Better Together: Celebrating Partnership, Innovation & Impact

EVENT DETAILS

📆 Date: Thursday, 11th September 2025
🕞 Time: 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM
🗺️ Location: NHOW Hotel, Amsterdam RAI

Now in its fourth year, the Bitmovin Innovators Network has become a cornerstone of IBC. It brings together influential voices from across our global partner ecosystem. From C-suite leaders and VPs in Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing, to Heads of Business Development, this exclusive gathering celebrates collaboration, innovation, and the voice of the customer.

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This year, we’re proud to collaborate with a group of exceptional organizations that are helping shape the future of video. These partnerships reflect the very essence of our theme, Better Together, and they add energy, insight, and opportunity to the event.

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EVENT LINE-UP

Real-world “Better Together” Success stories:

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  • Gregoire Rouyer, Principal Partner Lead @ AWS highlights how DAZN delivered flawless FIFA World Cup 2025 content to millions of viewers.
  • Børre Sandvik, EVP Products & Technology @ Vimond, shares a “better together” customer success story about delivering a first-class streaming experience for financial news.
  • Olivier Karra, Cloud Solutions Marketing Director, and Manuel Bergerot, Product Growth Director @ Broadpeak present how leading video-on-demand and broadcaster streaming services addressed monetization challenges to drive revenue while maintaining a premium user experience.
  • Ashley Reynolds-Horne, Technical Director @ Simplestream, describes how Virgin Media Ireland, Ireland’s largest commercial free-to-air broadcaster, relaunched its streaming service to create a unified solution across monetization, security and accessibility.

M&E Industry Advisors Panel:

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We’re introducing a brand new item to the Innovators Network agenda! We’re delighted to present an M&E Industry Advisors panel with Systems Integrator, industry consultant, and managed service provider executives sharing current customer challenges, priorities, and emerging trends.

  • Top customer challenges - How macroeconomics, competition, and subscriber behavior, retention, and churn continue to pressure service providers and how this translates into vendor opportunities.
  • Industry trends - How advertising and monetization, multi-cloud, and live sports are changing customer demand for workflow design, vendor selection, replacing in-house technology development & maintenance, and managed services.
  • AI: Hype or Help - Examples of AI hype and real, meaningful AI applications that solve complex, resource-intensive customer problems; future potential for AI in M&E; limitations & concerns about AI.
  • Advisor Best Practices - What SIs, consultants, and managed service providers and their customers expect from third party vendors.

WHY ATTEND?

  • Join 150+ global senior executives leading the video tech evolution
  • Gain insights from partners and customers shaping the end-to-end video pipeline
  • Network in a stunning, collaborative setting with panoramic city views
  • Celebrate shared success under our “Better Together” theme

NOTE: This is an invite-only event for senior executives in the video technology space. Space is limited. 

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