Post by European Broadcasting Union (EBU)

What does it take to produce the Winter Olympics with no dedicated broadcast hardware? Ask Swedish broadcaster SVT. We congratulate SVT for winning the EBU Technology & Innovation Award 2026, announced this week at the EBU Technology & Innovation Summit in Barcelona. The award recognizes SVT's Neo, a fully software-defined live production platform. At the 2026 Winter Olympics, Neo delivered more than 800 hours and over 150 sports productions across 10 parallel production environments and OTT channels, all running on standard IT hardware. Large-scale live production on software, in service today. Two more standout projects were honoured: - Runner-up CBC/Radio-Canada, who put the EBU Dynamic Media Facility architecture into practice, letting a single operator augment Olympic streams from a laptop and reaching close to 500,000 viewers. - Runner-up France Télévisions, for Alix, an open-source, multi-cloud platform that brings IT and media workflows onto one foundation. Congratulations too to Delphine Roussel-Galle of France Télévisions, winner of the Young Technology Talent Award, a recognition of the engineers shaping the next era of public service media. 👉 Get all details here: https://lnkd.in/eH7-2UnX The winners were chosen by the EBU Technical Committee. Thank you to every team that took part!