Autumn Meeting 2025:
14 – 16 October, online
This information last updated 2025-09-29
The IPTC Autumn Meeting and Annual General Meeting 2025 will be held online this year.
Schedule
Tuesday 14 October
- 13.00 UTC: Introduction and update from Managing Director Brendan Quinn and the IPTC Board of Directors
- 13.45 UTC: Attendee introductions: get to know your fellow members
- 14.15 UTC: Short break (15min)
- 14.30 UTC: Xinhua: Multimodality Interaction (Digital Human) Application Technology
- 15.00 UTC: Global Media Identifier update (previously known as ISO IWA44 UMId) with Olaf Steenfadt
- 15.30 UTC: Really Simple Licensing (to be confirmed)
- 16.00 Break (30min)
- 16.30 UTC: Photo Metadata Working Group
- 17.15 UTC: Newscodes Working Group + Discussion of new cv.iptc.org server
Wednesday 15 October
- 13.00 UTC: Time Addressable Media Store (speaker to be confirmed)
- 13.45 UTC: News in JSON Working Group
- 14.15 UTC: Short break (15min)
- 14.30 UTC: Copyright Exchange – with Philippe Rixhon
- 15.00 UTC: Sports Content WG
- 15.30 UTC: Adventures in “vibe coding” for IPTC with Brendan Quinn
- 16.00 UTC: Break (30min)
- 16.30 UTC: NewsML-G2 WG + Publisher metadata
- 17.15 UTC: Video Metadata Working Group
Thursday 16 October
- 13.00 UTC: IPTC Annual General Meeting 2025
- Election of IPTC Board and Chair
- Review of IPTC accounts for 2024, 2025 spending estimates, current financial status and approval of IPTC Budget for 2026
- Vote to update the IPTC Articles of Association
- 14.15 UTC: Short break (15 min)
- 14.30 UTC: IPTC Standards Committee meeting
- Vote on proposed new standard versions: Photo Metadata Hub, Video Metadata Hub, ninjs (TBC)
- 15.00 UTC: Open Mind / StoryGo (invited startup presentation)
- 15.30 UTC: TEMS project update with Alexandre Rouxel, EBU
- 16.00 UTC: Break (30 min)
- 16.30 UTC: IPTC Media Provenance Committee meeting
- Update on IPTC’s Media Provenance work and our efforts to implement C2PA media provenance technology in the media industry
- 17.15 UTC: IBC Accelerator “Stamping Your Content” presentation from ITN, Sony, BBC and OpenOrigins
Representatives from IPTC member organisations can register to attend the event (for free) using the registration link on the IPTC Members-Only Zone.