Executives from Amazon Prime Video, Apple, BBC Studios, Paramount Global, NBC Sports, the Olympic Channel, Sky, and Virgin Media O2 will participate in this year’s IBC Conference (RAI Amsterdam, 13-15 September).
For 2024 the conference is moving to the Auditorium Complex within the RAI that includes two theatres and an exclusive Delegate Lounge open to all Conference attendees.
The sessions will be built around three themes: Transformative Technology, Shifting Business Models, and People and Purpose.
“The specific topics that our visionary line-up of speakers are addressing range from AI and human-machine collaboration to FAST and its impact on monetisation to the fight against fake news and disinformation – plus other disruptive trends that present both new challenges and opportunities,” says Sally Watts, Head of Content for IBC. “In addition, the move to a new part of the RAI reflects the fact that the Conference continues to evolve while adding new and excusive elements that elevate delegates’ IBC experience.”
The Conference kicks off on 12 September with an IBC Welcome Party, to which all delegates are invited, on the 23rd floor of the nearby nhow Amsterdam RAI hotel. Event guests can enjoy breathtaking views of the city as they spend the evening networking with fellow attendees and speakers over drinks and canapes ahead of IBC2024 opening the following day.
The Conference itself will open with a session from Benedict Evans, the internationally renowned media and technology analyst, who has worked with Orange, Channel 4 and NBC Universal. Evans will explore how disruption has become ‘the new normal’ in the media and entertainment ecosystem, looking at how immersive technologies, AI, new connectivity, personalised content experiences, and other developments are reshaping the sector.
This opening session will be immediately followed by a series of short fireside chats looking at tech innovation in digital media and broadcast, featuring: Grace Boswood, Technology Director at Channel 4; Cristina Gomila, Managing Director of Content Technology & Innovation at Sky and Sinead Greenaway, Director of Broadcast and End User Technology at the BBC.
The second day of the Conference features keynotes offering CTO Perspectives. These two sessions include: Girish Bajaj, Vice President of Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios Technology, speaking on ‘Building a future ready tech stack for an evolving media landscape’; and Phil Wiser, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Technology Officer at Paramount Global, looking at the winners and losers in the changing broadcast and streaming landscape and what business models will drive long-term monetisation in ‘From ideas to impact: Blending technology, creativity and business’. There is also a joint keynote fireside chat entitled ‘At the intersection of AI and creativity: Why the future lies in human-machine collaboration’ with Sachin Dev Duggal, Founder and Chief Wizard at Builder.ai and Andy Hood, Vice President of Emerging Technologies at WPP. Both sessions will be chaired by Jeremy White, Senior Innovation Editor at Wired.
Another Day 2 session will look at the technology of the Olympic Games with Israel Esteban, Chief Technology Officer at beIN Media Group and James Miles, Senior Director of Live Event Workflows at NBC Sports, discussing the tech used, lessons learned, and what that means for the future of sports broadcasting.
Other headline speakers at the 2024 IBC Conference include: Chem Assayag, Senior Vice President of Home Services Innovation at Orange; Kerry Ball, Chief Commercial & Strategy Officer at BritBox International; David Bouchier, Chief TV and Entertainment Officer at Virgin Media O2; Laura Florence, Senior Vice President Global FAST Channels at Fremantle; Kasia Jablonska, Director of Digital and On-Demand at BBC Studio; Manish Karla, Chief Business Officer at Zee5; David Salmon, Executive Vice President and Managing Director of International at Tubi; Jonathan Thompson, Chief Executive Officer at Everyone TV and Joshua Tidsbury, Senior Manager of Technology Evangelism, Worldwide Developer Relations, at Apple.
