The winners of the EBU Technology & Innovation Awards 2026 will be announced during the EBU T&I Summit in Barcelona on 18 June. Below we list the nominees for the main award. We will be happy to connect you with any of the project mentioned contacts below.
ORF Content Management Center
ORF, Austria • Markus Korhammer
A full SMPTE ST 2110 transformation of ORF’s broadcast operations, uniting radio, television and streaming signal routing across two high-availability zones, with new master control, playout and multifunctional production spaces. Uses one third of the previous rack space.
Dynamic Streaming for the Olympic and Paralympic Games
CBC/Radio-Canada • François Legrand representing the e250 project team
A real-world deployment of the EBU Dynamic Media Facility Reference Architecture, letting a single operator augment Olympic Broadcast Services 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
A multi-cloud, open-source platform bringing IT and media workflows onto a single Kubernetes foundation, with modules for subtitling, transcription, media processing and AI inference. Sovereign, vendor-neutral and built to support Dynamic Media Facility deployments.
medIAenrich: AI-driven editorial metadata at scale
France Télévisions • Romuald Rat
An AI platform built 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. Free of licence fees for EBU Members.
ARD Sounds: the play button for your day
ARD, Germany • Lukas Krohn-Grimberghe and Stefan Köhler
A unified digital audio platform that brings podcasts, live radio and event streams from across ARD’s regional broadcasters into a single user-centric app, with intelligent recommendations and curated collections aimed at younger, digitally native audiences.
Fehler im System: live multi-camera virtual production
SWR, Germany • Philipp Jacobs
A new workflow that allows live switching between multiple tracked cameras on a single LED volume, overcoming the single-camera limit of traditional virtual production. Proved on a multi-hour role-playing game streamed live on Twitch.
A framework for Generative AI
Rai, Italy • Mariangela Borneo, Roberto Iacoviello and Alberto Ciprian
An IBC Accelerator project led by Rai with VRT, YLE, EBU, Globo, ITV and partners, delivering a modular framework that standardizes prompts and metadata across text, image, audio and video tools. Validated through the photorealistic trailer “Echoes of Rome”.
Neo: software-defined live production at Olympic scale
SVT, Sweden • Frida Thelin
A fully software-based production platform running on standard IT hardware, used to deliver ten parallel production environments and OTT channels at the 2026 Winter Olympics – more than 800 hours and 150 sports productions in total.
Machine-learning-assisted MCR audio monitoring
BBC, UK • Paul McGrath
A model trained to recognize what BBC Radio 5 Live should sound like, alerting when distortion appears that conventional equipment treats as valid audio. Runs on a Raspberry Pi, demonstrating that application-specific machine learning needs neither LLMs nor server racks.
Sustainable production with solar and battery power
ITV Studios, UK • Tim Guilder
Hybrid power systems using second-life EV batteries and solar deployed on shoots including I’m a Celebrity and Nobody’s Fool, cutting fuel consumption by up to 60%. The team is open-sourcing its learnings as a blueprint for the wider industry.
Intelligent Automation through commodity AI workflows
ITV, UK • Clive Santamaria
A self-service platform that lets teams across ITV build their own AI-powered automations by connecting everyday tools and systems, with no coding required. More than 2,000 hours of staff time saved in the first six months.
AI Agent Hub: governed multi-model access
ITV, UK • Robert Taylor
A single governed interface for switching between approved foundation models and building prompt-based assistants, with central routing, role-based access, audit logging and provenance controls. Trial users reported time savings (70%) and quality gains (over 80%).
Qualitative Enricher: AI reasoning at scale for ITVX
ITVX, UK • Huw Byrn-Jones
An AI service that generates qualitative metadata for ITVX – ranking the most recognizable cast members and describing mood and atmosphere – with a secondary AI scoring outputs and a daily budget cap. Costs less than £10 a month to run.
Find more information about the EBU Technology & Information Awards, including a list of past winners, here.