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The IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Program offers vendors and their customers the opportunity to work together in the creation and design of a service.
out this year’s Accelerators in Hall 14’s Future Tech Zone. One idea that is being revived for IBC2025 is a Hackathon. The show is teaming up with Google on a challenge that will be revealed
to everybody at the same time. Without giving away any details, Crimp describes it as “dead central to the themes happening in the industry at the moment.” Teams are invited to take part in the two-day event; each is in-
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vited on stage to pitch their solution and the winners receive a prize. Crimp sees the Hackathon as an opportunity for IBC to deliver on its “people and purpose” pillar, engaging with the next generation of engineers. “It will be really, really interesting to see if a group of hackers can create what they’re going to be asked to create in two days. “It will also be in the Future Tech Zone in Hall 14. We want to make that hall a destination, so that people will go in there and be in the right frame of mind to be talking about innovation. I think the Hackathon could be really, really interesting, and something which we might be able to build on for the future. It is one of the things I’m most excited about, because I think it’s going to bring in a bit of a new audience. It’s going to show different ways of solving problems. Again, IBC is using our relationships to stage innovation.” Essentially, innovation is what IBC2025 is all about. Asked to sum up the show in three words, Crimp says: “Innovation, fun, collaboration.” Roll on September. ● Registration for IBC2025 is now open. More details are available at show.ibc.org.