Interview

BBC R&D’s Antonia Kerle will be speaking as part of the panel, Fighting Disinformation and Disengagement: Staying Relevant in the Digital Age, alongside representatives from Euronews, News UK, Al Jazeera, and PA Media Group.

BBC Sport’s John Murphy divulges the expert insights he gained on AR, LED volumes and camera tracking from setting up the virtual studios for Match of the Day and several major sporting tournaments.

Yahoo Mail Vice President (VP) of Business Development and Partnerships Harish Sarma will speak on the IBC panel ‘The Power of Collaboration: How strategic partnerships are transforming broadcasting’ on 12 September.

Fabio Murra, SVP, Product and Marketing at V-Nova, explains how visitors to this year’s Future Tech hub (Hall 14) at IBC can expect to discover the company’s latest developments in AI-accelerated media processing and its six-degrees-of-freedom technology for immersive experiences, and how this can be streamed to audiences at scale.

Blake Bassett, Vice-President of Product at streaming service Tubi, will be among the panellists for the IBC conference session ‘Mythbusting AI: Demonstrating the Impact on the Bottom Line’, on 14 September.

Catena is a word that means, ‘connected series or chain,’ and is also the appropriate name for the broadcast industry’s answer to a problem that has only grown more acute with the rise of IP, cloud, and hybrid workflows: fragmented, insecure, and proprietary device control. Developed under SMPTE’s Rapid Industry Solutions Open Services Alliance (RIS-OSA) and recently introduced into SMPTE’s formal standards process, Catena aims to deliver ‘a single secure protocol for control of media devices and services,’ providing a unified, vendor and platform agnostic control plane.

The addition of Actus Digital to the LiveU family is expected to enhance AI innovation, increase appeal to “mission critical” environments, and assist with customers’ digital transformation, writes David Davies.

Red Bee’s Richard Kydd discusses the future of television playout, finding the right tech stack, and the fundamental importance of reliability, cost and delivery.

While the media industry’s commitment to diversity is growing, too many efforts remain ‘surface level’, limiting the pace of progress, says Deepali Narsiker of Women in Streaming Media.

Vizrt’s Jeremy Morris takes a stroll down memory lane to discuss some of the crucial events that helped accelerate the convergence of broadcast and proAV. John Maxwell Hobbs reports.