IBC Review 2024 - What Caught Our 'AI'

Each year, the IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) show drives thought leadership, innovation, best practice and diversity across the 250,000-strong global IBC community. Owned by industry organisations IABM, IEEE BTS, IET, Royal Television Society (RTS), SCTE and SMPTE, the event offers a full schedule of groundbreaking presentations, panel sessions, workshops, product demos and technology masterclasses. It brings together tens of thousands from across the worldwide media content and technology community to learn, collaborate and network.

For those who weren't able to attend, this panel discussion, co-hosted with the RTS (Royal Television Society) and the IET Media Technical Network, is the next best thing. Our esteemed panel went to IBC so you didn’t have to, or at least you did not have to visit every one of the stands, events, and presentations across 20K steps per day, all the conference rooms, theatres and 14 halls.

Can we answer the big questions?

•        Was the industry back to being fighting fit

•        Is there gold still in those pixels and frames

•        Is the technology revolutionary or evolutionary

•        Cameras lighter / better / smaller

•        Cloud editing ready for prime time

•        Broadcasting still mainstream or has streaming taken over

•        Does the hype of AI pass muster with real products?

Panel Chair:

Nadine Dereza is an award-winning broadcaster and journalist, presenting business, news and entertainment programmes on TV. She chairs, hosts and moderates conferences, panel discussions and live events for a diverse range of clients across many industries and sectors in the UK and internationally. She has presented for Associated Press, BBC, CNBC, CNN, SABC, Simply Money, Sky TV, Summit TV and Talk Radio.

Panel:

Russell Trafford-Jones - Broadcast Engineer & Host of Broadcast Focus
Russell Trafford-Jones is a writer and technology evangelist with a background in contribution, compression and live sports production. As vice-chair of the IET Media Technical Network, Russell works to promote education and diversity within the broadcast industry. His website, The Broadcast Knowledge, educates by bringing together all the industry’s explanatory videos in to once place.

Jenny Priestly – Content Director TVB Europe
Jenny has worked in the media throughout her career, joining TVBEurope as editor in 2017. She has also been an entertainment reporter, interviewing everyone from Kermit and Miss Piggy to Tom Hanks; and spent almost 20 years appearing on radio, and occasionally TV

Dan Cherowbrier - Jury Chair, IBC Stand Design Award
Dan has a broad range of experience in broadcast engineering management, specifically with analytics, security & sports broadcasting. He is a director of security specialists Sea Eagle Group and analytics service provider TVA Group. He currently advises Formula E, E1 Electric Racing & Narrative Entertainment on the technical services. Previously he has acted as interim Head of Engineering for Encompass leading engineering for their UK merger with Babcock Media Services, General Manager at the DPP, Engineering & Operations Director at Comux & Head of Commercial at Arqiva.

Ben Sheppard - Design Engineer BBC, RTS Young Technologist of the Year 2024
Ben Sheppard has been creating websites, web tools and digital services since the age of 12, going on to specialise in eCommerce for the last 10 years. At the BBC  he has developed a suite of broadcast graphic elements, which became an entire framework of redevelopment.  He has also worked on the European Broadcasting Union’s initiative to standardise HTML5 graphics