IBC2026

 
The transition from SDI to IP is reshaping broadcast infrastructure. This session explores the key drivers behind the shift, the opportunities IP enables, and the practical considerations for successful adoption. Learn how broadcasters can build flexible, scalable, and future-ready operations.

John Mailhot – SVP Product Management, Imagine Communications
Adeel Ahmed – Senior Product Director, Imagine Communications

 
Rapidly changing technology–such as the explosion of Gen AI, hybrid workflows, and immersive entertainment–has disrupted traditional talent pipelines, creating new demands for skills and reskilling. How are companies and individuals keeping up? And how are we as an industry ensuring underrepresented groups don’t fall further behind? This #GALSNGEAR-hosted session is solutions-focused. We will surface technical training best practices, career pathways, new mentoring road maps, and how technology itself can help women build global careers from anywhere in the world.

Dr. Glodina Lostanlen – , Chief Revenue Officer, Imagine Communications
Elena Dimopoulou – New Media Artist
Yassue Inoki – President, ABOTTS (Associação Brasileira de OTT e Streaming)
Amy DeLouise – Founder, #GALSNGEAR

 
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard method for exposing data and capabilities of existing equipment and tools, so that AI-based models and systems can efficiently interact with them.  By using an open standard approach, equipment vendors can confidently build interfaces that will work across the new generations of AI models and capabilities that come out frequently.  This talk focuses on what MCP is and what kinds of capabilities it enables.

John Mailhot – SVP Product Management, Imagine Communications