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The IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group has chosen the vendors who will be presenting at the "Metadata Safari" component of the 2026 IPTC Photo Metadata Conference. This completes the agenda for this year's event, which will be held online at 15:00 UTC on Thursday 3rd September. Read more...
IPTC'a annual Photo Metadata Conference is taking place on Thursday, 3rd September. We have a great lineup again this year, featuring sessions on AI disclosure, new IPTC Photo Metadata properties, a "metadata safari" demonstrating vendor implementation of industry standards, and a new tool to examine real-world use of photo metadata at news providers. Read more...
The IPTC is pleased to share with the public a video overview of the IPTC Media Provenance Summit which was held on Thursday 16th April in Toronto, Canada. Read more...
Over 100 media provenance experts from 67 organisations around the world gathered in Toronto at the IPTC Media Provenance Summit on 16th April. Read more...
Last week, the IPTC community gathered in Toronto for our 2026 Spring Meeting, held from Monday 13th to Wednesday 15th April at the Reuters offices downtown. Three days of working group updates, guest presentations, and lively discussion were capped off by a fantastic tour of the CBC studios, newsroom, production facilities and archives. Read more...
The full agenda for the IPTC Media Provenance Summit has now been announced, including the world's foremost experts on C2PA and content provenance in the media industry. Read more...
2025 saw the success of several content and media provenance events: the Media Provenance Workshop in Paris (co-organised by AFP, the BBC and Media Cluster Norway), the Content Authenticity Summit in New York (co-organised by the Content Authenticity Initiative, C2PA and IPTC) and the Media Provenance Summit in Bergen, Norway (co-organised by Media Cluster Norway, the BBC, the EBU and IPTC). Read more...
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. Read more...
Software industry legend Tim Bray gave a resounding call to IPTC and to others working on media provenance and C2PA: his verdict was that while the specification and its implementation had issues, they were slowly being resolved and he lauded the project's goal of, in Tim's words, "making it harder for liars to lie and easier for truth tellers to be believed". Read more...