CEPIC 2026 Agenda

The Table Area is the heart of CEPIC networking, offering reserved spaces for focused business meetings.

Moderated by: Gilles Devicq.

Moderated by Ritch Sibthorpe. AI is reshaping creative workflows, raising key ethical and diversity considerations.

Organised by Paul Seheult. Join this fast-paced networking hour to meet a wide range of visual media professionals and build new industry connections. Open to all attendees. Register via p.seheult@cepic.org

Moderated by Marie-Avril Roux-Steinkühler. TBC

Moderated by: Marie-Avril Roux-Steinkühler. Whether EU press publisher rights under Article 15 of the DSM Directive should extend to AI-generated content, and how licensing can ensure fair compensation.

Moderated by: Andrea Stern. Rapid-fire five-minute presentations from leading companies in data protection, encryption, secure hosting, and robots.txt solutions designed to block AI bots.

Moderated by: Valérie Théveniaud-Violette. Copyright infringement has long been an existential problem for authors and distributors. This panel examines whether traditional concepts of image theft are still relevant in the age of generative AI, whether tools for tracking infringements benefit from the contribution of AI, and whether these tools could help authors assert their rights by identifying training uses.

Moderated by: Petar Glebov. Ways AI can improve workflows, boost accuracy, and streamline content distribution.

The Table Area is the heart of CEPIC networking, offering reserved spaces for focused business meetings.

This session will look at how cultural heritage assets can be digitised and reused responsibly, using the JPEG Trust ISO/IEC standards framework as a practical lens for exploring how authenticity, trust and long-term reusability can be safeguarded.

Introduction from Gilles Devicq. Enhancing audiovisual production with AI, creating previously impossible content while supporting existing roles.

Moderated by: Andrea Stern. An opportunity for attendees to showcase their business and gain exposure among fellow participants.

PUBLIC CONFERENCE. Moderated by Sylvie Fodor. A keynote on EU regulations shaping media, creative industries, and AI, covering legislative updates, compliance, and their impact on content production, licensing, and AI workflows.

PUBLIC CONFERENCE: Moderated by Helen Gudgeon. A discussion on media–platform dynamics, the growing landscape of misinformation, and emerging solutions such as media literacy, fact-checking frameworks, standards, and the Journalism Trust Initiative.

PUBLIC CONFERENCE. Moderated by Helen Gudgeon. Digital age and information integrity: How the international news agency AFP became a Leader in Digital Investigation and actor in Media Literacy projects

PUBLIC CONFERENCE: Introduction from Paul Seheult. Drawing on Roger-Viollet’s historical collections, this session examines media and information literacy through image verification, authenticity, copyright, and how visual narratives influence our understanding of images.

PUBLIC CONFERENCE: Moderated by Alexandru Giboi. Emerging standards to combat misinformation, solutions that enhance credibility and accountability in media.

PUBLIC CONFERENCE: Moderated by: Paul Melcher. Tackling the next big challenge in visual news media - proving reality. Why we need to flip the problem on it's head and certify real content rather than try and detect the fakes

End CEPIC 2026 in style with our Annual Industry Party, taking place on Friday evening. Location to be announced soon!