AMSTERDAM—IBC today released the shortlist of candidates under consideration for this year’s Innovation and Social Impact Awards to be presented Sept. 17 during IBC 2023 at the Rai Amsterdam.

The IBC Innovation Awards recognize collaboration on solutions development that address challenges in three areas: content creation, content distribution and content everywhere, while the Social Impact Awards honor projects that address industry diversity, inclusivity and environmental challenges, IBC organizers said.

“It is clear that the global pandemic has acted as a major catalyst for innovation in the content and technology industry, with this year’s finalists demonstrating many of the transformative new paths forward. All aspects of remote and sustainable operations have been accelerated, bringing an emphatic shift in emphasis from products and hardware to software and services,” said Fergal Ringrose, chair of the 2023 IBC Innovation Awards.

The Innovation Awards shortlist in the Content Creation category includes:

• Fox Sports live multi-camera extended reality (XR) set, replacing the existing NFL on Fox set in Los Angeles.
• RTVE Spain for Hiperia, its first audiovisual content created 100% by artificial intelligence.
• The BBC and partners for the world’s largest pop-up 5G standalone non-public network for live broadcast contributions using shared spectrum, deployed for the Coronation of HM King Charles III.
• Riot Games for its Remote Broadcast Centre, Project Stryker, powered by AWS, a groundbreaking approach to esports content production and broadcasting.
• Formula E for its onboard in-car broadcasting technology with Timeline Television and Domo Broadcast Systems.

 Finalist in the Content Distribution category include: 

• ITV UK for introducing AI-led automation of segmentation and QC workflows with Prime Focus Technologies.
• Cellcom Israel, which joined forces with Viaccess-Orca and Broadpeak to stream live sports with super-low latency.
• TelevisaUnivision, harnessing LTN live event versioning technology to deliver language-tailored live sports coverage on ViX, its streaming platform for global Spanish-speaking audiences.
• Sky Group cloud-native software playout platform for the origination of linear content TV channels across European territories.

The IBC Innovation Awards ceremony will also include recognition of the Best Technical Paper from the conference and presentation of a Special Award. In addition, the IBC International Honor for Excellence, which goes to an individual or organization which has made an outstanding impact over an extended period, will also be presented at the ceremony.

Content Everywhere finalists include:

• SPORT TV APP, which captured a new level of audience engagement for the Portuguese sports broadcaster.
• Sky Sports for the first-time delivered full access to Formula 1 onboard cameras and launched the new Battle Channel.
• KAN, which changed the way Israel watches World Cup Qatar 2022 and Eurovision 2023 with Sport BUFF real-time interactive engagement.
• TNT Sports (formerly BT Sport), which looked to the cloud to create a significant broadcasting milestone for UEFA Youth League.

The Social Impact Awards have become part of the Changemakers program, which focuses on initiatives aimed at making the industry more equitable, inclusive, accessible and green.

The finalists in the Social Impact category include:

• Afghanistan International Radio, a platform that has amplified the voices of Afghan women, sharing their stories.
• RTVE, which used AI to provide local election news coverage of nearly 5,000 small Spanish municipalities.
• Stellenbosch University and Intelsat, which are leveraging satellite technology to expand the reach and richness of higher education.
• BBC Research & Development’s Human Values project, which provides tools to understand how content affects the well-being and values of the user.

Environment and Sustainability finalists include:

• Iron Mountain Data Centers, which are on the path to using 100% locally sourced clean electricity all of the time to make their operations carbon free.
• Seagate, which extended the life of more than 1 million hard disk drives and solid-state drives through its refurbishment and circularity program in 2022.
• 4MOD’s Life Cycle Assessment process, which integrates LCA data-driven decisions into its operations, ensuring continual improvement in the environmental impacts of products and services.
• Love Island’s partnership with eBay, which inspired sustainable shopping among a huge audience.

 The finalists for Diversity and Inclusion projects include: 

• The MAMA Youth Project, which supports motivated and under-represented young adults into sustained employment in the media.
• SWI swissinfo.ch, which has introduced a data-driven process to evaluate the use of inclusive language in its multi-lingual digital newsroom.
• ScreenCraft Works, a global community for under-represented film and TV professionals with cross-border mentorship at its heart.

The Innovation Awards will be announced in a ceremony in IBC’s Premier Lounge at 6 p.m. CEST Sept. 17. The Social Impact Awards, part of the IBC2023 Changemakers Program, will be held the same day at 5 p.m. CEST in The Forum.

More information is available on the IBC website.

Paris, France – August 14, 2018 – Dalet, a leading provider of solutions and services for broadcasters and content professionals, announced today that they have been shortlisted alongside Euronews for the IBC2018 Innovation Awards content creation category. Lauded as one of the most coveted awards in the media industry, the competitive competition celebrates technical and creative excellence, acknowledging collaboration between organizations like Euronews and Dalet to achieve clever and innovative solutions for real business challenges.

“We are honored to be nominated for the IBC2018 Innovation Award with our technology partner Dalet,” says Francois Schmitt, COO, Euronews. “With the help of Dalet and our other partners, we were able to achieve our vision and become the world’s first truly ‘Glocal’ news channels, providing our audiences important global headlines with perspectives and viewpoints relevant to their regions, cultures and communities. We thank the IBC Innovation Award judges for recognizing this incredible technical feat and Dalet for working alongside with us on this exciting journey."

Euronews had been addressing the region’s need for multilingual programming by providing a single channel of news programming with identical video and English-only graphics delivered to countries with 12 different language versions. Groundbreaking when Euronews had originally launched in 1993, the “Multiplex” approach to broadcasting lacked the ability to adapt programming to the specific needs of individual countries, a limitation for today’s viewers who crave customized content. With multiculturalism as a core value, management sought to better connect global content with local audiences, transforming Euronews into a “Glocal” media brand.

“This project perfectly coincides with Dalet’s values of innovation, passion, and multiculturalism,”comments Johann Zemmour, general manager, EMEA & APAC at Dalet. “Collaborating with the same ideals and vision, we were able to leverage the advanced media asset management and orchestration capabilities of the Dalet Galaxy platform to construct one of the world’s most technically advanced newsrooms, empowering Euronews journalists to collaborate and turn any local or global topic into compelling news stories with perspectives and insights that resonate with their respective audiences.”

The legacy Euronews infrastructure had limited news to a “one-size-fits-all” with journalists relying on technicians to package non-localized news story with 11 voice-overs. The lack of system integration pushed news air times to an hour or more. To transform the operation, Euronews implemented Dalet’s component-based workflow powered by the Dalet Galaxy Media Asset Management and Orchestration platform, featuring federated editorial tools that empower the 500 journalists and a workflow engine that maximizes and automates complex, custom content delivery operations. The successful Euronews transformation, which saw no change in staff, increased television content production by 100%, feeding its newly launched 12 individual channels fresh content with a local perspective. It also increased Euronews digital content output by 20%, growing its online audiences by 66%.

“We are incredibly proud that the Euronews project has been shortlisted for an IBC Innovation Award and want to extend our appreciation to our technical partners on the project, PEAKS, who we collaborated with closely to bring the Euronews vision to life, and Adobe,” adds Zemmour. Technical project partner PEAKS provided a total redesign of the Euronews website and Dalet Galaxy integrated CMS to achieve a true 360° Newsroom that can produce up to 350 stories a day, reaching more than 13.5 million digital-users.

To learn more about Dalet and Euronews, please watch the video at: https://www.dalet.com/customer-stories/euronews. You can also visit Dalet at IBC2018 on stand 8.B77.

Dalet at IBC 2018

Dalet will be exhibiting its Dalet Galaxy five solution alongside new technology innovations Dalet Media Cortex and Dalet OnePlay at IBC2018 on stand 8.B77. IBC2018 attendees can book a private demonstration or workflow consultation with a Dalet expert to learn more about Dalet Galaxy five, Dalet Media Cortex, and Dalet OnePlay feature highlights.

About Dalet Digital Media Systems

Dalet solutions and services enable media organisations to create, manage and distribute content faster and more efficiently, fully maximising the value of assets. Based on an agile foundation, Dalet offers rich collaborative tools empowering end-to-end workflows for news, sports, program preparation, post-production, archives and enterprise content management, radio, education, governments and institutions.

Dalet platforms are scalable and modular. They offer targeted applications with key capabilities to address critical functions of small to large media operations - such as planning, workflow orchestration, ingest, cataloguing, editing, chat & notifications, transcoding, play out automation, multi-platform distribution and analytics.

Dalet solutions and services are used around the world at hundreds of content producers and distributors, including public broadcasters (BBC, CBC, France TV, RAI, RFI, Russia Today, RT Malaysia, SBS Australia, VOA), commercial networks and operators (Canal+, FOX, MBC Dubai, Mediacorp, Mediaset, Orange, Charter Spectrum, Warner Bros, Sirius XM Radio) and government organisations (UK Parliament, NATO, United Nations, Veterans Affairs, NASA).

Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA.

Dalet® is a registered trademark of Dalet Digital Media Systems. All other products and trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

For more information on Dalet, visit www.dalet.com.

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LONDON—There is less than a week left for submitting entries for the 2017 IBC Innovation Awards. IBC has announced that the final deadline for submission will be Monday, May 8.

The IBC Innovation Awards are meant to “reward the best applications of technology to achieve a real goal for the broadcaster or media company,” per IBC’s website. This year’s award features new categories, including Content Creation, Content Distribution and Content Everywhere.

For more information or to submit an entry, visit show.ibc.org.

LONDON—IBC 2017 is starting to gear up as the annual conference has announced that it is now accepting entries for its Innovation Awards. For this year’s awards, IBC has adjusted the categories for what it says are in response to a shifting industry landscape.

The new categories include Content Creation, which is for projects that give creative talents the tools to work from acquisition to post production. Content Distribution is another new category and will recognize projects that connect creators and consumers in new ways. The last category is Content Everywhere, which seeks projects that make the most of the connected world, using technology in new and imaginative ways to inform, entertain and excite audiences.

The deadline for award entry submission will be April 24. A shortlist of finalists will be announced in July. Entry guidelines and entry forms can be found at IBC.org/awards.