision-Ready Sustainable Digital Twins for Broadcast & Virtual Production Studios

    This Accelerator will showcase and discuss its work to prototype, test and validate a practical, dec ...

    Future Tech Stage
  • 14:00 14:45

    Accelerator - AI for Live Sports and Beyond: Rewiring live media via Agentic AI Orchestration and “meCast”

    AI agents can now orchestrate multiple real-time transformations of live content, enabling use cases ...

    Future Tech Stage
  • 16:00 16:45

    Accelerator - Crystal Clear: Boosting Speech Intelligibility in Media

    Poor dialogue intelligibility remains one of the biggest frustrations for audiences, yet there is no ...

    Future Tech Stage
  • 16:00 17:00

    Accelerator - 2026 INCUBATOR- Smart Stories: The Agentic Production Ecosystem

    Every newsroom runs on integration. Decades of it teaching our systems to talk to each other. None o ...

    Future Tech Stage
  • 16:00 17:00

    IBC Incubator 2026: Smart Stories - The New Knowledge Architecture for Content Production

    Every newsroom runs on integration. Decades of it teaching our systems to talk to each other. None o ...

    Accelerator Media Innovation Programme
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 196 companies show up, and 3 bet on three roles at once?

196 companies. three are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
3All threespeak · spons · exh
3Sponsoringsponsor only
190Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

IAMT·IET·SMPTE

Speakers by seniority

63% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite4217%
  • Founder / Owner177%
  • VP-level156%
  • Director / Head of7933%
  • Manager / Lead219%
  • Product52%
  • Engineer · IC167%
  • Research / Science62%
  • Marketing / Brand10%
  • Other roles4017%

Of 242 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1Google Cloud7
2EBU6
3IAMTSponsor2
4IETSponsor2
5AWS4
6DAZN4
7IBC4
8SMPTESponsor1
9Caretta Research3
10IEEESponsor-
11ITV3
12RTSSponsor-
13SCTESponsor-
14SPORTEL3
Sponsors by tier
unspecified6
100% of 6