EBU unveils nominees for Technology and Innovation Awards 2026
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EBU unveils nominees for Technology and Innovation Awards 2026
Publish Date: 2026-06-06 05:00:00
Source Domain: www.ibc.org
The winners of the 13 nominees will be announced during the EBU T&I Summit in Barcelona on 18 June 2026.
EBU Technology & Innovation Award
UK broadcaster ITV has secured four nominations for innovations that ranged from AI to sustainable production.
Many of the nominees’ work focuses on AI through to live production, virtual production, cloud platforms, and content management.
Full list of EBU T&I Award nominees 2026:
ORF Content Management Center
ORF, Austria • Markus Korhammer
ORF was recognised for a full SMPTE ST 2110 transformation of its broadcast operations, uniting radio, television, and streaming signal routing across two high-availability zones, with new master control, playout, and multifunctional production spaces. It used one-third of the previous rack space.
Dynamic streaming for the Olympic and Paralympic Games
CBC/Radio-Canada • Félix Poulin
CBC/Radio-Canada completed a real-world deployment of the EBU Dynamic Media Facility Reference Architecture, letting a single operator augment Olympic Broadcast Services (OBS) streams from a laptop. Over 140 hours of coverage reached peaks of nearly 500,000 viewers on CBC’s OTT platform.
Alix: a converged IT-media cloud platform
France Télévisions • Heikel Manai
France Télévisions’ multi-cloud, open-source platform brought together IT and media workflows onto a single Kubernetes foundation, with modules for subtitling, transcription, media processing, and AI inference. The sovereign and vendor-neutral system was built to support dynamic media facility (DMF) deployments.
medIAenrich: AI-driven editorial metadata at scale
France Télévisions • Romuald Rat
France Télévisions also built an AI platform with Télécom SudParis that segments programmes into editorial sequences and combines visual, audio, and contextual analysis to generate broadcast-grade metadata at a fraction of commercial costs. It’s free of licence fees for EBU…
