IPTC Spring Meeting 2025
14 – 16 May, Juan les Pins, France

Port de l'Olivette - The little Olivette port in Juan les Pins. France, Aug. 2014.
Port de l’Olivette – The little Olivette port in Juan les Pins. France, Aug. 2014. Image license: CC-BY, source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/franckmichel/14933044008/

The 2025 IPTC Spring Meeting will be held in Juan les Pins, France (a neighbourhood of Antibes, near Nice) from Wednesday 14th to Friday 16th May 2025.

Meeting Venue

This year’s meeting will be held at the AC Hotel Ambassadeur Juans les Pins, a 4-star hotel in Juans les Pins, near Antibes in the south of France.

The meeting will be co-located with the CEPIC Congress 2025. The CEPIC event runs from Monday 12th to Wednesday 14th May, and the IPTC Spring Meeting goes from Wednesday 14th to Friday 16th. CEPIC is the “Centre of the European Picture Industry”, an association of companies in the image licensing and distribution business.

Event details

As well as updates from IPTC Working Groups such as the News Architecture Working Group, Photo Metadata Working Group, Video Metadata Working Group, NewsCodes Working Group and Sports Content Working Group, we will hear from exciting projects in the media and startup space from members, invited companies and local startups.

Agenda

Day 1: Wednesday 14 May

  • Introduction and welcome from Brendan Quinn, IPTC Managing Director and Robert Schmidt-Nia, IPTC Chair
  • Collaborative events with CEPIC
  • Presentations from IPTC Working Groups
  • Presentations from member organisations
  • Presentations from invited guests and IPTC member companies
  • Catered lunch, coffee breaks and networking time for members and guests to get to know each other better

Day 2: Thursday 15 May

  • Presentations from IPTC Working Groups
  • Presentations from member organisations
  • Presentations from invited guests and IPTC member companies
  • Catered lunch, breaks and networking time for members and guests

Day 3: Friday 16 May

  • Presentations from IPTC Working Groups
  • Presentations from member organisations
  • Presentations from invited guests and IPTC member companies
  • IPTC Standards Committee Meeting, led by Paul Harman of Bloomberg, IPTC Standards Committee Chair
  • Catered lunch, breaks and networking time for members and guests

Registration

All IPTC members are encouraged to attend. For more details including a link to the registration form, please see the members-only event page for the IPTC Spring 2025 Meeting.

If you’re not yet an IPTC member, please see our membership pages for more details or contact Managing Director, Brendan Quinn for more information.

We will share the event online via Zoom but obviously in-person attendance is preferred. You will also get much more out of your IPTC membership by attending in person.

We’re looking forward to seeing you in the south of France!