Posted on September 16, 2026 in ATSC News
Amsterdam, 14 September 2026 – IBC has unveiled the winners of the prestigious IBC2026 Innovation Awards at an event held at the RAI Amsterdam on Sunday 13 September, honouring collaborative projects that tackle longstanding challenges and advance the global media, entertainment and technology industry.
The Innovation Awards celebrate collaborative, real-world breakthroughs across four categories – Content Creation, Content Distribution, Content Everywhere and Social Impact. The awards recognise projects bringing organisations and technology partners together to address some of the media industry’s most significant challenges, with this year’s winners spanning open-source media workflows, live news distribution, the convergence of broadcast and broadband, and AI-powered accessibility. The event also honoured the recipients of IBC’s International Honour for Excellence, the Best Technical Paper and the IBC Accelerator Project of the Year 2025.
“Our 2026 IBC Innovation Awards winners share a common thread in breaking down previously insurmountable geographical, language, and organisational barriers to open media workflows,” said Fergal Ringrose, Chair of the Innovation Awards Jury. “Each winner realises a transformational environment for collaborative, cloud-native, software-first digital ecosystems.”
>>Read the full story on the IBC website here.
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