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IBC is preparing to honor the highest achievements in technological innovation and social impact with the launch of its IBC2024 Innovation Awards, as nominations are now open. This year’s awards bring together under one umbrella IBC’s innovation and social impact awards to enable a single celebration of different industry advances across five categories. All parts of the IBC community are invited to put forward entries for projects, programmes, and initiatives.
The expanded IBC Innovation Awards recognize the best in collaborative efforts to develop new solutions to real-world technical challenges and to address social and environmental issues. The winning entries will be announced at a single ceremony during the show, which runs Sept. 13-16 at the RAI Amsterdam. The five categories are Content Creation, Content Distribution, Content Everywhere, Social Impact and Environment & Sustainability.
“The IBC Innovation Awards are an IBC keystone, recognising industry innovations of all types — enabling our community to celebrate together those critical breakthroughs we have made during the past year,” says IBC Innovation Awards Chair of the Judges Fergal Ringrose. “This year’s awards reflect the many ways in which industry pioneers are redefining media — whether through technological or social advances. The expanded awards exemplify IBC efforts to lead innovation, highlighting the spirit of cooperation and creative accomplishments that positively impact the businesses involved and the industry overall.”
The three established technical categories of the IBC Innovation Awards recognise completed projects of any size that have overcome real-world creative, operational, or commercial challenges faced in the media and entertainment industry through solutions demonstrating cooperation between end