IBC 2023 Awards Winners Announced

IBC today announced the IBC2023 International Honor for Excellence (IHFE), its most prestigious award. Other special IBC award honorees are being announced in advance of the IBC Innovation Awards and IBC Social Impact Awards ceremonies, where the awards will be presented along with the full slate of winners yet to be revealed.

The IBC Innovation Awards take place in IBC’s Premier Lounge at 18.00 CEST on Sunday, Sept. 17, while the Social Impact Awards will be held the same day at 14.30 CEST in The Forum as part of the Changemakers Program.

The IBC2023 International Honor for Excellence (IHFE) Award, its most prestigious award, goes to Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group on the 100th anniversary of its founding by Albert, Sam and Jack Warner. The IHFE is one of a series of special IBC awards celebrating the very best in innovation and change in media and entertainment.

The IBC2023 Changemakers Award, which year honors the Eurovision Song Contest for its contribution to society and culture – celebrating a brand that continues to stay relevant and fresh on a huge scale. The award recognizes the multifaceted cultural phenomenon and the global production network involved in delivering the event.

The winner of the 2023 Special Award for Innovation, is the German DVB-I Pilot – an initiative bringing together multiple stakeholders from the German media industry, including broadcasters, device manufacturers, software providers and research institutions. The project aims to advance the DVB-I standard to enable the ongoing use of linear TV programming.

For another honor being presented at the Innovation Awards ceremony, experts from the IBC Technical Papers Committee and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) have chosen the paper they feel, on peer review, represents the most impressive piece of work being presented at this year’s IBC (Sept. 15-18, RAI Amsterdam).

IBC has announced that the 2023 Special Award for Social Impact will be presented to the Women in Streaming Media Mentorship Program. Selected by the Social Impact Awards jury, the Special Award will be presented as part of the Social Impact Awards ceremony, held on Sunday, Sept. 17, at 14.30 CEST in The Forum.

“These special awards exemplify the spirit of IBC2023, starting with our aim to showcase and inspire transformative innovations and other advances driving change in the industry,” said Michael Crimp, IBC’s chief executive officer. “IBC and the judges involved in the selection of our award winners wanted to spotlight in advance a number of organizations and individuals that have best demonstrated how the industry is rapidly evolving to meet new trends, demands and expectations.”