Events
Events, meetings and conferences for media professionals looking to network with the best in the industry
Festival
European Script Awards 2017
The European Script Awards (ESA, formerly known as Prix Genève) honours the most original series and film scripts of aired productions written by up and coming writers.
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact Email: simha@ebu.ch
Other
EBU @ IBC 2017
Join us at Europe's largest annual conference and exhibition dedicated to media technology. You'll find our stand in Hall 10, stand F20.
Location: RAI, Amsterdam
Contact Email: tech@ebu.ch
Competition
Eurovision Creative Forum 2017
The Eurovision Creative Forum is the first annual event for screening programme formats with only public service content from Europe and beyond.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact Email: brochot@ebu.ch
Competition
Rose d'Or
The prestigious Rose d'Or awards define the gold standard of excellence and achievement in entertainment programming. Join us to honour the industry's best programmes, programme-makers and performers.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact Email: schwarm@ebu.ch
Meeting
Executive Board Meeting
The Executive Board is responsible for ensuring the implementation of the EBU’s strategy and policies as put into action by the Management of the EBU. The board meets around 7 times per year.
Location: EBU Brussels Office
Contact Email: howard@ebu.ch
Assembly
21st Sports Assembly
The Sports Assembly brings together EBU broadcasting and sports federation executives from around the world. This meeting gives delegates the opportunity to network and discuss the major challenges affecting sports rights and sports broadcasting today.
Location: EBU Headquarters, Geneva
Contact Email: johannyy@eurovision.net
Conference
EBU VR workshop at CROSS VIDEO DAYS 2017
The EBU will contribute to this year's event in Paris through VR presentations, a panel discussion about the use of VR by public broadcasters and encounters between EBU Members and independent VR producers.
Location: Paris, France
Contact Email: asseraf@ebu.ch
Seminar
9th News and Technology Seminar
The annual EBU News Technology Seminar gather newsmakers from our Members to look at how broadcasters are making the best use of editorially driven technical innovation in newsgathering.
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Contact Email: jimenez@eurovision.net
Meeting
Internal Audit Group Meeting
The Internal Audit Group (IAG) consists of internal auditors and those interested in the profession of audit from EBU Member organizations. The group meets annually to discuss critical issues affecting public broadcasters today such as cyber security risks, general IT controls, audit of Internal controls, whistleblowing and more.
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Contact Email: howard@ebu.ch
Assembly
18th EBU Academy Assembly
Our annual networking assembly for EBU Member training, development and business managers provides the opportunity to tackle issues surround the development of media professionals. This year's topic is "Innovation: the drive of public service media”.
Location: Radisson Blu Royal Astorija hotel, Vilnius
Competition
Choir of the Year 2017
A brand new international TV competition featuring Europe’s best amateur choirs who will travel to Riga and compete for the title Eurovision Choir of the Year.
Location: Riga, Latvia
Contact Email: trustram@ebu.ch
Festival
Euroradio Folk Festival
The 38th Euroradio Folk Festival (EFF) will be held in the Czech Republic, in conjunction with the Ceský Krumlov Folk Festival.
Location: Ceský Krumlov
Contact Email: kabat@ebu.ch
Assembly
78th General Assembly
The EBU's annual summer General Assembly, where top executives from public service broadcasters come together to network, learn and share
Location: Dublin
Contact Email: rijavec@ebu.ch
Meeting
Executive Board Meeting
The Executive Board is responsible for ensuring the implementation of the EBU’s strategy and policies as put into action by the Management of the EBU. The board meets around 7 times per year.
Location: To be confirmed
Contact Email: howard@ebu.ch
Workshop
MDN Workshop 2017
A good way to get updated on the use of metadata, automatic metadata extraction, participate in hands-on demonstrations and more.
Location: EBU, Geneva
Meeting
Fiction Experts Meeting 2017
The Eurovision Fiction Experts’ Group invites you to share current PSM successes, dilemmas and solutions at our meeting arranged in partnership with SÉRIE SERIES in the beautiful town of Fontainebleau, a short trip from Paris.
Location: Fontainebleau, France
Contact Email: simha@ebu.ch
Meeting
2017 Pitching session for Science projects
Be part of this exciting event by bringing your best projects to international broadcasters. They could become the partners you are looking for and make your project an international success!
Location: Sunny Side of the Doc, La Rochelle (France)
Contact Email: ripke@ebu.ch
Meeting
EBU VR at DW GLOBAL MEDIA FORUM 2017
Many EBU Members, public broadcasters from all over Europe, are experimenting with 360 and VR. What are the lessons learned so far and what are the next steps? In this session, representatives from EBU Members will discuss VR and public service media.
Location: Bonn, Germany
Contact Email: asseraf@ebu.ch
Seminar
Network Technology Seminar 2017
The Network Technology Seminar is the EBU's essential annual event focused on media network architecture. It attracts broadcast experts dealing with IT infrastructure, as well as IT network and storage specialists who deal with broadcast media content.
Location: EBU, Geneva
Meeting
eSport and Public Service Media
The second eSport meeting will be held in Bonn on 20 June, at the kind invitation of DW and alongside the Global Media Forum.
Location: Bonn, Germany
Contact Email: grond@ebu.ch