IPTC Photo Metadata Conference 2026

Online – 3 September 2026: 15.00 to 18.00 UTC

The 2026 IPTC Photo Metadata Conference will be held in September as an online event.

Topics include the use of photo metadata to enable business workflows, latest developments in IPTC and other metadata standards, news on adoption of existing metadata standards around accessibility, content provenance, AI opt-out, signalling of AI-generated content and more.

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Agenda

To be confirmed. Do you have an idea for someone we should invite to speak? Would you like to present something relevant for our audience? Please get in touch!

Previous Conferences

The IPTC Photo Metadata Conference has been held regularly since 2007.

Watch video recordings and see presentation slides from our previous events:

• 2025 IPTC Photo Metadata Conference videos featuring sessions on AI opt-out and copyright, AI caption tagging for the Superbowl, Metadata for Image Quality in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM), views on C2PA and content provenance from tech legend Tim Bray, and more.
• 2024 IPTC Photo Metadata Conference videos featuring a history of 20 years of IPTC Photo Metadata, panels on content authenticity and photo metadata in AI, and a demo of Adobe’s Custom Metadata Panel.
• There was no IPTC Photo Metadata Conference in 2023.
• 2022 IPTC Photo Metadata Conference videos continuing our efforts on accessibility and authenticity with Microsoft, CameraBits, vAIsual and more.
• 2021 IPTC Photo Metadata Conference videos featuring a focus on accessibility and authenticity with Macmillan Learning, the Smithsonian, Adobe, the Content Authenticity Initiative and more
• 2020 IPTC Photo Metadata Conference videos including presentations from Google, Getty Images, Picturemaxx, Content Authenticity Initiative and others.
• Discover what was presented and discussed at meetings before 2020