Next week, speakers from the National Geographic Society, Journalism Trust Initiative, Peking University and more will be presenting at the IPTC Spring Meeting in Juan les Pins, France.

This year’s event is being held in collaboration with CEPIC, the industry group for the image licensing industry, with whom IPTC has a long association. The CEPIC event is being held from Monday to Wednesday, and the IPTC event is from the Wednesday to Friday, so we can enjoy a crossover day where CEPIC attendees will be able to hear from IPTC speakers and vice versa.

Speakers and panels include:

• A panel discussion on AI opt-out best practices, discussing what publishers can practically do in today’s ecosystem to ensure that they have control over whether AI crawlers can index their content
• Several presentations on C2PA and Media Provenance, including a presentation of a proof-of-concept by the National Geographic Society working with Orange Logic and Trufo. We will also be holding a meeting of the IPTC Media Provenance Committee and workshops on metadata for C2PA in the news media industry
• Presentation from IPTC member Data Language on their recent work implementing IPTC Sport Schema in their Data Graphs platform
• Invited speakers from Peking University, working with IPTC member Xinhua News Agency, on pre-training AI models for media
• Presentations from each IPTC Working Group: NewsML-G2, News in JSON, Photo Metadata, Video Metadata, NewsCodes, Sports Content

Of course there will also be time for attendees to discuss shared issues in person with their peers from other companies around the globe.

Virtual attendance is still available. IPTC members should fill in the attendance form linked from the event page in the IPTC Members Only Zone.