IBC 2011
The CBA had a busy time at IBC this year, with many members in attendance. As well as the two bursars - Neils Andre, Chief Broadcast Officer, Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation and Kazi Solaiman, Additional Chief Engineer, Bangladesh Television - staff from CBA members in Canada, South Africa, Seychelles, India, Nigeria, Gibraltar, the UK and New Zealand all dropped by the CBA stand for a chat.
On the Saturday evening, the CBA's Technology Consultant, Neil Dormand, presented Potlaki Maine from SABC with the CBA-IBC Award for Innovative Engineering at a reception hosted by the IABM. Relationships between the CBA and the broadcasting technology industry were created and fostered; these will hopefully prove useful in helping the CBA assist its members in making the transition to digital transmission. It was also a good year for IBC, with a record number of people attending over the five days, over 50,000!
If you would like to get an idea of what IBC 2011 was like, from a CBA perspective, take a look at the photoset we have created on Flickr.
A more detailed wrap up of IBC 2011, including information on the latest broadcasting technology trends, will be circulated as part of the CBA's new e-newsletter for broadcast engineers, Transmission. You can sign up to receive this in your inbox from the front page of the CBA website.
For more information on the IBC, please check out their website.
The Conference will run from 8 - 13 September and the Exhibition from 9 - 13 September at the RAI Centre, Amsterdam.
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