DAILY MONDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2025 09:30-16:00
IBC INNOVATION AWARDS CELEBRATE GLOBAL M&E BREAKTHROUGHS BY JO RUDDOCK
The winners of the IBC Innovation Awards were revealed at a ceremony at the Amsterdam RAI yesterday evening. Awards were presented across fi ve categories in innovation and social impact, alongside honourees for IBC2025’s International Honour for Excellence (IHFE), Best Technical Paper, an IBC2025 Special Award and Accelerator of the Year. The ceremony began with host
Sasha Twining presenting the IHFE to Thelma Schoonmaker. The legendary fi lm editor’s collaboration with Martin Scorsese over fi ve decades has helped shape the visual language of modern cinema. She is also the only editor to receive nine Oscar nominations, winning three Academy Awards and a BAFTA Fellowship.
Schoonmaker said: “Thank you so much for this wonderful and important award that I will share with Martin Scorsese. We edit his fi lms together, to say nothing of the incredible footage he gives me each time, and he will be terribly pleased to get this. It’s wonderful for those of us who beat our brains out, and love it, making movies, and here I am with all the people who are going to make sure they are shown properly, loud and with bright light.”
The Content Creation award was won by Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth, a documentary that captured the world’s fi rst-ever video footage of a group of coelacanths in 8K and 22.2 sound. It was produced by NHK Japan, in co-production with ZDF/ARTE and OceanX, in collaboration with CMMAI. The Content Distribution accolade went to Sky’s MediaMesh. Sky Group integrated systems
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(L-R): Thelma Schoonmaker and Sasha Twining
and workfl ows of broadcasters across Europe to deliver an API- driven, cloud-native, modular platform, working with AWS, SDVI, Telestream and TMT Insights. SVT-AV1, developed by the Alliance for Open Media, Intel and Meta, won the Content Everywhere award. SVT-AV1 makes video streaming viable on low-end mobile devices and low-bandwidth networks, via development of the decoding-aware mode of the SVT-AV1 software encoder. The Mobile Justice app, developed with the American Civil Liberties Union, took home the Social Impact award. The app enables citizens to document law enforcement encounters in real-time and upload evidence for review. Technical partners are Jotto, Quadrant2 and Wowza. World First Greening Live
Broadcasts: Energy-Effi cient UHD Upscaling with NPU for Sustainable IPTV Service was the winner of the Environment & Sustainability award. Korea’s SK Telecom, with Pixtree, developed an NPU-based live UHD upscaler and integrated it into SK Broadband’s IPTV service live channels. It serves 6.7 million subscribers while achieving an 80% reduction in energy and preventing
3728 tons of CO2eq emissions annually.
In addition, the IBC Special
Award was presented to Globo, Latin America’s largest media company, for a century of innovation in storytelling, audience connection and digital transformation. Alexis Allemann, Sébastien Noir and Andrei Popescu-Belis from the European Broadcasting Union and la Haute École d’Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud, received the award for Best Technical Paper for their work, entitled EBU NEO – A sophisticated multilingual chatbot for a trusted news ecosystem exploration. It tackles the challenge of trusted AI-generated news using Retrieval Augmented Generation and a growing 3.5 million-article database. Finally, the Accelerator Project of
the Year was awarded to Evolution of the Control Room – Leveraging XR, Voice, AI & HTML-Based Graphics Solutions. “The IBC Innovation Awards highlight how our industry continues to evolve – solving real-world challenges through ingenious technology, social leadership and cooperative vision,” said Fergal Ringrose, Chair of the Innovation Awards Jury.
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Shaping the future With another exciting day of IBC2025 still ahead, attendance fi gures as of 18:00 on Sunday showed that 41,407 attendees from more than 170 countries have passed through the halls of the RAI, visiting more than 1300 exhibitors.
Michael Crimp, CEO of IBC,
refl ected on another successful year: “The theme of this year’s show is ‘Shaping the Future’ and with standout features including the new Future Tech, the return of the IBC Talent Programme, visionary speakers on the IBC Conference stage and so much more, we are certainly doing this. “Feedback from attendees has been very strong and overwhelmingly positive. We look forward to continuing the journey next year. Thank you for your support.”
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