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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81Speakers
6Sponsors
27On the bill · sessions
72Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at IBC2026, in alphabetical order.
Adam Kaczmarski
Creative Producer · Electric Robin (Banijay UK)
Albert Lai
Global Director for Telco, Media & Technology - Strategic Industries · Google Cloud
Amaan Akram
Chief Technology Officer · Untold Studios
Amy DeLouise
Founder · #GALSNGEAR
Anette Schaefer
CEO · EIT Culture & Creativity
Anshul Kapoor
Director, Strategic Industries, Global Media & Entertainment · Google Cloud
Antonio Arcidiacono
Director of Technology & Innovation · EBU
Armelle Canet
Head of Legacy & Broadcast Academy · HBS
Avinash Kumar
ESG Controller · Vizrt
Balaji Rajam
Director - JAPAC AI Blackbelts & Global GenMedia, Blackbelt · Google Cloud
Bekhan Batalov
Director Content Protection EMEA · Motion Picture Association
Ben Attia Skander
CTO · France Televisions
Benjamin Bross
Head of Video Coding Systems Group · Fraunhofer HHI
Ben Moss
Enterprise Account Executive · Amazon Web Services
Bernie O'Neill
Project Director · WorldDAB
Blake Bassett
SVP of Product, Platform & Monetisation · Tubi
Brian Wynne
Head of Technology Infrastructure & Chair · RTE & EBU Technical Commitee
Buzz Hays
Global Lead for Entertainment Industry Solutions · Google Cloud
Chris White
Chief Revenue Officer · Device.io
Cristi Damian
Vice President Business Development · Comtech
Damian Cronan
CDIO · ABC
Daniel Farrell
Managing Director, Communications & Media Lead, UK & Ireland · Accenture
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
IAMT
IEEE
IET
RTS
SCTE
SMPTE
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Agenda

Selected from 27 sessions on the bill.
  • 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
  • 16:45 17:45

    Accelerator - IFeL: Immersive Festival Live - Remote Presence at Scale

    This exciting, immersive-focussed IBC Accelerator united the finest cohort of broadcasters, academia ...

    Future Tech Stage
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 72 companies show up, and 1 bet on three roles at once?

72 companies. one 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
1All threespeak · spons · exh
5Sponsoringsponsor only
66Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

SMPTE

Speakers by seniority

67% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1620%
  • Founder / Owner810%
  • VP-level56%
  • Director / Head of2531%
  • Manager / Lead1114%
  • Engineer · IC34%
  • Research / Science11%
  • Other roles1215%

Of 81 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01EBU4V
  2. 02Google Cloud4V
  3. 03IBC4V
  4. 04SMPTESp1V
  5. 05IAMTSp
  6. 06IEEESp
  7. 07IETSp
  8. 08RTSSp
  9. 09SCTESp
  10. 10DAZN2V
  11. 11Device.io2V
  12. 12Soho Media Club2V
  13. 13WorldDAB2V
  14. 14ABC1V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified6
100% of 6