Last week saw the 60th Annual General Meeting of IPTC, held as part of the IPTC Autumn Meeting 2025. The event was held online from Tuesday 14th to Thursday 16th October.

As one could imagine, AI was the hot topic, being mentioned in almost every presentation.

Highlights included:

• Hearing the latest on the TEMS Media Dataspace project, including an overview of the data model, which is of interest to IPTC members due to its mappings to many IPTC standards;
• Hearing the latest from the IPTC Media Provenance Committee and its three working groups, with updates on the Verified News Publisher List and the recent Media Provenance Summits;
• A presentation on “vibe coding” and AI-assisted development, including it being used to update many of IPTC’s tools and services;
• Discussions on a possible new publisher metadata best practice, an update on our AI preferences work and the IETF AI Preferences Working Group;
• We also heard from StoryGo, Copyright Exchange, Global Media Identifier, Time Addressable Media Store, and the IBC Accelerator “Stamping Your Content” project that focused on bringing C2PA metadata to broadcast video content, with many IPTC member organisations as participants.

At the Standards Committee meeting, members voted to approve three new IPTC standard versions: Video Metadata Hub 1.7, Photo Metadata 2025.1, and ninjs version updates. The Photo and Video Metadata updates are to add new properties for AI Prompts and AI models used to create synthetic content. The ninjs updates were to add “resources” to renditions, to cover for example multiple audio tracks or a subtitle feed as part of a live video stream. These updates will be announced separately when they are published.

At the 2025 Annual General Meeting, the Board was re-elected by all Voting Members. Members heard updates from IPTC Managing Director Brendan Quinn and the Chair of IPTC’s Board of Directors, Robert Schmidt-Nia. The 2026 budget was approved and a change to IPTC’s Articles of Association was voted through.

Thanks very much to all who participated and presented their work, and to all IPTC Working Group and Committee members who contributed to the event.

We’re already looking forward to the IPTC Spring Meeting 2026, which will be held in Toronto, Canada, hosted by Thomson Reuters.