The cover of the latest edition of the EBU's quarterly tech-i magazine features two very happy colleagues from France Télévisions. Romuald Rat and Yannick Olivier have every reason to smile in this photo, taken during the EBU Technology & Innovation Summit in Dublin last June, as they had each just received a 2025 EBU Technology & Innovation Award.
Awards news
Romuald Rat, Director of TechLab and AI at the French broadcaster, was picking up the main T&I Award, presented to France TV in recognition of its pioneering work in implementing the C2PA content authentication protocol. On pages 10 and 11 of the magazine, he tells the story of this groundbreaking project that saw France TV becoming the first broadcaster to use C2PA on its daily news programmes, thus greatly increasing transparency for audiences.
The other smiling person pictured on the cover is Yannick Olivier, winner of the EBU Young Technology Talent Award 2025. You can learn more about Yannick in the interview on page 14.
The magazine also features reports on the two runner-up projects from this year's awards, KI-Kjetil, TV 2’s AI avatar that transformed election coverage, and ARD.Player, a unified streaming solution for all platforms.
Consider 'intelligence'
In his editorial column for the magazine, Director of Technology & Innovation Antonio Arcidicono considers 'intelligence', and not necessarily with the today seemingly ever-present prefix of 'articificial'. To thrive in future, EBU Members must, he says, be able to translate deep technical insight and strategic foresight into actional outcomes.
"An intelligence-driven methodology enables public service broadcasters across the EBU to not only navigate but anticipate technological disruptions in a fast-evolving ecosystem."
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