FIBEP TechDay 2026: Tenerife Recap

FIBEP TechDay 2026 took place on 22 April 2026 in Tenerife, Spain, hosted by eMediaMonitor, gathering members and partners from Europe, Latin America, and Asia for a full day on the future of media intelligence.

This year's discussions focused on four major shifts: the move from text to audiovisual content, the rebuilding of the AI technology stack, the need for new commercial infrastructure, and the growing importance of trusted journalism in the AI era.

The Audience Has Moved

Michelle Harold (eMediaMonitor) opened with the shift from stillness to motion.

Two out of three people now prefer watching and listening to reading. 

Edgar Fuentes and Brian Merron (eMediaMonitor) carried it into broadcast monitoring beyond transcription, presenting a Formula 1 live logo-detection case study as a proof point for measuring what is seen on screen, not only what is said. Bartosz Sanowski (Instytut Monitorowania Mediów) extended the theme into AI logo recognition for brand visibility inside video, with a system currently running at 90–95% accuracy in production.

The Stack Is Being Rebuilt

Carlos A. Díaz (GlobalNews Group, FIBEP VP Tech) defined the 2026 stack around four pillars:

• Agentic AI

• Multimodal LLMs

• Synthetic content detection

• Data sovereignty — illustrated by a 2025 Argentine disinformation case of 58 coordinated articles signed by AI-generated fictitious journalists. 

Jiří Hana (Geneea) showed the production reality of RAG: naive approaches break at around 100,000 documents, and real news archives need entity linking, knowledge graphs, hybrid search, and automatic filtering. Rainer Maassen (Convento) introduced AI Publisher, a white-label journalist database processing 1.2 million articles daily. Jan Pulkrabek (Mediaboard) walked through a cloud-native rebuild of broadcast monitoring with AI enrichment embedded at ingestion. Oliver Vogel (Digital Twin Consulting) presented Digital Twins as the wind tunnel of communication — simulating European audience reactions with 

85% directional accuracy in approximately 17 minutes.

The Commercial Infrastructure Has to Catch Up

Alan Malligsen and Alicja Bors (MediaTrack) introduced MT Connect, a digital marketplace replacing fragmented bilateral integrations with a single integration point and a one-to-many payment layer.

Speed Is Not the Same as Trust

Carmen Beamonte Moreno (PressReader International) closed the morning with the day's counterweight: AI brings speed, licensed journalism brings stability, provenance, named authors, editorial standards, and correction mechanisms are what make AI-generated insights defensible.

Community and the Road Ahead

As Chair of the FIBEP Tech Commission, Alicja Bors launched a new FIBEP Discord server and a reactivated FIBEP blog, designed to bring developers, operations leads, and copyright specialists into ongoing conversation between conferences. Carlos A. Díaz and Magdalena Horánska (FIBEP Secretary General) closed the day announcing WMIC 2026 in Tokyo and FIBEP TechDay 2027 in Prague, sponsored by Newton Media.

Live Multilingual Access by Beey Live

Live multilingual transcription and translation throughout the day was provided by Beey Live from NEWTON Technologies a.s. Every session was followed by every delegate in their preferred language, directly on their own device - no booths, no headsets, no app installation.

Key Takeaways

1. Audiences have moved from text to audiovisual. broadcast monitoring, computer vision, and multimodal analysis are now central, not peripheral.

2. The 2026 stack rests on four pillars. agentic AI, multimodal LLMs, synthetic content detection, and data sovereignty.

3. Production-grade RAG requires more than vector search. real news archives need entity linking, knowledge graphs, and automatic filtering.

4. International media trade needs new infrastructure. MT Connect replaces fragmented bilateral integrations with a single marketplace.

5. Licensed journalism remains the trust anchor. AI brings speed, press brings provenance, named authors, and correction mechanisms.

6. Multilingual access at conference scale is now achievable without booths or headsets, using web-based real-time translation platforms such as Beey Live.

Thank You

FIBEP TechDay 2026 was made possible thanks to eMediaMonitor (host) and NEWTON Technologies a.s. (live multilingual access via Beey Live), with special thanks to all speakers, members, and the FIBEP Secretariat. 

FAQ

What were the main AI trends discussed at FIBEP TechDay 2026?

The conference focused on four major shifts shaping media intelligence in 2026: agentic AI, multimodal large language models (LLMs), synthetic content detection, and data sovereignty. Computer vision for broadcast monitoring and production-scale Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for large news archives were also central themes.

What is changing in media monitoring?

Speakers agreed that audiences are moving from text toward audiovisual content - two out of three people now prefer watching and listening to reading. As a result, modern media monitoring increasingly relies on broadcast analysis, computer vision, and multimodal AI capable of understanding video, audio, and text together.

Why was RAG a major topic at the event?

Jiří Hana (Geneea) highlighted that naive Retrieval-Augmented Generation breaks at around 100,000 documents. Production-grade news archives require entity linking, knowledge graphs, hybrid search, and automatic filtering to deliver accurate and trustworthy results at scale.

What is MT Connect?

MT Connect, presented by Alan Malligsen and Alicja Bors (MediaTrack), is a digital marketplace for international media intelligence content trade. It replaces fragmented bilateral integrations with a single integration point and a one-to-many payment layer, reducing the operational cost of cross-border media trade.

What is Beey Live?

Beey Live is a web-based real-time multilingual transcription and translation platform developed by NEWTON Technologies a.s. (Prague, Czech Republic). At FIBEP TechDay 2026, delegates followed every session in their preferred language directly on their own devices — without interpreter booths, headsets, or app installation.

What is FIBEP TechDay?

FIBEP TechDay is the annual technology-focused conference organised by FIBEP, the World Association of Media Intelligence and Insights Companies. The event gathers media intelligence, monitoring, and analysis companies from around the world to discuss the technological, commercial, and editorial changes shaping the industry.

Where will the next FIBEP events take place?

The 2026 FIBEP Annual Congress (WMIC 2026) will take place in Tokyo, Japan. FIBEP TechDay 2027 will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, sponsored by Newton Media.