IBC2018, the world’s most influential media, entertainment and technology show, today announces the Convention Keynote session for IBC2018. This Keynote completes the extensive line-up of industry talent and global media companies already confirmed to deliver compelling talks at IBC2018.

You might ask yourself: What was so special about the 30th of April? Each year it’s a special day for our Dutch neighbours. This year it was not just a special day, it was a very special day for the Dutchmen and women. If you are curious to find out what G&D’s KVM extenders have to do with the Queen’s Day - keep on reading!

In the third successive year, Lawo once again in 2017 provided IP-networked audio consoles for the 14^th July celebrations in Paris. More than 500,000 spectators celebrated at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris “Bastille Day”, the National Holiday in France, marking the beginning of the modern French nation. The “Concert de Paris” is one of the largest classical music events in the world, followed by the traditional fireworks. The music featuring the National Symphony Orchestra and the Choir of Radio France with internationally renowned soloists was relayed to TV viewers and radio listeners in France and beyond.

LiveU a leader in portable live video acquisition, contribution and management solutions, has announced that hundreds of LiveU units have been deployed by India’s top broadcasters and online media to boost their live reporting of the Indian General Elections, said to be the world's biggest elections.

LiveU covered every mile of the road to U.S. Election Day 2016 culminating with record-breaking numbers for the company on Election Day: 1,800 portable transmission packs in use, nearly 8,000 hours of streaming, and 212 equipment rentals. LiveU played a central role in bringing the most comprehensive Election 2016 coverage to the 71 million viewers tuned in around the world. LiveU has been the solution of choice for top global and national broadcast TV and online outlets and Election 2016 confirmed how valuable the LiveU platform is for high profile news events. The LiveU Central management portal proved to be mission critical on Election Night, supporting more than 1,200 simultaneous streams and managing 17 Terabytes of data.

LYNX Technik AG, provider of modular interfaces announces that its yellobrik signal processing solutions were used in the largest signal distribution project in Brazil to date for the Pope's recent mass at World Youth Day.

Gawed, they were naive.

It seems like eons ago that we consulted with a bunch of equally young idealists in San Diego who were going to build the western U.S. part of the intergalactic network. The goal was to let people – initially just scientists, engineers, big thinkers – exchange data, information and share computer resources to streamline advances and produce a better world.

With millions of daily visitors, YouTube has become an ideal platform for government agencies to keep the public apprised of breaking legislative developments. Content traditionally reserved for public TV or meeting rooms is now increasingly being live streamed, as the Minnesota House of Representatives is showing. House Public Information Services, a non-partisan office of the Minnesota House of Representatives, broadcasts select meetings live on PBS and cable when the House is in session, but also delivers a live stream of every meeting room to YouTube, relying on AJA’s HELO to stream meeting content to potential viewers 24/7. 

On Sunday, September 22nd, millions of viewers across Europe and the world watched closely as Germany elected members of the 18th Bundestag, with Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU party winning a historic victory, carrying nearly 42% of the vote and nearly 50% of the legislature.

Besides having 14 anchors, analysts and reporters on set in multiple studios in 30 Rock, the two networks continued its extensive use of virtual and touch screen technology.While the technology was new for many U.S. networks in 2008, the networks have had more time to learn and tweak, meaning a well rounded and polished look for this election.Unlike other networks, the technology, powered by Orad, worked. The iPad app didn’t fail. The real-time virtual graphics didn’t twitch.

Neumann & Müller is one of the largest event service providers in Europe. The company already owns three DNS 8 Lives and uses them at all its larger events, one of which was the recent conference of the German Social Democratic Party, which was held in the Leipzig Messe on 14 - 16 November.

Members attending the 73rd General Assembly in Geneva have elected the remaining nine members of the EBU Executive Board which will lead the European broadcasting community for the next two years.

BBC Studios and Post Production is supporting BBC News’ local and European elections broadcasts from New Broadcasting House by delivering a series of live programmes from Elstree. BBC Studios and Post Production’s Elstree Studio D has been transformed with a brand-new virtual reality tracking system to enable Jeremy Vine to engage BBC viewers with his inimitable analysis of the full election experience.

Ericsson today announced that it has won an exclusive multi-year access services contract with the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives in New Zealand. The contract will see Ericsson remotely deliver live captioning services for the Parliament TV broadcasts of the sittings of the New Zealand House of Representatives. The new captioning service will be available on Parliament TV for the first time from August 2016.

3D Storm (NewTek Europe), distributor of NewTek products in Europe, Africa and the Middle-East, was at the heart of the French National Day on July 14th, for the streaming live of the traditional and majestic firework on the Eiffel Tower. This year the theme was “Broadway Musicals in Paris”. More than 500 000 people attended the show on the Champ de Mars esplanade and more than 50 000 internet users watched the firework broadcast live with Tricaster.