Video models are having their moment, and it's a good one. It's easy to get lost in what they can generate. But we're just as interested in the layer underneath: the pipelines you've built, the tools you've rigged together so AI actually does something useful inside your production, not just at the end of it. That's what the AI Garden is for.
This is our call for applications. Deadline: August 31, 2026.
MediaTech Hub Conference is Germany's leading conference on MediaTech, covering film, TV, streaming and media. #MTHCON26 takes place September 29–30, 2026, at Studio Babelsberg, Potsdam. New this year: the AI Garden, a stage in our Conference Center dedicated to the AI that runs inside productions. We're inviting media professionals and AI pioneers already putting it to work to take the stage.
What We Want to See
For the AI Garden, we're not interested in the AI that generates the final pixel on the screen – the finished shots, the final audio, the published article. That conversation already has a home elsewhere at #MTHCON26.
We're interested in the AI one step before that. The tools and pipelines you use as part of the work itself: to visualize ideas, to align departments, to automate specific steps in a workflow. Generative tools absolutely count here – a previs, a storyboard, a script pass – as long as they serve the process, not the final output.
What fits:
✔ A previs setup that gets departments aligned on a scene before the shoot, so everyone has the same picture in mind
✔ An AI script breakdown that extracts cast, props, locations etc. from your script
✔ A tool that turns a script into a first storyboard or shotlist the team can actually react to
✔ A media pipeline where AI tags, logs and routes assets automatically
✔ An experimental setup where writers, art and production all draw on the same model, working from one source of truth
✔ Anything you rigged together so AI is useful inside the work, not just at the end of it
What doesn't:
✘ AI that generates the finished shots, frames or audio that end up on screen
✘ Final voiceover, music or published copy
✘ A generic chatbot demo with no production workflow behind it
Who Should Apply
In-house tool builders, technical producers, pipeline and workflow leads, post-production supervisors, newsroom technologists, and the production coordinators working alongside them. That means anyone in film, TV, streaming, journalism or the wider creative industries who has put AI to work inside a real workflow. Whether that's a full pipeline or a single script that saves an afternoon every week, what matters is that it runs.
Your 30 Minutes
Every AI Garden session runs 30 minutes. Use them as a hands-on walkthrough, a fast lightning talk or a straight demo, your call. What matters is the content, not the format. We're not looking for polished vendor pitches. Tell us how you actually work: what you built, what changed, what broke along the way.
What You Get
✔ A stage. Present your work in front of media professionals from film, TV, streaming and journalism at #MTHCON26.
✔ A conference ticket. The selected speakers receive a ticket to #MTHCON26.
How to Apply
You apply through our application form. It asks for a session title, a description, links to references and your speaker info. It's also where you show your work best: a short outline, a few photos of the tool in use, a two-minute screen recording.
How Submissions Are Reviewed
A jury reviews every submission and selects the lineup, looking for real, working examples that fit the scope and would help someone else in the room.
Timeline
✔ Submission deadline: August 31, 2026
✔ Notification: September 4, 2026
✔ #MTHCON26: September 29–30, 2026, Studio Babelsberg, Potsdam
