IMPS VISIT TO BBC NEWS LABS NEW BROADCASTING HOUSE, LONDON 17 & 18 OCTOBER 2016
OUR PARTNER
PROGRAMME
MONDAY 17 OCTOBER 2016
12:00 – 13:00 Arrival and registration
13:00 – 13:30 Introduction and welcome with Andy Conroy, Controller, BBC Research & Development, Robert Amlung, IMPS Chair and Head of digital strategy, ZDF and Henrik Keith Hansen, event moderator, Eurovision Academy
13:30 – 14:15 BBC News Labs – an introduction with Miles Bernie, Head of BBC News Labs and Robert McKenzie, Editor – BBC News Labs
- Background and history - The remit and structure - The working process within News Lab - Controlling and reporting work Incl. an interactive exercise and Q & As
14:15 – 15:15 How Babels became ALTO: How a need within the BBC resulted in a new newsroom tool with Suzanne Weber, Language Tech Producer, BBC News Labs and Dmitri Shishkin, Digital Development Editor – BBC News (World Service)
ALTO is a virtual voice-over tool for re-versioning video content into multiple languages using text-to-speech voice synthesis.
Presentation1 and Q & As
1 Presentations will be structured according to the following outline: - The objectives of the project and its inception - Where the project is at present - Dealing with various stakeholders and - Demonstration partners The format of the project - What has been learnt from the project and where next?
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15:15 – 15:45 Break
15:45 – 16:45 Immersive News: VR & 360° video How to develop a strategy for a project in a complex area with Zillah Watson, Editor, Internet Research & Future Services, BBC Research & Development
Zillah is leading this strand of exploration for BBC News Labs, looking at how the BBC might use emerging VR consumer technology to create new, immersive news experiences. This project kicked off in March 2015. It is focussing on the journalism applications, craft, and value to audiences.
Presentation1 and Q & As
16:45 – 17:30 Tour of NBH
17:30 – 19:00 Drinks at the BBC
TUESDAY 18 OCTOBER 2016
09:30 – 09:45 Recap of day 1 and introduction to day 2 with Henrik Keith Hansen
09:45 – 10:45 Discussion Chaired by Robert Amlung With James Montgomery, BBC Digital Director Development; Andy Conroy and Alan Whiston, Controller, Systems & service delivery, BBC News Products & systems
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:30 Structured journalism The difficulties of tackling and defining a huge project
with Miles Bernie and Robert McKenzie
BBC News Labs is on a mission to find pragmatic and practical ways to structure journalism narratives, in order to help News organisations curate stories that scale, adapt and connect across platforms and use cases.
Presentation1 and Q & As
1 Presentations will be structured according to the following outline: - The objectives of the project and its inception - Where the project is at present - Dealing with various stakeholders and - Demonstration partners The format of the project - What has been learnt from the project and where next?
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11:30 – 12:00 Window on the Newsroom Showing how incremental benefits increase the use and benefit of the original project – Transcriptor, Slicer, Auto Subtitler
With Miles Bernie
Window on the newsroom is a prototyping workstream looking at ways to allow journalists to find relevant content quickly with the help of machine learning, automatic metadata enrichment and structured data.
Presentation1 and Q & As
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:15 Workshop What practical steps can a public service broadcaster take to get innovation into its production processes?
- Short introduction from Robert McKenzie - Work and discussion on the question in small groups - Groups then present their thoughts back to everyone
14:15 – 14:30 Break
14:30 – 15:30 Atomised News The journey of an idea from R&D into the newsroom use as a tool
with Tristan Fearne, Lead Producer, Internet Research & Future Services, BBC Research & Development & Anna Doble, Digital Editor, BBC Newsbeat
A snackable Mobile News experience which allows users to understand top stories rapidly and in as much depth as they choose.
Presentation1 and Q & As
15:30 – 16:00 Wrap up with Henrik Keith Hansen and James Montgomery
15:45 End of the visit
1 Presentations will be structured according to the following outline: - The objectives of the project and its inception - Where the project is at present - Dealing with various stakeholders and - Demonstration partners The format of the project - What has been learnt from the project and where next?
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