17-20 OCTOBER · FIAT/IFTA WORLD CONFERENCE
LOCARNO 2023
Blame it on the algorithm!
Breathe the history of the twentieth century. After almost three years without an opportunity to meet in person, we are extremely proud and happy to be able to reunite all those with a professional interest in media archives.
Blame it on the algorithm!
After nearly four years, the FIAT/IFTA World Conference returned to Europe as an in-person event. In partnership with SRG-SSR, we firmly selected Locarno as the 2023 conference venue. This city melds historical charm with global significance in media and audiovisual history, set against a stunning Alpine backdrop.
As for the conference’s theme, the message was clear: amidst the AI buzz in media archives, let’s pause. Tech’s historic impact on our field begs the question: is this shift unique? Are we off course? Is AI’s dominance a silver bullet or overhyped? Beyond cataloguing, let’s remember its preservation and access potential. Are we, while fixating on AI, missing the broader plans?
To delve deeper, let’s consider the following: do we need AI-free zones in our institutions and collections? Are creativity, curatorship, sustainability and disinformation each other’s friends or foes? Will the survival of media archives be reliant on AI?
We dissected media-tech-content crossroads. Archivists, devs, strategists, researchers, and the industry unite for informed exchanges: keynotes, presentations, workshops, inspiring dialogues and the convivial atmosphere that the FIAT/IFTA World Conference is well known for.
CONFERENCE SPONSORS
For more information, click on the sponsor’s logo.
GOLD PREMIER
SPONSORS
Iron Mountain Entertainment Services (IMES), the media and entertainment division of Iron Mountain Incorporated, is the go-to physical and digital media archiving service for the media and entertainment industries. IMES partners with clients ranging from the broadcast, film, music, and sports sectors to brand archives and individual artists’ collections and estates, to protect and activate media archives to preserve our collective cultural heritage. A global leader in media preservation, restoration, and archive management, IMES offers industry-leading archive, storage, chain-of-custody processes, and physical and digital content preservation solutions to ensure the complete protection of some of the world’s most treasured and iconic assets. Visit https://www.ironmountain.com/industries/entertainment for more information.
Our mission is to provide comprehensive and tailored solutions to the global entertainment industry, ensuring the preservation, protection, and accessibility of their most valuable assets. Our services encompass a wide range of offerings designed to cater to the unique needs of our clients, from major studios and record labels to broadcasters and independent creators.
Our core services include:
- Physical and Digital Asset Management
- Archival Services
- Restoration and Remastering
- Data and Media Migration
- Consulting and Advisory Services
By delivering these comprehensive services, Iron Mountain Entertainment Services plays an essential role in safeguarding the world’s cultural heritage, while empowering our clients to thrive in a dynamic and competitive marketplace.
– Elevate the power of your archive –
Dalet empowers media-rich organizations to transform their production and distribution workflows – accelerating media operations, maximizing collaboration and creating higher value from content.
As a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation, our software solutions enable greater control, enhanced visibility and increased productivity for content professionals and storytellers around the globe. Leading organizations such as Fox Networks Group, Arsenal Football Club, MediaCorp, Audi, and the BBC trust Dalet to support their daily content operations.
Our team is driven by a passion for media and committed to empowering a world where compelling stories are beautifully made, effortlessly told and thoughtfully delivered.
Learn more at www.dalet.com
GOLD
SPONSORS
Mimir is a video production and collaboration platform for professionals. The Fonn Group company, Mimir, embodies the front line of cloud-native platforms, redefining efficiency, seamless workflows and collaboration from any location.
Mimir manages your live videos, clips, images, and audio files. It uses AI for automatic metadata logging to power its industry-leading search.
Customers are, amongst others, VRT, NRK, Axel Springer, blinx, GB News, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Formula E, TV 2 FYN, Sky News Australia, The New York Times, News UK, TVNZ, and ausbiz. Mimir has won several prestigious industry awards since its launch in early 2019.
About the Mimir team
SILVER
SPONSORS
Experience, quality and innovation are three other main characteristics of their systems for audio and film postproduction and archive applications.
MWA Nova currently offers more specialist solutions for the actual physical transfer and replay of celluloid, nitrate and magnetic film for archival purposes than any other single manufacturer.
Our viewing and inspection table spinner V is an example of this.
We want to keep the functionality of the currently used STEENBECK tables – but based on the latest technology, with the possibility to record a viewing copy of various sound and film formats.
Learn more at: https://mwa-nova.com
Newsbridge is the leading AI company solving the video searchability problem. Its revolutionary multimodal and generative AI indexing technology, MXT-1, uses natural language models to generate human-like descriptions of video content. Capable of indexing more than 500 hours of video per minute, MXT-1 is a game changer for organizations working with media and sports audiovisual content. Leveraging the groundbreaking technology, users can index vast amounts of content in record time, and search their large video collections as easily and intuitively as searching the web.
MXT-1 is specifically trained on hundreds of thousands of hours of media,
entertainment, and sports content, leveraging AI transformers, making it particularly good at describing content for these industries’ indexing and search use cases. Fast and scalable, MXT-1 enables users to quickly start enhancing, sharing, and monetizing their archives.
Learn more at: https://www.newsbridge.io/
With decades of expertise, Quantum’s end-to-end AI-driven data platform enables you not only to store but also enrich, protect, and archive your content across the entire lifecycle – securely and at scale. Our end-to-end solutions give the world’s largest studios, broadcasters, and sports video content producers the power to bring together production teams with agile, responsive, and highly efficient collaborative shared workflows. Our platforms unite video, rendering, and virtual production workflows and protect your valuable content archives for the long term on the most cost and energy-efficient storage. Quantum’s StorNext® collaborative shared storage file system, CatDV asset management and orchestration platform with powerful AI tools for cataloguing and enhancement, and the H4000 Essential deliver the performance you need for your production workflows, empowering your fast-moving content teams and for building the ‘ultimate archive,’ so that your content is readily available for new projects and monetization. Learn more at www.quantum.com.
XenData, the global provider of active archive systems, has over 1500 installations in more than 90 countries. It is trusted for the long-term retention of media assets by many national and regional archive institutions and public broadcasters. All XenData systems integrate easily with other applications and existing networks. We have proven installations with many complementary products, including from Dalet, NOA and VSN.
XenData offers highly scalable systems that archive media files to LTO data tape within a robotic library. High-capacity LTO cartridges provide stable storage with a lifetime of more than 30 years. If required, XenData systems make it easy to migrate content to the latest generation of LTO, as well as to on-premises object storage and cloud storage. They offer rich functionality, including the option to create LTO cartridges for delivery to other organizations and to publish to the cloud. Learn more at: https://xendata.com
Viz One (by Vizrt) is the leading enterprise-grade MAM platform trusted by the largest media houses worldwide. Not only do our customers operate workflows at scale but in addition they can rely on a team of extremely skilled media industry experts worldwide that solve difficult problems with excellence and care.
Viz One makes it simple and easy to ingest, manage, edit, and deliver content effortlessly and cost-effectively along with genuine improvements through AI. It supports all types of on-prem, hybrid and cloud deployments while offering scalability, flexibility, and redundancy.
To lead as the world’s most flexible, intuitive, and reliable media asset management platform, unlocking archive value and solving media workflow challenges at any scale, in any location remains our commitment for the years to come.
For more information, please visit:
https://www.vizrt.com/
https://www.vizrt.com/
Our cognitive advanced technology is a collaborative and evolutive solution to manage your assets by your own rules. Your archives become your best business assets.
Unleash the power of your data thanks to our exclusive technology that combines the best of semantic AI and Knowledge Graph. It becomes easy to collect, interpret, transform and integrate any kind of data and content (videos, photos, audio files, text documents, etc…) in order to transform them into contextual
Learn more at: https://www.perfect-memory.com
CONFERENCE SPONSORS
For more information, click on the sponsor’s logo.
GOLD
PREMIER
SPONSORS
Iron Mountain Entertainment Services (IMES), the media and entertainment division of Iron Mountain Incorporated, is the go-to physical and digital media archiving service for the media and entertainment industries. IMES partners with clients ranging from the broadcast, film, music, and sports sectors to brand archives and individual artists’ collections and estates, to protect and activate media archives to preserve our collective cultural heritage. A global leader in media preservation, restoration, and archive management, IMES offers industry-leading archive, storage, chain-of-custody processes, and physical and digital content preservation solutions to ensure the complete protection of some of the world’s most treasured and iconic assets. Visit https://www.ironmountain.com/industries/entertainment for more information.
Our mission is to provide comprehensive and tailored solutions to the global entertainment industry, ensuring the preservation, protection, and accessibility of their most valuable assets. Our services encompass a wide range of offerings designed to cater to the unique needs of our clients, from major studios and record labels to broadcasters and independent creators.
Our core services include:
- Physical and Digital Asset Management
- Archival Services
- Restoration and Remastering
- Data and Media Migration
- Consulting and Advisory Services
By delivering these comprehensive services, Iron Mountain Entertainment Services plays an essential role in safeguarding the world’s cultural heritage, while empowering our clients to thrive in a dynamic and competitive marketplace.
– Elevate the power of your archive –
Dalet empowers media-rich organizations to transform their production and distribution workflows – accelerating media operations, maximizing collaboration and creating higher value from content.
As a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation, our software solutions enable greater control, enhanced visibility and increased productivity for content professionals and storytellers around the globe. Leading organizations such as Fox Networks Group, Arsenal Football Club, MediaCorp, Audi, and the BBC trust Dalet to support their daily content operations.
Our team is driven by a passion for media and committed to empowering a world where compelling stories are beautifully made, effortlessly told and thoughtfully delivered.
Learn more at www.dalet.com
GOLD
SPONSORS
Mimir is a video production and collaboration platform for professionals. The Fonn Group company, Mimir, embodies the front line of cloud-native platforms, redefining efficiency, seamless workflows and collaboration from any location.
Mimir manages your live videos, clips, images, and audio files. It uses AI for automatic metadata logging to power its industry-leading search.
Customers are, amongst others, VRT, NRK, Axel Springer, blinx, GB News, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Formula E, TV 2 FYN, Sky News Australia, The New York Times, News UK, TVNZ, and ausbiz. Mimir has won several prestigious industry awards since its launch in early 2019.
About the Mimir team
SILVER
SPONSORS
Experience, quality and innovation are three other main characteristics of their systems for audio and film postproduction and archive applications.
MWA Nova currently offers more specialist solutions for the actual physical transfer and replay of celluloid, nitrate and magnetic film for archival purposes than any other single manufacturer.
Our viewing and inspection table spinner V is an example of this.
We want to keep the functionality of the currently used STEENBECK tables – but based on the latest technology, with the possibility to record a viewing copy of various sound and film formats.
Learn more at: https://mwa-nova.com
Newsbridge is the leading AI company solving the video searchability problem. Its revolutionary multimodal and generative AI indexing technology, MXT-1, uses natural language models to generate human-like descriptions of video content. Capable of indexing more than 500 hours of video per minute, MXT-1 is a game changer for organizations working with media and sports audiovisual content. Leveraging the groundbreaking technology, users can index vast amounts of content in record time, and search their large video collections as easily and intuitively as searching the web.
MXT-1 is specifically trained on hundreds of thousands of hours of media,
entertainment, and sports content, leveraging AI transformers, making it particularly good at describing content for these industries’ indexing and search use cases. Fast and scalable, MXT-1 enables users to quickly start enhancing, sharing, and monetizing their archives.
Learn more at: https://www.newsbridge.io/
With decades of expertise, Quantum’s end-to-end AI-driven data platform enables you not only to store but also enrich, protect, and archive your content across the entire lifecycle – securely and at scale. Our end-to-end solutions give the world’s largest studios, broadcasters, and sports video content producers the power to bring together production teams with agile, responsive, and highly efficient collaborative shared workflows. Our platforms unite video, rendering, and virtual production workflows and protect your valuable content archives for the long term on the most cost and energy-efficient storage. Quantum’s StorNext® collaborative shared storage file system, CatDV asset management and orchestration platform with powerful AI tools for cataloguing and enhancement, and the H4000 Essential deliver the performance you need for your production workflows, empowering your fast-moving content teams and for building the ‘ultimate archive,’ so that your content is readily available for new projects and monetization. Learn more at www.quantum.com.
SILVER
SPONSORS
XenData, the global provider of active archive systems, has over 1500 installations in more than 90 countries. It is trusted for the long-term retention of media assets by many national and regional archive institutions and public broadcasters. All XenData systems integrate easily with other applications and existing networks. We have proven installations with many complementary products, including from Dalet, NOA and VSN.
XenData offers highly scalable systems that archive media files to LTO data tape within a robotic library. High-capacity LTO cartridges provide stable storage with a lifetime of more than 30 years. If required, XenData systems make it easy to migrate content to the latest generation of LTO, as well as to on-premises object storage and cloud storage. They offer rich functionality, including the option to create LTO cartridges for delivery to other organizations and to publish to the cloud. Learn more at: https://xendata.com
Viz One (by Vizrt) is the leading enterprise-grade MAM platform trusted by the largest media houses worldwide. Not only do our customers operate workflows at scale but in addition they can rely on a team of extremely skilled media industry experts worldwide that solve difficult problems with excellence and care.
Viz One makes it simple and easy to ingest, manage, edit, and deliver content effortlessly and cost-effectively along with genuine improvements through AI. It supports all types of on-prem, hybrid and cloud deployments while offering scalability, flexibility, and redundancy.
To lead as the world’s most flexible, intuitive, and reliable media asset management platform, unlocking archive value and solving media workflow challenges at any scale, in any location remains our commitment for the years to come.
For more information, please visit:
https://www.vizrt.com/
https://www.vizrt.com/
Our cognitive advanced technology is a collaborative and evolutive solution to manage your assets by your own rules. Your archives become your best business assets.
Unleash the power of your data thanks to our exclusive technology that combines the best of semantic AI and Knowledge Graph. It becomes easy to collect, interpret, transform and integrate any kind of data and content (videos, photos, audio files, text documents, etc…) in order to transform them into contextual
Learn more at: https://www.perfect-memory.com