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Media universe cartographer Evan Shapiro has issued a stark warning to today’s big media players, arguing that they must adapt fast in order to survive.

It’s day one of IBC2023 and already there are a host of announcements to welcome showgoers to the RAI: new product launches, big company news and innovations have all been revealed to kick off the show.

In today’s issue we hear from RTS CEO Theresa Wise and James Harwood, Chair of the Training Committee at SCTE. Google and Accenture talk AI and cloud, and Schiphol Airport CEO Ruud Sontag shares the recent improvements that have been made to the ease passenger journeys through the transport hub. We also reveal all the biggest tech news from the IBC showfloor.

As IBC2023 kicks off on Friday September 15, the show will host a series of sessions across multiple stages.

In this session, panelists addressed broadcast delivery at scale combined with seamless unicast delivery to ensure coverage and service augmentation and ask: but how close are we? Experts presented their solutions at the RAI, Amsterdam on Friday 15 September. These three papers are available to download via the links below

Multicast has promised to solve the scale issue of delivering very popular television over the internet for a long time. In this session, speakers presented the first paper from BT Research, both a proof-of-concept architecture and field trial results are presented for a means to assist unicast delivery using multicast, plus two supporting papers. This session took place at IBC2023 on Saturday 16 September. These four papers are available to download via the links below.

In addition to a comprehensive content programme and more than 1000 exhibitors showing their latest innovations, there are also multiple opportunities for visitors to IBC2023 to make new connections and catch up with contacts thanks to a whole host of networking events throughout the show.

In this session, which was held at IBC2023 on Saturday 16 September in Amsterdam, we explored how two important media technologies are being improved through user experimentation: on-demand audio-visual content usage and virtual human deaf signing. These three papers are available to download via the links below.

Esports specialists have teamed up with IBC to create an immersive gaming zone at the 2023 show, offering visitors the opportunity to experiment with state-of-the-art production technology and experience competitions produced and streamed onsite.

Warner Bros. Discovery is to incorporate live news programming for the first time into its streaming platform Max with the addition of CNN Max.