IBC
IBC is the world's leading media, entertainment and technology show, uniting the global community in Amsterdam for four days of innovation, ideas and business with over 1,300 exhibitors and 600+ speakers.
- Dates
- Sep 12 – Sep 15, 2025
- Location
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Industry
- Creative, media, tech
Speakers
80 speakers on record
moderator· 1
Carolyn Giardina
speaker· 76
Aaron Dey
Senior Product Manager, Zattoo AG
Albert Lai
Global Director - M&E, Google Cloud
Alexis Allemann
Data Scientist, EBU
Andy Hood
VP Emerging Technologies, WPP
Anil Jain
Managing Director Consumer Industries, Google Cloud
Antonia Kerle
Chief Technical Advisor, BBC Research & Development
Avi Saxena
Chief Technology Officer, Warner Bros. Discovery
Bernard MacMahon
Director
Blake Bassett
Vice President of Product for Tools & Infrastructure, Tubi
Brad Danks
CEO, OUTtv
Chris Evans
Head of Knowledge & Insight, IABM
Damian Cronan
CDIO, ABC
DeShuna Elisa Spencer
Founder & CEO, kweliTV
Elena Petrova
Head of Content Partnerships and Media Solutions, A1 Telekom Austria Group
Elke Walthelm
COO, Sky Deutschland
Evan Shapiro
Media Cartographer, ESHAP
Federico Pandolfi
R&D Engineer, RAI
Frank Rippl
Global Head of TV Product, Vodafone
Giulio Stante
R&D Engineer, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana
Grace Boswood
Director of Technology & Distribution, Channel 4
Harish Sarma
VP Business Development and Partnerships, Yahoo Mail
Hojat Yeganeh
Senior Manager, IMAX Corp.
Imed Bouazizi
Qualcomm
Imogen Kimberley
Account Executive, LucidLink
Jason Cloud
Senior Staff Researcher, Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Jens Richter
CEO Commercial & International, Fremantle Media International
John Murphy
BBC Sport
Jon Roberts
CTO, ITN
Jonathan Pfaff
Researcher, Fraunhofer HHI
Jorrit Eringa
Head of Media Partnerships, DACH, The Netherlands and Nordics, Snap Inc
Julie Triolo
Senior Vice President, Product Marketing, Advertising Sales, Fox Advertising
Justin Gupta
Head of Broadcast and Video Ads EMEA, Google
Katharine Wen
Director of Strategy & Development International Syndication, Sky
Ken Kerschbaumer
Editorial Director, Sports Video Group
Liz Riemersma
Vice President - Strategy, Business Development & International, Sling TV
Mansoor Fazil
Director of Global Platform Engineering, NBCUniversal
Marcos Obadia
SVP Global Engineering and Media Technology, TelevisaUnivision
Maria Ingold
Strategy and Innovation CTO, mireality
Marion Ranchet
Founder, Streaming Made Easy
Mary Ann Halford
Principal, Halford Media Advisory
Matthew Henick
SVP of Ventura TV OS, The Trade Desk
Maxime Carboni
Chief Business Officer, Euronews
Michael Armstrong
Associate Staff, University of Dundee
Migue Amodeo
Executive Producer and Visual Designer, Vancouver Media
Mike Darcey
Media industry commentator and advisor
Mohamad Raad
Standards representative, Unified Streaming
Mohamed Badr Taddist
Content provenance and authenticity researcher at EPFL and EBU associate, European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
Nicholas Bergh
Sound Supervisor
Noel Curran
Director General, EBU
Paresh Modi
Senior Director, GSMA Fusion
Paul Farrow
Video Networking Research Manager, BT
Paul Harding
Solutions Architect, Diversified
Paul O'Donovan
Senior Director of Product, MediaKind
Phil Kesby
Principal Technical Architect – BBC Architecture, Arqiva
Prashant Khanna
Head - Production Services, Studios & Production Tech – Sports, JioStar
Purminder Gandhu
Technology Evangelist, IABM
Rob Ambrose
Co-founder, Caretta Research
Rollo Goldstaub
Global Head of Sports Partnerships, TikTok
Sahil Dhar Hakim
Chief Business Officer, Evergent
Sannuta Raghu
Head & Journalism Fellow 2025, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism & Head, Scroll AI Lab
Sarah Milton
Chief Product Officer, Everyone TV
Satish Annapureddy
Principal GenAI GTM Specialist, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Sidharth Jayant
Chief Product Officer, Rakuten TV
Silvia Candiani
Vice President of Telco, Media, Gaming, Microsoft
Simon Farnsworth
CTO, ITV
Stephan Heimbecher
Head of Competence Center Production and Infrastructure, SWR/ARD
Steven Verstockt
Professor, Ghent University imec IDLab
Tetsuya Hayashida
Principal Research Engineer, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)
Theresa Wise
Chief Executive, Royal Television Society
Thomas Gruber
Co-CEO, ProSiebenSat1 PULS 4
Tim Cutting
CRO, Gracenote
Timothy Last
UK Head of Post Production, Hogarth (WPP)
Tom Bowers
Founder, Hypothesis Media
Tom Price
Director of Content Distribution, ROKU
Victor Marti
Head of Production for Spain and Portugal, Netflix
Willy Lamm
Project manager, Südwestrundfunk (SWR)
fireside_chat· 1
Thelma Schoonmaker
Film Editor
host· 2
Sasha Qadri
Conference Host
Sasha Twining
Conference Host
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Agenda
3 sessions on record
Day 2
How Becoming Led Zeppelin was Created
11:30 AM
Speakers: Bernard MacMahon, Nicholas Bergh
Day 3
Thelma Schoonmaker Fireside Chat
4:15 PM
Speakers: Thelma Schoonmaker, Carolyn Giardina
IBC Innovation Awards – International Honour for Excellence Presentation
6:00 PM
Speakers: Thelma Schoonmaker