Thought leaders from Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global, Sony Pictures Entertainment and BBC Studios Productions will take to the stage as part of this year’s IBC conference programme (Amsterdam 15-18 September).
Three themes Transformative Tech, Shifting Business Models, and People and Purpose will link together panel sessions across the IBC Conference, the show floor theatres, and the returning IBC Changemakers Programme.
Michael Crimp, IBC’s Chief Executive Officer, said: “IBC continues to evolve and grow with the industry. We are actively listening to our community on what they want out of a modern trade show. Among the things they are telling us they want are new topics and new ways of learning – and our content pillars give us the scope to provide these. They form a compelling thread that runs through the talks, presentations and panels going on at the conference and at show-floor venues across the RAI.”
The 2023 IBC Conference begins with an address by ‘Media Universe Cartographer’ Evan Shapiro, a renowned industry influencer who maps M&E trends and future developments. Shapiro will lead a session entitled ‘Plotting the effects of disruption: Charting the new media ecosystem’.
Other confirmed headline IBC Conference speakers include:
Aditi Pandey, Head of Vendor Management & Partnerships at NRK; Allu Venkatesh (Allu Bobby), Actor, Film Producer and Entrepreneur at aha, Just Tickets; Anthony Guarino, Executive Vice President, Global Production & Studio Technology at Paramount
Bill Baggelaar, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, Technology Development at Sony Pictures Entertainment; AK Kishore, President Technology and Chief Technology Officer at Zee; Leah Hooper Rosa, Senior Vice President, EMEA Streaming and Global Integration Lead at Warner Bros. Discovery; Michael Wise, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Universal Pictures
Natalya Tatarchuk, Distinguished Technical Fellow and Chief Architect, Vice President, W?t? Tools at Unity Technologies; Phil Wiser, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Paramount Global; Richard Berger, Chief Executive Officer at MovieLabs; Ralph Lee, Chief Executive Officer at BBC Studios Productions and Valerio Motti, Vice President FAST Channels at Fremantle.
Jaisica Lapsiwala, IBC’s Head of Content, said of the programme: “We are excited to have such a diverse and global range of thought leaders coming together for this year’s IBC Conference, which sets the media and entertainment industry agenda. This part of IBC2023 really speaks to the first two content pillars of the event, Transformative Tech and Shifting Business Models.”
Highlighting the People and Purpose content pillar in 2023 will be the free IBC Changemakers Programme, which returns to the Forum on the 17 and 18 September after its successful launch in 2022.
